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Name: Tsafi Sebba-Elran December 2016
CURRICULUM VITAE
1. Personal Details
Permanent Home Address: 17 Avshalom St. Haifa.
Home Telephone Number: 972-4-811-2774
Office Telephone Number: 8177-828-4-972
Cellular Phone: 972-52-833-8833
Email Address: [email protected]
2. Higher Education
a. Undergraduate and Graduate Studies
Degree Name of Institution
and Department
Period of Study
B.A. Cum Laude University of Haifa
Hebrew and Comparative
Literature and Philosophy
2000-1997
M.A. Cum Laude Tel Aviv University
Hebrew Literature
1999-2002
Ph.D. Awarded with
distinction
Tel Aviv University
The Chaim Rosenberg School
of Jewish Studies
2003-2009
2
b. Post-Doctoral Studies
Name of Host Name of Institution and
Department/Lab
Period of Study
Prof. Haya Bar-Itzhak
University of Haifa
The Department of Hebrew
and Comparative Literature
2009-2010
Prof. Avigdor Shinan Yad Ben-Zvi Institute for the
research of Eretz Israel
2011-2012
Prof. Dov-Ber Kerler Indiana University
The Borns Jewish Studies
Program
2012-2013
3. Academic Ranks and Tenure in Institutes of Higher Education
Rank/Position Name of Institution and
Department
Years
Adjunct Lecturer University of Haifa
The Department of Hebrew
and Comparative Literature
2004-2012
Visiting Assistant
Professor
Indiana University
The Borns Jewish Studies
Program
2012-2013
Adjunct Lecturer University of Haifa
The Department of Hebrew
and Comparative Literature
2013-2014
Lecturer University of Haifa
The Department of Hebrew
and Comparative Literature
2014-
4. Offices in Academic Administration
Role Name of Institution and
Department
Years
Member of the steering
committee, The Self-
Evaluation Process for
the Council for Higher
Education
University of Haifa
The Department of Hebrew
and Comparative Literature
2011-2012
3
Supervisor, Preparatory
program for applicants
of the Department of
Hebrew and
Comparative Literature
University of Haifa
The Department of Hebrew
and Comparative Literature
2015
Supervisor, Research
Forum
University of Haifa
The Department of Hebrew
and Comparative Literature
2016
Academic adviser,
Research students’
conference
University of Haifa
The Department of Hebrew
and Comparative Literature
2016
5. Scholarly Positions and Activities outside the University
Memberships in Academic Professional Associations Years
Member of the World Union of Jewish Studies 2011-
Member of the Israeli Humor Society 2011-
Member of IFA (Israel Folktale Archives) 2014-
Member of SIEF (International Society for Ethnology and
Folklore)
2015-
Member of ISFNR (International Society for Folk
Narrative Research)
2015-
Editorial Assignments Years
Co-editor, Sadan – Studies in Hebrew Literature, Vol.
6, Tel Aviv University Press.
2007
Editor, Te’uda – Researches of the school for Jewish
studies; Vol. 27, Festschrift in honor of Prof. Eli Yassif
[in Hebrew] [forthcoming]
In progress
Editor, Festschrift in honor of Prof. Haya Bar-Itzhak
[in Hebrew] [forthcoming]
In progress
Reviewing for Academic Press and Refereed Journal Years
Referee for Academic Studies Press 2015
Referee for Dapim – Research in Literature 2015, 2016
Reviewing for Fund Agencies Years
None
Leading and Teaching Study Programs and Directing Public
Activities outside the University Years
A member of the national board of Dor Shalom
organization and the head of the northern branch of the
movement. Directing and guiding study meetings and
debating groups and conducting community projects.
1996-1999
4
Leader of the “Beit Midrash for Jewish leadership” at the
Lokey seminar center- a weekly program aimed to discuss
varied educational dilemmas in Israeli-Jewish contexts.
2002-2004
Forming and teaching at the study program of young
leaders (Gar’in Omanuiot, the arts communes) supported
by the New Israel Fund and The Kibbutz Institute for
Festivals and Holidays (Shitim).
2010-2011
Member of the steering committee of Avi Chai
foundation's Nitzanim program, aiming to conduct and
support Jewish cultural activities in Haifa.
2012
6. Active Participation in Scholarly Conferences
a1. International Conferences - Held Abroad
Role Subject of
Lecture/Discussion
Place of
Conference
Name of
Conference
Date
Presenter Inventing a pacifist
tradition- Rabban
Yohanan Ben-Zakai as
a Zionist leader
Academy of
Athens
The 15th
congress of the
International
Society for Folk
Narrative
Research
(ISFNR):
Narratives
across space
and time,
transmissions
and adaptations
June 2009
Presenter 'The jokes that were
never published' – A
new collection of
sexual Jewish jokes
from the beginning of
the 20th century
The College
of William
and Mary,
Williamsburg,
Virginia
The 25th
International
Conference of
the Society for
Humor Studies
July 2013
Presenter From ancient
fragments to modern
maps: Heritage
representations and
inner tensions in
national Jewish
anthologies
University of
Zagreb,
Croatia
The 12th
International
SIEF
(International
Society for
Ethnology and
Folklore)
Congress:
Utopias,
Realities,
Heritages
June 2015
5
Presenter
and
participant
in a study
group
In search for new
memories – The
national Jewish
anthology at the turn of
the 19th and 20th
centuries
Mansfield
College,
Oxford,
United
Kingdom
International
conference of
the Inter-
Disciplinary.
