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My academic work and my essays focus on political activism, queer kinship, national belonging, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Zionism and diasporic communities.
A Queer Way Out - The Politics of Queer Emigration from Israel
2018
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Winner of the 2019 Association for Middle East Women's Studies Book Award
In this nonfiction work I argues that queer Israeli emigrants engage in a deliberately unheroic form of resistance to Zionism. The very language of Zionism prizes the concept of immigration to Israel (*aliyah*, literally ascending) while stigmatizing emigration from Israel (*yerida*, descending). In this book I explores the as-yet-untold story of queer Israeli emigrants. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Berlin, London, and New York, I examines motivations for departure and feelings of unbelonging to the Israeli national collective.
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A QUEER WAY OUT - 2018
Winner of the 2019 Association for Middle East Women's Studies Book Award
The Task of Deciding
Sycamore Review, Vol. 33
2023
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This essay critically examines my upbringing in a pro-natalist society—where bearing three children is the prevailing norm—and articulates the ideological and personal factors informing my decision to forgo parenthood. It further traces the evolving dialogue with my parents as we collectively negotiated and ultimately reconciled this departure from entrenched familial and cultural expectations.
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The Task of Deciding - 2023
The Revival of Diasporic Hebrew in Contemporary Berlin
Berghahan, Cultural topographies of the New Berlin, 2017. Edited by Karin Bauer and Jennifer Ruth Hosek
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Looking at different perspectives and practices regarding Hebrew’s use or place of use, this chapter seeks to find connections between perceptions of diasporic Hebrew as they are envisioned and practiced in contemporary Berlin. What are the various events and activities taking place with regards to Hebrew in contemporary Berlin? How do Hebrew texts written today in Berlin correspond to the work of Scholem, Rosenzweig and others? Who are the people behind these activities and texts, and what is the political significance of their activities?
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The Revival of Diasporic Hebrew in Contemporary Berlin - 2017
Hebräisch für Alle - 2020
Israel, Zionism and the Emigration Anxiety: The case of Israeli Academia
Rutledge, Settler Colonial Studies, volume 9, 2019, issue 1: Settles and Citizens: A critical view of Israeli Society
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This article explores the relationship between Zionism and Jewish immigration, as well as the meaning of emigration in the Jewish-Israeli world. It focuses on Israeli discourse regarding emigration. What are the social implications of emigration and how do the Israeli state and Israeli society perceive it? Most importantly: what are the institutional acts and the cultural texts which manufacture a public discourse of emigration within Israeli society, and how, if at all, has this discourse changed over the years of Israel’s existence?
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Israel, Zionism and the Emigration Anxiety: The case of Israeli Academia - 2019
Queer Israelis in Berlin: The Other Story of Israeli Emigration.
In: The Modern Israeli and Palestinian Diasporas - A Comparative Approach
Edited by Nahum Karlinsky
2024
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