Tamar Hager
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 106419 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Tamar Hager |
| NOMBRES | Tamar |
| APELLIDO | Hager |
| FIRMA | HAGER T |
| AFILIACIONES | Tel Hai Academic College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9544-0516 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Opening the toilet door
This article analyzes the gendered politics of emotions of young Israeli women and men regarding urination and defecation in public toilets and other lavatories outside the home. Highlighting the impact of gender, we interviewed 20 middle-class, heterosexual Jewish Israelis of European ancestry about their toilet habits. Our analysis focuses on three recurring emotions—disgust, embarrassment, and shame—that emerged prominently from participants’ …
Breaking the brick wall of silence
The role of academic institutions in a state of war
Recent episodes of violence following the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack have not only reshaped Israel’s political and military landscape but also redefined the social fabric of its academic institutions. Campuses, now mirroring broader societal cleavages, have experienced both overt repression and a deepening polarization between Jewish and Arab-Palestinian communities. State-imposed measures—ranging from strict disciplinary actions to limitation…
Suitable for the country where the Inquisition took place, but not for the Holy Land’
From Self-Doubt to Pride
Ample literature exists on the impact of prevention programmes on their target audience, while much less is known about how delivering such programmes influences their facilitators. Even less literature exists on the emotional and social processes that form this potential impact on facilitators. The current study analysed qualitative in-depth, non-structured interviews, as well as written essays provided by 33 student-facilitators who delivered t…
Non-Cooperation within a School-Based Wellness Program during the Covid-19 Pandemic—A Qualitative Research
This paper presents a qualitative analysis of COVID-19's impact on the development, delivery, and uptake of "Favoring Myself", a school-based interactive wellness program conducted via Zoom during 2020-2021. "Favoring Myself" targets resilience, self-esteem, body-esteem, self-care behaviors, and media literacy among 5th-grade preadolescents. Data were obtained from meetings, 23 semi-structured interviews with parents, teachers, and principals, an…
How does one arouse basic human care for an enemy? A story of a transformative moment in a diverse classroom
This article demonstrates how stories serve as effective methodology when scrutinizing the meaning of social and political conflicts in diverse classrooms. I base my argument on a story about a distressing conflict among students from different ethnic, and national backgrounds occurring in an academic course at an Israeli college. A detailed description of the clash, which eventually evolved into a moment of mutual support and solidarity, provide…
Reconstructing subjectivity from silence
This article addresses the complexities confronted when researching and writing the life story of Mary Ryan (1848–1914), the sitter for the photographer, Julia Margaret Cameron. Ryan, a beggar in childhood, became Cameron’s maid, model and assistant, and eventually, following their marriage, was transformed into a British lady. Her apparent Cinderella story has been recited repeatedly by Victorian memoirists and by Cameron’s biographers, yet Ryan…
New Hebrew heroines? The inclusion and exclusion of Dvora Drachler and Sara Chizik in the Tel Hai Myth
Among those who died in the battle at Tel Hai were two young women, Dvora Drachler and Sarah Chizik. Although they were the first women to be killed in a Yishuv battle, and were treated with honor immediately after their death, their commemoration as female warriors were never established, and their public memory was faded. This article explores the way in which Drachler and Chizik, negotiated gender norms by their life choices, including their s…
Resisting the managed and fragmented selves in academia
Identification and alienation
This article focuses on Aliza Levenberg, an educator who taught at a Kiryat Shmona high school at the beginning of the 1960s. For three years Levenberg, a middle class Western European, travelled every week from her home in Tel Aviv to the poor town in the northern periphery of Israel, the inhabitants of which were mainly immigrants from Islamic countries. Levenberg was a productive writer. Her most famous book, Kiryat Shmona Chapters, tells of h…
If They Cannot Take It Straight, They Will Get It in Fiction
This article scrutinizes stories produced, distributed, and circulated outside the literary field to reexamine the nature of literature as sets of cultural activities in specific periods and locations. It argues that these texts which poetically and aesthetically resemble literary artifacts yet do not perform in the cultural matrix as such actually prove that literary materials and tools are “leaking” through the permeable cultural borders of the…
Jews and Arabs in Israel Encountering Their Identities
