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EAIS Conference Program 2019 Press
EAIS Conference Program 2019 Press
EAIS Conference Program 2019 Press
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Selection Panel:
Prof. Aide Esu
Ms Anna Godfrey
Prof. Jiří Holý
Prof. Lior Libman
Dr Olaf Glöckner
8 Annual Conference on Israel Studies
Dr Peter Bergamin
Dr Yair Wallach
Dr Yonatan Sagiv
Advisory Board:
Prof. Colin Shindler
Dr Alan Craig
Prof. Motti Gollani
Amb. Daniel Kumermann
Ms Jitka Pánek Jurkovj Msc
Dr Pavel Pšeja
Dr Zbyněk Tarant
Dear Colleagues,
Welcome to the 8th Annual Conference of the European Association of Israel Studies. I am honored and happy to
greet all delegates, participants and distinguished guests. We are privileged to be here at the Charles University
in Prague, which is one of the oldest (founded in 1348) but also one of the most recognised and progressively
developing University in Europe. The support, openness and hard work from our friends here in Prague made the
conference not only possible but also an outstanding academic event. I wish to thank, in particular, Dr. Marcela
Zoufala and Prof. Jiri Holy for their invaluable input in this conference organisation.
Each of our conferences reflects the process of widening and deepening the discipline of Israel studies in Europe.
Every year we observe new developments and we are glad to be part of it. One of the most important achievements,
which is being fulfilled by the conferences, is the formation of an environment of scholars studying contemporary
Israel within Europe, and the development of better connections between academic communities from Europe and
the other non-European countries. This is how the positive outcomes of these conferences are being multiplied, and
this is the direction in which we wish to continue. Finally, I would like to highlight how important it is to us to bring
together early-career scholars with well-established and leading academics. We are proud that the EAIS has its part
in the creation of this incredible shared space of mutual respect and readiness to address new intellectual challenges.
The EAIS is very lucky to have a dedicated and hard-working team of professional and enthusiastic people. Let me
express my deepest appreciation to the members of the Executive Committee. In particular, I would like to thank
Anna Godfrey, as it was her outstanding commitment which ensured the success of this conference. The Association
is also truly fortuned to be continuously and generously supported by Pears Foundation and the Israel Institute. No
doubt, the Association’s contribution to the development of Israel studies in Europe is only possible thanks to their
involvement.
Yet still, as Prof. Clive Jones highlighted in his welcoming address on the occasion of the opening the 4th Annual
Conference held at the University of Cagliari in 2015, “this remains your Association and how it can progress and
expand in the years to come is contingent on the commitment and enthusiasm that all here can today bring to the
study of Israel”. I would add only this is very true still in 2019.
Again, I welcome you all to Prague and on behalf of all Committee members of the EAIS, I wish you a productive and
enjoyable conference.
Joanna Dyduch
Chair of the EAIS
Dear Friends,
Let me warmly welcome you to the oldest University in Central Europe, founded in 1348 by the King of Bohemia and
Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV in a document dated 7th April 1348 which made us the first institution of higher
education north of the Alps and east of Paris.
Charles University has been steadfastly and over the long-term developing scientific cooperation and participating
in European and world-wide projects. It is also cooperating extensively with universities and research institutions in
Israel. At present we are enjoying very intensive cooperation with Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem.
I am glad that the trend for increasing Israel Studies which we have established at Charles University is very popular,
and we are extending teaching and research on this important part of the Middle East.
I am very pleased that the delegates of the 8th Annual Conference of the European Association of Israel Studies
2019 are meeting here. I wish all participants at the 8th Annual Conference of the European Association of Israel
Studies 2019 a successful conference and I hope that they will acquire a wealth of knowledge, new contacts, good
impressions and make new friends during their stay in Prague and at Charles University.
