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Dr. Guy Bracha

CV

Education

2012 Ph.D. Bar Ilan University Department of Jewish Studies
2004 M.A. Tel Aviv University School of Historical Studies
1999 B.A. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Departments of Jewish History and Middle East Studies
Dissertation:

"Al-‘Ālam al-Isrā’īlī - The Place of the Journal in the Jewish and Arabic Press in the Middle East on the Background of the Changes in the Syrian and Lebanese Communities 1921-1948." Supervision: Prof. Yaron Harel

M.A. thesis:

"Michel Aflaq – The Thinker and the Operative. Supervision: Prof. Eyal Zisser

Post Doctorat

2017 Felix Posen Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Research title: Jews, Antisemitism and the Nation building in Egypt, Syria and Lebanon, 1908-1948. Supervision: Prof. Hillel Cohen

Awards and Scholarships

2016 Grant from 'The Forum for the History of the Land of Israel and the Jewish People'
2012 Pinchas Churgin Award for Outstanding Dissertation, Bar Ilan University
2010 Travel scholarship, French Embassy
2009-10 Scholarship for Ph.D. students, Bar Ilan University
2009 Gusta Sadan Prize, Tel Aviv University
2009 Ben Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East


Employment

2018 Asistant editor of volume Lebanon, Ben Zvi Institute.
2013 Teaching Fellow in Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, BarIlan University.
2012 Eliashar fellow in Ben Zvi institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East.

 

Publications

List of publications

"War of the Languages – The Struggle of the Hebrew and the Arabic Languages against the French Language in Alliance School of Beirut", Collection of Articles: 150 years of the founding of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, forthcoming (Hebrew)

"East against West in the Writing of Eliyahu Hai Sasson, Aleppo 1870", in Esther Meir-Glitzenstein and Ofer Schiff and others (eds.), The Long History of the Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews in Israel, Sde Boker: Ben-Gurion Institute, forthcoming (Hebrew).

"Pasover and the Exodus – Formation of Jewish-Egyptian Memory of the Jewish Nahda in Egypt", Jamaa, forthcoming

"Digitization of Jewish Nahda Texts: “Knowing the Enemy” or Preserving a Heritage?", Studies in Contemporary Jewry, 31 (2020), pp. 152-164.

"Les Juifs de Syrie et du Liban durant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale", La Revue d'histoire de la Shoah, 205 (Octobre 2016), pp. 447-462.

"'The Germans are Coming!' – The Jewish Community of Beirut facing the question of Jewish immigration from German", Leo Baek Yearbook, 61/1 (2016), pp. 41-54.

"A Letter from Iraq – The Writing of Iraqi Correspondents in al-ʿAlam al-Israʾili and Israʾil", Middle Eastern Studies, 52/1 (2016), pp. 102-115.

"The 'Women Awakening' in Beirut: Trends and transformations in the development of Jewish women associations in Beirut", Pe'amim, 144 (2016), pp. 9-41 (Hebrew).

"The Rise of the 'Young Jewish Effendiyya' and the Jewish Community of Beirut Reaction to the Nazi's Rise to Power in Germany", Zion, 80/2 (2015), pp. 207-226 (Hebrew).

"In Oil Tanks: the Dismissal of Rabbi Shlomo Tagger, the Hakham Bashi of Beirut", Pe'amim, 139-140 (2015), pp. 213-238 (Hebrew).

Non-Refereed Publications

"Demography", in Yaron Harel (ed.) Lebanon, Jerusalem: Ben Zvi Institute (Hebrew), forthcoming.

"The Jews of Lebanon and the Plans to Settle German Jews, 1933-1934", in Yaron Harel (ed.) Lebanon, Jerusalem: Ben Zvi Institute (Hebrew), forthcoming.

"Original Plays and Theatre Performances", in Yaron Harel (ed.) Lebanon, Jerusalem: Ben Zvi Institute (Hebrew), forthcoming.

"Journalism", in Yaron Harel (ed.) Lebanon, Jerusalem: Ben Zvi Institute (Hebrew), forthcoming.

"al-Alam al-Isra'ili – a Jewish-Lebanese journal in the language of the Qur'an", Et-Mol, 219 (2012), pp. 12-15 (Hebrew).

"Upstrem and with the flow", Et-Mol, 219 (2012), pp. 12-15 (Hebrew).

 

Selected Papers Presented at Scientific Conferences

4 March 2020 Private and public - Women in the Jewish and Israeli press, the Open University "Where are you Esther? Writing and the lack of Writing un the Arabic-Jewish Press" (Hebrew)
August 2017 The 17th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem "Translation of Jewish Culture to Literary Arabic before 1948: Connecting Qawm and Watan" (Hebrew)
18 July 2017 The Long History of the Jews in the Muslim Land: A Conference on the Occasion of the Retirement of Prof. Yaron Tsur, Tel Aviv "Fighting back! A Jewish Maskil is writing an Eastern Jewish History in Aleppo, 1870" (Hebrew)
22-24 August 2016 International conference:  Jews in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa, Cape Town, South Africa "The Jewish Press in the Middle East" (Hebrew)
5 April 2016 International conference: The Jews of the Middle East in the Shadow of the Holocaust, Jerusalem "How to translate ‘Ghetto’ into Arabic? – The coverage of the Holocaust in a Lebanese Jewish newspaper"
7-8 October 2015 Closing conference for the Coursework in Van Leer: Mizrahi Perspectives, Jewish Perspectives, Jerusalem "'By the Arabic we could create a Hebrew culture (!?) – Formation of a Jewish culture in the Nahdah" (Hebrew)
11 February 2014 International conference: German Jews in the Middle East, Jerusalem "The Germans are coming! The Jewish community of Beirut facing the question of Jewish immigration from Germany"
31 July 2013 The 16th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem "The Jews of Beirut between Lebanese nationalism, Pan-Arabism, Syrianism and Zionism" (Hebrew)
3-5 September 2012 (Hebrew) International Conference: The Jewish Communities of Latin America, Sao Paulo University, Brazil "Sidon in Rio: The Formation of a Community in Brazil and its Connections with the Mother-Community" (Hebrew)
7 June 2012 The 36th Annual MEISAI Conference, Bar Ilan University "Al-Alam al-Isra'ili – a Syrian-Lebanese-Zionist Journal" (Hebrew)
26 October 2010 International conference: 150 Years from the Foundation of Alliance, Jerusalem "Arabic or French: the struggle in the community of Beirut about the cultural orientation in Alliance Israelite Universelle"

Courses

course (Hebrew)

04-006-01

Jewish Intellectuals in the Midle East and North Africa and the Modern Jewish Identity

Annual

credits equal 2 Annual course hours

Research

Social and political history of the Syrian and Lebanese Jewry in the modern period;Intellectual history of the Jews in the Middle East and North Africa; Jewish journalism in the Middle East and North Africa