Gil Z Hochberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 761788 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gil Z Hochberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gil Z |
| FAMILY NAME | Hochberg |
| SIGNATURE | HOCHBERG G Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Roundtable on Decolonial Jewish Practice in Art and Visual Culture ‘after Gaza’
With friends like this, who needs enemies?”: On the global rise of Christian Zionism
This article argues for greater media and critical emphasis on Christian Zionism, a deeply antisemitic and Islamophobic ideology, whose supporters constitute the largest, most impactful advocates for the State of Israel. It calls for a reconsideration of Zionism as a primarily “Jewish movement,” emphasizing instead its Christian theological resonances that have proven foundational to Zionism’s growing salience throughout the 20th and 21st centuri…
A statement on the ongoing genocide in Gaza
Communication, Culture and Critique has been the leading venue for critical approaches to communication and media studies. This issue marks the first guided by a newly formed Editorial Collective, which seeks to rekindle the politically engaged scholarship epitomized by the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University in the 1970s, then under the leadership of Stuart Hall. As we assume our responsibility to guide this journal…
From Heritage to Refugee Heritage
As a contemporary concept, heritage bridges legal discourse and ethical discourse, national affiliations and a global imaginary, colonial pasts and neocolonial presents. The term often circulates beliefs in cultural authenticity, collective memory, and historical merit under the logic of neoliberal markets and legitimate capital gain, hence the tight connections between cultural heritage, industry, and tourism. While the concept developed as earl…
From ‘sexy Semite’ to Semitic ghosts: Contemporary art between Arab and Jew
Semites, Semitism, the Semitic, the Semite. We all know the terms: we’ve heard them many times. We know of Semitic languages, we know of growing antisemitism, and we are familiar with book titles about Semites and Semitic cultures. And yet, these terms, these words, these adjectives remain for us today somewhat misty, imprecise and ambiguous in a way they did not seem to be for readers of nineteenth-century philology, theology or travel journals.…
Archival Afterlives in a Conflict Zone
Research Article| May 01 2018 Archival Afterlives in a Conflict Zone: Animating the Past in Jumana Manna’s Cinematic Fables of Pre-1948 Palestine Gil Hochberg Gil Hochberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (1): 30–42. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-4389955 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Gil Ho…
From ‘Cinematic Occupation’ to ‘Cinematic Justice’: Citational Practices in Kamal Aljafari's ‘Jaffa Trilogy’
This article engages with three films by the Palestinian director Kamal Aljafari: The Roof (2006, 61 minutes), Port of Memory (2009, 62 minutes), and Recollection (2015, 70 minutes). My readings of the films highlight questions of erasure, destruction, elimination and harmful gentrification as practices of Israeli colonial violence on the Palestinian urban space. But if the films document such violence they further explore, I argue, the role of f…
Decolonizing Judaism: Barbarism and the Return to Nativism
Santiago Slabodsky's Decolonial Judaism: Triumphal Failures of Barbaric Thinking returns to a history of Jewish persecution, but unlike other attempts to trace the tradition of the Jewish “conscious pariah,” it does not aim to identify an “essence” of Judaism (say, “exilic consciousness”). The book's underlying goal is to think through the failures of previous Jewish projects to turn to the history of Jewish persecution, in order to form successf…
Freedom, Movement, Subjectivity
Book Review| April 01 2017 Freedom, Movement, Subjectivity Movement and the Ordering of Freedom: On Liberal Governances of Mobility. Kotef, Hagar. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015. ix + 215 pp. Gil Hochberg Gil Hochberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2017) 23 (2): 279–282. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-3750500 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citati…
“Remembering Semitism” or “On the Prospect of Re-Membering the Semites”
Today, a growing number of French Jews embrace the far-right French Front National party, which has a long history of anti-Semitism – how did we get here? How is it that Jews turn to the French authorities for protection against so-called Muslim anti-Semitic violence? How is it that we see a similar pattern across Europe: in Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark, and Britain? This essay addresses these questions by calling attention to the role playe…
Soldiers as filmmakers: On the prospect of 'shooting war' and the question of ethical spectatorship
This essay engages two recent Israeli films, Vals im Bashir / Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman, 2008) and Levanon / Lebanon (Samuel Maoz, 2009), in an attempt to negotiate the bumpy terrain of what ‘ethical spectatorship’ might mean in the context of watching war films. My attempt to delineate this critical stance is inspired by, and in dialogue with, the writings of many other critics who have, over the past several years, redirected our analysis o…