For many years, I have co-facilitated dialogue groups in a small peripheral college in the North of Israel. It has always been a very demanding assignment, full of obstacles as well as a sense of a
The General Messiness of Life
Research Article| December 01 2018 The General Messiness of Life: Memories from the Archive and Beyond Michie, Helena; Warhol, Robyn, Love Among the Archives: Writing the Lives of Sir George Scharf, Victorian Bachelor. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. xxv 1246 pp. Tamar Hager Tamar Hager Tel Hai College, Israel Tamar Hager teaches in the Department of Education and in the Gender Studies Program at Tel Hai College, Israel. Motherhood, …
The Quest for the Lost Story
This article suggests a feminist reading of the photograph ‘Mountain Nymph Sweet Liberty’ created by the early Victorian photographer, Julia Margaret Cameron. Examining this photograph in its historical context, it analyzes the unique encounter between Cameron, an upper-middle-class Anglo-Indian photographer, and her female model-subject, who came from the English lower classes. Whereas Cameron's biography is well researched and her artistic ende…
Justice, Morality or Politics
Although infanticide was a capital crime, mothers who killed their children were seldom convicted of murder and, from 1849 onward, hardly ever faced the death penalty. In fact, between 1843—when the authorities began documenting the gender of offenders—and 1899, only five women were hanged for infanticide. This article follows the story of one of these women, Selina Wadge, who was hung in the prison yard of Bodmin Gaol in Cornwall on 15 August 18…
From marginalisation to integration
The Arab-Palestinian minority in Israel, one-fifth of the country's population, has been underrepresented in Israeli institutions of higher education since the establishment of the state. This article focuses on the authors’ shared aim of promoting diversity and multiculturalism in institutions of higher education in Israel. It first introduces Arab marginalisation within Israeli society as a whole. Subsequently, it offers a critical overview of …
Maternal Autobiography as a Site of Feminist Negotiation and Resistance
How can I use my writing to tackle my conflicting experiences as a writer, a mother, a feminist activist in Israeli academia? How can words combine the routine exhausting work and pleasures of motherhood; my struggles against injustice done to the Arab minority in my country, torn by unrelenting conflict; and the need to turn my back on all these obligations and efforts to write? As the normative expectation of mothers is to identify with the mat…
Changing consciousness
This article introduces a pedagogical tool for raising critical consciousness and nurturing resistance to discrimination. ‘Autoethnographic mapping,’ integrating guided cognitive mapping and autoethnographies, has been implemented for a decade now within the framework of a college course occasioning dialogue between Palestinian Arab and Jewish students in Israel. Participants using the tool in an extended encounter between students from groups em…
Jewish Arab activism through dialogical encounters
This paper introduces a Jewish Arab dialogue model of national encounters which has been developed at Tel Hai College in Upper Galilee in Israel. These planned encounters, which have taken place for eight consecutive years within the framework of a course entitled ‘A Jewish–Arab dialogue – action research’ are recognized as part of the bachelor degree requirement within the Department of Education. Group meetings designed to build mutual acquaint…
Making Sense of an Untold Story
This article critically explores the modern myth of motherhood through my personal life story as a mother. Feelings of rejection of the demands and expectations of my motherly role led me to research social histories and feminist analyses for common maternal images. My explorations made me believe that the myth of motherhood is a relatively new social construction aiming, among others, to oppress and exploit women. Surveying the institution of mo…
Telltale Maps
This article will present a compound tool for raising consciousness and nurturing resistance, comprising both cognitive maps and autoethnographies. Termed “autoethnographic mapping” by the authors, this tool has been highly effective in work with a dialogue group of Palestinian and Jewish students in Israel. It has played a central role in uncovering power structures, tracing the details of their concrete embodiment in the individual lives of stu…
Changing Against the Grain
This article recounts an attempt by administration and faculty to create a multinational and multicultural vision for Tel Hai Academic College in the Galilee in Israel. This uncommon initiative in the Israeli academia intends to transform the campus into a unique academic institution allowing equality and visibility for all cultural and national minorities and, above all, for the Arab minority. The article focuses on 1 instance of this complex an…
Compassion and Indifference
