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Lotem Pinchover

Dr. Lotem Pinchover

lotem.pinchover@mail.huji.ac.il
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Department of Art History

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Subject: The Presence of Jerusalem in Medieval Saxon Convents: Art and Cult

Supervisors: Dr. Galit Noga-Banai (Hebrew University), Prof. Hedwig Röckelein (University of Göttingen.

Abstract: My doctoral research focused on the reference to the holy place in Jerusalem: the stations along the Via Dolorosa (The Stations of the Cross), the Holy Sepulchre Church and Christ’s Tomb. These representations were common especially in convents of northern Germany and were repeated in a variety of media: architecture, sculpture, reliefs, illustrations and texts. In the PhD the phenomenon was examined and reasons were offered for the popularity and centrality of Jerusalem representations in the art and cult of the medieval nuns. The PhD was approved in June 2020.

Publications:

  • “The Holy Sepulchres of Maria-Medingen,” in preparation  
  • “Die Heiligen Stätten des Bickenklosters, Villingen, im Kontext,” Geschichts- und Heimatvereins Villingen 45 (2021), in preparation  
  • “The Chapel of the Holy Sepulchre in Medieval Saxony: Between Cloistered Community and Lay Parish,” forthcoming 2021
  • “A Tale of Three Cities: Between Jerusalem and Gerusalemme – Gernrode of (St.) Scholastica,” 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual  –Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte und visuellen Kultur 1 (2020), https://doi.org/10.11588/xxi.2020.1.73141 
  • Devotional ‘Cross-Roads’: Practicing Love of God in Medieval Jerusalem, Gaul and Saxony, co-ed. with Hedwig Röckelein and Galit Noga-Banai, Göttingen: Göttingen University Press, 2019
  • “Re-living Resurrection in Medieval Saxony: The Development of New Imagery of the Resurrected Christ,” in Devotional ‘Cross-Roads’: Practicing Love of God in Medieval Jerusalem, Gaul and Saxony, ed. by Hedwig Röckelein, Galit Noga-Banai and Lotem Pinchover, Göttingen: Göttingen University Press, 2019, pp. 211–247
  • “Christus und seine Verehrung im Kloster,” in Schatzhüterin. 200 Jahre Klosterkammer Hannover, ed. by Katja Lembke and Jens Reiche, Dresden: Sandstein, 2018, pp. 98–109
  • “The via crucis in Wienhausen: Visual Witnesses,” in Jerusalem Elsewhere: The German Recensions. Proceedings of the Minerva-Gentner Mobile Symposium, October 2011, ed. by Bianca Kühnel and Pnina Arad, Jerusalem: Spectrum, 2014, pp. 91–98 
  • Tradition and Innovation in the Former Cathedral of Gurk, Jerusalem: The Centre for Austrian Studies, 2013
  • “The Gurker Lenten-Veil as a Product of its Immediate Surrounding,” in From Collective Memories to Intercultural Exchanges, ed. by Marija Wakounig, Münster: LIT, 2012, pp. 85–116
  • “Illustrated Evening Skies: A Comparison between Children’s Book Illustrations by Chaim Hausmann and David Polonsky (Hebrew),” Ha-Pinkas: Online Magazine for Children’s Literature and Culture, 09/03/2011, http://ha-pinkas.co.il/?p=3911 

 

Azrieli Fellows Stipend 2016/17

Presidential Stipend 2013/14

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Anatoly Polnarov

Anatoly Polnarov

anatoly.polnarov@mail.huji.ac.il

Asia Studies

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Subject: Polarizing rhetoric in Former Han (206/202 BCE - 9 CE)

Supervisor: Prof. Yuri Pines

Abstract: My study concerns polarizing political rhetoric in early China. By polarizing rhetoric I mean the rhetoric that depicts the political process as a persistent confrontation between two fundamentally antagonistic forces. I shall show that in early China polarization was used as a rhetorical technique, and that it developed gradually from the Warring States (453-221 BCE) to the Former Han periods (206/202 BCE-9 CE). 

