Publications
- Authored books:
- Photography and Jewish History: Five Twentieth Century Cases (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022). [In press]
- Race and Photography: Racial Photography as Scientific Evidence, 1876-1980 (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2016).
- Photography and Race: Racial Photography as Scientific Evidence, 1876-1980 (Ha-kibutz ha-meuchad/ Yad Vashem: Tel-Aviv, accepted for publication) [Hebrew]
- The Quest for Jewish Assimilation in Modern Social Science (New York and London: Routledge, 2008; paperback 2012).
2. Edited books:
- Editor (with Margaret Olin), Photography and Imagination (Routledge: New York, 2019).
- Editor (with Dirk Rupnow), Ideas of “Race” in the History of the Humanities, (Palgrave MacMillan: London, 2017).
- Editor, The Jewish Body and Other Protruding Organs: A Selection of Essays by Sander Gilman (Resling: Tel Aviv, 2015) [Hebrew].
- Editor: Georg Simmel: "How is Society Possible?" and Other Essays (Ha-kibutz ha-meuchad: Tel-Aviv, 2012) [Hebrew].
3. Articles in journals:
- “Antisemitism in Doubt: Historical and Methodological Reflections on Contemporary Europe,” (special issue on antisemitism) Zeitschrift für Pädagogik und Theologie, 2021 73 (2), 202-215.
- “The Stranger as a Threshold Figure” (special forum on Georg Simmel’s ‘The Stranger’ and Jewish History), The Jewish Quarterly Review 111 (2) 2021, 314–317.
- “Georg Simmel’s Logic of the Future: ‘The Stranger’, Zionism, and ‘Bounded Contingency’,” Theory Culture & Society 36 (5) 2019, 71-94.
- “History and ‘Noise,’,” Zion [special issue on David Engel’s “Away from a Definition of Antisemitism,”], LXXXV (1-4) 2020, 59-72 [Hebrew].
- “Two Modes of Political Engagement in Contemporary Israeli Photography,” Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture, 11 (2018), 85–108.
- (with Sharon Livne) “Fundraising and Collaboration: The Administration of Hebrew University and the Germany Question, 1959–1965,” Naharaim: Journal of German - Jewish Culture History, 11 (2017), (1-2), 47-66.
- (with Sharon Livne), “Early Contacts in Genetics: A Historical and Sociological Perspective,” Simon Dubnow Yearbook (A special issue on early German Israeli scientific relations), 15 (2015), 371-198.
- “The ‘First Letters’ of Jacob Wahrman,” Leo Baeck Yearbook 61 (1) 2016, 199 – 218.
- "The Israeli Paradigm of Territory,” Space and Culture, 2016, (20), 127-138.
- “Photographs and Economies of Demonstration: The Idea of the Jews as a Mixed Race People,” Jewish Social Studies 20 (1), 2014, 150-183.
- "Taboo and Classification: Post-1945 German racial writing on Jews," Leo Baeck Yearbook, 58, 2013, 195-215.
- “Science and “race” in Solomon Yudovin’s photographic documentation of Russian Jewry, 1912-1914,” Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture 6, (2012), 27-54.
- “Anthropology, Standardisation and Measurement: Rudolf Martin and anthropometric photography,” British Journal for the History of Science 46 (3) 2013, pp. 487-516.
- "Surface, Depth, and Teleology in Israeli Culture: The Case of the Hebrew Expression ‘tachles bashetach’," Jewish Culture and History 11 (3) 2009, pp. 39–58.
- "Argumentative Patterns and Epistemic Considerations: Responses to anti-Semitism in the Conceptual History of Social Science," Jewish Quarterly Review 100 (3) 2010, pp. 454-482.
- "Circumventions and Confrontations: Responses to anti-Semitism in Georg Simmel, Franz Boas, and Arthur Ruppin," Patterns of Prejudice, 44 (2) 2010 , pp. 195 – 215.
- "Life in Two-Dimensions: A Cultural History of ‘Territory’ in Israeli Culture,” Theory and Criticism 36 (10) 2010, pp. 35-60. [Hebrew]
- “Ruppin and the Peculiarities of Race: A Response to Etan Bloom”, History of European Ideas 34 (1) 2008, 116-119.
- "Arthur Ruppin's Conception of Race and the Middle East", Transversal: Zeitschrift für jüdische Studien 7 2006 (2), pp. 19-32.
