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PhD honors 2014/15 | Jack, Joseph & Morton Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities

PhD honors 2014/15

Shai  Alleson-Gerberg

Shai Alleson-Gerberg

Department of Jewish History

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Subject: The Book of the Words of the Lord: Its linguistic, literary and doctrinal character

Supervisor: Dr. Paweł Maciejko

Abstract: For inveterate eighteenth century opponent of Sabbateanism Rabbi Jacob Emden, skeptical, rationalist worldviews on the one hand and Sabbateanism on the other, constituted the opposite faces of theological heresy that threatened to undermine religious foundations and topple traditional Jewish society. Emden was right. While the God of the philosophers was fettered to the rationalist mechanism of the universe, hidden from the world and indifferent to its fate, ‘the God of Sabbatai Zvi’ was very personal, capricious and unpredictable. He cancelled his Law at a sweep and commanded his messiah to convert. In any case, the old world was crumbling away. Jacob Frank (1726-1791) who is considered to be the most radical Sabbatean representative in the eighteenth century, tried to bring ‘a new thing to the world’ by crushing all the laws and religions including the Sabbatean tradition from which he emerged and Christianity into which he disappeared with his followers. The Book of the Words of the Lord (Zbiór Słów Pańskich), a collection of Frank’s sayings, is a unique reflection of the rupture in Jewish society at turn of the modern era, and a fascinating attempt at religious renewal. 

 

Words of the Lord is the main Frankist source and of the utmost importance for the movement’s history after the Frankists converted to Christianity in 1759, and detailed documentation of their doctrine at its climax. A manuscript in three recensions, it is no ordinary work. Lacking a distinct plot and with no consistent rationale, it is a mixture of fables, dreams, tirades and memories from different times. It is also a stew of different traditions: Be they, rabbinical and Zoharic exegesis or elements of Catholic rite, Polish Kabbalah or Turkish Sabbateanism, Sufi narratives or Slavic folklore. The syncretistic nature of Words of the Lord and the ethos of novelty that echoes constantly throughout, is also expressed in its language. The source is written in Polish inlaid with Hebrew, Yiddish, German, Ladino and Turkish. Its 'iconoclastic' content, use of ‘liminal’ linguistic means, such as multi-lingual puns, and finally, its rejection of the holy tongue in favour of the ‘seventy tongues’ of the nations – all this comprises the new language that Frankists sought to adopt on their twisted path towards the secret gnosis of Edom and the true God. In Frank’s words: ‘When you come to the sun, you must talk like the sun and dress in the same robes as the sun, and when you come to the moon, wear the same robes as the moon and talk in moon language. 

 While research on Words of the Lord has mainly focused on the Kabbalistic and Sabbatian roots of Frankist doctrine, my research will analyse its philological, literary and theological aspects, while taking the wider historical context of the early modern period into account. Baroque phenomena such as the tension between external façade and hermetic internal content, positioning personal religion based on non-traditional reading of the scriptures, abandonment of God and God’s abandonment of the world, the obsession with dreams, etc. – all these are important features of Words of the Lord which need to be considered. In this way, for the first time, a detailed and inclusive picture of the source will emerge. I aim to shed new light on the creation of the anthology, its contacts with various literary and religious traditions, its hermeneutics and finally, also on the inner world of Jacob Frank and his disciples at the turn of the modern era.

 

Presidential Stipend 2014/15

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or amir

Dr. Or Amir

Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

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Subject: Mamluk Emirs and Sufi Shaykhs: A Study in the Relations between Rulers and Holy Men

Supervisors: Reuven Amitai and Daniella Talmon-Heller

Abstract: This study examines the relations formed between the Mamluk elite and Sufi Shaykhs in Greater Syria (Bilād al-Shām), from both a utilitarian perspective – i.e. bestowing patronage in exchange for religious and political legitimacy; as well as from the perspective of the Mamluks’ sincere belief in the charismatic and thaumaturgic talents of those Shaykhs, and the Mamluks’ active participation in various Sufi rituals. Among the main inquiries of this study will be, to what extant the Mamluks, as well as the historiography composed during their reign, were affected from the Seljuq traditions, which were adopted and developed under the Zengids and Ayyubids; and what can be learned about the Mamluks from their attitude towards those Shaykhs, as well as what can be learned from it about the important role those Shaykhs played in the Islamic society of Late Medieval Syria. 

