Academic Background and Fields of Interest

Born in Jerusalem, I studied history and general humanities at Tel Aviv University, while working for the Israel Broadcasting Authority as a presenter and screenplay and radio-play writer, for both the radio and the  children’s television departments. Meanwhile I wrote children’s books, a collection of short stories, and a non-fiction book on contemporary Israeli culture. I completed a Ph.D. in American history at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. I have since worked regularly in the Israeli press as a commentator, both in print and broadcast media.

 

My research interests include political ideology, the influence of American culture on Israel, psychoanalytic theory, and gender and sexuality.

 

Selected publications:

Books (nonfiction)

• Against Solitude,  Vol. 1: Impressions, (Hebrew, Tel Aviv, Yedioth Sfarim, 2011).

• The Settlers and the Struggle over the Meaning of Zionism, (New Haven, Yale University Press, 2010).

• A Dispirited Rebellion - Essays on Contemporary Israeli Culture, (Tel Aviv, Hakibutz Hameuchad, 1997).

• Against Solitude, Vol. 2: Thoughts, (Hebrew, Yedioth Sfarim, forthcoming)

Books (fiction)

• Things I Keep to Myself, (Jerusalem, Keter, 1990). (Hebrew, fiction for children).

• Things I Keep from Yael, (Jerusalem, Keter, 1992). (Hebrew, fiction for children).

• What Might Have Happened Had We Forgotten Dov, (Tel Aviv, Hakibutz Hameuchad, 1992). (Hebrew, short stories).

• The Witch From 3 Melchet Street, (Jerusalem, Keter, 2000). (Hebrew, fiction for children).

• The Giraffe Who Liked to Feel Sorry for Himself, (Jerusalem, Keter, 2003). (Hebrew, fiction for children). English version published by Scholastic, 2006.

• The Deer Who Liked Everything Clean, (Jerusalem, Keter, 2005). (Hebrew, fiction for children.)

• The Lion Who Thought He was a Coward, (Tel Aviv, Yedioth Sfarim, 2007). (Hebrew, fiction for children).

• Allenby Street, (Tel Aviv, Yedioth Sfarim, 2009). (Hebrew, novel).

Selected Articles

• "A Confusion of Tongues Between Psychoanalysis and Philosophy," The International Journal of Psychoanalysis (2009) 90:507-527).

• "The Shift in Israeli Ideas Concerning the Individual and the Collective," in Hazem Saghie (ed.), The Predicament of the Individual in the Middle East, (London: Saqi Books, 2001).

• "Post-Zionism: The French-American-Israeli Connection," in Tuvia Frilling (ed.), An Answer to a Post-Zionist Colleague, (Yedioth Sfarim, 2003). (Hebrew, French).

• “Introduction: Liberty, Nationalism and Democracy – the Work of Theodore Herzl” inBinyamin Ze’ev Herzl: the State of the Jews and Altneuland, Am Hasefer Series, Dov Eichenwald (editor in chief), Hebrew, Yedioth Sfarim, 2008).

• "Nothing beyond the Self: Young Writers and the Loss of Public Sphere," in Yigal Schwartz and Gabriella Steindler Moscati (eds), Three Generations of Writers Confronted: Essays on Israeli Literature, (Napoli Editoriale Scientifica, 2009). (Italian).

• "The American Sixties In Israel," Iyunim Bitkumat Israel, 13, (Sde-Boker: The Ben-Gurion Research Institute, Ben-Gurion University in the Negev, 2003). (Hebrew)

• "Can Nationalism and Democracy be Understood Apart? The Case of Zionism and its Critics,"The Journal of Israeli History, Vol. 26, No. 2, September 2007, pp. 157-177.

• "God's Politics in Israel's Supreme Court: The Retreat of Theology in Religious Settlers' Politics," Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, vol. 6, No. 3, November 2007, pp. 289-299.