Chaim Noy
Senior Lecturer
Sapir College
Israel
*Formerly an Independent Scholar
D.N. Hof Ashkelon, 79165
Israel
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Tamar Noy
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I earned my B.A. in Biblical Studies and Psychology at the Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and studied for Ph.D. in Philosophy in the Department of Psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem under the supervision of Profs. Amia Lieblich and Yoram Bilu. I studied Clinical Psychology and did my training in psychodynamic child psychotherapy in Jerusalem. I then spent a year as a Rothschild Postdoctoral Fellow at Swarthmore College, with Prof. Ken Gergen, and at University of Pennsylvania (PENN), with Prof. Dan Ben-Amos. I spent two more postdoctoral fellowships at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and the Department of Communication at the Hebrew University (Ginsburg Postdoctoral Fellowship), and at the Department of Communication at the University of Haifa (Faculty of Social Science Postdoctoral Fellowship). I then spent a number of very meaningful years as an Independent Scholar, teaching variously at The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, at Sapir College in the Negev, and at the David Yellin Teachers’ College, Jerusalem. In 2009, Sapir College became my permanent academic home, and I feel very happy and furtunate for this being the case.
2011-2012 - The Ruth Meltzer Distinguished Fellowship, the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
2010 - Prix Jean Widmer. Fribourg University, Fribourg, Switzerland.
2007-2010/2010-2013 - Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Management and Law, University of Surrey, England.
2007-2008 - Research Group Fellowship: Neuroscience and Society in Israel and Elsewhere, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Israel.
2004-2005 - The Research Authority Post-Doctorate Fellowship. Faculty of Social Sciences. Department of Communication. Haifa University.
2002-2003 - Ginsberg Post-Doctorate Fellowship. The Department of Sociology and Anthropology. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2002-2003 - Mandel Post-Doctorate Scholarship. The Scholion Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Jewish Studies. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2001-2002 - Rothschild (Yad Hanadiv) Post-Doctorate Fellowship.
2001 - Profile Student. “Hebrew University’s President Report: 2001.”
2000-2001 - Ford Foundation (“Israel Foundation Trustees”) Writing Scholarship.
1998-2000 - Ford Foundation (“Israel Foundation Trustees”) Research Scholarship.
1997-2000 - Department of Psychology Excellence Scholarship.
1998-1999 - The Shaine Center for Research in Social Sciences Scholarship (The Faculty of Social Sciences).
1998 - Lafer Center for Women’s Studies Grant (The Faculty of Social Sciences).
1998 - The Levi Eshkol Institute for Economic, Social and Political Research Grant (The Faculty of Social Sciences).
1998 - The Martin and Vivian Levine Center for the Normal and Psychopathological Development of the Child and Adolescent Grant (Department of Psychology).
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Narrative Community: Voices of Israeli Backpackers. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. 2007.
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Noy, Chaim & Erik Cohen. (Eds.), Israeli Backpackers: From Tourism to a Rite of Passage. N.Y.: State University of New York Press. 2005
Reviwes on Israeli Backpackers:
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2011
The Aesthetics of Qualitative (Re)search: Performing Ethnography at a Heritage Museum. Qualitative Inquiry, 17(10): 917-929.
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Articulating Spaces: Inscribing Spaces and (Im)mobilities in an Israeli Commemorative Visitor Book. Social Semiotics, 21(2): 155-173. (Special Issue co-edited by Paul McIlvenny and Chaim Noy, titled “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Spaces of Multimodal Discourse.")
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*The Introduction to the Special Issue: “Multimodal discourse in mediated spaces”, by Paul McIlvenny and Chaim Noy (Social Semiotics, 21(2): 147-154).
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2010
Brin, Eldad and Noy, Chaim. The Said and the Unsaid: Performative Guiding In a Jerusalem Neighborhood. Tourist Studies, 10(1):19-33.
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Sanctities, Blasphemies and the (Jewish) Nation: Commemorative Inscriptions at a National Memorial Site in Israel. Postscripts 4.2:199–218.
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Noy, Chaim and Kohn, Ayelet. Mediating Touristic Dangerscapes: The Semiotics of State Travel Warnings Issued to Israeli Tourists. Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 8(3): 206-222.
