Inhaltsbereich
Publications
Peer-Reviewed and public history Books/Publications
- 2021: Passing: An Alternative History of Identity, (Hurst publishers, London and Oxford University Press, New York, 2021). A spotlight publication at 2021 Jewish Book Week, London. The book navigates the history of identity performance, illustrated by stories of fluidity and transformation, encompassing race, religion (Jews passing as gentiles), gender, sexuality, class and representation. Interviewed by Monocle Reads, reviewed including in Publishers Weekly, BBC History Magazine, The Observer/Guardian, The Metro, Cosmopolitan UK, The Morning Star.
- 2019: Jerusalem on the Amstel: The Quest for Zion in the Dutch Republic (Hurst publishers, London and Oxford University Press, New York, 2019). A peer-reviewed public history book, it featured prominently at a sold out Jewish Book Week event in 2019 in London. It explores the history of Iberian New Christians or Conversos arriving in seventeenth century Amsterdam to become Jews. As well as documenting the birth of the Western Sephardim, the book reflects on the meaning of nationhood and emergence of personal identity. This is the first book that turns to today’s Dutch Portuguese Jews and addresses the theme of memory creation in the invention of identity and how it resonates in our time. I’ve been interviewed including by Dan Snow’s History Hit. Reviewed in Publishers Weekly, Foreward among other platforms.
- 2014: The Unlikely Settler (Other Press, New York, 2014). A memoir of my eight years living in Jerusalem, which looks at the personal political entanglement against the background of the Middle East conflict. Reviewed by including Publisher’s Weekly, Kirkus, The Daily Beast, Booklist; I was interviewed by the BBC among media organisations. An adapted section was published in the Sunday Review of The New York Times.
- 2021: Conversations Across Place (The Green Box, Berlin, 2021). My chapter in this anthology of essays is titled: The Landscape of Unbelonging, which addresses the theme of memory creation and its relevance in the formation of community.