The basic elements of polarizing rhetoric had been formed prior to the imperial unification of 221 BCE. Yet, it was only in the second half of the Former Han period that a fully developed polarizing discourse had come into being. Proponents of this discourse reduced the variety of political views and approaches to a dichotomy of extreme opposites. One was represented by legendary sage rulers of the past and especially by the idealized model of the Western Zhou 西周 dynasty (1046-771 BCE). The opposite “bad side” was represented the by Han’s short-lived predecessor, the Qin 秦 dynasty (221-207 BCE). Yet the polarizing approach went far beyond the Zhou-Qin dichotomy; it encompassed multiple issues related to socio-economic and administrative policies, foreign affairs, ritual, and culture.
I shall trace the evolution of polarizing rhetoric in early China and try to demonstrate that its rise was closely related to the political ascendancy of the group named Ru 儒 (“Confucians” or “Classicists”). For them polarizing rhetoric became a potent tool for criticizing current policies and policymakers and a key element in the emerging moralizing approach to politics and administration. In the polarized world envisioned by the Ru amorality meant immorality, and any policy which was not based on purely moral considerations should have been discontinued. The moralizing discourse and the related polarizing rhetoric developed by the Ru enabled them to bolster their claim for moral authority and also to undermine the legitimacy of rival groups with which they vied for power at the Han court.
In my study I shall show how the Ru developed and integrated polarizing tropes, forging thereby an extraordinarily effective rhetorical device. I shall furthermore show how this new rhetoric contributed to the rise of the Ru. During the first decades of the Han dynasty the Ru were a relatively marginal group, whose skills were not much appreciated by the political elite. Toward the end of the Former Han period, in contrast, the Ru became a power to reckon with. By explicating the link between the polarizing rhetoric employed by the Ru and their ascendancy I hope to elucidate heretofore insufficiently studied aspects of this all-important process.

Bio: I am a PhD student at the Department of Asia studies. This is my second year with the PhD Honor Program. I received my MA degree from Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 2014. I study preimperial and early imperial China, particularly political culture, intellectual history and related topics.

Publications:

Polnarov A., "Looking Beyond Dichotomies: Hidden Diversity of Voices in the Yantielun 鹽鐵論", accepted for publication in T'oung Pao

 

Presidential Stipend 2016/17

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אסיף רחמים

Dr. Asif Rahamim

asif.rahamim@mail.huji.ac.il

Department of Comparative Literature

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Subject: Displaced Cartographers: Space, Place, and Mapping in the Poetry of Paul Celan and Avot Yeshurun - A Comparative Study

Supervisor: Prof. Yoav Rinon, Prof. Vivian Liska

Abstract: My study is dedicated to the poetic works of Avot Yeshurun and Paul Celan and to the crucial role questions of space and place, rootedness and uprootedness, displacement and homelessness occupy in it. At the center of the study stands a practice which I call “Poetic Cartography”: poetically re-mapping (and thus re-constituting) actual “real-life” places. This artistic mapping method which is historically and ethically oriented, seeks to alter the ways we think and understand the spaces and places in which we live. 

Bio: I'm interested in 20th century literature and thought, with an emphasis on the convergence between German literature and French theory. My PhD research will be a comparative study of the poetics of Paul Celan and Aavot Yeshurun regarding modernity's "Crisis of Language".

 

Presidential Stipend 2016/17

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Osnat Emily Rance

osnatemily.rance@mail.huji.ac.il

Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry 

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Subject: "The Devil Spoke from Scripture" (John Chrysostom, Aversus Judaeos 6.6.8)
Sacred Violence Representations in Late Antiquity Between Jews and Christians 