Prof. Tomáš Zima
Rector, Charles University
of Israeli Sephardic
Amir Reicher, PhD Dr Rachel Zoran University of California, elites
Candidate, The San Diego
Graduate Center CUNY University of Haifa Prof. Orly C. Meron,
Bar-Ilan University
Between the Ark and Old-school heroes Coping methods used Zionism’s Maritime
the Temple for the new times. On by Israeli – Jewish Revolution: The
defining good and evil in women in ״mixed״ Yishuv’s Hold on the
Zohar Elmakias, PhD Israeli Haredi comics for Israeli families, in Land of Israel’s Sea and
Candidate, Department
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The King is Dead, Long What goes in and what How the extreme-right’s Fear of war and the
Live the King! The Entry is left out: Children’s war on intermarriage emotional dimensions
of Pre-modern Theology Picture books about shapes borders and of Keren Hamagen fund
into the Democratic Israel identities raising campaign
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Discourse
Dr Ofra Backenroth, Dr Ari Engelberg, Prof. Orit Rozin, Tel Aviv
Dr Orly Soker & Dr Jewish Theological Hadassah Academic University
Mouli Bentman, Sapir School College in Jerusalem
College
American manipulation From domination to Christian Attitudes and Bialik: Poetry and Prose,
and Arab-Israeli marginalisation – the left Israeli Policies: the Halakhah and Aggadah
diplomacy and centre-left parties Changing Interaction
between Western Prof. Azzan Yadin-Israel,
Dr Asaf Siniver, between 1949 elections Christian Churches and Rutgers University
University of Birmingham and those of 2019 Israel
Prof. Mordechai Prof. Yaakov Ariel,
Schenhav, University of University of North
Strasbourg Carolina at Chapel Hill
Israel’s Clandestine Significance of political The question of Efraim Shmueli and the
Relations in the Middle labels in Israel: Right, democracy and cultural Jewish Cultural Turn
East - The Gulf Countries centre and left in the diplomacy: The case of
as a Case Study post-politics era Israel Dr Hizky Shoham, Bar-
Ilan University and the
Prof. Elie Podeh, the Dr Artur Skorek, Jitka Pánek Jurková, Shalom Hartman Institute
Hebrew University of Jagiellonian University PhD Candidate, Charles in Jerusalem
Jerusalem University
Monday, 9 September
The Shift from Words to Half Russian The Necessary Why Corruption Matters:
Sound – Breaking the Romances: “Koshering” Destruction of Israel: Disillusionment with
Socio-political Divides unto Israeliness Why is the end of the Democracy and the
via Singing of Piyyut Jewish state So Common Need to Enhance
Dr Miri Talmon, Tel Aviv
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European after all? Negotiating the Secular- Between “Levav” Current Economic
Israel in the Eurovision Religious Divide in and Badenheim: Two standing of Israel – is it
Song Contest Israeli Cinema Heterotopic novellas by really an innovations-
Aharon Appelfeld and based economy?
Dr Daniel Mahla, Dr Yaron Peleg,
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David Grossman
Ludwig-Maximilians- University of Cambridge Dr Dmitry Maryasis,
Universität München Prof. Gabriel Zoran, Oriental Studies
University of Haifa Institute, Russian
Academy of Sciences
Variants
Dr Yael Munk, The
Open University of
Israel
The Revolt in Hollywood: Israel Studies or Sudan’s Tightrope Jews and Arabs in
political support for the Enemy Studies? An Diplomacy versus the Ottoman Tiberias 1748-
Zionist right-wing in the Analytical Study of the Israeli-Egyptian Peace 1948
world’s film capital, 1941- Development of Israel Process: Unintentional
1961 Studies in Egyptian Consolidation of Israel’s Prof. Mustafa Abbasi, Tel
Universities Interests Hai College
Dr Giora Goodman,
Kinneret College on the Dr Menna Abukhadra, Prof. Yehudit Ronen, Bar-
Sea of Galilee University of Cambridge/ Ilan University
Cairo University
Conservative Women’s Studying the Language of Perceptions and policies The Colonial Office
Organizations and Zionism of Israel towards the deplores that its task
Politics: The case of the Horn of Africa: the special has concluded in the
WIZO party in Israel, Prof. Johannes Becke, relationship between circumstances of tragedy,
1948 -1951 Heidelberg Center for Israel and Ethiopia disintegration and heavy
Jewish Studies loss’: Britain’s withdrawal
Dr Ofira Gruweis- Dr Anne-Sophie Sebban- from the Palestine
Kovalsky, Zefat Academic Bécache, AJC Paris Mandate, reconsidered
College / French Institute of
Geopolitics (University Dr Peter Bergamin,
Paris VIII) University of Oxford
The Schem Group Ambivalent Others – Strangers in a strange The colonial legacy of the
(1969 - 1971): A Failed Arab Representations of land: attitudes towards British mandatory rule
Settlement Attempt and Middle Eastern Jews Israel amongst returnees and the assassination of
a Decisive Governmental to South Sudan British agents
Response Raja Abdel Aziz, PhD
Candidate, Heidelberg Dr Katherine Harbord, Dr Liora Sion, University
Prof. Amir Goldstein, Tel- Center for Jewish Liverpool John Moores of Copenhagen
Hai College Studies/Heidelberg University
University
Monday, 9 September
Conflicting Perspectives
the Negev Dr Tamar Berger, in Israel’s Nascent Dr Moriel Ram, School
Bezalel Academy of Arts Years of Oriental and African
and Design Studies (SOAS),
Prof. Avi Bareli, Ben- University of London
Gurion University
Israeli War Fiction – The Reclaiming Citizenship The Dispute in Mapay Materiality, sex, and
Canaanite Option through the Ruin about Democratization violence in the Western
of the Party during Levi Wall
Dr Yael Dekel, Ben Aya Abu Saleh, PhD Eshkol Years, 1963-
Gurion University Candidate, Faculty Dr Yair Wallach, School
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1969.
