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Prof. Jackie Feldman

Full Professor

ראש מחלקה-חבר/ת סגל אקדמי בכיר

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
72 - Cukier, Goldstein-Goren (Humanities & Social Sciences) Building Floor 3 Room 382, Marcus Campus
- Tuesday 14:00-15:30
08-647-2083

jfeldman@bgu.ac.il

About

Jackie Feldman is a full professor of anthropology, chairman of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and a long-time licensed tour guide. He holds the chair of the Esther and Sidney Rabb Center for Holocaust Studies. He has been a visiting faculty lecturer and researcher at UC Berkeley, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and CNRS, Aix-en-Provence, and the University of T?bingen. His research interests are pilgrimage and tourism, anthropology of religion, Holocaust memory, ethnographic writing, heritagization and comparative study of museums. In addition to numerous articles in scholarly journals, he has published two books: Above the Death-pits, beneath the Flag: Youth Voyages to Holocaust Poland and the Performance of Israeli National Identity (Berghahn, 2008), and A Jewish Guide in the Holy Land: How Christian Pilgrims Made Me Israeli (University of Indiana, 2016). His current research project, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft (DFG) is "From the Era of the Witness to Digital Remembrance: New Media, Holocaust Sites and Performative Memory".

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