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Noy, Chaim and Kohn, Ayelet. 'Avoid Traveling to Sinai': Analysis of Journey Warnings in Israeli Media. Horizons in Geography, 75: 5-25. (Hebrew).
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2009
'I WAS HERE!': Addressivity Structures and Inscribing Practices as Indexical Resources. Discourse Studies, 11(4): 421-440.
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The Politics of Authenticity in a National Heritage Site in Israel. Qualitative Sociology Review, 5(1): 112-129.
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2008
Mediation Materialized: The Semiotics of a Visitor Book at an Israel Commemoration Site. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 25(2): 175-195.
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Pages as Stages: A Performance Approach to Visitor Books. Annals of Tourism Research, 35(2): 509-528.
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Writing Ideology: Hybrid Symbols in a Commemorative Visitor Book in Israel. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 18(1): 62-81.
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Resisting Hegemony: Gender and Embodiment in the Narratives of Female Israeli Tourists. Tourism Review International, 12(2): 93-114. Special Issue: Female Travelers II.
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2007
Sampling Knowledge: The Hermeneutics of Snowball Sampling in Qualitative Research. International Journal of Social Research Methodology,1-18.
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The Poetics of Tourist Experience: An Autoethnography of a Family Trip to Eilat.” Tourism and Cultural Change, 5(3), 141-157.
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2006
Israeli Backpacking since the 1960s: A Historic-Cultural View of Institutionalization and Experience in Tourism. (Theme Issue:) Tourism Recreation Research, 31(3), 39-54.
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2004
Performing Identity: Touristic Narratives of Self-change. Text and Performance Quarterly, 24(2): 115-138.
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From Persuasion to Self-Transformation: Dialogical Genres of Narration in a Tourist Speech Community. Texas Linguistic Forum, 48: 149-165. [On-line Journal].
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'This Trip Really Changed Me': Backpackers’ Narratives of Self-Change. Annals of Tourism Research, 31(1): 78-102.
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2003
Narratives of Hegemonic Masculinity: Presentations of Body and Space in Israeli Backpackers’ Narratives. Israeli Sociology, 5(1): 75-120. Special Issue on Masculinity. (Hebrew)
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The Write of Passage: Reflections on Writing a Dissertation in Narrative/Qualitative Methodology.Forum of Qualitative Social Research, 4(2). [On-line Journal]
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(The article has been in translated into Germen and Spanish.)
An expanded version appeared as a book chapter in Wolff-Michael Roth (ed.), Auto/Biography and Auto/Ethnography: Praxis of Research Method. Rotterdam: Sense Publications (2005). Pp. 359-378.
2002
‘You MUST go Trek There’: The Persuasive Genre of Narration Among Israeli Backpackers. Narrative Inquiry, 12(2): 261-290.
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2001
Schiff, Brian, Chaim Noy, and Bertram cohler. Collected Stories in the Life Narratives of Holocaust Survivors. Narrative Inquiry, 11(1):159-194.
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2011
The Semiotics of (Im)mobilities: Two Discursive Case Studies of the System of Automobility.” In Giuseppina Pellegrino (ed.), The Politics of Proximity: Mobility and Immobility in Practice. UK: Ashgate. Pp. 61-81.
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2009
On Driving a Car and Being a Family: A Reflexive Ethnography. In Phillip Vannini (ed.), Material Culture and Technology in Everyday Life: Ethnographic Approaches . N.Y.: Peter Lang Publishing. Pp. 101-113.
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Embodying Ideologies in Tourism: A Commemorative Visitor Book in Israel as a Site of Authenticity. In Vannini, P., and P. Williams (eds.), Authenticity in Culture, Self, and Society. London: Ashgate. Pp. 219-240.
2008
Israeliness Outside-In: Backpacking and Contemporaries Identities in Israel. In Gisela Dachs (ed.), Judischer Almanach. Frankfurt am Main: Leo Baeck Instituts. Pp. 145-150. (Germen)
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2007
Traveling (for) Masculinity: Bodies/Spaces in Israeli Backpackers’ Narratives. In Annette Pritchard, Irena Ateljevic, and Nigel Morgan (eds.), Tourism & Gender: Embodiment, Sensuality and Experience. Wallingford, UK: CAB International. Pp. 47-72.
