Itamar Rabinovich

Biographic Data

ID342471
NAMEItamar Rabinovich
GIVEN NAMESItamar
FAMILY NAMERabinovich
SIGNATURERABINOVICH I
AFFILIATIONSHolon Institute of Technology
ORCID0000-0003-4801-7365
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS57
TOTAL CITATIONS33
AUTHOR COUNT54
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • Hidden Voices and Reclaimed Legacies

    Itamar Rabinovich, Brygida GasztoldARTICLEWomen s Writing2026

  • Exploring Literary Dialogues

    Itamar RabinovichARTICLEWomen s Writing2025

  • Unwritten Histories

    Itamar Rabinovich, Brygida GasztoldARTICLEWomen s Writing2025

    The literary history of Jewish women has often been relegated to the margins, their voices overlooked and their contributions obscured by broader cultural and historical forces. This special issue

  • Miriam’s Red Jewel

    Open AccessItamar RabinovichARTICLEHumanities2025

    This article offers a new perspective on Miriam’s red jewel in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Marble Faun (1860), interpreting it as a symbol of Jewish femininity, diasporic memory, and aesthetic resistance. Although the jewel has received little critical attention, this study suggests that it plays a central role in shaping Miriam’s identity and in articulating broader cultural anxieties around gender, ethnicity, and visibility. Through intertextual …

  • Jericho’s Daughters

    Open AccessItamar RabinovichARTICLEHumanities2025

    This article examines the intersecting forces of gender, class, and education in early twentieth-century Britain through a feminist reading of Pip Williams’ historical novel The Bookbinder of Jericho. Centering on the fictional character Peggy Jones—a working-class young woman employed in the Oxford University Press bindery—the study explores how women’s intellectual ambitions were constrained by economic hardship, institutional gatekeeping, and …

  • Their Plea for Freedom – Their Flight from Home

    Open AccessItamar Rabinovich, Brygida GasztoldARTICLEAmerican, British and Canadian…2025References: 1

    This article presents a comparative analysis of how Jewish American writers Rosa Sonneschein and Wilhelmina Wittigschlager, the American writer Kendrick Belle Abbot, and the Polish Jewish writer Aniela Kallas portray young Jewish women who escape their homes. The study delves into both the literal acts of escape and the deeper, internal struggles for spiritual and personal freedom experienced by these women. Unlike most existing research that exa…

  • Breaking boundaries

    Itamar RabinovichARTICLEJournal of Lesbian Studies2025References: 2

    This article, inspired by Elana Dykewomon's Beyond the Pale , explores the intertwined histories of Jewish lesbian and non-lesbian women from the 1870s to the 1920s, tracing their journeys from the Pale of Settlement to early twentieth-century America. Focusing on themes of identity, resilience, and female friendship, it examines how antisemitic persecution and traditional gender norms shaped Jewish women's lives, both in Eastern Europe and in th…

  • It biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder

    Itamar RabinovichARTICLEWomen s History Review2025

    Nineteenth-century literature often depicts women as rivals, a phenomenon Virginia Woolf attributes in ‘A Room of One's Own' to the male-dominated nature of literature up until the twentieth century. This led to women being defined in relation to men. Feminist critics often reject female competitiveness as it challenges the collective effort to contest patriarchal control, focusing instead on female friendship. However, there is a lack of critica…

  • Rebekah Hyneman’s The Black Izba

    Itamar RabinovichARTICLEWomen s Writing2024

    Rebekah Hyneman, born in Pennsylvania in 1816, played a significant role in documenting Jewish existence. Beyond her unique historical novel, The Black Izba: A Tale of Ancient Russia,1 serialized in 1855 in The Masonic Mirror and Keystone, she made a noteworthy contribution through her extensive oeuvre. Raised by a Jewish-German father and a Christian mother, Hyneman converted to Judaism in 1845. Despite her multifaceted literary output, her subs…

  • The Art of Diplomacy

    Itamar RabinovichARTICLEBustan The Middle East Book Review2024

    Stuart Eizenstat had a remarkable career in public service and law. A native of Atlanta, he came to Washington as a young man to serve as chief White House domestic policy advisor to President Jimmy Carter. Later, under the Clinton Administration, he served as US ambassador to the EU, under secretary of Commerce, under secretary of State, and deputy secretary of Treasury. In a different vein, he was a special representative of the president on Ho…

  • Interfaith marriage goes wrong

    Open AccessItamar RabinovichARTICLENeohelicon2023

  • The Rise and Fall of Greater Syria

    Itamar RabinovichARTICLEBustan The Middle East Book Review2022

    In the 1940s and 1950s, it was common among ʿAlawi high school students in Lataqiya to ask one another “shu dinak” (what is your religion, or creed?), by which they meant “are you a member or supporter of the Baʿath of the SSNP [Syrian Social Nationalist Party]?” These were two radical but different parties. The Baʿath was a Pan-Arab nationalist party combining a doctrine of secular Arab nationalism with a belief in social democracy. The SSNP exp…

