Programmes Convened

• BA Hebrew and ... (2018)
• BA Hebrew and ... (2019)
• BA Hebrew and Israeli Studies (2018)

Modules Taught

• From Palestine to Israel: 1900 to 1948
• Introduction to Israeli Culture
• Israel and the Palestinians: from 1948 to Oslo
• Jerusalem: City in Conflict (PG)
• Zionism: Critical Perspectives (PG)
• Zionism: Critical Perspectives (UG)

PhD Students supervised

• David Landau, Working title - National narratives and the (re)production of Minority: Minor Literature in Hindi
• James Eastwood, The ethics of Israeli militarism: conflict and confession since 1982
• Jens Augspurger, Spiritual Soft Powers and the Processes of Kinship Romanticism: A Comparative Study of Spiritual Practitioners and their Correspondence with Imagined Homeland.
• Julio Moreno Cirujano, Looking like a state: Materiality and Aesthetics in British Mandate Palestine
• Kim Jezabel Zinngrebe, Defying 'the plan': intimate politics among Palestinian women in Israel
• Tariq Suleman, Zionism and its Discourse in Indian Muslim Politics from 1917 to 1947

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• TV
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• Press
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Regional Expertise

Country Expertise

• Israel
• Palestine

Languages

Authored Books

Wallach, Yair (2020) A City in Fragments: Urban Text in Modern Jerusalem. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

Articles

Wallach, Yair (2017) 'جينيولوجيا مسألة تقسيم فلسطين والمنطق الذي احتكمت إليه [The Genealogy and Logic of the Palestine Partition]'. Israeli Affairs 67, pp 9-18.

Wallach, Yair (2016) 'Rethinking the Yishuv: Late-Ottoman Palestine's Jewish Communities Revisited'. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, (16) 2, pp 275-294.

Wallach, Yair (2011) 'Trapped in mirror-images: The rhetoric of maps in Israel/Palestine'. Political Geography, (30) 7, pp 358 - 369.

Wallach, Yair (2011) 'Creating a country through currency and stamps: state symbols and nation-building in British-ruled Palestine'. Nations and Nationalism, (17) 1, pp 129-147.

Book Chapters

Wallach, Yair (2020) 'Jerusalem's Lost Heart: The Rise and Fall of the Ottoman City Centre'. In: Maksudyan, Nazan and Alkan, Hilal, (eds.), Urban Neighbourhood Formations. London and New York: Routledge, pp 138-158.

Wallach, Yair (2018) 'Reading the City, Writing the Self: Arabic and Hebrew Urban Texts in Jerusalem, 1840–1940'. In: Dalachani, Angelos and Lemire, Vincent, (eds.), Ordinary Jerusalem, 1840-1940: Opening New Archives, Revisiting a Global City. Leiden: Brill, pp 287-304.

Wallach, Yair (2016) 'Jerusalem Between Segregation and Integration: Reading Urban Space through the Eyes of Justice Gad Frumkin'. In: Goldstein-Sabbah, S. R. and Murre-Van Den Berg, H. L., (eds.), Modernity, Minority, and the Public Sphere: Jews and Christians in the Middle East. Leiden: Brill, pp 205-233.

Wallach, Yair (2016) 'Jewish Nationalism:On the Impossibility of Muslim Jews'. In: Meri, Yousef, (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Muslim-Jewish Relations. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, pp 331-350.

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