The Language(s) of the Tourist Experience: An Autoethnography of the Poetic Tourist. In Irena Ateljevic, Nigel Morgan, and Annette Pritchard (eds.), The Critical Turn in Tourism Studies: Innovative Research Methodologies. Amsterdam: Elsevier Publications. Pp. 349-370.
2005
Israeli Backpackers: Narrative, Interpersonal Communication, and Social Construction. In Israeli Backpackers and Their Society: A View from Afar. Pp. 111-158.
Noy, Chaim and Erik Cohen. Introduction: Backpacking as a Rite of Passage in Israel. In Israeli Backpackers and Their Society: A View from Afar. Pp. 1-44.
Cohen, Erik and Chaim Noy. Conclusion: A View from Afar. In Israeli Backpackers and Their Society: A View from Afar. Pp. 251-262.
Schiff, Brian, and Chaim Noy. Making it Personal: The Social Character of Life Stories. In Anna De Fina, Deborah Schiffrin & Michael Bamberg (eds.), Discursive Construction of Identities . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 114-143.
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2008
The Materiality of Visitor Books: Observations from an Israeli Military Commemoration Site. In materialworld.
I teach a range of topics, which reflect (though still incompletely) my varied fields of research and intellectual interest.
Some of my teaching includes:
Language, Culture, Society: Introduction to Discourse
Israeli Society: A Sociological Introduction
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Politics of Identity in Israeli Society
Speaking Masculinity: Narratives of Masculinity in Conversation and Discourse in Israeli Culture.
Tourism Sociology: Critical Investigations.
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Qualitative Research Methods: From Themes to Performance.
The Art of Academic Writing.
2010
"Familial interactions in cars: Parents-drivers and children-passengers on the 'School Run.'" Presented at the International Conference on Conversation Analysis 2010 (ICCA10), July 4-8, Mannheim, Germany.
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"Qualitative and feminist research: Two reflexive case studies." Presented at the Fourth Annual Conference of The Israeli Center for Qualitative Research Methods, February 18th, Ben-Gurion University, Be’er Sheva. I organized and chaired a session titled “Performance/Knowledge in Qualitative Research,” and served as a discussant in session titled “Odysseus and Columbus: An inquiry into voyages”. (Hebrew)
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"The political ends of tourism: The development of a tourist site in East Jerusalem." Pretested at the Annual Meeting of the Israeli Association of Tourism Research, February 17th, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem. (Hebrew).
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"The Legal System and the Media in Israel", co-organized session (with Omri Yadlin). Presented at the Sederot Conference on Social Issues, November 9th-10th, Sapir-Sederot. (Hebrew).
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2009
"Epistemologies and Their Practices: A Performance approach to Ethnography in Tourism", and "Performance and Discourse in Tourism: The Narratives Visitor Books Tell". Both presentations are part of a keynote workshop presented at the Third Critical Tourism Studies (CTS) Conference, 21-24 June, Zadar, Croatia.
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Tracing Ethnography: A Performance approach to the Ethnographer’s Dis/Appearance. Presented at the "E•X•P•E•R•T•I•S•E: Media Specificity and Interdisciplinarity" conference, Tel-Aviv University, May 31st-June 4th. (Hebrew).
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Performing Participation/Performing Protest: The Semiotics of National Identity and Commemorative Rituals in a Heritage Site in Jerusalem. Presented at the 25th Annual Association for Israel Studies (AIS) Conference, June 1st-3rd, Sapir College, Sha’ar Ha-Negev, Israel. (Hebrew).
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Transportation in Israel: Current Sociological Perspectives. Presented at the Annual Meeting of The Israel Association for Transportation Research, February 25th, Tel-Aviv. (Hebrew)
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The Construction of Other's Spaces: Multimodal Analysis of 'Terror Forecasts' in Israeli Media. Co-presented with Ayelet Kohn at the Annual Meeting of the Israeli Association of Tourism Research, February 17th, University of Haifa. (Hebrew).
