Yaron Peleg
Biographic Data
| ID | 691688 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yaron Peleg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yaron |
| FAMILY NAME | Peleg |
| SIGNATURE | PELEG Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A History of Modern Hebrew Literature
This book is a new and comprehensive history of modern Hebrew literature that revitalizes older histories while integrating contemporary theories on literature, culture, identity, and canon formation. The collection aims to deterritorialize this history by emphasizing the broad geographic spread of Hebrew literary activity, encompassing developments before and beyond the State of Israel. By expanding the scope of representation, this updated hist…
Labor in Israeli culture
Toward a Jewish Religious Realism in Israeli Cinema
The article examines changes in the relationship between film and religion in contemporary Israeli cinema by looking at three films that exemplify these changes, Ushpizin (Gidi Dar, 2004), The Wedding Plan (Rama Burshtein, 2016), and Tikkun (Avishai Sivan, 2015). As a pioneering religious film, Ushpizin introduced two cinematic elements that were developed by subsequent Israeli films dealing with religion or faith. The first element draws its ins…
Israel on the Screen
Israel on the Screen:Between Reality and Fantasy Yaron Peleg and Eran Kaplan Arguably more than any other artform, cinema can combine realism and fantasy, mimic the world as we see and experience it, and create images of our inner worlds, our imagination. The tension between realism and fantasy is one of cinema's most alluring aspects, and it is commonly acknowledged by what we call film styles or genres. By and large, and with some notable excep…
Yaacov Yadgar at Oxford
We extend a warm welcome to Professor Yaacov Yadgar who has recently arrived in Oxford after being appointed to the Stanley Lewis Chair of Israel Studies. He is only the second holder of the post
Genres in Jewish and Israeli Cinema
Genres in Jewish and Israeli Cinema Yaron Peleg (bio) and Yvonne Kozlovsky-Golan (bio) This issue of Jewish Film & New Media continues the series on Israeli media studies, which began last year with an issue on the treatment of Jewish religious themes in Israeli films and television programs. These special issues are based on small scholars’ conferences usually held once a year at various academic institutions as part of a new scholarly framework…
Secularity and Its Discontents
This article provides a short history and evaluation of the changes the Jewish religion and Israeli Jews have undergone in Israeli film and television program depictions from the 1970s to the present. The article examines the negative portrayals of religiosity in earlier Israeli films, which were strongly influenced by Zionism’s inherent animosity toward Jewish religious expression and practice. It then goes on to note the changes in that portray…
On Shtisel (or the Haredi as Bourgeois)
On Shtisel (or the Haredi as Bourgeois) Yaron Peleg (bio) Shtisel. 2013. Created by Uri Alon and Yehonatan Indursky. Produced by Dikla Barakai and Yonatan Aroch. Israel: Yes TV. The proliferation of shows about Israel’s various religious communities has been one of the most notable changes in television programming in Israel recently. In the last decade such shows have been crowding Israeli TV screens, exposing viewers in increasingly more nuance…
Israeli Film and Television
Israeli Film and Television Yaron Peleg (bio) In the last decade or so, Jewish religiosity has become a hot and sometimes even sexy subject in Israeli visual arts. After decades—if not almost a whole century—of poor public relations, religious Jews are suddenly crowding the screens of movie theaters, televisions, and computers. The last decade has seen them featured in several important films in Israel, and television shows about religious Jews a…
Place, Memory and Myth in Contemporary Israeli Cinema
The categories listed in Anat Zanger's book title, place, memory, and myth, have been especially fruitful categories of inquiry within Jewish Studies. And for good reason. Jewish history lends itse
Writing the Land
This essay examines one of the greatest ambitions of the Hebrew cultural revival––the creation of a modern and distinct Hebrew national culture by rewinding history and reconnecting the indeterminate Jewish subject to a determinate Hebrew soil. The essay looks at three writers from three distinct periods in the last century, S. Yizhar, Amos Oz and Orly Castel-Bloom, whose works are deeply concerned with this connection between man and land, and w…
Marking a New Holy Community
ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.)Menny Ya'ish's recent film God's Neighbors (2012, ...) opens on a peaceful Friday eve with Avi (Ro'ee Asaf ), a rough-looking but attractive young man, who performs the ritual of Kiddush, or sanctification of the wine, that ushers in the Jewish Sabbath. When he is done eating alone with his father, Avi retires to his room to study scripture, basking in the sweetness of the Torah and relishing the p…
Israeli Cinema
Israeli Culture between the Two Intifadas
Over the past two decades, profound changes in Israel opened its society to powerful outside forces and the dominance of global capitalism. As a result, the centrality of Zionism as an organizing ideology waned, prompting expressions of anxiety in Israel about the coming of a post-Zionist age. The fears about the end of Zionism were quelled, however, by the Palestinian uprising in 2000, which spurred at least a partial return to more traditional …