- "Extinction of Jewish Existence or a Modern Form of Identity? Assimilation as an Analytical Category in Early Formulations of Social Science" Iyunim Bitkumat Israel: Studies in Zionism, the Yishuv and the State of Israel 17 2007, pp. 179-195 [Hebrew].
- "End on Surface: Teleology and Ground in Israeli Culture", Representations 97 (Winter) 2007, pp. 123-150.
- “Method, Project, and the Racial Characteristics of Jews: A Comparison of Franz Boas and Hans F. K. Günther”, Jewish Social Studies, 13 (1) 2006, pp. 136-169.
- "The 'Negative' Jew and Individuality", Jewish Quarterly Review 97 (1) 2006, pp. 100-127.
- "Arthur Ruppin's Concept of Race", Israel Studies 11 (3) 2006, pp. 1-30.
- "Race, Ideas, and Ideals: A Comparison of Franz Boas and Hans F. K. Günther", History of European Ideas 32 (3) 2006, pp. 313-332.
- “Franz Boas’ Linguistic Paradigm and the Paradox of the Jews’ Group-Existence”, Studies in Contemporary Jewry 21 2005, pp. 252-269.
- "From autonomous Subject to free Individual in Simmel and Lacan", History of European Ideas 31 (1) 2005, pp. 103-127.
- "Epistemologies of Jewish Assimilation – Ethnic Markers and Social Scientific Paradigms", Simon Dubnow Yearbook 3 2004, pp. 431-473.
- “Three Paradigms of ‘The Negative Jew’: ‘Identity’ from Simmel to Zizek”, Jewish Social Studies 10 (2) 2004, pp. 179-214.
- “ ‘The Beautiful Jew is a Moneylender’: Money and Individuality in Simmel’s Rehabilitation of the ‘Jew’”, Theory Culture & Society, 20 (4) 2003, pp. 127-142.
- “Simmel’s and Lacan’s Ethics of the Exception”, Telos 123 (Spring) 2002, pp. 131-148.
- “What will be done with the shattered subject? Simmel’s and Lacan’s radically contrasting Views,” Almanac of Psychoanalysis III (2002), pp. 187-197.
4. Book chapters:
- (with Margaret Olin) “Introduction,” in: Amos Morris – Reich and Margaret Olin (eds.), Photography and Imagination (New York: Routledge, 2019), xiv -xxiv.
- (with Margaret Olin) “Epilogue: Photography and the Question of the Image,” in: Amos Morris – Reich and Margaret Olin (eds.), Photography and Imagination (New York: Routledge, 2019), 193-199.
- “Photography and Imagination in Nazi Racial Science,” in: Amos Morris – Reich and Margaret Olin (eds.), Photography and Imagination (New York: Routledge, 2019), 102-117
- “Science and Ideology: Photographic ‘Economies of Demonstration’ in Racial Science,” in: Christopher P. Webster van Tonder (ed.), Photography in the Third Reich: Art, Physiognomy and Propaganda (Open Press: London, 2021, 205-237).
- (with Dirk Rupnow) “Introduction,” in: Amos Morris-Reich and Dirk Rupnow (eds.), Ideas of “Race” in the History of the Humanities (Palgrave MacMillan: London, 2017), 1-30.
- “Arthur Ruppin’s Concept of Race,” in Kzia Alon (ed.), The Back Side of Israeli Photography (Tel-Aviv: Gama, 2017), 97 – 136 [Hebrew].
- “Society, Culture, and Demographics: Towards a Unified History,” in: Dean Bell (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Jewish History and Historiography (New York: Routledge, 2018), 474 - 485.
- “Aspects of Asymmetry in Visual Stereotypes,” in: Kevin Corrigan and Elizabeth Goodstein (eds.), Seeing and Knowing: Stereotypes in Our Daily Life (Festschrift for Sander Gilman, accepted for publication).
- “Jews between Volk and Rasse,” National Races: Transnational Power Struggles in the Sciences and Politics of Human Diversity, 1840-1945, in: Richard McMahon (ed.) (Lincoln: Nebraska University Press, 2019), 175-204.
- " On the Beliefs of Antisemites: Mental Constructs and Political Practice in Chaim Weitzman," in: Meir Chazan and Uri Cohen (eds.), Chaim Weizmann: New Studies (Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar, 2016), 103-136 [Hebrew]
- "From assimilationist anti-racism to Zionist anti-antisemitism: Georg Simmel, Franz Boas and Arthur Ruppin," in: Marcel Stoeltzer (ed.), Antisemitism and the Constitution of Sociology (Lincoln: Nebraska University Press, 2014), pp. 160-182.