To Be or Not to Be an Israeli Arab: Sayed Kashua and the Prospect of Minority Speech-Acts
This essay is dedicated to the writings of Sayed Kashua, the young Israeli Palestinian novelist, journalist, and screenwriter who has become a central, if controversial, figure within the Israeli public domain: a target of both political and literary praise and blame. Specifically the essay examines Kashua's active participation in the Israeli (Hebrew) public sphere and the way in which his writings take part in the construction of a critical min…
No Pride in Occupation
One of the most important contributions of this special issue of GLQ is the forum for three queer Palestinian activists to speak about the complexity of their identities and politics. In this roundtable conversation, these activists make clear that while they do not speak for all Palestinian LGBTQs, and that they do not necessarily agree among themselves on strategies or details (the women's rights approach of Aswat is different from the queer ac…
Check Me Out
In his seven-minute film Chic Point: Fashion for Israeli Checkpoints (2003), Palestinian artist Sharif Waked introduces a slew of beautiful young men striding down a catwalk to the sound of heavy beat music, wearing "the latest in checkpoint fashion": a tight mini black jacket that exposes a flat stomach in a sudden opening of a hidden side zipper, a white T-shirt with a large heart-shaped opening exposing most of the chest, and many more article…
Edward Said: The Last Jewish Intellectual
Research Article| June 01 2006 Edward Said: “The Last Jewish Intellectual”: ON IDENTITY, ALTERITY, AND THE POLITICS OF MEMORY Gil Z. Hochberg Gil Z. Hochberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2006) 24 (2 (87)): 47–65. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-24-2_87-47 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Gil Z. Hochberg; Edward Said: “The Last Jewish Intellectual”: ON IDENTITY, AL…
Warschawski: Toward an Open Tomb: The Crisis of Israeli Society
Additional informationNotes on contributorsGil Z. HochbergGil Z. Hochberg, an assistant professor of comparative literature at UCLA, is the author of several essays on Israeli, Palestinian, and North African literatures and cultures. Her book in progress is entitled In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination
Permanent Immigration: Jacqueline Kahanoff, Ronit Matalon,and the Impetus of Levantinism
Research Article| May 01 2004 “Permanent Immigration”: Jacqueline Kahanoff, Ronit Matalon,and the Impetus of Levantinism Gil Z. Hochberg Gil Z. Hochberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2004) 31 (2): 219–243. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-31-2-219 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Gil Z. Hochberg; “Permanent Immigration”: Jacqueline Kahanoff, …
Permanent Immigration: Jacqueline Kahanoff, Ronit Matalon,and the Impetus of Levantinism
Research Article| May 01 2004 “Permanent Immigration”: Jacqueline Kahanoff, Ronit Matalon,and the Impetus of Levantinism Gil Z. Hochberg Gil Z. Hochberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2004) 31 (2): 219–243. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-31-2-219 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Gil Z. Hochberg; “Permanent Immigration”: Jacqueline Kahanoff, …
No Pride in Occupation
One of the most important contributions of this special issue of GLQ is the forum for three queer Palestinian activists to speak about the complexity of their identities and politics. In this roundtable conversation, these activists make clear that while they do not speak for all Palestinian LGBTQs, and that they do not necessarily agree among themselves on strategies or details (the women's rights approach of Aswat is different from the queer ac…
Soldiers as filmmakers: On the prospect of 'shooting war' and the question of ethical spectatorship
This essay engages two recent Israeli films, Vals im Bashir / Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman, 2008) and Levanon / Lebanon (Samuel Maoz, 2009), in an attempt to negotiate the bumpy terrain of what ‘ethical spectatorship’ might mean in the context of watching war films. My attempt to delineate this critical stance is inspired by, and in dialogue with, the writings of many other critics who have, over the past several years, redirected our analysis o…
From Heritage to Refugee Heritage
As a contemporary concept, heritage bridges legal discourse and ethical discourse, national affiliations and a global imaginary, colonial pasts and neocolonial presents. The term often circulates beliefs in cultural authenticity, collective memory, and historical merit under the logic of neoliberal markets and legitimate capital gain, hence the tight connections between cultural heritage, industry, and tourism. While the concept developed as earl…
Check Me Out
In his seven-minute film Chic Point: Fashion for Israeli Checkpoints (2003), Palestinian artist Sharif Waked introduces a slew of beautiful young men striding down a catwalk to the sound of heavy beat music, wearing "the latest in checkpoint fashion": a tight mini black jacket that exposes a flat stomach in a sudden opening of a hidden side zipper, a white T-shirt with a large heart-shaped opening exposing most of the chest, and many more article…