From Black to White
The article examines the evolution of Mizrahi images in Israeli cinema in the past fifty years and, unlike most studies about Mizrahim in Israel, focuses on their positive portrayal. The article demonstrates the constructive ways Jewish immigrants from the Islamic world were incorporated into Israeli culture by positing three interrelated arguments. The first is that early films incorporated Mizrahim into the fledgling Israeli nation by legitimiz…
Heroic Conduct
This article reexamines Daniel Boyarin's assertion regarding the masculinization of Jewish culture during the early stages of Zionism. Although it supports the claim that Zionists wished to create a more masculine Jew, it refutes Boyarin's argument about the queer or homosexual anxiety that accompanied the process. By looking at a variety of literary texts from the past century, the article shows how Hebrew authors were oblivious to the equation …
Orientalism and the Hebrew Imagination
Natan Gross, Toledot hakolnoa hayehudi befolin, 1901–1950
Heroic Conduct
This article reexamines Daniel Boyarin's assertion regarding the masculinization of Jewish culture during the early stages of Zionism. Although it supports the claim that Zionists wished to create a more masculine Jew, it refutes Boyarin's argument about the queer or homosexual anxiety that accompanied the process. By looking at a variety of literary texts from the past century, the article shows how Hebrew authors were oblivious to the equation …
From Black to White
The article examines the evolution of Mizrahi images in Israeli cinema in the past fifty years and, unlike most studies about Mizrahim in Israel, focuses on their positive portrayal. The article demonstrates the constructive ways Jewish immigrants from the Islamic world were incorporated into Israeli culture by positing three interrelated arguments. The first is that early films incorporated Mizrahim into the fledgling Israeli nation by legitimiz…
Marking a New Holy Community
ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.)Menny Ya'ish's recent film God's Neighbors (2012, ...) opens on a peaceful Friday eve with Avi (Ro'ee Asaf ), a rough-looking but attractive young man, who performs the ritual of Kiddush, or sanctification of the wine, that ushers in the Jewish Sabbath. When he is done eating alone with his father, Avi retires to his room to study scripture, basking in the sweetness of the Torah and relishing the p…
Secularity and Its Discontents
This article provides a short history and evaluation of the changes the Jewish religion and Israeli Jews have undergone in Israeli film and television program depictions from the 1970s to the present. The article examines the negative portrayals of religiosity in earlier Israeli films, which were strongly influenced by Zionism’s inherent animosity toward Jewish religious expression and practice. It then goes on to note the changes in that portray…
Genres in Jewish and Israeli Cinema
Genres in Jewish and Israeli Cinema Yaron Peleg (bio) and Yvonne Kozlovsky-Golan (bio) This issue of Jewish Film & New Media continues the series on Israeli media studies, which began last year with an issue on the treatment of Jewish religious themes in Israeli films and television programs. These special issues are based on small scholars’ conferences usually held once a year at various academic institutions as part of a new scholarly framework…
On Shtisel (or the Haredi as Bourgeois)
On Shtisel (or the Haredi as Bourgeois) Yaron Peleg (bio) Shtisel. 2013. Created by Uri Alon and Yehonatan Indursky. Produced by Dikla Barakai and Yonatan Aroch. Israel: Yes TV. The proliferation of shows about Israel’s various religious communities has been one of the most notable changes in television programming in Israel recently. In the last decade such shows have been crowding Israeli TV screens, exposing viewers in increasingly more nuance…
Natan Gross, Toledot hakolnoa hayehudi befolin, 1901–1950
Orientalism and the Hebrew Imagination
Heroic Conduct
This article reexamines Daniel Boyarin's assertion regarding the masculinization of Jewish culture during the early stages of Zionism. Although it supports the claim that Zionists wished to create a more masculine Jew, it refutes Boyarin's argument about the queer or homosexual anxiety that accompanied the process. By looking at a variety of literary texts from the past century, the article shows how Hebrew authors were oblivious to the equation …
Israeli Culture between the Two Intifadas
Over the past two decades, profound changes in Israel opened its society to powerful outside forces and the dominance of global capitalism. As a result, the centrality of Zionism as an organizing ideology waned, prompting expressions of anxiety in Israel about the coming of a post-Zionist age. The fears about the end of Zionism were quelled, however, by the Palestinian uprising in 2000, which spurred at least a partial return to more traditional …
From Black to White
