2021-2022 Frankel Institute Second Temple Judaism: The Challenge of Diversity
Fellow, Alexei Sivertsev
"Construction of Jewish Identities in 2nd Temple Period"

Alexei Sivertsev, "Construction of Jewish Identities in 2nd Temple Period"

Since the earliest years of the modern state of Israel, Jews from Arab and Muslim lands, known as Mizrahim, have had to fight for equal rights and opportunities. Mizrahi Jews were looked down upon by the Zionist establishment as primitive–in many ways the very opposite of the image of the New, Western-style Jew that the establishment hoped to foster.

And so, Mizrahi activists have for decades struggled to be recognized as full and equal members of Israeli society.

But often lost among the larger struggle are the voices and experiences of Mizrahi women, who fought not only for Mizrahi rights but also for the rights of Mizrahi women to prosper and determine the course of their own lives.

This episode of Frankely Judaic features Yali Hashash, a social historian and head of the gender and criminology program at Or Yehuda College in Israel, and a fellow at the Frankel Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. Hashash’s book, Whose Daughter Are You? Ways of Speaking Mizrahi Feminism, explores the lives of Mizrahi women throughout the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.

The 2022-2023 fellowship year at the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, "Mizrahim and the Politics of Ethnicity," includes scholars from the United States and Israel who explore Mizrahi (Arab-Jewish) society and culture as an interdisciplinary and intersectional field of study.

Yali Hashash, "Whose Daughter Are You?: Ways of Thinking about Mizrahi Feminism"

2015-16 Frankel Institute Secularization/Sacralization
Fellow, Kirsten Fermaglich
Project Title: A Rosenberg by Any Other Name



Kirsten Fermaglich, "A Rosenberg by Any Other Name"

2015-16 Frankel Institute Secularization/Sacralization
Fellow, Guy Stroumsa
Project Title: The Secularized Study of the Abrahamic Religions in the Nineteenth Century

Guy Stroumsa, "The Secularized Study of the Abrahamic Religions in the Nineteenth Century"

2015-16 Frankel Institute Secularization/Sacralization
Fellow, Shaul Kelner
Project Title: Strategic Sacralization in American Jewish Politics: The Contradictions of Cultural Mobilization in the American Soviet Jewry Movement

Shaul Kelner, "The Soviet Jewry Movement"

2015-16 Frankel Institute Secularization/Sacralization
Fellow, Marc Caplan
Project Title: Yiddish Modernity in Weimar Germany

Marc Caplan, "Yiddish Modernity in Weimar Germany"

2015-16
Yiddish Lecturer, Anya Quilitzsch
Yiddish at Michigan

Anya Quilitzsch, "Yiddish at Michigan"

2016-17 Frankel Institute Israel Histories, Societies, and Cultures: Comparative Approaches
Fellow, Bryan Roby
Project Title: Blackness and the Double-Consciousness of Arab Jews: A Comparative History of the Mizrahi and African-American Experience

Bryan Roby, "Blackness and the Double-Consciousness of Arab Jews"

A Jewish Studies podcast series featuring the research of Frankel Institute fellows at the University of Michigan.

Yali Hashash, "Whose Daughter Are You?: Ways of Thinking about Mizrahi Feminism"

Jewish Studies at the University of Michigan

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