Publications:

  • "חייהם הדתיים של המוסלמים באזור צפת במאות השלוש-עשרה – ארבע-עשרה על פי מקור חדש-ישן," קתדרה 156 (תשע"ה), 70-39.
  • “Niẓām al-Dīn Yaḥyā al-Ṭayyārī – An Artist in the Court of the Ilkhans and Mamluks”, forthcoming in Asiatische Studien 2017.
  • “Forming a New Local Elite: The ‘Uthmānī Family of Ṣafad”, forthcoming in Proceedings of the Third Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies, Leiden 2018.

 

Presidential Stipend 2014/15

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Idit Ben Or

Dr. Idit Ben Or

Department of History

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Subject:  Governmental Monies in Early Modern England: A Social, Political and Material Culture Analysis 

Supervisor: Prof. Dror Wahrman 

Abstract: 

Azrieli Fellows Program 2017/18

Mandel Scholion Research Group: Materials for Change (2016-2019)

The George L. Mosse Graduate Exchange Fellowship 2014/15

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Rammie Cahlon

Rammie Cahlon

Linguistics

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Subject: Linguistic diversity in Quechuan

Supervisor: Dr. Eitan Grossman, Prof. Willem Adelaar

Abstract: The goal of classical ‘Greenbergian’ typology is to identify language universals, and to answer the question: what is a possible language? However, since the groundbreaking work of Nichols (1992), the field of linguistic typology has slowly shifted. Today, the main focus of typology is linguistic diversity as a problem in its own right. Bickel (2007) goes so far as to write that the goal of modern day typology is “to explain why linguistic diversity is the way it is.” This recent development, which can be called the ‘Nichols-Bickel transform,’ has raised a new set of questions and problems, and have supplemented classical structural and functional explanations with the need to address historical contingency as a causal factor in explanatory theories of language structures. The study aims both to describe diversity within Quechuan but also to explain it, based on ‘emerging’ linguistic features. It also aims to better our understanding of linguistic diversity by means of linking it to what we know of language change. It will try to tackle such questions as: What are emergent features? Why are they more prone to change, i.e., less stable? Why do renewed features not stabilize or if they do stabilize, what makes them do so? What leads one language variety to follow a certain pathway whereas another follows a different one? This last question has been called the ‘actuation’ problem by Weinreich et al. (1968), and it is considered one of the most recalcitrant problems of language change.

Bio: Rammie Cahlon is a PhD candidate enrolled in a joint program with Leiden University. His research focuses on linguistic diversity and language change and his doctorate research deals with the role of variance in the stabilization process of unstable features. His research interests include areal typology, language typology, language change pathways, transitivity and argument structure, Creoles, Andean and Scandinavian languages.

 

Presidential Stipend 2014/15

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Idan Dershowitz

Dr. Idan Dershowitz

Biblical Studies

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Subject: Mosaica: Material Methods of Biblical Redaction

Supervisor: Dr. Shimon Gesundheit

Abstract: In my dissertation, I investigate biblical redaction from a material perspective. What did the editors’ desks look like? How did they go about compiling some of history’s most formative texts? It is often presumed that these works were invariably created by scribes who integrated and supplemented earlier sources. Contrary to the prevailing opinion, I contend that various biblical passages were created through a process of literal “cut and paste.” Proto-biblical papyrus scrolls were disassembled and even dissected into small snippets. These patches and sheets were then spliced and pasted together. Other times, texts were expanded by affixing scraps of old papyrus onto fresh sheets and writing new material in the gaps. That these unusual methods were practiced by biblical editors can be established through a systematic investigation of extant redactional errors, finding surprising support in texts ranging from ancient Egypt to nascent America.

Publications:

  • Idan Dershowitz, “MORDECAI, SON OF JAIR (HEBREW BIBLE/OLD TESTAMENT),” Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (EBR) 18, De Gruyter (2017; forthcoming) 
  • Idan Dershowitz, “NAOMI (HEBREW BIBLE/OLD TESTAMENT),” Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (EBR) 18, De Gruyter (2017; forthcoming)
  • Idan Dershowitz, “Revealing Nakedness and Concealing Homosexual Intercourse: Legal and Lexical Evolution in Leviticus 18,” Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel (HeBAI; forthcoming)
  • Idan Dershowitz, “Darius II Delays the Festival of Matzot in 418 BCE,” TheTorah.com: A Historical and Contextual Approach (2017): http://thetorah.com/darius-ii-delays-the-festival-of-matzot-in-418-bce/
  • Idan Dershowitz, “KENATH,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (EBR) 15, De Gruyter (2016 [online], 2017 [print]) 
  • Idan Dershowitz, “KENAZ, BROTHER OF CALEB,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (EBR) 15, De Gruyter (2016 [online], 2017 [print])
  • Idan Dershowitz, “KENAZ, SON OF ELAH,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (EBR) 15, De Gruyter (2016 [online], 2017 [print])
  • Idan Dershowitz, “KENAZ, SON OF ELIPHAZ,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (EBR) 15, De Gruyter (2016 [online], 2017 [print]) 
  • Idan Dershowitz, “Man of the Land: Unearthing the Original Noah,” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (ZAW) 128:3 (2016), 357–373
  • Idan Dershowitz, “The Guilt of the Slanderer and the Sotah: Between Certainty and Uncertainty” TheTorah.com: A Historical and Contextual Approach (2015): http://thetorah.com/the-guilt-of-the-slanderer-and-the-sotah/
  • Idan Dershowitz, Moshe Koppel, Navot Akiva, and Nachum Dershowitz, “Computerized Source-Criticism of Biblical Texts,” Journal of Biblical Studies (JBL) 134:2 (2015), 253–271
  • Idan Dershowitz, “Flowing with Fat and (Bee) Honey: Evidence from Ancient Egypt,” Vetus Testamentum (VT) 64:4 (2014), 665–667
  • Idan Dershowitz, Nachum Dershowitz, Tomer Hasid, and Amnon Ta-Shma, “Orthography and Biblical Criticism,” Proceedings of Digital Humanities (DH 2014), Lausanne, Switzerland, 451–453
  • Idan Dershowitz, “Computerized Bible Criticism,” Bible and Interpretation (2011): http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/der358009.shtml
  • Moshe Koppel, Navot Akiva, Idan Dershowitz, and Nachum Dershowitz, “Unsupervised Decomposition of a Document into Authorial Components,” Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2011), 1356–1364
  • Navot Akiva, Idan Dershowitz, and Moshe Koppel,“Exploiting Synonym Choice to Identify Components of a Document” (abstract), Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics (2010)
  • Idan Dershowitz, “A Land Flowing with Fat and Honey,” Vetus Testamentum (VT) 60:2 (2010), 172–176
  • Idan Dershowitz, “Simeon and Levi are Brothers,” Megadim 44 (2006), 25–31 (Hebrew)

 

Presidential Stipend 2014/15

Rothenstreich Stipend 2015/16

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Rea  Golan

Dr. Rea Golan

History and Philosophy of Science Program

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Subject: Internal indeterminacy, Formalism an beyond: an essay on the relation between Formalism and Normativity in Logic

Supervisor: Prof. Carl Posy

Abstract: I examine the relation between formality and normativity in logic, claiming that there is an inherent tension between the two. I seek to defuse that tension (so to speak) by providing phenomenological foundations for logic.

 

Rotenstreich Stipend 2014/15

Presidential Stipend 2012/13

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Rebekka  Grossmann

Dr. Rebekka Grossmann

History

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Subject: Envisioning Palestine. The Construction of a National Space

Supervisor: Prof. Ofer Ashkenazi

Abstract: In my research project I examine the effects of photography on the transformation of Mandate Palestine from a tourist attraction to a political space. I work with photographs from different political bodies and private photographers who were actively engaged in the creation of a specific image of Palestine abroad. The focus on photographs in the research on the self-perception of the inhabitants of Palestine and on the global perception of Palestine abroad enables me to get new insights about nation building efforts, socio-political patterns and the ways in which visitors to and inhabitants of Palestine crossed and shaped the country’s outlook. In my research I, thus, trace networks of photographers in and outside of Palestine, their work and the complicated relationship between aesthetics and politics in a place that was influenced by Jewish and Arab nation building efforts as well as by British imperialist aspirations.

Bio: I am a graduate student at the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History at the Hebrew University. I am especially interested in the intersections of the history of Jewish migration, the history of photography and the history of globalization. My dissertation, Envisioning Palestine: Photography and the Creation of a Multi-National Space, explores the tension between ethnic particularism and transnational mobility in British Mandate Palestine, as seen through the prism of photography.