The article examines the evolution of Mizrahi images in Israeli cinema in the past fifty years and, unlike most studies about Mizrahim in Israel, focuses on their positive portrayal. The article demonstrates the constructive ways Jewish immigrants from the Islamic world were incorporated into Israeli culture by positing three interrelated arguments. The first is that early films incorporated Mizrahim into the fledgling Israeli nation by legitimiz…
Israeli Cinema
Writing the Land
This essay examines one of the greatest ambitions of the Hebrew cultural revival––the creation of a modern and distinct Hebrew national culture by rewinding history and reconnecting the indeterminate Jewish subject to a determinate Hebrew soil. The essay looks at three writers from three distinct periods in the last century, S. Yizhar, Amos Oz and Orly Castel-Bloom, whose works are deeply concerned with this connection between man and land, and w…
Marking a New Holy Community
ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.)Menny Ya'ish's recent film God's Neighbors (2012, ...) opens on a peaceful Friday eve with Avi (Ro'ee Asaf ), a rough-looking but attractive young man, who performs the ritual of Kiddush, or sanctification of the wine, that ushers in the Jewish Sabbath. When he is done eating alone with his father, Avi retires to his room to study scripture, basking in the sweetness of the Torah and relishing the p…
Place, Memory and Myth in Contemporary Israeli Cinema
The categories listed in Anat Zanger's book title, place, memory, and myth, have been especially fruitful categories of inquiry within Jewish Studies. And for good reason. Jewish history lends itse
Secularity and Its Discontents
This article provides a short history and evaluation of the changes the Jewish religion and Israeli Jews have undergone in Israeli film and television program depictions from the 1970s to the present. The article examines the negative portrayals of religiosity in earlier Israeli films, which were strongly influenced by Zionism’s inherent animosity toward Jewish religious expression and practice. It then goes on to note the changes in that portray…
On Shtisel (or the Haredi as Bourgeois)
On Shtisel (or the Haredi as Bourgeois) Yaron Peleg (bio) Shtisel. 2013. Created by Uri Alon and Yehonatan Indursky. Produced by Dikla Barakai and Yonatan Aroch. Israel: Yes TV. The proliferation of shows about Israel’s various religious communities has been one of the most notable changes in television programming in Israel recently. In the last decade such shows have been crowding Israeli TV screens, exposing viewers in increasingly more nuance…
Israeli Film and Television
Israeli Film and Television Yaron Peleg (bio) In the last decade or so, Jewish religiosity has become a hot and sometimes even sexy subject in Israeli visual arts. After decades—if not almost a whole century—of poor public relations, religious Jews are suddenly crowding the screens of movie theaters, televisions, and computers. The last decade has seen them featured in several important films in Israel, and television shows about religious Jews a…
Genres in Jewish and Israeli Cinema
Genres in Jewish and Israeli Cinema Yaron Peleg (bio) and Yvonne Kozlovsky-Golan (bio) This issue of Jewish Film & New Media continues the series on Israeli media studies, which began last year with an issue on the treatment of Jewish religious themes in Israeli films and television programs. These special issues are based on small scholars’ conferences usually held once a year at various academic institutions as part of a new scholarly framework…
Yaacov Yadgar at Oxford
We extend a warm welcome to Professor Yaacov Yadgar who has recently arrived in Oxford after being appointed to the Stanley Lewis Chair of Israel Studies. He is only the second holder of the post
Toward a Jewish Religious Realism in Israeli Cinema
The article examines changes in the relationship between film and religion in contemporary Israeli cinema by looking at three films that exemplify these changes, Ushpizin (Gidi Dar, 2004), The Wedding Plan (Rama Burshtein, 2016), and Tikkun (Avishai Sivan, 2015). As a pioneering religious film, Ushpizin introduced two cinematic elements that were developed by subsequent Israeli films dealing with religion or faith. The first element draws its ins…
Israel on the Screen
Israel on the Screen:Between Reality and Fantasy Yaron Peleg and Eran Kaplan Arguably more than any other artform, cinema can combine realism and fantasy, mimic the world as we see and experience it, and create images of our inner worlds, our imagination. The tension between realism and fantasy is one of cinema's most alluring aspects, and it is commonly acknowledged by what we call film styles or genres. By and large, and with some notable excep…
Labor in Israeli culture
A History of Modern Hebrew Literature
This book is a new and comprehensive history of modern Hebrew literature that revitalizes older histories while integrating contemporary theories on literature, culture, identity, and canon formation. The collection aims to deterritorialize this history by emphasizing the broad geographic spread of Hebrew literary activity, encompassing developments before and beyond the State of Israel. By expanding the scope of representation, this updated hist…
Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (16 works) · History (13 works) · Art (12 works) · History (11 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Literature (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Jewish Identity and Society (6 works)