Edward Said: The Last Jewish Intellectual
Research Article| June 01 2006 Edward Said: “The Last Jewish Intellectual”: ON IDENTITY, ALTERITY, AND THE POLITICS OF MEMORY Gil Z. Hochberg Gil Z. Hochberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2006) 24 (2 (87)): 47–65. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-24-2_87-47 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Gil Z. Hochberg; Edward Said: “The Last Jewish Intellectual”: ON IDENTITY, AL…
Archival Afterlives in a Conflict Zone
Research Article| May 01 2018 Archival Afterlives in a Conflict Zone: Animating the Past in Jumana Manna’s Cinematic Fables of Pre-1948 Palestine Gil Hochberg Gil Hochberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (1): 30–42. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-4389955 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Gil Ho…
A statement on the ongoing genocide in Gaza
Communication, Culture and Critique has been the leading venue for critical approaches to communication and media studies. This issue marks the first guided by a newly formed Editorial Collective, which seeks to rekindle the politically engaged scholarship epitomized by the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University in the 1970s, then under the leadership of Stuart Hall. As we assume our responsibility to guide this journal…
From ‘sexy Semite’ to Semitic ghosts: Contemporary art between Arab and Jew
Semites, Semitism, the Semitic, the Semite. We all know the terms: we’ve heard them many times. We know of Semitic languages, we know of growing antisemitism, and we are familiar with book titles about Semites and Semitic cultures. And yet, these terms, these words, these adjectives remain for us today somewhat misty, imprecise and ambiguous in a way they did not seem to be for readers of nineteenth-century philology, theology or travel journals.…
From ‘Cinematic Occupation’ to ‘Cinematic Justice’: Citational Practices in Kamal Aljafari's ‘Jaffa Trilogy’
This article engages with three films by the Palestinian director Kamal Aljafari: The Roof (2006, 61 minutes), Port of Memory (2009, 62 minutes), and Recollection (2015, 70 minutes). My readings of the films highlight questions of erasure, destruction, elimination and harmful gentrification as practices of Israeli colonial violence on the Palestinian urban space. But if the films document such violence they further explore, I argue, the role of f…
Permanent Immigration: Jacqueline Kahanoff, Ronit Matalon,and the Impetus of Levantinism
Research Article| May 01 2004 “Permanent Immigration”: Jacqueline Kahanoff, Ronit Matalon,and the Impetus of Levantinism Gil Z. Hochberg Gil Z. Hochberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2004) 31 (2): 219–243. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-31-2-219 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Gil Z. Hochberg; “Permanent Immigration”: Jacqueline Kahanoff, …
Warschawski: Toward an Open Tomb: The Crisis of Israeli Society
Additional informationNotes on contributorsGil Z. HochbergGil Z. Hochberg, an assistant professor of comparative literature at UCLA, is the author of several essays on Israeli, Palestinian, and North African literatures and cultures. Her book in progress is entitled In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination
Edward Said: The Last Jewish Intellectual
Research Article| June 01 2006 Edward Said: “The Last Jewish Intellectual”: ON IDENTITY, ALTERITY, AND THE POLITICS OF MEMORY Gil Z. Hochberg Gil Z. Hochberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2006) 24 (2 (87)): 47–65. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-24-2_87-47 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Gil Z. Hochberg; Edward Said: “The Last Jewish Intellectual”: ON IDENTITY, AL…
To Be or Not to Be an Israeli Arab: Sayed Kashua and the Prospect of Minority Speech-Acts
This essay is dedicated to the writings of Sayed Kashua, the young Israeli Palestinian novelist, journalist, and screenwriter who has become a central, if controversial, figure within the Israeli public domain: a target of both political and literary praise and blame. Specifically the essay examines Kashua's active participation in the Israeli (Hebrew) public sphere and the way in which his writings take part in the construction of a critical min…
No Pride in Occupation
One of the most important contributions of this special issue of GLQ is the forum for three queer Palestinian activists to speak about the complexity of their identities and politics. In this roundtable conversation, these activists make clear that while they do not speak for all Palestinian LGBTQs, and that they do not necessarily agree among themselves on strategies or details (the women's rights approach of Aswat is different from the queer ac…
Check Me Out
In his seven-minute film Chic Point: Fashion for Israeli Checkpoints (2003), Palestinian artist Sharif Waked introduces a slew of beautiful young men striding down a catwalk to the sound of heavy beat music, wearing "the latest in checkpoint fashion": a tight mini black jacket that exposes a flat stomach in a sudden opening of a hidden side zipper, a white T-shirt with a large heart-shaped opening exposing most of the chest, and many more article…
