Organization profile
Organization profile
The Department of Jewish History offers a unique learning experience that blends academic inquiry with practical reasoning. Our curriculum both enriches the cultural literacy of our students and cultivates useful skills needed in today’s workforce. Due to this rare synthesis of scholarship and practice, our curriculum dovetails perfectly with studies in any other university department.
On a practical level, our curriculum imparts a useful set of life skills, making our students thoughtful citizens and valuable in the workplace. For example, familiarity with Jewish History illuminates untold aspects of contemporary Israel and the research methods of the historical discipline's critical reasoning model. In addition, our faculty places particular emphasis on developing our students’ writing skills, because good writing reflects clear thinking and facilitates effective communication.
The Department is known for its warm, friendly and inviting atmosphere. In a large and, at times, overwhelming university setting, our faculty goes to great lengths to create a welcoming space where our students can feel at home.
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Profiles
Research output
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1 ENOCH AND THE NEW TESTAMENT
Werman, C., 1 Jan 2025, Second Temple Judaism in Scholarly Perspective: Advancing Recent Developments. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., p. 173-188 16 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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7.10 יומן שיחות בעת מלחמה: פרשת חיים תיאולוגית פוליטית
פדיה, ח., 2025, תל-אביב: אדרא. 286 p. (הסדרה לחקר ספרות הקבלה והחסידות : מקורות ומחקרים)Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Biblical apocrypha and the in-betweenness of maskilic translation
Idelson-Shein, I., 1 Jan 2025, In: Journal of Modern Jewish Studies. 24, 1, p. 156-183 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Student theses
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The Motivation of Lithuanian Jews to serve in the 16th Lithuanian Division as part of the Red Army during World War II
Ioffe, G. (Author), Zalkin, M. (Supervisor), 2025Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
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Holocaust-Survivors Knesset Members: 1949-2013 Legislation, Politics, Memory and Identity
Nitzan, S. E. (Author), Yablonka, H. (Supervisor), 2025Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
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Uncertainties ? Doubt, Unbelief, and Skepticism in Early Modern Jewish Italy
Goren, A. (Author), Idelson-Shein, I. (Supervisor), 2025Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
Press/Media
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שבירת מיתוסים על יהדות ברית המועצות: שיחה עם אלקס ריף במסגרת הפודקאסט תשעים ותשע זה לא מאה
16/12/25
1 Media contribution
Press/Media
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Ben Gurion University Professor Whose Daughter Was Slain on Oct. 7 to speak in Montreal
4/09/24
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media
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Studies from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Provide New Data on Medieval History (Revisiting the Murder of the Jew Priscus In Sixth-century Paris)
8/02/24
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media
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Sefer Zechira: A New Look at a Twelfth Century Chronicle from the archdiocese of Cologne
Shoham-Steiner, E. (PI)
1/01/25 → 31/12/27
Project: Research
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Mishna Consciousness, Biblical Consciousness: Safed and Zionist Culture
Raz, A. E. (PI)
1/01/25 → …
Project: Research
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Sefer Hamaʿasiyot: A Critical Edition, Translation and Source-Critical Commentary
Tropper, A. D. (PI)
1/01/24 → 31/12/27
Project: Research