Supervisor: Prof. Oded Irshai

Abstract: Late antiquity appears to be an extremely violent period, which is characterized with zeal and religious fervor, practiced by large groups of mobs. The descriptions of the events arise from chronicles and other contemporary texts indicate that the Jews, alongside other Christian groups, took part in the brawls, occasionally out of self-defense, and sometimes as promoters, while espousing violent herd behavior, by means of incitement, as well as actual violent deeds.
Recently, the phenomenon of religious violence in late antiquity has been the subject of extensive research, which stems from the delineation of these centuries (4th to 7th) as a period of unique characteristics and as a relatively young research arena, alongside research in social history phenomena and the tendency toward interdisciplinarity. Surprisingly, the place of the Jews in this context is not yet thoroughly investigated.
My research aims to reveal the position of the Jews in the social fabric of late antiquity, and especially their image as emerge from the ecclesiastic historiography of the period. Similar to the paradigm set by Joan Wallach Scott, these issues may arise from an examination of the relationship between the following three factors: the historical event, it's representation and it's acceptance and interpretation among the population. Thus, this research will move on the tension between real and imagined reality while discussing the outcomes of both.

Bio: BA at the Department of Hebrew Literature and the Department of Jewish History, Ben-Gurion University, cum laude. During my studies, I chose to focus on liturgy and Rabbinic literature, while in history I focused on Ancient History and the Middle Ages. MA at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem at the Department of Jewish History My thesis dealt with the maintenance of the Babylonian sages' wives, while their husbands were absent in order to study Torah. As part of my graduate studies, I also participated the program of late antiquity.

President Stipend 2018/19

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Maayan Raveh

maayany22@gmail.com

Department of Comparative Religion

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Subject: The Theological Discourse about the Promised Land: The Influence of Palestinian Liberation Theology on Contemporary Christian Thought

Supervisor: Professor Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony 

Abstract: In my dissertation I shall track the changes in Western Christian Theology that occurred in the recent decades concerning the Promised Land, and the influence on these changes of Palestinian Christian theologians such as Michel Sabbach, Naim Ateek and Mitri Raheb and the Kairos Palestine Document on these changes. I shall analyze the theological discourse about the Promised Land in the Protestant world in North America and Europe, in the Catholic Church and in the World Council of Churches. Thus, I hope to gain a better understanding of the intricate interactions between Christian theologies and traditions and political activism in a global, pluralistic world – especially in contexts of political conflict. 

Short Bio: I completed a BA in Comparative Religion and  Arabic Language and Literature studies in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem  an MA in Comparative Religion. In my Ma thesis I focus on the connection between theology and politics and identity, as it is manifested in the exegesis by the Holy Scripts of three theologians from the "Palestinian Liberation Theology", as well as by the creators of "Kairus Palestine". At the same time, I was involved in a number of projects promoting  inter-religious dialogue in Israel.

 

Presidential Stipend 2017/18

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Tamar Rozett

Dr. Tamar Rozett

tamar.rozett@mail.huji.ac.il

Department of General History

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Subject: Technology and Emotions: The Case of the British Empire Mail, 1840-1898

Supervisor: Prof. Dror Wahrman and Prof. Moshe Slohovsky

Abstract: I am a historian of modern Britain and its empire, and I question the intersection between technology and emotions. My dissertation examines the ways in which changing communication technology, most prominently the rise of steam engines in the 1830s and the reorganization of mail delivery from 1840 onwards, impacted the emotional connections between British family members dispersed throughout the nineteenth century empire. It likewise analyses the ways these emotional economies in turn reflected the inherent difficulties of empire. My current project questions whether imperial encounters contributed to changing cleanliness and soaping practices in the modern West. It probes the ways these redrew lines of social and gendered distinction, reconstructed racial relations, altered emotional lives, and reconfigured the body itself.

 

Rotenstreich Stipend 2016/17

Presidential Stipend 2014/15

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David Sabato

Dr. David Sabato

sabatoster@gmail.com

Department of Talmud and Halakha

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Subject: The Teachings of Rabbi Joshua Ben Hanania 

Supervisor: Prof. Menahem Kahana

Abstract: The destruction of the second temple (70 CE) has been a dramatic turning point for Judaism in the antiquity. As a result of the destruction, the religious leadership center was transferred to Yavneh and reshaped the character of Judaism. The proposed research focuses on Rabbi Joshua ben Hanania, one of the most important leaders of the yavneh Tannaim, who represented the House of Hillel. I will analyze His ideological and halachic conceptions in comparison to other contemporary tannaitic approaches found in Yavneh.