Publications:

 

Grossmann, Rebekka: “Image Transfer and Visual Friction. Staging Palestine in the National Socialist Spectacle”, forthcoming with the Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook 2019

Grossmann, Rebekka: “Negotiating Presences. Palestine and the Weimar German Gaze“. Jewish Social Studies 23, no. 2 (2018): 137-172.

Rebekka Großmann, Henry-Jones-Loge. Jüdisches Selbstbewusstsein und Aufbruch in die Moderne, in: Hamburger Schlüsseldokumente zur deutsch-jüdischen Geschichte. <http://juedische-geschichte-online.net/beitrag/jgo:article-167> [03.07.2017].

Rebekka Großmann, „Mutter Borchardt“ – eine jüdische Reederin, in: Hamburger Schlüsseldokumente zur deutsch-jüdischen Geschichte. <http://juedische-geschichte-online.net/beitrag/jgo:article-168> [03.07.2017].

 

Mosse Stipend 2014/15

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Ori Hacohen

Dr. Ori Hacohen

Cognitive Science

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subject: What Are Neural Representations? 

supervisor: Prof. Oron Shagrir

Abstract: I am interested in the role representations have in accounting for our cognitive capacities.  The notion of mental representations might be the single most dominant explanatory posit in the cognitive sciences to date, yet the mysteriousness regarding the nature of representation and its role within our mind (or within theories of the mind) has withstood many years of debate.  The classic debate over the existence of representations has drawn a long standing line between representationalists, who believe cognition must include mental states or structures which represent (or have content/semantics/intentionality) and eliminativists, who believe cognitive theories should dispense with such notions of representation.  I aim to explore and argue for a third option, largely overlooked in the existing literature, which could be called the pragmatic view of representations.  On the pragmatic view, the mind in fact does not use representations but nevertheless- they are still necessary within our cognitive theories.  I intend to offer a complete and thorough account for a pragmatic view of representation in hope that it will help carve out significant room for this view within the traditional representationalist/eliminativist debate.

 

Presidential Stipend 2014/15

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Ofir Haim

Dr. Ofir Haim

Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies

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Subject: The Early Judeo-Persian Biblical Exegesis: The Manuscripts in the British Library and in the National Library of Russia

Supervisors: Prof. Shaul Shaked, Dr. Julia Rubanovich

Abstract: My research concerns the Bible exegesis written in Judeo-Persian and is based on manuscripts datable to the eleventh and twelfth centuries. These manuscripts - most of which have remained unpublished - have many similarities and it is plausible that they all belong to the same exegetical corpus. Several of these manuscripts are clearly Karaite, since they quote the works of contemporary Karaite scholars and use Karaite terminology. In my research I will discuss the exegetical methods of these texts and examine the connections of these texts to the Karaite Bible exegesis from the ninth to eleventh centuries, which was mostly written in Judeo-Arabic.

Publications:

Haim, Ofir. “Documents from Afghanistan in the National Library of Israel.” Ginzei Qedem 10 (2014), pp. 9-28. (in Hebrew)

Haim, Ofir. “An Early Judeo-Persian Letter sent from Ghazna to Bāmiyān (Ms. Heb. 4°8333.29).” Bulletin of the Asia Institute 26 (2016), pp. 103-119.

Haim, Ofir. “The Earliest Arabic Documents Written on Paper: Three Letters from Sanjar-Shah (Tajikistan).” Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 43 (2016), pp. 143-189 (with Michael Shenkar and Sharof Kurbanov).

Haim, Ofir. “Further Documents from Afghanistan in the National Library of Israel.” AB"A: Journal for the Research and Study of the Jews of Iran, Bukhara and Afghanistan 10 (2017), pp. 6-21. (in Hebrew)

Haim, Ofir. “Polemical Aspects in an Early Judeo-Persian Bible Exegesis: The Commentary on the Story of Ḥannah (RNL Yevr.-Arab. I 4608).” Entangled Religions: Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer 6 (2018), pp. 162-200.

lRotenstreich Scholarship 2016/17

Presidential Stipend 2014/15

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Ariel Kopilovitz

Dr. Ariel Kopilovitz

Bible

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Subject: Israel’s Future in Ezekiel’s Restoration Oracles (Ezekiel 33–37)·         

Supervisor: Prof. Baruch Schwartz

Abstract: My research will focus on Ezekiel’s restoration oracles (chapters 33-37) that were said by him shortly after the destruction. In these chapters Ezekiel describes the program of Israel restoration in the future. 

