Dr Angy Cohen
Positions
Postdoctoral Associate
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Contact information
Background
Biography
I am a researcher on contemporary Israeli society with a focus on the Sephardi/Mizrahi experience. My research deals with personal narratives and identity construction. My research interests include contemporary Sephardi culture and the specificities of Sephardi modernity.
I received my PhD in 2017 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Autonomous University of Madrid, in a Joint PhD program. My doctoral dissertation was a comparative ethnographic study of life stories among Spanish-Moroccan Jews that emigrated to Israel and Argentina. In the last two years, I have been working on personal narratives of Sephardi/Mizrahi women and the development of the so-called "traditionist feminism" in Israel.
I have held postdoctoral positions at the School of Cultural Studies of Tel Aviv University and the Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies at Concordia University (Montreal).
Research
Areas of Research
Contemporary Israeli society and intra-Jewish conflict
Feminist ethnography, epistemic collaborations
Non-western feminist initiatives, "traditionist feminism", religious feminism, Sephardi/Mizrahi feminism
Women in Jewish thought
Processes of modernization in the Sephardi world; colonialism.
Courses
| Course number | Course title | Semester |
|---|---|---|
| RELS 373.16 | Women and Judaism | Winter 2022 |
Projects
Sol Leshin Program for Collaboration between the Ben Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel/University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in Plant Sciences and Social Sciences &Humanities 2020
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.
Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness.
Awards
- Belzberg Postdoctoral Associate in Israel Studies, University of Calgary. 2020
- Postdoctoral Fellowship , Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies, Concordia University. 2019
- Dean's Distinction Postdoctoral Fellowship, Tel Aviv University. 2018
- Gaon Prize for projects about Judeo-Spanish culture and history. Category: PhD. , Moshe David Gaon Center of Judeo-Spanish Culture, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.. 2016
- Doctoral fellowship in Jewish Studies, Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe. 2014
- Doctoral grant, Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2021
Publications
- On Belonging and Other Dreams. The Ambiguous Positions of the Jews in «Spanish Morocco. Contemporary Jewry. 547–578. (2020)
- The rebellion of memories in The Immigrant's Lament by Moís Benarroch. Angy Cohen and Rotem Leshem. Lo Sguardo. 429-456. (2019)
- Hospitality, ethics of care and the traditionist feminism of Beit Midrash Arevot. An experiental essay. Approaching Religion. 92-109. (2020)
- Revisiting Morocco from Israel and Argentina. Contrasting narratives about the "trip back" among Jewish immigrants from northern Morocco. Angy Cohen and Aviad Moreno. Journal of Jewish Identities. 173-197. (2017)
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