Publications:

  • הסגרת יחיד לשם הצלת רבים: גלגוליה של דילמה תלמודית. התקבל לפרסום בשנתון המשפט העברי.
  • מהלכה למעשה: מעשה שהיה כעילה לתקנה בתלמוד הבבלי, התקבל לפרסום בכתב העת 'סידרא'
  • אוניברסליות מציון: חזונו המדיני של ישעיהו', בתוך: השילוח 6 [תשע"ז]
  • אגדה והלכה במשנה', בתוך: נטועים יט [תשע"ג].  
  • אגדת טיטוס, בתוך: דרך אגדה יא [תשע"א]

 

Presidential Stipend 2015/16

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Dr. Elias Salfity

salfity.elias@gmail.com

Department of Philosophy

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 Subject: Statisim and Special Duties

Supervisor: Prof. David Enoch

Abstract: My research will examine the relationship between the state and its citizens including the justificatory basis of special duties. 

Bio: PhD student in Philosophy specialized in Legal and Political Philosophy.

Presidential Stipend 2017/18

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Heeli Schechter

Heeli Schechter

heelinka@gmail.com

Department of Archaeology and ancient Near East

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Subject: The use of shell adornment during the Neolithic of the Mediterranean zone of the Southern Levant.  

Supervisor: Daniella Bar-Yosef Mayer and Nigel Goring-Morris

Abstract: The shells of marine molluscs are among the oldest ornaments used by humans. Shells were instrumental in past economic life, as a component in exchange networks, connecting individuals and communities from distant regions. They carry symbolic meaning as artefacts of personal adornment and act as social and personal identity agents. During the Neolithic period in the Levant, shells were used as beads, pendants and inlays, produced by different technological manufacturing procedures, and used in various ways. 

The aims of this project include composing a comprehensive overview and synthesis of shells in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B of the Mediterranean Levant, focusing on the use of shells in different life situations – private, public, mortuary, and intra-site context. An additional aim is to incorporate microscopic methods in the study of manufacturing technology and use-wear, never before carried out in this region.
The materials for this study include both newly excavated shell assemblages and reanalysis of published material. The sources to be used include previous reports on mollusc assemblages; different guides to taxonomic research; published methodological research concerning bead-making technology and macro- and microscopic use-ware analysis; theoretical literature concerning personal adornment, use of space, social and economic interaction, identity and more.

Bio: I have been interested in archaeology since childhood and have participated in excavations from a young age. I have a BA from Ben Gurion University in the Negev and an MA from Tel Aviv University. My MA thesis examined the social and economic place of Qumran Cave 24 (Judean desert), through different aspects of material culture. My main field of expertise is lithics (flint and obsidian) from Neolithic contexts. As part of a wider interest in identities in archaeology I would like to study expressions of personal adornment using molluscan (shell) assemblages.

Publications: 

 

Gopher, A., Eirikh-Rose, A., Ashkenazi, H., Marco, E., May, H., Makoviychuk, Y., Sapir-Hen, L., Galmor, S., Schechter, H.C., Ackerfeld, D., Haklay, G. and Zutovski, K. 2019. Nahal Yarmuth 38: A new and unique PPNB site in central Israel. Antiquity 93(371): e29 (1-8).

Schechter, H.C., Zutovski, K., Agam, A., Wilson, L. and A. Gopher. 2018. Refitting Bifacial Production Waste – the Case of the Wadi Rabah Refuse Pit from Ein Zippori, Israel. Lithic Technology 43(4): 228-244. DOI: 10.1080/01977261.2018.1514723

Schechter, H.C., Gopher, A., Getzov, N., Rice, E., Yaroshevich, A. and I. Milevski. 2016. The Obsidian Assemblages from the Wadi Rabah Occupations at Ein Zippori, Israel. Paléorient 42(1): 27-48.

