Dror Wahrman
Dror is a professor in the Department of History at Indiana University. His research interests are the culture of modern Britain and 18th century British history.
Dror is a professor in the Department of History at Indiana University. His research interests are the culture of modern Britain and 18th century British history.
Haym is a professor in the Bernard Ravell Graduate School at Yeshiva University, New York. His research interests are medieval Jewish history and history of Jewish law.
Doron is a professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests are communication and history.
Tamar is a professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research interests are: political communication, media and collective memory; television audiences; new TV genres; the media and terror.
Elihu is a professor in the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests are: communication theory; the diffusion of innovation; media events; leisure and cultural policy.
Shmuel is a professor in the Department of Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University. His research interests are: modern Jewish History in the 18th and 19th centuries; the Jewish Enlightenment; cultural conflicts; secularization; orthodoxy, and modern nationalism.
Yaron is a professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan. His research interests are: Talmudic and early Christian literatures, classics and archaeology; encounter between Jews and Graeco-Roman culture.
Menahem is a professor in the Department of Communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests are: history of communication in America; Jewish and Jewish-American culture and communication; communication technology and social change.
Organizer:
Menahem Blondheim (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Beyond approaching a major hisorical quantary in a new way, we are also developing a novel scholarly agenda. This agenda is the re-understanding of Jewish civilization from a communications perspective and, more generally, proposing that history and communications be studied jointly. History, after all, aspires to trace all aspects of human life and understand it in all its complexity. Communication is one significant, albeit neglected, aspect of human history; but in addition, it is a potential key to grasping and untangling historical complexity. For by its nature, communication is the story of linkages, of interconnections and interrelations. It may therefore serve as a central site, anchoring a multifaceted perspective on historical development in all its richness. At the same time history, which is the great warehouse of human experience, can serve as the ultimate database, and a giant multifunction laboratory for testing, fine-tuning and even generating ideas and theories about communication.