This article reconstructs the evasive tales of two lower-class rural English mothers, Ellen Harper and Selina Wadge, who killed their offspring in the 1870s. Investigating depositions, other legal documents prepared for their trials, and reports of inquests and trial proceedings (when existent) in local and national newspapers, it interprets incoherent remnants of their life stories and through them the attitude of the English legal system toward…
Maps of women's goings and stayings
Culture and Politics in Northern Ireland, 1960-1990
Introduction - Northern Ireland, border country, Eamonn Hughes Northern Ireland - a place apart?, George Boyce Why can't you get along with each other - culture, structure and the Northern Ireland conflict, Joseph Ruane and Jennifer Todd Cuchullian and an RPO-7 - the ideology and politics of the Ulster Defence Association, James W McAuley the Labour Party and Northern Ireland in the 1980s, Jonathan Moore women in Northern Ireland - an overview, M…
From marginalisation to integration
The Arab-Palestinian minority in Israel, one-fifth of the country's population, has been underrepresented in Israeli institutions of higher education since the establishment of the state. This article focuses on the authors’ shared aim of promoting diversity and multiculturalism in institutions of higher education in Israel. It first introduces Arab marginalisation within Israeli society as a whole. Subsequently, it offers a critical overview of …
Making Sense of an Untold Story
This article critically explores the modern myth of motherhood through my personal life story as a mother. Feelings of rejection of the demands and expectations of my motherly role led me to research social histories and feminist analyses for common maternal images. My explorations made me believe that the myth of motherhood is a relatively new social construction aiming, among others, to oppress and exploit women. Surveying the institution of mo…
Maternal Autobiography as a Site of Feminist Negotiation and Resistance
How can I use my writing to tackle my conflicting experiences as a writer, a mother, a feminist activist in Israeli academia? How can words combine the routine exhausting work and pleasures of motherhood; my struggles against injustice done to the Arab minority in my country, torn by unrelenting conflict; and the need to turn my back on all these obligations and efforts to write? As the normative expectation of mothers is to identify with the mat…
Resisting the managed and fragmented selves in academia
Jewish Arab activism through dialogical encounters
This paper introduces a Jewish Arab dialogue model of national encounters which has been developed at Tel Hai College in Upper Galilee in Israel. These planned encounters, which have taken place for eight consecutive years within the framework of a course entitled ‘A Jewish–Arab dialogue – action research’ are recognized as part of the bachelor degree requirement within the Department of Education. Group meetings designed to build mutual acquaint…
Compassion and Indifference
This article reconstructs the evasive tales of two lower-class rural English mothers, Ellen Harper and Selina Wadge, who killed their offspring in the 1870s. Investigating depositions, other legal documents prepared for their trials, and reports of inquests and trial proceedings (when existent) in local and national newspapers, it interprets incoherent remnants of their life stories and through them the attitude of the English legal system toward…
Identification and alienation
This article focuses on Aliza Levenberg, an educator who taught at a Kiryat Shmona high school at the beginning of the 1960s. For three years Levenberg, a middle class Western European, travelled every week from her home in Tel Aviv to the poor town in the northern periphery of Israel, the inhabitants of which were mainly immigrants from Islamic countries. Levenberg was a productive writer. Her most famous book, Kiryat Shmona Chapters, tells of h…
If They Cannot Take It Straight, They Will Get It in Fiction
This article scrutinizes stories produced, distributed, and circulated outside the literary field to reexamine the nature of literature as sets of cultural activities in specific periods and locations. It argues that these texts which poetically and aesthetically resemble literary artifacts yet do not perform in the cultural matrix as such actually prove that literary materials and tools are “leaking” through the permeable cultural borders of the…
Justice, Morality or Politics
Although infanticide was a capital crime, mothers who killed their children were seldom convicted of murder and, from 1849 onward, hardly ever faced the death penalty. In fact, between 1843—when the authorities began documenting the gender of offenders—and 1899, only five women were hanged for infanticide. This article follows the story of one of these women, Selina Wadge, who was hung in the prison yard of Bodmin Gaol in Cornwall on 15 August 18…
Changing consciousness
This article introduces a pedagogical tool for raising critical consciousness and nurturing resistance to discrimination. ‘Autoethnographic mapping,’ integrating guided cognitive mapping and autoethnographies, has been implemented for a decade now within the framework of a college course occasioning dialogue between Palestinian Arab and Jewish students in Israel. Participants using the tool in an extended encounter between students from groups em…
