Asher Salah

Asher Salah

Asher Salah (born in 1967 in Florence, Italy) is an Israeli historian. He is one of the leading specialists in Italian Hebrew literature and a translator of Hebrew literature. He has written extensively in cinema studies and contemporary Middle East politics working as a columnist for different Italian newspapers.

Education and teaching

He went to school in Spain, Argentina and Italy before entering the University of Geneva where he graduated in political philosophy. He received his Ph.D. in Paris with a thesis on Italian Jewish Literature in the 18th century. He immigrated to Israel in 1991. He teaches at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem since 1998. In addition he has been a lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1998 to 2005. He is a member of the ASSEI (Israeli Historical Association of Italian Jewish Studies), of the AISG (Associazione Italiana per lo Studio del Giudaismo) and of the AIS (Association of Israel Studies). He has been the president of the Swiss Union of Jewish Students (UEJS) from 1988 to 1990, MP of the European Union of Jewish Students, researcher for the Israel Democracy Institute, from 1997 to 1999 and he is presentely vice-president of the Dante Alighieri Society in Jerusalem.

Awards

1991: Nahum Goldmann Fellowship, Moscow

1997: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)

2002: Zanea et Cobilovici Fellowship, Casip-Cojasor, Paris

2005: First prize for the best short story, international competition “Energheia”, Matera

Publications

1) Books:

*"La République des Lettres : Rabbins, médecins et écrivains juifs en Italie au XVIIIè", Brill, Leyden/Boston, 2007 (in French)

*"Viaggi, percorsi e stravaganze di un illuminista ebreo italiano": il caso di Samuele Romanelli, prefazione a Samuele Romanelli, "Visioni d’Oriente", Asher Salah (ed.), La Giuntina, Firenze, 2006 (in Italian).

*"La storia dell’altro: israeliani e palestinesi", Asher Salah, Barbara Bertoncin (Eds.), Pierre Vidal-Naquet (preface), Forlì, Una Città, 2003 (in Italian).

*"La bandiera nera: testimonianze e interviste da Israele sulla nuova sinistra", Asher Salah, Barbara Bertoncin, Francesco Papafava (Eds.), Forlì, Una Città, 2002 (in Italian).

*"Bibliografia ebraico-sicula", Istituto Internazionale di Studi Ebraici, Enna, 2002 (in Italian).

*"Historia veAtarim Yehudim beItalia (History and Places in Jewish Italy)", Machon Zalman Shazar, Jerusalem, 2002 (in Hebrew).

*"Israele Palestina, culture di frontiera", numero monografico delle Nuove Effemeridi 53, Asher Salah (ed.), 2001 (in Italian).

2) Selected articles (newspapers excluded):

*A Contextual Analysis of the Jewish Italian Elegy”, in Medieval Hebrew Poetry, A. Guetta & M. Itzhaki (eds.), Brill, Leiden/Boston, 2008, pp. 117-238.

*“Le sable dans le cinéma de Uri Zohar”, in Yod, Tel Aviv cent’ans d’architecture, d’art et d’écriture, Masha Itzhaki (ed.), 13 (2008), pp. 301-313 (in French).

*"Maschere Giudaiche: gli ebrei al cinema italiano", in Italia Ebraica: "oltre duemila anni di incontro tra la cultura italiana e l’ebraismo", Allemandi, Torino, 2007, pp. 221-235.

*"La Ketubbah come fonte per la conoscenza del rabbinato italiano nel Settecento", in "Mahberet Oshri", 2007, pp. 3-8 (in Italian and Hebrew).

*"Bein Ghevule Ashkenaz VeItalia": Elia Morpurgo nel contesto delle riforme scolastiche nelle Unite Contee di Gradisca e Gorizia tra Sette e Ottocento", in "Cultura ebraica nel Goriziano" (a cura di Marco Grusovin), Istituto di Storia Sociale e Religiosa, Gorizia, 2007, pp. 101-123.

*"Ktiva Pratit Ukhtiva Tzibburit: Hibburim SheNikhtevu BeItalia BeIqvot Praot 1799", in "Qanoni Upopulari (Canonical and Popular: Literary Dialogues)", Yael Shapira, Omri Herzog, Tamar Hess (eds.), Resling, Tel Aviv, 2007, pp. 99- 108, 227-231.

*"Les Lumières: le siècle d’or de l’imprimerie en Italie", in "Cahiers du Judaïsme", A. Grinberg (ed.), 22 (2007), pp. 114-124.

*"Un manuale per le scuole israeliane e palestinesi", in "La storia dell’altro: israeliani e palestinesi. Seminario della fondazione Querini e Stampalia del 24 marzo 2004", Venezia, 2006, pp. 21-28.

*"La filosofia israeliana di fronte alla guerra", in "Conflitti", a cura di Alessandro Alienzo e Dario Caruso, Libreria Dante e Descartes, Napoli, 2005, pp. 465-484.

*"Qu'est-ce qu'une catastrophe pour un poète juif? L'élégie dans la poèsie hébraïque italienne a l'âge des ghettos (XVI-XVIII siècles)", in "Babel, Elégies", 12 (2005), pp. 51-77.

*"Y-a t’il eu un roman juif? Roman et romanesque dans la littérature hébraïque du XVI au XVIIIème siècle", in "Babel, Rhétoriques Méditerranéennes, J.-E. Bernard ed.", N° 7 (2003), pp. 95-120.

*"Pace, dialogo, tolleranza: le parole sono importanti", in "Gli argomenti Umani, sinistra e innovazione", Giugno, N° 6 (2003), pp. 56-59.

*"Guerra o pace? Per chi facciamo il tifo", in "Keshet, rivista dell’ebraismo laico", Anno II, Settembre-Ottobre, N° 1-2 (2003), pp. 21-24.

*"Stranieri in patria: l’invisibile frontiera nel cinema israeliano e palestinese della seconda intifada", in "Catalogo della 53a edizione della mostra internazionale del cortometraggio", Montecatini, 2002, pp. 112-121.

*"L’archeologia del futuro: paradigmi della nuova storia israeliana", in "Le nuove femeridi", N. 53 (2001), pp. 6-21.

*"Livorno: Elia Benamozegh", in "La Rassegna Mensile di Israel", Settembre-Dicembre, N° 3 (2000), pp. 113-124.

*"Israel Knohl’s The Masiach before Jesus", in "La Rassegna Mensile d’Israel", Maggio-Agosto, Vol. LXVI, N° 2 (2000).

*"Tre prospettive su Gerusalemme: Marcello Piacentini, Chris Marker, Paul Celan", in Arts "and Artists in Israel and Palestine, Palazzo delle Papesse", Siena, 2000, pp. 20-26; 135-137.

See also

* http://www.brill.nl/product_id26645.htm

* http://www.giuntina.it/dettautori.asp?AutoreId=302

* http://www.energheia.org/dblog/storico.asp?s=&m=&pagina=5&ordinamento=desc

External links

* http://www.keshet.it/rivista/sett-ott-03/pag4.htm

* http://www.verifiche.ch/index.cfm?scheda=251

* http://www.unacitta.it/pagineinternazionalismo/letteraboicottaggioAsher.html

* http://assei.bravehost.com/recensioni.html


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