Soldiers as filmmakers: On the prospect of 'shooting war' and the question of ethical spectatorship
This essay engages two recent Israeli films, Vals im Bashir / Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman, 2008) and Levanon / Lebanon (Samuel Maoz, 2009), in an attempt to negotiate the bumpy terrain of what ‘ethical spectatorship’ might mean in the context of watching war films. My attempt to delineate this critical stance is inspired by, and in dialogue with, the writings of many other critics who have, over the past several years, redirected our analysis o…
“Remembering Semitism” or “On the Prospect of Re-Membering the Semites”
Today, a growing number of French Jews embrace the far-right French Front National party, which has a long history of anti-Semitism – how did we get here? How is it that Jews turn to the French authorities for protection against so-called Muslim anti-Semitic violence? How is it that we see a similar pattern across Europe: in Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark, and Britain? This essay addresses these questions by calling attention to the role playe…
From ‘Cinematic Occupation’ to ‘Cinematic Justice’: Citational Practices in Kamal Aljafari's ‘Jaffa Trilogy’
This article engages with three films by the Palestinian director Kamal Aljafari: The Roof (2006, 61 minutes), Port of Memory (2009, 62 minutes), and Recollection (2015, 70 minutes). My readings of the films highlight questions of erasure, destruction, elimination and harmful gentrification as practices of Israeli colonial violence on the Palestinian urban space. But if the films document such violence they further explore, I argue, the role of f…
Decolonizing Judaism: Barbarism and the Return to Nativism
Santiago Slabodsky's Decolonial Judaism: Triumphal Failures of Barbaric Thinking returns to a history of Jewish persecution, but unlike other attempts to trace the tradition of the Jewish “conscious pariah,” it does not aim to identify an “essence” of Judaism (say, “exilic consciousness”). The book's underlying goal is to think through the failures of previous Jewish projects to turn to the history of Jewish persecution, in order to form successf…
Freedom, Movement, Subjectivity
Book Review| April 01 2017 Freedom, Movement, Subjectivity Movement and the Ordering of Freedom: On Liberal Governances of Mobility. Kotef, Hagar. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015. ix + 215 pp. Gil Hochberg Gil Hochberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2017) 23 (2): 279–282. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-3750500 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citati…
Archival Afterlives in a Conflict Zone
Research Article| May 01 2018 Archival Afterlives in a Conflict Zone: Animating the Past in Jumana Manna’s Cinematic Fables of Pre-1948 Palestine Gil Hochberg Gil Hochberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (1): 30–42. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-4389955 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Gil Ho…
From Heritage to Refugee Heritage
As a contemporary concept, heritage bridges legal discourse and ethical discourse, national affiliations and a global imaginary, colonial pasts and neocolonial presents. The term often circulates beliefs in cultural authenticity, collective memory, and historical merit under the logic of neoliberal markets and legitimate capital gain, hence the tight connections between cultural heritage, industry, and tourism. While the concept developed as earl…
From ‘sexy Semite’ to Semitic ghosts: Contemporary art between Arab and Jew
Semites, Semitism, the Semitic, the Semite. We all know the terms: we’ve heard them many times. We know of Semitic languages, we know of growing antisemitism, and we are familiar with book titles about Semites and Semitic cultures. And yet, these terms, these words, these adjectives remain for us today somewhat misty, imprecise and ambiguous in a way they did not seem to be for readers of nineteenth-century philology, theology or travel journals.…
Roundtable on Decolonial Jewish Practice in Art and Visual Culture ‘after Gaza’
With friends like this, who needs enemies?”: On the global rise of Christian Zionism
This article argues for greater media and critical emphasis on Christian Zionism, a deeply antisemitic and Islamophobic ideology, whose supporters constitute the largest, most impactful advocates for the State of Israel. It calls for a reconsideration of Zionism as a primarily “Jewish movement,” emphasizing instead its Christian theological resonances that have proven foundational to Zionism’s growing salience throughout the 20th and 21st centuri…
A statement on the ongoing genocide in Gaza
Communication, Culture and Critique has been the leading venue for critical approaches to communication and media studies. This issue marks the first guided by a newly formed Editorial Collective, which seeks to rekindle the politically engaged scholarship epitomized by the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University in the 1970s, then under the leadership of Stuart Hall. As we assume our responsibility to guide this journal…
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