  • Sledgehammer

    Itamar RabinovichARTICLEBustan The Middle East Book Review2022

    In one of his many witty moments the great Middle East historian Bernard Lewis, then still a professor at the University of London, was asked in an interview during his first visit to the United States to comment on a scandal that erupted during the confirmation hearings of a political appointee as US ambassador to Ceylon (today’s Sri Lanka). Lewis responded by saying that “some of your Ministers are plenipotentiary and some of your Ambassadors a…

  • Syrian Requiem

    Open AccessItamar Rabinovich, CARMIT VALENSIBOOKSyrian Requiem2021

  • The Israeli-Palestinian War of Narratives

    Itamar RabinovichARTICLEBustan The Middle East Book Review2021

    Palestinian academic Nur Masalha, who lives and teaches in London, published a thick volume seeking to anchor his arguments in an academic framework of a sort. Palestine: 4000 Years of History is an effort to document the argument for historical continuity between the Semitic-Arab peoples who had inhabited Palestine and the contemporary Palestinians. For Masalha, Palestine is a defined entity with its own native population embodied in the Palesti…

  • Unpacking Rachel Félix's “constructed” and “self-constructed” Jewishness

    Open AccessItamar RabinovichARTICLEFrench Cultural Studies2021References: 1

    This paper aims at unpacking the cultural, historical and political significance behind the representations (including pictures, caricatures, journalistic articles, etc.) and self-representations of Rachel Félix (1821–1858), the first prominent Jewish performer on the French and British and American stage, as a prism which may afford a broader discussion about the literary formations of the figure the Jewish female artist Félix, renowned for her …

  • Middle East Contemporary Survey

    Itamar Rabinovich, Haim Shaked et al.BOOKMiddle East Contemporary Survey,…2020

  • Yitzhak Rabin

    Itamar RabinovichBOOKYitzhak Rabin2020

    An insider’s perspective on the life and influence of Israel’s first native-born prime minister, his bold peace initiatives, and his tragic assassination More than two decades have passed since prime minister Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination in 1995, yet he remains an unusually intriguing and admired modern leader. A native-born Israeli, Rabin became an inextricable part of his nation’s pre-state history and subsequent evolution. This revealing acco…

  • My Struggle for Peace

    Itamar RabinovichARTICLEBustan The Middle East Book Review2020

    The 1978 publication of the eight-volume personal diary of Moshe Sharett by his son, Yaakov (Kobi) Sharett, was a milestone in the evolution of the historiography of the State of Israel and Israeli-Arab relations. Moshe Sharett was Israel's first foreign minister (1948–56) and second prime minister, replacing David Ben-Gurion who in 1953 retired temporarily to Kibbutz Sde Boker in the south of the country. Moshe Sharett was a prolific writer and …

  • Rosa Sonneschein’s Fin-the-Siècle Fiction

    Open AccessItamar RabinovichARTICLEAmerican, British and Canadian…2020Cited by: 1References: 1

    Rosa Sonneschein (1847–1932) was an important figure in late nineteenth-century American journalism, activism, and fiction. While a few brief studies were dedicated to her biography and to her role as a Jewish social activist, editor, and contributor to The American Jewess , no critical work has been devoted as yet to her literary production. The aim of this essay is to rectify this critical neglect by examining Sonneschein’s wide literary opus a…

  • Middle East Contemporary Survey

    Itamar Rabinovich, Haim Shaked et al.BOOKMiddle East Contemporary Survey,…2019

  • The Rabin Assassination as a Turning Point in Israel's History

    Itamar RabinovichARTICLEIsrael Studies2018Cited by: 1

    The Rabin Assassination as a Turning Point in Israel's History Itamar Rabinovich (bio) The assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on 4 November 1995 clearly was a major turning point in Israel's history. During the previous decades, the Jewish community in Palestine and the State of Israel had witnessed several significant cases of domestic political violence but the assassination of an incumbent prime minister by a fellow Jew was the most…

  • In Memoriam

    Itamar RabinovichARTICLEBustan The Middle East Book Review2017

    Bustan's commitment to scholarly review in the fields of Middle East and Islamic studies makes it important to stop and reflect on the passing of important scholars and intellectuals who have shaped these ever-broadening fields over the past few decades. The following short essay about Sadiq al-ʿAzm was written by Professor Itamar Rabinovich—one of Bustan's founders and editors, and a historian of modern Syrian history. It honors a Middle Eastern…

  • Israel Facing a New Middle East

    Itai Brun, Itamar RabinovichBOOKIsrael Facing a New Middle East2017

  • Two Sons of the Levant

    Itamar RabinovichARTICLEBustan The Middle East Book Review2014

    Research Article| January 01 2014 Briefly Remembered: Two Sons of the Levant: Fouad Ajami (1945–2014) and Patrick Seale (1930–2014) Itamar Rabinovich Itamar Rabinovich Tel Aviv University, [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Bustan: The Middle East Book Review (2014) 5 (2): 207–209. https://doi.org/10.1163/18785328-00502015 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Itamar Rabin…