Net: Roots and
Legacies
September
2016
Presenter The struggle over
‘locality’ in Israeli
Humoristic Memes
from the 2014 military
conflict in Gaza
Miami,
Florida
AFS (American
Folklore
Society) and
ISFNR
(International
Society for Folk
Narrative
Research) joint
annual meeting:
Unfinished
stories
October
2016
a2. International Conferences - Held in Israel
Role Subject of Lecture
/Discussion
Place of
Conference
Name of
Conference
Date
Presenter Solomon and Ashmeday or
‘King of horrors’- The
aggadic anthologies and
their place in the
configuration of Judaism as
culture
The Hebrew
University
of
Jerusalem
The 14th world
congress of
Jewish Studies
August
2005
Presenter The rabbinic legend of the
sages and the secular
halacha of H.N. Bialik
The Hebrew
University
of
Jerusalem
The 15th world
congress of
Jewish Studies
August
2009
Presenter Ha-teda behema nefesh
zadika? R. Yossi of Yokeret
in the modern anthologies
Bar Ilan
University
and Lander
Institute
International
Conference on
aggadah and
aggadic
interpretation
throughout the
generations
January
2010
Presenter 'Why Was the Land
Destroyed’? Zionism from
the Perspective of Sefer
ha’agaddah
The Hebrew
University
of
Jerusalem
The 16th world
congress of
Jewish Studies
August
2013
6
Presenter 'Ana Heruta' – A Rabbinic
legend and the portrait of
local Judaism
Tel Aviv
University
The 7th Israeli
Conference for
Contemporary
Religion and
Spirituality
May
2015
a3. Local Conferences
Role Subject of
Lecture/Discussion
Place of
Conference
Name of
Conference
Date
Presenter ‘The Queen and the Fish’
– Reading a sea story
University
of Haifa
IFA (Israel
Folktale
Archive)
Annual meeting
June 2006
Presenter Under the test of
evolution: The aggadic
anthologies at the
beginning of the modern
Hebrew culture
Ben-Gurion
University
of the
Negev
The 25th Inter-
University
Conference for
the Study of
Folklore
June 2006
Presenter A girl in each port?
Seamen tell about their
loves
Achva
college
The 2nd Folklore
conference of
Achva college
May 2007
Presenter Sefer ha’aggadah and
the transition of the
rabbinic tale to modern
times
The
Hebrew
University
of
Jerusalem
The 27th Inter-
University
Conference for
the Study of
Folklore
May 2008
Presenter From ‘The power of the
tale’ to the power of
interpretation
University
of Haifa
The 28th Inter-
University
Conference for
the Study of
Folklore
May 2009
Presenter The body and soul of
Safed legends
Achva
college
The 6nd Folklore
conference of
Achva college
May 2011
Presenter Margolis' Sippurei
yeshurun and the quiet
revolution of modern
aggadic anthologies
Tel Aviv
University
The 31th Inter-
University
Conference for
the Study of
Folklore
January
2012
Presenter The invention of 'Jewish
Realism'- The national
anthologies and their
contribution to the
formation of renewable
Jewish language
The Van
Leer
Jerusalem
Institute
Research
Seminar on
Secularization,
the Critique of
Secularization
and Tradition
September
2013
7
Presenter The 'holy' and the
'profane' in Alter
Druyanow's Sefer
Habediha vehahiddud
Bar Ilan
University
The 34th Inter-
University
Conference for
the Study of
Folklore
May 2015
Presenter Waza – The missing
overview in the jokes of
Zuk Eitan military
operation
Kibbutzim
College of
Education,
Technology
and the
Arts
The 2nd
Interdisciplinary
Conference for
Humor Studies
February
2016
b. Organization of Conferences or Sessions
Role Subject of
Conference
Place of
Conference
Name of
Conference
Year
Steering and
organizing
committee
member
Ha-kol Sipur?
[Every voice can be
a story?]
Tel Aviv
University
-Inter thThe 21
University
Conference for the
Study of Folklore
2002
Steering and
organizing
committee
member
East and West Tel Aviv
University
-Inter th26The
University
Conference for the
Study of Folklore
2007
Steering and
organizing
committee
member
Authors as Culture
Heroes
University of
Haifa
The Inter-
University
Conference for
Hebrew
Literature
2007
Steering and
organizing
committee
member
60 Years of Israeli
Literature
University of
Haifa
The Inter-
University
Conference for
Hebrew Literature
2008
Steering and
organizing
committee
member
Folklore and
Ideology
University of
Haifa
-Inter th28The
University
Conference for the
Study of Folklore
2009
Steering and
organizing
committee
member
Text and Context University of
Haifa
-Inter th33The
University
Conference for the
Study of Folklore
2014
Organizer H.N. Bialik and Y.C.
