Bio

Education

2013-2019: PhD at Tel-Aviv University, The Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies, The Department of Jewish History.
Supervisor: Prof. Yaron Tsur.

2004-2009: MA (Magna cum Laude) at Tel-Aviv University, The Department of Jewish History.
Supervisor: Prof. Dina Porat.

2000-2002: BA (Magna cum Laude) at Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, The Department of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences.

Academic Appointments

July 2022 - present: Senior Lecturer, tenure-track, Jewish History Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

August 2022 - present: Chair of Misgav Yerushalayim Research Center for the heritage of Sephardi Jewry.

2017-2022: Member of the academic staff at the Mandel Program for Leadership in Jewish Culture, The Mandel Leadership Institute, Jerusalem.

2021-2022: Post-doctoral fellowship at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Lady Davis Fellowship.
Host: Prof. Yaron Ben-Naeh.

2019-2021: Post-doctoral fellowship at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, The Kreitman School of Advanced Studies, the Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism.
Hosts: Prof. Offer Shiff and Dr. Aviad Moreno.

2019: Post-doctoral fellowship at Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (Inalco), Langues et Cultures du Nord de l'Afrique et Diasporas, Paris, Chateaubriand fellowships.
Host: Prof. Joseph Tedghi.

Academic Activities

2022 - present: Committee Member, the new Kedmata, The Israeli Center for the Research of Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewries, the Ben-Zvi Institute, Jerusalem.

2020 - 2021: Academic Advisor of the book: Ophir Toubul (ed.), Kol Hator: Sephardic Masorti Zionism, Yedioth Ahronoth, Rishon LeZion 2021.

2020 - present: Academic consultant for the project Saving and Reviving Judeo-Moroccan at the National Library of Israel.

2019 - present: Participant in the research group Below the Line: The Feuilleton, the Public Sphere, and Modern Jewish Cultures, University of Michigan, Ohio State University and Michigan State University.

2017 - present: Academic advisor in the core group of The Jews in a Muslim Domain, a documentary television series on the history of Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews, Channel KAN 11.

2016: Committee Member, the Committee for Empowering the Identity of Mizrahi Communities in the Israeli Education System - the Biton Committee.