- "After the Fact: 'Jews' in German physical Anthropology, 1945-1992," in: Efraim Sicher (ed.), Race, Color, Identity: Rethinking Discourses about “Jews” in the Twenty-First Century (Berghahn: Oxford, 2013), pp. 217-233.
- "Introduction: Georg Simmel in his Historical and Intellectual Contexts," How is Society Possible and Other Essays by Georg Simmel (Tel Aviv: Ha-kibutz ha-meuchad, 2012), pp. 7-68. [Hebrew]
- "Elements of Controversy: responses to antisemitism in nascent German social science," in: Dana Riesenfeld, Giovanni Scarafile (eds.), Philosophical Dialogue. Perspectives on theory of controversies and the ethics of communication - Explorations of Marcelo Dascal's contributions to philosophy (Heidelberg: Springer, 2013), 131-140.
- "Analytical Principle and Life – Philosophy: The Racial Theory of Hans F. K. Günther," in: Yair Auron (ed.) Racism(The Open University: Tel Aviv, 2010), pp. 65-84 [Hebrew]
- "The Controversy over the Foundation of Sociology and its Object: Simmel's Form versus Durkheim's Collectivity", in: Marcelo Dascal and Han-Liang Chang (ed.), Traditions of Controversy (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2007), pp. 227-243.
- "Bildung and German - Jewish History: Idea and Ethos", in: Ben Mollov (ed.), The German Jewish Encounter: Sixty Years After the War, 2006, pp. 38-47.
Under review: “Zionism and “Jewish Pathos Formula” in Helmar Lerski’s Type Photographs,” in: Ofer Ashkenazi and Thomas Pegelow Kaplan (eds.), Rereading Jewish History and Memory Through Photography
5. Encyclopedia entries:
- “Georg Simmel,” Bryan S. Turner (ed.), Blackwell – Wiley Encyclopedia of Social Theory, (New York: Blackwell- Wiley, 2017 [online]).
- “Typus,” Dan Diner (ed.), Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, Vol. 6, Stuttgart/Weimar 2016 , Vol 6 89-93.
- “European Jewish Sociology,” Naomi Seidman (ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Jewish Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014).
- (With Tally Gur) „Palästina Amt“, Dan Diner (ed.), Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, Vol. 4, Stuttgart/Weimar 2013, 478-482.
- "Assimilation", Dan Diner (ed.), Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur,Vol. 1, Stuttgart/Weimar 2011, 171-176.
7. Book reviews:
- “The science of skulls from a global perspective,” review of James Poskett, Materials of the Mind: Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815-1920 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019) Metascience
- Review of Etan Bloom, Arthur Ruppin and the Production of Pre-Israeli Culture (Brill: Leiden, 2011) Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies
- Review of Veronika Lipphardt, Biologie der Juden: Jüdische Wissenschaftler über "Rasse" und Vererbung, 1900-1935 (Berlin: Vandenhoeck & Rupecht, 2008), Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 29 (2), 206-209.
- Review of Mitchell B. Hart, The Healthy Jew (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), Studies in Contemporary Jewry 2010, 192-193.
- Review of Susannah Heschel, The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008), The Journal of Religion 89, 2009, 586-587.
- Review of Cyril Reade, Mendelssohn to Mendelsohn: Visual Case Studies of Jewish Life in Berlin (Bern: Peter Lang, 2007), Zion LXXIII (3) 2008, 367-370 [Hebrew].
8. Other publications:
- “The Portraits from the Fayum region in Egypt in Nazi Germany Scholarship and Propaganda,” Online Catalog The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- (with Danny Trom), “On the Gray Area: Antisemitism and the Lexicon of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” K. Jews. Europe. XXIst Century
- “The Roles of Photography in the Study of Race,” ISF Laymen Report
- “Reading Faces,” Jews Beyond Reason, Herbert D. Katz Center Web Exhibition 2015-2016
- „Invisible Conflicts,“ Protocols: History and Theory, 26 October 2012.
- Contributor, “Yad Vashem”, Eclipse of Humanity: The History of the Jews in the Holocaust, Educational Disc, Yad Vashem 2000
- 'Individual Law' and Universal Ethics: A Question through a Heretic Sociologist", Freudian Notebooks 2003 [Hebrew]