Dr. Michal Ohana
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 2020-June 2021: Visiting Fellow, The Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Sep 2019-Des 2019: Post-doc, INALCO- Institut National dse Langues et Civilisation Orientales, Paris
Sep 2018-Des 2018: Visiting Fellow, The Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Sep 2015-June 2016: Post-doc, Department of Jewish Philosophy Ben-Gurion of the Negev, Israel
Sep 2014- June 2015: Post-doc, "Da'at Hamakom": Center for the Study of Cultures of Place in the Modern Jewish World (I-CORE).
2. Education
2010-2014 Ph.D. Jewish History, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
2008-2010 M. A Jewish History, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
2003-2007 B.A Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
3. Publications
Book
- Studies in the Thought of R. Shaul Serero- A Chapter in the History of Jewish Thought in Fez, Ramat- Gan, Bar-Ilan Press, 2021.
Recent Journal Articles
- "A Modern Rabbinical Autobiography by R. Yeshuah Shimon Hayyim Ovadiah of Sefrou", Jewish Studies 58.2 (2024), 119- 147
- "Meshovah Niẓaḥat: Jewish-Christian Polemics in Kaf Naki by R. Khalifa Ben-Malka (1650?–¬¬175?) of Agadir", Jewish Social Studies 29.1 (2024), 32-58.
- "Between Aristotle, Rashbatz and Copernicus to AIU and Rabbah bar bar Hana- Studies in the Thought of R. Shmuel Tayeb (?- 1957)'', Zvi Zohar and Ronel Atiya (eds.), Rabbi Kalphon Moshe HaCohen and the Sages of Tunisia in the Modern Era, Tel Avie 2024, 15-39
- "'To Do the Will of His Creator, for Thereby Happiness Shall Be Attained’ – Halakhic Religiosity of Obedience and Servitude in Early Modern North African Jewish Communities", Jewish Thought 5 (2023), 96-112.
- "The Astrological worldview in the Sephardic North African diaspora Thought in the generation following the expulsion", Daat 91(2022), 255-282.
- "Raphael Moshe Elbaz's Kise ha-Melachim: Universal, Jewish and North-African History", Zion 87,2 (2022), 247-275.
- "Jewish Thought in Fes in the Generations Following the Spanish Expulsion: Characteristics, Style and Content", JQR 111.4 (2021), 605- 621.