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Bin Laden on the Sinai Beach: Tourism, Media and the Anxiety of the Other. Co-presented with Ayelet Kohn as part of a session I chaired at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Israeli Sociological Society, February 18th, Rishon Lezion, titled “Tourism Sociology: Local Intersections.” (Hebrew)
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2008
(Un)Mediated Interactions: Embodied Movements and Meanings In and Around a Visitor Book, and “Performing the 'Father-Driver': Embodied Interactions and Roles In and Through the Family-Car.” Presented at the “Space = Interaction = Discourse” Conference, November 12th-14th, Aalborg University, Denmark.
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’Israeli Soldiers - I Worship You!’: Gender Performances at an Israeli Commemoration Site. Presented at the “Gender and Nationality: Intersections of Confrontations” conference, Tel-Aviv University, November, 26th (Hebrew).
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Discursive Proximities: Distances and Mobilities in an Israeli Commemorative Visitor Book. Presented at the 38th International Institute of Sociology (IIS) World Congress, June 29th, Budapest.
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The Ritual of the Text: Some Reflections on a Commemorative Visitor Book. Presented as part of a session I chaired at the 36th Annual Conference of the Israeli Anthropological Association, May 22nd, Beit Berl College, titled “The Languages of the Field: Discourse as an Ethnographic Field of Study.” (Hebrew)
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The Emergence of the (Academic) Text: Performing the Backstages of Academic Writing. A Performative/Display Piece presented as part of a session I chaired at the Third Annual Conference of The Israeli Center for Qualitative Research Methods, February 20th, Ben-Gurion University, Be’er Sheva, titled “Autoethnographies, Dialogues, and Poetics in Qualitative Research in Israel.” (Hebrew)
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Knowledge in Motion: A Critical Hermeneutics of Sampling and Interviewing in Qualitative Research. (See above)
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"The Power is God’s Power": A Commemorative Visitor Book as a Site of Contestation. Presented as part of a session I chaired at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Israeli Sociological Society, February 13th, Tel-Aviv, titled “Sites of Contestation [Atarei Hatrasa].” (Hebrew)
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2007
Situating Nationalist Discourse: Indexical Aspects of Zionist Colonial Arguments. Presented at The Dialogue Under Occupation Conference (Duo II), November 14th-16th, East Jerusalem.
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Zionist and Eschatological Linguistic Ideologies: Ethnography of a Visitor Book in an Israeli War Commemoration Site. Presented at The 10th Conference of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), July 10th, Goteborg, Sweden. The lecture was part of a session I chaired, titled “An Ethnographic Approach to Writing Practices.
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2006
Semiotic Perspectives on Israeli Driving. Presented at the 47th Conference of the Israel Geographical society, December 24th, Tel-Aviv, as part of a session I organized, titled "On Cars and Persons: Socio-Cultural Aspects of Traffic and Transportation in Israeli Society.
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Ethnography of ‘motion-in-stillness’: Sociolinguistic findings from Visitors’/Guests’ Books in Israel. Presented at the “Third Millennium Tourism” Workshop, Department of Anthropology and the School of Hotel Management and Tourism, Beer Shiva, Ben-Gurion University. November, 7th.
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"A paradise 90 minutes from Tel-Aviv": Vacationscapes as Modern Paradises. Presented at the “Paradise Traditions” Conference of the Mendel Institute for Jewish Studies, Van-Leer Institute, Jerusalem, November 5th. (Hebrew)
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Everyday Conversational Etiquette: Contemporary Perceptions of Tact and Politeness in Israel. Presented in a panel I headed, titled “Sociolinguistics and Ethics in Everyday,” at the Annual Meeting of the Israeli Sociological Association. Ramat-Gan, Bar-Ilan University, February 23rd. (Hebrew)
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The Pragmatics of Ideology: Pleasure Rituals and the Performance of Authenticity in Israeli Backpackers’ Travel Stories. (Ibid.)