Changing Against the Grain
This article recounts an attempt by administration and faculty to create a multinational and multicultural vision for Tel Hai Academic College in the Galilee in Israel. This uncommon initiative in the Israeli academia intends to transform the campus into a unique academic institution allowing equality and visibility for all cultural and national minorities and, above all, for the Arab minority. The article focuses on 1 instance of this complex an…
Literature and War
In a Dark Time
Science Fiction, Social Conflict and War
Science fiction and conflict, Philip John Davies where no man has gone before - sexual politics and science fiction, Jacqueline Pearson yellow, black or tentacled - the race question in American science fiction, Edward James the personal versus the political in Utopian SF, Anthony Easthope Kozmick Kommie Konflicts - Stanislaw Lem's Solaris - an East Bloc parable, Carl Tighe science, transformation and the individual in the work of Arkady and Bori…
Worlds Apart
Culture and Politics in Northern Ireland, 1960-1990
Introduction - Northern Ireland, border country, Eamonn Hughes Northern Ireland - a place apart?, George Boyce Why can't you get along with each other - culture, structure and the Northern Ireland conflict, Joseph Ruane and Jennifer Todd Cuchullian and an RPO-7 - the ideology and politics of the Ulster Defence Association, James W McAuley the Labour Party and Northern Ireland in the 1980s, Jonathan Moore women in Northern Ireland - an overview, M…
Maps of women's goings and stayings
Compassion and Indifference
This article reconstructs the evasive tales of two lower-class rural English mothers, Ellen Harper and Selina Wadge, who killed their offspring in the 1870s. Investigating depositions, other legal documents prepared for their trials, and reports of inquests and trial proceedings (when existent) in local and national newspapers, it interprets incoherent remnants of their life stories and through them the attitude of the English legal system toward…
Changing Against the Grain
This article recounts an attempt by administration and faculty to create a multinational and multicultural vision for Tel Hai Academic College in the Galilee in Israel. This uncommon initiative in the Israeli academia intends to transform the campus into a unique academic institution allowing equality and visibility for all cultural and national minorities and, above all, for the Arab minority. The article focuses on 1 instance of this complex an…
Telltale Maps
This article will present a compound tool for raising consciousness and nurturing resistance, comprising both cognitive maps and autoethnographies. Termed “autoethnographic mapping” by the authors, this tool has been highly effective in work with a dialogue group of Palestinian and Jewish students in Israel. It has played a central role in uncovering power structures, tracing the details of their concrete embodiment in the individual lives of stu…
Jewish Arab activism through dialogical encounters
This paper introduces a Jewish Arab dialogue model of national encounters which has been developed at Tel Hai College in Upper Galilee in Israel. These planned encounters, which have taken place for eight consecutive years within the framework of a course entitled ‘A Jewish–Arab dialogue – action research’ are recognized as part of the bachelor degree requirement within the Department of Education. Group meetings designed to build mutual acquaint…
Making Sense of an Untold Story
This article critically explores the modern myth of motherhood through my personal life story as a mother. Feelings of rejection of the demands and expectations of my motherly role led me to research social histories and feminist analyses for common maternal images. My explorations made me believe that the myth of motherhood is a relatively new social construction aiming, among others, to oppress and exploit women. Surveying the institution of mo…
Changing consciousness
This article introduces a pedagogical tool for raising critical consciousness and nurturing resistance to discrimination. ‘Autoethnographic mapping,’ integrating guided cognitive mapping and autoethnographies, has been implemented for a decade now within the framework of a college course occasioning dialogue between Palestinian Arab and Jewish students in Israel. Participants using the tool in an extended encounter between students from groups em…
From marginalisation to integration
The Arab-Palestinian minority in Israel, one-fifth of the country's population, has been underrepresented in Israeli institutions of higher education since the establishment of the state. This article focuses on the authors’ shared aim of promoting diversity and multiculturalism in institutions of higher education in Israel. It first introduces Arab marginalisation within Israeli society as a whole. Subsequently, it offers a critical overview of …
Maternal Autobiography as a Site of Feminist Negotiation and Resistance
