Dr. Ofer Idels
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Jenny Belzberg Fellow
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Ofer Idels is the author of Zionism: Emotions, Language, and Experience (Cambridge Press, 2024) and Embodying the Revolution: The Hebrew Experience and the Globalization of Modern Sports in Interwar Palestine (Rutgers Press, 2025). His research explores the methodological, theoretical, and historiographical intersections of emotions, experience, presence, and postcritique, examining their relevance in enriching the study of Israel, Hebrew culture, and modern Jewish history.
His articles and book reviews have been published in journals such as Humor, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Historia, The International History Review, Journal of Sport History, AJS Review, Zion, Zmanim, and Monatshefte.
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