Jules Verne’s Travel Narratives in Light of Modern Journeys and Tourism. Presented at the “Representation of Science Conference: A Scientific-Literary Travel with Jules Verne”. Haifa, University of Haifa, May 16th. (Hebrew)
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Tourism Institutionalization: A Contribution to Systemic-Historic Sociology. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Israeli Tourism Researchers. Rehovot, The Hebrew University, February 16th. (Hebrew)
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Rational
Initially, I refrained from including a subsection titled "works in progress" in my webcv. The reasons were obvious-there isn't much to show for when works are still being cooked. Academics earn points for publishing "pieces," but there isn’t much credit to collect when texts are still in the "workshop," not (yet) "publications". Also, there is of course the issue of intellectual rights. Once works are published, their rights are officially reserved (©). Never mind, for now, that they are reserved for the Press Houses and Publication Conglomerates, and only little rights and entitlements remains for their authors. The author is really dispossessed of most of the rights. In any case, the present point is that articles in the state of "draft" are not formally/legally protected against plagiarism.
Yet these two point—the lack of credit given to "drafts" under both notions of "credit," have brought me to consider adding the section of Works in Progress in its present form, which I think/hope is quite revolutionary.
This section reports on Works-in-Progress, but also allows anyone who might be interested to view these works as they are written, and, if the will is right, also to chare thoughts, comments and even contributions to these papers. This is accomplished through a weblog interface, where links to my Works-in-Progress are supplied.
This presents as an ideological move, which is part of my attempts to unveil, expose, and ventilate process that in academia are usually hidden in antidemocratic ways. I upload the article drafts in various stages of the composing process, in order to show my preference for and prioritizing of processuality itself (rather than products), institutional (rather than opacity), and the "backstage" construction work (rater than completed facades). This is why I suggested the subtitle "Collaborative Workshop."
With the hope that this will help bring backstage processes into the public, frontstage space of the www, and allow both sharing of the ideas raised in the works themselves, and more essentially provide an educational experience that rests on viewing and even partaking in the process itself, I conclude this "rational" section, and invite you to visit my "Collaborative Workshop" academic weblog.
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The Dialogics of Transformative Storytelling/Storyhearing or How Social Categories are Created
Rejections: American Ethnologist (July 06);
But it was really the letter of rejection, sent from from the journal Symbolic Interaction (which I regrettably cannot find), that completely buried for goosd this article. The rejection text was the worse I ever got, and was painful in particular because this paper was for me one of the theoretical conclusions or summits of my work on backpackers' performances.
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My mother, Tamar Yizraeli-Noy (1926-1997), was an archeologist and prehistorian. She was the curator of the huge Prehistory Hall and many temporary prehistorical exhibitions in the Israeli Museum in Jerusalem, from its inauguration (1965), until she retired, thirty tears later.
I've spent many childhood hours at the museum—my mother’s workplace—moving freely from the public exhibition halls (“upstairs”), to the offices, laboratories and guarded storage spaces (“downstairs”). These were the seventies. Later too, during the eighties, I had visited many times my mother’s office, reckoning how fortunate I was to have a mother working in the backscene of a large modern museum.
Only recently (September 08) it occurred to me that my mother’s work in the museum, that modern epitome of performance and exhibition, had a significant influence on my current fields of interest and on my pursuits, especially on situated performance approaches. This occurred to me as I looked and wrote back on my Ammunition Hill ethnography, which I realized was conducted in a museum setting.
I would like to dedicate this space to recollecting the memories of Tamar ("Tami," by her childhood friends), in terms of both what she has accomplished, and in terms of how her way shapes/shaped my way of working and thinking about similar issues. More broadly, and also more emotionally, dealing with prehistory essentially means dealing with that which has passed. Dealing with remains. And remains, contrary to common appreciation, are very heterogeneous, complex, dynamic, and even political things.
Tamar's last publication (published posthumously) is The Humen Figure in Prehistoric Art in the Land of Israel. Jerusalem: The Israeli Museum. (1999).
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For more than twenty years I've been practicing and teaching Aikido, which is a Japanese Self-Defense Art. I presently head the Aikido Club at the Lerner Center for Physical Education, Leisure and Health Promotion at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. I hold a YonDan degree (Forth Degree Black Belt), and teach four classes a week. My involvement is an educational and moral responsibility.
Selected publications in Aikido: DO-no-SHO (Lit. Book of the Way), or Open Dictionary (2ed. 2001)
For my club's (Dojo) website, please press Aikido Mt. Scopus
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Acknowledgment
Wholehearted thanks to Oren Shamir for his generous assistance in helping me imagine and construct this webpage. See Oren's Homepage
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