Dr. Tamir Karkason
1. University Affiliations
Mar 2022-Mar 2026: Postdoctoral Fellow, BMBF project “Beyond Conflict and Coexistence: An Intertwined History of Jewish-Arab Relations,” Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Sep-Dec 2022: Visiting Scholar, Research Group: “Jews and Modern Legal Cultures,” Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Oct 2019-Sep 2022: Teaching Fellow, Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
June 2019-Sep 2021: Postdoctoral Fellow, ERC project “Jewish Translation and Cultural Transfer in Early Modern Europe,” Department of Jewish History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Dec 2018-June 2019: Olamot Center Visiting Fellow, Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program, Indiana University, Bloomington
2. Education
2014-2019: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, PhD, Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry. Rotenstreich Fellow at Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (PhD Honors Program)
2011-2013: Tel Aviv University, MA, History of the Jewish People (summa cum laude)
2005-2010: The Open University of Israel, BA, Humanities and Social Sciences (summa cum laude)
3. Publications
Books
- Home and Away: The Ottoman Jewish Enlightenment in the Nineteenth Century, The Ben-Zvi Institute Press, 2024 (Hebrew; in press)
- In The Vineyard of Enlightenment: Barukh Mitrani’s Sermon Carmi (My Vineyard, 1881), A Critical Edition with an Introduction, The “Dorot Library,” The Bialik Institute Press, 2024 (Hebrew; in press)
Journal Articles (selection)
- “A Transnational Millet in the Jewish State: A Judeo-Spanish Diaspora between Israel and Turkey, 1948-1958,” Nations and Nationalism, 29, no. 3 (2023): 1093-1111 (co-authored with Aviad Moreno)
- “Maskilic Families in the Ottoman Empire,” Journal of Jewish Studies, 74, no. 2 (2023): 429-454
- “18 ve 19. Yüzyıllarda Ladino Edebiyatı” [Ladino Literature in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries], translated from Turkish by Siren Bora, Kebikeç: İnsan Bilimleri İçin Kaynak Araştırmaları Dergisi, 56 (2023): 189-222
- “The Language of Truth: The Śefat Emet Association (Salonica 1890) and Its Taqqanot (Bylaws),” The Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion, 2 (2023): 322-352
- “Between Two Poles: Barukh Mitrani between Moderate Haskalah and Jewish Nationalism,” Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture, 18 (2021): 108-118
- “The Buffer Zone: Ottoman Maskilim and their Austro-Hungarian Counterparts – A Case Study,” Quest: Issues in Contemporary Jewish History, 17 (2020): 146-179