Tsafi Sebba-Elran is a senior lecturer of modern Hebrew Literature and Folklore, a member of the Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of Haifa. She is the author of: In Search of New Memories: The Aggadic Anthologies and their Role in the Configuration of the Modern Hebrew Canon (Yad Ben-Zvi Research Institute, 2017) and the editor of two other volumes on contemporary trends in the study of Jewish folklore. Her studies concern the formation of cultural memory in Israel, specifically the roles of national archives, anthologies and other collections as Zionist cultural agents, and the contribution of humorous and other popular genres to the construction of modern Jewish identities.