Agam, A., Walzer, N., Schechter, H.C., Zutovski, K., Milevski, I., Getzov, N., Gopher, A. and R. Barkai. 2016. Organized waste disposal in the Pottery Neolithic? A Bifacial Workshop Refuse Pit at Ein Zippori, Israel. Journal of Field Archaeology 41(6): 713-730. 

Schechter, H.C., Marder, O. Barkai, R., Getzov, N., and A. Gopher. 2013. The obsidian assemblage from Neolithic Hagoshrim, Israel: pressure technology and cultural influence. In: F. Borrell, J. J. Ibáñez, M. Molist (eds.) Stone Tools in Transition: From Hunter-Gatherers to Farming Societies in the Near East. Bellaterra (Barcelona): Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Pp. 509-528.

Gopher, A., Lemorini, C., Boaretto, E., Carmi, I., Barkai R., and H.C. Schechter. 2013. Qumran Cave 24, a Neolithic-Chalcolithic site by the Dead Sea: a short report and some information on lithics. In: F. Borrell, J. J. Ibáñez, M. Molist (eds.) Stone Tools in Transition: From Hunter-Gatherers to Farming Societies in the Near East. Bellaterra (Barcelona): Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Pp. 101-114. 
 

 

 

President Stipend 2016/17

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Ray Schrire

Ray Schrire

ray.schrire@mail.huji.ac.il

Department of History

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Subject: A cognitive history of education in Renaissance England

Supervisor: Prof. Dror Wahrman

Abstract: In my PhD. research I analyze the cognitive aspects of early modern education in England. I examine various learning environments and retrace the different ways in which teachers, pedagogy and study tools were organized in order to form students' minds in places like Grammar schools and colleges. In order to track the development of cognitive skills in English society, I explore the 'traces of thought' students left in their notebooks and on the margins of their textbooks. I am still of the naive opinion that if I succeed in interpreting enough scribbles in some Latin textbook's margins, I might discover something deep about modernity.

Publications:

"Ökologische Kommunikation: Heinrich Mendelssohns Nachlass", Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte (ZIG) 16:1 (2017): 95-106.

 

Rotenstreich Stipend 2017/18

Presidential Stipend 2015/16

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Yair

Dr. Yair Segev

yair.segev@mail.huji.ac.il

Department of Bible

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Subject: The Deuteronomistic Redaction of the Former Prophets: Its Relation to the Book of Deuteronomy and its Law Code

Supervisor: Dr. Ronnie Goldstein

Abstract: My research deals with the redaction of the Former Prophets (Joshua to Kings) and its affinity with the book of Deuteronomy and its law code (Deut. 12 – 26). Scholars have noticed such an affinity already in the 19th century, though they left its exact nature and details unsolved. One should note also the exhaustion of scholarly terminology in passing generations. I intend to conduct a more penetrating inquiry into the nature of the relation between the two corpora: With which segments of Deuteronomy were the redactors of the former prophets acquainted and in which phase of redaction?       

 

President Stipend 2016/17

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dina

Dina Sender

Department of Hebrew Language
dina.sender@mail.huji.ac.il

Department of Hebrew Language

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Subject: Hebrew Spoken by Haredi Litaim (Litvish-Yeshivish) in Israel: A Linguistic Description

Supervisors: Prof. Yochanan Breuer (Hebrew University) and Dr. Dalit Asulin (University of Haifa)

Bio: Dina Sender completed her B.A. and M.A. studies (summa cum laude) in the Hebrew Linguistics department at the Hebrew University. Her M.A. thesis focuses on a linguistic phenomenon, Ashkenazi pronunciation, that characterizes Haredi Hebrew, aiming to examine it from multiple angles: to map the lexical sources of the linguistic forms with Ashkenazi pronunciation, to analyze its phonological characteristics, to trace grammatical changes that occur in forms with Ashkenazi pronunciation, and to discuss the pragmatic functions that this pronunciation serves. This work was written under the supervision of Prof. Yochanan Breuer (the Hebrew University) and Dr. Dalit Asulin (University of Haifa).

