Launch Evening for the Double Issue of the Journal “Zion” 93 (A–B) on the Theme of Emotions

The launch evening took place on Tuesday, 31 December 2024, at Tel Aviv University.

Greetings

Prof. Rachel Gali Tzineman, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University

Prof. Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni, Head of the School of History, Tel Aviv University

Prof. Yuval Rotman, Head of the School of Jewish Studies and Archaeology, Tel Aviv University

Prof. Jonathan Price, Co-Editor of the journal Zion, Tel Aviv University

Speakers

Dr. Avital Davidovich-Eshed, Tel Aviv University
“‘Order in the Act of Betrothal’: Sex, Gender, and Emotions in Medieval Ashkenaz”

Dr. Maya Shabbat, Bar-Ilan University
“Between Berlin and Charlottenburg: Intellectual Topography and Emotional Community”

Dr. Galia Hasharoni, University of Haifa
“‘In the Heart Piercing the Light’: Loneliness in Historical Perspective – The Case of Eliezer Shochet”

Prof. Dorit Yerushalmi, University of Haifa
Emotional Organizational Culture in the ‘Ohel’ – The Workers’ Theater in Mandatory Palestine

Prof. Hatzky Shoham, Bar-Ilan University
“‘It Is Difficult in This Country to Deal with Sentimentality’: Emotion and Sentimentalism in the Yishuv during the Mandate Period”

Closing Remarks

Dr. Emma Zohar, Tel Aviv University and Bar-Ilan University
Prof. Orit Rozin, Tel Aviv University