Rotenstreich 2014/15

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Bar Kribus

Dr. Bar Kribus

Archaeology

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Subject: The Monasteries of the Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews)

Supervisor: Prof. Stephen Kaplan, Prof. Joseph Patrich

Abstract: The monastic movement of Beta Israel is the only Jewish / Judaic monastic movement known from medieval and modern times. Monks of this movement were active in Ethiopia from the fifteenth through the twentieth century. In a manner similar to contemporary Christian Ethiopian monks, Beta Israel monks resided in monasteries, practised celibacy and asceticism and dedicated their lives to the worship of God. The monks served as leaders of the community, trained and ordained the lay clergy, and formulated many of the community's religious observances. Despite the uniqueness of this monastic movement, the daily life and material culture of the monks, including their monasteries, have yet to be comprehensively researched.

My research focuses on the character and location of the monasteries and on the daily lives of the monks living within them. It comprises four parts: (a) an examination of written and oral sources regarding the monks, their lives and the monasteries in which they lived; (b) an archaeological survey in Ethiopia, in which the remains of Beta Israel monasteries will be identified and documented; (c) a synthesis of the data collated in the above parts, with a focus on the characteristics of the monasteries and the activities conducted in their different components; and (d) a comparison of Beta Israel monasteries with contemporary Christian Ethiopian monasteries.

Publications:

  • Kribus B. and Krebs V. (forthcoming) Betä Ǝsra’el (Ethiopian Jewish) Monastic Sites North of Lake Ṭana: Preliminary Results of an Exploratory Field Trip to Ethiopia in December 2015, Entangled Religions.
  • Kribus B. (forthcoming) The Creation of an African Sheba? The Impact of Pre-Christian Cult and Culture on Aksumite Christianity, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies.
  • Kribus B. (forthcoming) The Layout and Architecture of the Monasteries of the Betä Ǝsra’el (Ethiopian Jews) – Preliminary Observations, Ityop̣is.
  • Kribus B. and Cytryn-Silverman K. (forthcoming) The Ceramic Evidence: The Islamic Period, in: I. Bordowicz (ed.), Horvat Yattir: The 1995 – 1999 Seasons.
  • Habtamu Makonnen, Phillipson L. and Sernicola L. with contributions by Marco Barbarino, Alfredo Carannante, Michela Gaudiello and Bar Kribus (2013) Archaeological Expedition at Aksum (Ethiopia) of the Università degli Studi di Napoli “L'Orientale” 2011 Field Season: Seglamen, Newsletter di Archeologia CISA 4: 343-439.
  • Fattovich R., Hiluf Berhe, Phillipson L. and Sernicola L. with contributions by Bar Kribus, Michela Gaudiello and Marco Barbarino (2011) Archaeological Expedition at Aksum (Ethiopia) of the University of Naples “L’Orientale” -2010 Field Season: Seglamen, Naples.

 

Presidential Stipend 2014/15

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Ma'ayan Nidbach

Ma'ayan Nidbach

Department of Asian Studies

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Subject: The reinterpretation of Bhartṛhari in Kashmir Śaivism

Supervisor: Prof. Yigal Bronner

Abstract: My research deals with the unique status of Bhartṛhari, philosopher and grammarian of the 5th century CE, in the writings of a lineage of scholars from Kashmir of the 10-11th centuries (Mainly Somānanda, Utpaladeva, and Abhinavagupta). I examine the ways in which these scholars reinterpreted Bhartṛhari's ideas and terminology in their texts, which, I hope, will shed light on an interesting link in the history of Indian thought and religion.

 

Azrieli Scholarship 2016/17

Presidential Stipend 2014/15

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Dr. Ido Noy

History of Art

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Subject: Medieval Ashkenazy Wedding Jewelry

Supervisor: Prof. Shalom Sabar

Abstract: My doctoral thesis seeks to investigate the history and characteristics of wedding jewellery in late mediaeval Ashkenaz, as these are reflected in the material culture.

 

Presidential Stipend 2014/15

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Tamar Rozett

Dr. Tamar Rozett

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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Ido  Wachtel

Dr. Ido Wachtel

Archaeology

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Subject: The Upper Galilee in the Bronze and Iron Ages: Patterns of Settlement , Economy and Society.   