Dina is currently a PhD student in the Hebrew Linguistics department at the Hebrew University. Her research aims to describe comprehensively the Haredi Litai community’s unique linguistic repertoire, and to enrich this examination with a sociolinguistic analysis of the links between the speakers' linguistic choices and their ideology, values, and group affiliation.

Publications:

"Hebrew as a Language of Speech and Yiddish as a Language of Emotion among the Ultra-Orthodox in Israel," Language Studies (in Hebrew, forthcoming)

"Ashkenazi Pronunciation in Spoken Haredi Hebrew in Israel: Grammar and Pragmatics," Leshonenu (in Hebrew, forthcoming)

 

President Scholarship 2020/2021

MA Honors Program 2016/2017

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Dr. Naama Seri-Levi

nserilevi@gmail.com
website

Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry

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Subject: The Polish-Jewish Refugees who flex to the Soviet Union during the Second World War 

Supervisor: Prof. Yfaat Weiss
Abstract: My research deals with the Polish-Jewish refugees who fled to the Soviet Union during World War II and the Holocaust. Although most of the Polish survivors were part of this group, their story is hardly told and the research regarding it is poor. 
By tracing after the networks those people held during the years of the war, I hope to discover some aspects of that unique experience. The study will highlight the daily lives of these refugees as well as their hopes and expectations for the future. It will also examine how other Jewish communities   sought to learn about the fate of the refugees and those left behind in Poland, and to respond to their plight, both at the personal and institutional levels.

Sort bio: PhD candidate at the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry. Working at The Martin Buber Society of Fellows. Lives in Jerusalem, married to Ariel and a mother of Hillel-Moshe and Ivri-Pinchas.

Publications:

הרפטריאנטים במחנות העקורים 1946-1947", ילקוט מורשת 97, 2016, עמ' 75-39.
English Version: "These People are Unique: The Repatriates in the DP Camps, 1946-47", Moreshet 14 (2017), pp. 49-100.

 

Presidential Stipend 2016/17

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Dana Shaham

Dana Shaham

dana.shaham@mail.huji.ac.il

Department of Archaeology

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Subject: Pleistocene/Holocene Linear Art in the Mediterranean Basin

Supervisor: Prof. Anna Belfer-Cohen

Abstract: Archaeological evidence indicate crucial socio-cultural and economic shifts in the Mediterranean Basin during the Terminal Pleistocene, reflecting a major transformation in human history- the shift from hunting-gathering lifeways to agricultural communities. The Levantine Natufian culture (ca. 15,000 years BP) can serve as an example of such dynamics, portraying intense artistic activity, largely absent from the preceding cultural entities. My MA research on the Natufian art resulted in an original methodology for the study of prehistoric art, drawing on art history methodologies.  The detailed comparisons provide new insights into the Natufian art (aesthetic qualities, visual languages, style sequences), with the graphic-linear style being prominent among Natufian art manifestations. Since the research brought to light a great potential of cross-cultural comparisons, the PhD research aims to establish an expanded, detailed, cross-cultural corpus of linear style artworks derived from Terminal Pleistocene Mediterranean cultures. Accordingly, this research is supposed to contribute new criteria for assessing   cultural dynamics recognized and defined in the Natufian unique phenomena. Those new criteria will also enable innovative pan Mediterranean cross-cultural comparisons and may contribute actual data on the phenomenology of art and aesthetics, under the particular circumstances of the unique turnover in human history.

