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Judit Bokser Liwerant

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National Autonomous University of Mexico
Judit is a professor of the Graduate School in Political and Social Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Her research interests are: collective identities and public spheres; Latin American Jewish communities; globalization processes and multiculturalism.
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Aziz Tezel

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Uppsala University
Aziz Tezel is an independent researcher affiliated with the Department of Linguistics and Philology at Uppsala University.

Visual Culture and Modern Jewish Society

[RG #64] Visual Culture and Modern Jewish Society

February - August 1996

Organizers:

Richard Cohen (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Ezra Mendelsohn (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

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This Research Group is composed of scholars in a number of disciplines: art history, Jewish history, theatre, sociology and anthropology. All are interested in the ways in which the study of modern Jewish society can be advanced through a study of visual images, ranging from high art to caricatures, exhibitions in museums and world fairs and the stage. Another principle concern in to examine how certain images can be better understood by placing them in their proper Jewish context.

 

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Roman Timenchik

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Roman Timenchik is a professor in the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests are the history of Russian culture of the first half of the 20th century.

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Boaz Huss

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Ben-Gurion University
Boaz is a professor in the Department of Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His research interests are history of Kabbalah, reception of the Zohar, contemporary Kabbalah, Kabbalah and westen esotericism, and genealogies of Jewish mysticism.
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Peter Silvestrov

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Freie Universität Berlin

Physics Department and Dahlem Center for Complex Quantum Systems
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Research Interests: Mesoscopic physics; graphene; topological insulators.