Supervisor: Prof. Ilan Sharon and Prof. Gideon Shelach

Abstract: The research reexamines the settlement history of the Upper Galilee during the Bronze and Iron ages (third to early first millennium B.C.E.) in light of archaeological surveys. The survey identifies early remnants and enables us to classify the changes in the settlement patterns over time and space. The research examines (per each historical epoch) where, in which form and to what extent people settled within the Upper Galilee, as well as what can be deduced from the location, character and interrelation of the various settlements with regards to early demography, society and economy. Besides the renewed discussion of the local history, I examine in my research a new method of archaeological survey, whose aim is to obtain a higher level of data precision in comparison with past methods, thereby resulting in a more accurate historical picture than that which exists today in scholarly research.

Publications:

 

1.    Bloch, G., Francoy, T. M., Wachtel, I., Panitz-Cohen, N., Fuchs, S. and Mazar, A. (2010), "Industrial apiculture in the Jordan valley during Biblical times with Anatolian honeybees". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (25): 11240-11245.

2.    Mazar A. and Wachtel I. (2015), The Persian /Early Hellenistic Fortress at Hurvat Eres, Israel Exploration Journal 65(2): 214-244.

3.    Mingyu, T., Shelach, G., Marder, O. and Wachtel, I. (2014), "Archaeological Investigating Report on Fuxin District Liaoning (2012—2013)". Beifang Wenwu (3): 3-10 (Chinese with English abstract).

4.    Shelach, G., Marder, O., Mingyu, T., Goldsmith, Y., Wachtel, I., Ovadia, A. and Wan Xiongfei (2016), "Human Adaptation and Socio-Economic Change in Northeast China: Results of The Fuxin Regional Survey". Journal of Field Archaeology 41(4): 467-485.

5.    Wachtel, I. (2014), The Mystery of 'Gal Yithro': Monumental Structure in The Upper Galilee. Qadmoniot 147: 16-18 (In Hebrew).

6. Wachtel, I. (2016), La Galilea, non sempre una zona di confine, LIMES 10\15: 332-342.

7. Wachtel, I. (forthcoming), Monumentality in Early Urbanism: Early Bronze Age north Levantine monument in context. Journal of Asian Archaeology.

8.    Wachtel I. (forthcoming), "The Architecture and Stratigraphy of Area S (Lower City)" in Zuckeman S., Wachtel, I. and Bechar, S. (eds), The Rise and Decline of a Canaanite Kingdom: A view from the Lower City of Hazor. Qedem Reports, Jerusalem.

9. Wachtel, I., Zidon, R. Garti, S. and Shelach, G. (forthcoming), Predicting modeling for archeological sites location: compering logistic regression and MaxEnt in north Israel and North-East China.

10.    Wachtel, I. Sabar, R. and Davidovich, U. (forthcoming), Tel Gush Halav during the Bronze and Iron Ages, in Stern, E.,  Ben-Tor, A. and Magness J. (eds.), Eretz Israel, Volume33, (L. Stager Volume, in Hebrew).

11.    Wachtel I. and Sugimoto D. T. (2016), "Tel En Gev, Area H: Architecture and Stratigraphy", in Sugimoto D. T. and Kansha H. (eds.), Tel ‘En Gev: An Interim Report on the 2009-2011 Seasons of Archaeological Excavations, Tokyo: Keio Archaeological Expeditions to the Western Asia, pp.53-96 (Japanese, English version forthcoming). 

 

 

Presidential Stipend 2013/14

Rotenstreich Stipend 2014/15

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Shlomit Wygoda

Dr. Shlomit Wygoda

Philosophy

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Subject: Contemporary Debates in Ethics and Metaethics in the Light of Particularism

Supervisor: Prof. David Enoch

Abstract: Moral particularism is the view according to which: “the possibility of moral thought and judgement does not depend on the provision of a suitable supply of moral principles.” (Jonathan Dancy, Ethics Without Principles; p. 7). Despite the lively debate regarding the correctness of this doctrine, to my knowledge, not much work was done to examine what kind of contribution a particularist outlook may offer other discussions in normative ethics and metaethics. However, since much of contemporary discussion in these fields assumes - tacitly if not explicitly - a generalist framework, it would be interesting to see what the implications to these discussions may be, if particularism turns out to be true. My dissertation will focus on some of these implications.

Publications:

“Not all Partial Grounds Partly Ground: Some useful distinctions in the theory of grounding”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (Forthcoming).

 

Rotenstreich Stipend 2016/17

Presidential Stipend 2014/15

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