of Architecture, The of Oriental and African
Technion Prof. Meir Chazan, Tel Studies (SOAS),
Aviv University University of London
Yoel Hoffmann’s poetic Saving the Void – the Democratization in the “And my feet have made
shift contested Palestinian Herut Movement: The a pathway through your
heritage of Jaffa Way to 1977 Ma’Hapach fields”. Commemorative
Tom Kellner, PhD walking paths as
candidate, Ben-Gurion Arch. Shmuel Groag, Dr Uri Cohen, Tel Aviv
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Other Family Stories. Land Registry in Israel Students and the The material of risk and
Poland and the Quest as an Instigator of Land Public Sphere: war: Iron Dome and
for Identity in Israeli Abandonment Democratization Forever / Everywhere
Literature of the Third Process of the Israeli War in Israel
Prof. Arc. Ayala
PAPER 4
Bankers, Suicide Prof. Guy Harpaz, the Israel and Africa: The Navigating between
Bombers and the ‘Real Hebrew University of First Two Decades Citizenship Laws: the
People’: What Israeli Jerusalem case of North American
Right-Wing Populism Prof. Zach Levey, Olim
Can Teach Us About Its University of Haifa
European Counterparts Dr Ben Herzog, Ben-
Gurion University of the
Dr Shai Agmon, Molad Negev
- the Center for the
Renewal of Israeli
Democracy
Beat the Press: Anti- Dr Arie Krampf, the Israel, Egypt and the Pragmatism or return to
Media Populism in Israel Academic College of Tel Soviet Union in West the roots? Israelis with
Aviv Yaffo Africa: the Rise and Fall Polish citizenship
Ayala Panievsky, PhD of Israeli Influence, 1957-
candidate, University of 1961 Przemyslaw Zawada,
Cambridge PhD Candidate,
Prof. Vladimir University of Wroclaw
Rumyantsev, Tomsk
State University
Fear and Fatalism. Dr Pavel Pseja, CEVRO Israeli development aid The double-edged
A study of extremist Institute Prague to Sub-Saharan Africa banalization of Israeli
attitudes within the Israeli countries: Israeli aid national Identity
Messianic Movements model and its implications
for development Alon Helled, PhD
Dr Kristian Steiner, diplomacy Candidate, University
Halmstad University; of Turin, University of
Malmö University Dr Karolina Zielinska, Florence, EHESS
Institute of Mediterranean
& Oriental Cultures, Polish
Academy of Sciences
Monday, 9 September
A.B. Yehoshua
Aviv University Dr Amnon Aran, City, Lidia Averbukh, Stiftung
Dr Omri Yavin, University of London Wissenschaft und Politik
Kibbutzim College (SWP)
Mother Tongue: The Backyard of the Cybersecurity and soft Israel, India and the
Lamentation and City Square – The power in Israeli foreign Muslim Other?
Expression Commemoration of policy
Rabin as a Challenge to Prof. PR Kumaraswamy,
Dr Ilit Ferber, Tel Aviv Dr Yaniv Voller, The Jawaharlal Nehru
PAPER 2
Dr Naomi Meiri-Dann,
Bezalel Academy of Art
and Design, Jerusalem
“But where is the lamb”? Controversial New type of foreign Delegitimization of Israel
An offer of sacrifice Exhibitions in Israel policy crisis? The case as political challenge to
in Grossman’s Isha and the challenge of of the Mavi Marmara its Jewish and democratic
Borachat Mi-bsorah Democracy. The case flotilla of May 2010 model: protecting the
right of self-determination
PAPER 3
Tuesday, 10 September
“If you call it a sad day/A On the Eastern Immigration, Health The Viability of Ethnic
cop will come and lock Mediterranean and Ethnicity. The Democracies: Israel and
you away”: Television Waterfront: The History and Mythology Estonia Compared
and Nostalgia in the Evolving Representation Surrounding Ringworm
Prof. Sammy Smooha,
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Trauma and Nostalgia in Nationalism and The public policy debate Secular Lives in
the Army Entertainment Socialism in the Hebrew in Israel around ‘medical Religious Societies:
Troups depiction on Novel cannabis’: Fighting The Case of Israel and
Israeli TV over epistemology and Turkey
Dr Yaron Peleg,
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morality
Dr Dan Arav, College of University of Cambridge Prof. Umut Uzer,
Management and Tel- Dr Dana Zarhin, Istanbul Technical
Aviv University University of Haifa University
Layers of the Israeli Labour as the Path to The Ecological Israel as a Jewish State
Past in the TV Drama Communalism in the Problems of the Yarkon in the 3rd Millennium
series Pillars of Smoke Literature of S. Yizhar River, 1940-1970 and the Question
of Its Minorities. A
Dana Masad, The Open Huiruo Li, PhD Dr Eran Eldar, Tel Aviv
PAPER 3
Macedonian Solution?
University of Israel candidate, University of University
Cambridge Prof. Przemyslaw Turek,
Jagiellonian University
Geography
Prof. Shay Rabineau,
SUNY Binghamton
University
Tuesday, 10 September