Expertise

Fields of interest:

  • contemporary German culture
  • memory studies
  • museum studies
  • race and ethnicity

I am interested in the relations between collective memory, media and the public sphere. My work has focused on Holocaust memorialization and the representation of ethnic and religious difference in contemporary Germany, using ethnography as well as discourse analysis.  

My research has additionally raised questions on the intersection of nationalism and pluralism. I have studied the Circumcision Debate in Germany and Israelis in Berlin.

My current research focuses on philosemitism in contemporary Germany.

Communities
European Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Religious Studies
Degrees
PhD, New School for Social Research, Sociology, 2008
MA, New School for Social Research, Sociology, 2004
MA, Tel Aviv University, Sociology and Anthropology, 2001
BA, Tel Aviv University, Sociology and Anthropology, 1999
Keywords
memory studies ethnic ineqality antisemitism racism racism migration urban sociology sociology of sex and gender