How can I use my writing to tackle my conflicting experiences as a writer, a mother, a feminist activist in Israeli academia? How can words combine the routine exhausting work and pleasures of motherhood; my struggles against injustice done to the Arab minority in my country, torn by unrelenting conflict; and the need to turn my back on all these obligations and efforts to write? As the normative expectation of mothers is to identify with the mat…
Justice, Morality or Politics
Although infanticide was a capital crime, mothers who killed their children were seldom convicted of murder and, from 1849 onward, hardly ever faced the death penalty. In fact, between 1843—when the authorities began documenting the gender of offenders—and 1899, only five women were hanged for infanticide. This article follows the story of one of these women, Selina Wadge, who was hung in the prison yard of Bodmin Gaol in Cornwall on 15 August 18…
Jews and Arabs in Israel Encountering Their Identities
For many years, I have co-facilitated dialogue groups in a small peripheral college in the North of Israel. It has always been a very demanding assignment, full of obstacles as well as a sense of a
The General Messiness of Life
Research Article| December 01 2018 The General Messiness of Life: Memories from the Archive and Beyond Michie, Helena; Warhol, Robyn, Love Among the Archives: Writing the Lives of Sir George Scharf, Victorian Bachelor. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. xxv 1246 pp. Tamar Hager Tamar Hager Tel Hai College, Israel Tamar Hager teaches in the Department of Education and in the Gender Studies Program at Tel Hai College, Israel. Motherhood, …
The Quest for the Lost Story
This article suggests a feminist reading of the photograph ‘Mountain Nymph Sweet Liberty’ created by the early Victorian photographer, Julia Margaret Cameron. Examining this photograph in its historical context, it analyzes the unique encounter between Cameron, an upper-middle-class Anglo-Indian photographer, and her female model-subject, who came from the English lower classes. Whereas Cameron's biography is well researched and her artistic ende…
If They Cannot Take It Straight, They Will Get It in Fiction
This article scrutinizes stories produced, distributed, and circulated outside the literary field to reexamine the nature of literature as sets of cultural activities in specific periods and locations. It argues that these texts which poetically and aesthetically resemble literary artifacts yet do not perform in the cultural matrix as such actually prove that literary materials and tools are “leaking” through the permeable cultural borders of the…
Identification and alienation
This article focuses on Aliza Levenberg, an educator who taught at a Kiryat Shmona high school at the beginning of the 1960s. For three years Levenberg, a middle class Western European, travelled every week from her home in Tel Aviv to the poor town in the northern periphery of Israel, the inhabitants of which were mainly immigrants from Islamic countries. Levenberg was a productive writer. Her most famous book, Kiryat Shmona Chapters, tells of h…
New Hebrew heroines? The inclusion and exclusion of Dvora Drachler and Sara Chizik in the Tel Hai Myth
Among those who died in the battle at Tel Hai were two young women, Dvora Drachler and Sarah Chizik. Although they were the first women to be killed in a Yishuv battle, and were treated with honor immediately after their death, their commemoration as female warriors were never established, and their public memory was faded. This article explores the way in which Drachler and Chizik, negotiated gender norms by their life choices, including their s…
Resisting the managed and fragmented selves in academia
From Self-Doubt to Pride
Ample literature exists on the impact of prevention programmes on their target audience, while much less is known about how delivering such programmes influences their facilitators. Even less literature exists on the emotional and social processes that form this potential impact on facilitators. The current study analysed qualitative in-depth, non-structured interviews, as well as written essays provided by 33 student-facilitators who delivered t…
Non-Cooperation within a School-Based Wellness Program during the Covid-19 Pandemic—A Qualitative Research
This paper presents a qualitative analysis of COVID-19's impact on the development, delivery, and uptake of "Favoring Myself", a school-based interactive wellness program conducted via Zoom during 2020-2021. "Favoring Myself" targets resilience, self-esteem, body-esteem, self-care behaviors, and media literacy among 5th-grade preadolescents. Data were obtained from meetings, 23 semi-structured interviews with parents, teachers, and principals, an…
How does one arouse basic human care for an enemy? A story of a transformative moment in a diverse classroom
This article demonstrates how stories serve as effective methodology when scrutinizing the meaning of social and political conflicts in diverse classrooms. I base my argument on a story about a distressing conflict among students from different ethnic, and national backgrounds occurring in an academic course at an Israeli college. A detailed description of the clash, which eventually evolved into a moment of mutual support and solidarity, provide…
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