BOOKs
Remaking Holocaust Memory
Syracuse University Press, 2019
Remaking Holocaust Memory, a pioneering analysis of third-generation Holocaust documentaries in Israel, investigates films that have been screened in Israel, Europe, and the United States, appeared in numerous international film festivals, and won international awards, but have yet to receive significant academic attention.
One Trauma, Two Perspectives, Three Years [Hebrew]
The Herzl Institute for the Study of Zionism, University of Haifa, 2018
The book focuses on Representations of Holocaust and Revival in the Newsletters and Films of Zionist Organizations in Eretz-Israel and the U.S.A 1945-1948
Two Faces in The Mirror [Hebrew]
Magnes-Eshkolot Press 2009
The book depicts the representation of the Holocaust, Holocaust survivors and their rehabilitation in Israeli fiction and documentary cinema 1945-2009.
Is it OK to Laugh About it?
Vallentine Mitchell 2017
Holocaust Humour, Satire and Parody in Israeli Culture. In Israel, a unique post-traumatic society where the trauma of the Holocaust lives as an integral part of the present, Holocaust humour in Hebrew functions as an important defence mechanism that challenges and deconstructs the fear factors.
Let the Memorial Hill Remember [Hebrew]
Resling 2014
The book focuses on the commemoration of the Holocaust in Israeli culture from the 1980s onward.
Identities in transition in Israeli culture [Hebrew]
The Open University, Israel 2013
Edit with Sandra Meiri, Yael Munk & Adia Mendelson-Maoz. A collection of articles in Israeli Culture in honor of Prof. Nurit Gertz
Study Guides
The representation of Holocaust survivors in Israeli Cinema [Hebrew]
Study Guide: The Open University, Israel 2004; 2012
The study guide traces how Holocaust survivors were described in Israeli cinema from the end of the 1940s to the present
Myth and Ethos in Israeli Cinema [Hebrew]
Study Guide: The Open University, Israel 2008
The study guide Contrasts cinematic representations of Zionist myths with later critical cinematic representations of these themes.
Jews, Hebrews, Israelis: Cultural Aspects of Jewish Identity [Hebrew]
Study Guide: The Open University, Israel 2009
The study guide examines representations of Jewish, Hebrew and Israeli identities in various Israeli cultural texts.
East and West in Israeli Cinema [Hebrew]
Study Guide: The Open University, Israel 2004
The study guide focuses on the cinematic representations of the Ashkenazi-Mizrahi conflict..
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