 

Presidential Stipend 2015/16

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Hagar Shalev

Hagar Shalev

hagar.shalev@mail.huji.ac.il

Department of Asian Studies

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Subject: Hatha Yoga Bodily Perception

Advisors: Prof. Yigal Bronner

Abstract: The dissertation deals with the redefining of the bodily perception in Hatha Yoga. The corpus of texts dealing with Hatha Yoga contains various physical practices and deals, among other issues, with the relationship between physical energy (śakti) and the soteriological state of liberation (mokṣa). By examining these texts a new discourse of health and immortality appears as well as a detailed catalog of physical exercises. Thus, the main questions of the dissertation are: How is the human body conceptualized and constructed in this textual corpus? What, according to these texts, is the body’s direct connection with immortality, health, and the soul’s freedom from earthy existence? What is the interface between the Haṭhayogic body in its strictly anatomical sense and its underlying metaphysical body?  The way to answer these questions dominates a diachronic axis when multidisciplinary research is conducted: a textual philological study that examines texts between the 11th and 15th centuries in the Sanskrit language. The second part is an ethnographic study centered on the main three ascetic orders in modern India (Daśanāmīs, Rāmānānīs, Nāth) who are the heirs of the textual tradition and whose lives are devoted to yoga.
By examining the body as a cultural product, in both the scriptures and the living tradition, it will be possible to better understand the historical transformation of this tradition and the ways in which modernity has shaped, distorted and even reconstructed the early notions of yoga. Such an examination can shed new light on the categorization of the body in the sciences of religion and anthropology.

Publications:

Sharabi, Asaf and Hagar Shalev. 2016. From Ruler to Healer: Changes in Religious Experience in the Western Himalayas. HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies. 6 (2):20-35.

Shalev, Hagar and Sharabi Asaf. Sanskritization of the Upper Castes: the Case of Mahāsū Followers. Ethnic and Racial Studies. (excepted for publication) 

Sharabi, Asaf and Hagar Shalev. 2018. Charismatic Mediumship and Traditional Priesthood: Power Relations in a Religious Field. Religion 48 (2): 198-214. 
 

Rotenstreich Scholarship 2018/19

President  2015/16

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Noam Siegelman

Dr. Noam Siegelman

noam.siegelman@gmail.com
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Cognitive Sciences

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Subject: Individual Differences in Statistical Learning: Measurement, Theory, and Validity

Supervisor: Prof. Ram Frost

Abstract: I study statistical learning ability, the human capacity to extract patterns and regularities from the sensory input. This ability plays a key role in a variety of human capacities, and specifically in the ability to master a language. In my Ph.D. dissertation I focus on individual-differences in statistical learning ability, and their relation to linguistic performance.

Publications:

  • Siegelman, N., Bogaerts, L., Christiansen, M.H., & Frost, R. (2017). Towards a theory of individual differences in statistical learning. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 
  • Bogaerts, L., Siegelman, N., Ben-Porat, T., & Frost, R. (2017). Is the Hebb repetition task a reliable measure of individual differences in sequence learning? The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
  • Siegelman, N., Bogaerts, L., & Frost, R. (2016). Measuring individual differences in statistical learning: Current pitfalls and possible solutions. Behavior Research Methods. 
  • Bogaerts, L., Siegelman, N., & Frost, R. (2016). Splitting the variance of statistical learning performance: A parametric investigation of exposure duration and transitional probabilities. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 
  • Siegelman, N., & Arnon, I. (2015). The advantage of starting big: Learning from unsegmented input facilitates mastery of grammatical gender in an artificial language. Journal of Memory and Language.
  • Frost, R., Armstrong, B. C., Siegelman, N., & Christiansen, M. H. (2015). Domain generality versus modality specificity: The paradox of statistical learning. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
  • Siegelman, N., & Frost, R. (2015). Statistical learning as an individual ability: Theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence. Journal of memory and language.
  • Frost, R., Siegelman, N., Narkiss, A., & Afek, L. (2013). What predicts successful literacy acquisition in a second language?. Psychological Science.
  • Kinoshita, S., Norris, D., & Siegelman, N. (2012). Transposed-letter priming effect in Hebrew in the same–different task. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

 

Presidential Stipend 2015/16

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