Ravnitzky’s Sefer
ha’aggadah is reread
University of
Haifa
Study session in
honor of Avigdor
Shinan’s new
edition of Sefer
ha’aggadah
2016
8
7. Invited Lectures (Others than in Scholarly Conferences)
Role Subject of Lecture Place of
Lecture
Name of
Forum
Year
Presenter Reflections of the sea
in literature
Technion,
Faculty of
Architecture
and Town
Planning
Faculty project:
Planning a
museum by the
sea
March
2002
Presenter The aggadic
anthologies and the
secularisation process
in the Hebrew culture
The Daniel
centre for
progressive
Judaism, Tel
Aviv
Jewish culture
in a changing
world
(dedicated to
the publication
of ‘New Jewish
Time – An
Encyclopaedic
View’)
March
2009
Presenter The aggadic
anthologies and the
the cultural challenge
of modern Judaism
Kibbutz
Ha’ogen
The annual
prize in
memory of Efra
Goren- award
ceremony
September
2009
Presenter Revelation and
concealment in the
rabbinic legend of
H.N. Bialik
Bialik house,
Tel Aviv
The mermaid
meets the
goldfish – an
evening of fairy
tales in Bialik
house
November
2009
Presenter Inventing a pacifist
tradition – R. Yohanan
Ben-Zakai and the
Zionism
The officer
school of the
Israel Defence
Force (Bahad 1)
Posen fund
series of
lectures on
contemporary
Jewish culture
April
2010
Presenter Old scriptures, new
heroes
Leo-Baeck
education
centre, Haifa
The annual
meeting of the
literature circle
April
2010
Presenter Variation on
improvisation - The
drasha as a new song
in Roni Shweka
‘Essays on Israeli
Rock Songs’
University of
Haifa
The Opening
meeting of
Mahshava
Tehila - The
Beit Midrash
study program
January
2012
Presenter H.N. Bialik and the
myth of ‘national poet’
University of
Haifa
The Ministry of
education
conference for
literature
teachers
April
2012
9
Presenter 'Rome' and 'Greece' in
the rabbinic legend for
children
Beit Avi-Chai,
Jerusalem
Beit Avi-Chai
series of
lectures
July 2014
Presenter 'Complete the story' or
accept the part,
thoughts on Shani
Boianjiu's novel: 'The
People of Forever Are
Not Afraid'
University of
Haifa
Bimat Sefer,
The public
stage of The
Department of
Hebrew and
Comparative
Literature
December
2014
Presenter Z. Jawitz's Sihot Mini
Kedem and the late
return to the Jewish
bookcase at the turn of
the 19th and 20th
centuries.
Ben-Gurion
University of
the Negev
Book Launch:
Beyond
Halacha-
Secularism,
Traditionalism
and 'New Age'
Culture in
Israel
December
2014
8. Colloquium Talks
Presentation
Place of Lecture Name of
Forum
Year
The personal narrative as a door to
the Seaman’s world The Hebrew
University of
Jerusalem
Departmental
Seminar, The
department of
Hebrew
literature,
Yiddish and
folklore
November
2009
H.N. Bialik in front of the Jewish
bookcase
Tel-Aviv
University
The origins of
Judaism as a
culture, the
Ofakim study
program
January
2009
Ben-Gurion
Research Institute
for the Study of
Israel and
Zionism
Bimat Sde-
Boker-
Research
Seminar on the
perceptions of
Diaspora in the
Jewish and
Israeli
discourse
October
2010
From Sefer ha’aggadah to the
Jewish Bookcase:
The Aggadic Anthology and the
Configuration of Judaism in
Modern Hebrew Culture
Indiana
University
Jewish Studies
Workshop
February
2013
10
The emergence (and concealment)
of the Jewish joke in Alter
Druyanow's Sefer habediha
vehahiddud (The Book of Jokes
and the Witticisms)
The University of
Chicago
Jewish Studies
Workshop
May 2013
9. Research Grants
a. Grants Awarded
Years Amount Funded by (C= Competitive
Fund)
Title Other Researchers (Name & Role)
Role in
Research
2016-
2019
600,000
NIS
C, ISF
(Israel
Science
Foundation)
*The Israel
Folktale
Archives:
Sites of
Memory,
Competing
Narratives
Prof. D. Stein, PI
(University of
Haifa), Dr. H.
Weiss, PI (Ben-
Gurion University),
Dr. D. Schrire, PI
(Hebrew
University)
PI
b. Submission of Research Proposals – Pending
None
Not Funded –Submission of Research Proposals c. None
10. Scholarships, Awards and Prizes
2008-2005 , Posen Foundation, doctoral fellowship (USD 15,000 x 3).
2009, University of Haifa, post doctorate fellowship (NIS 61,700).
2009, The Kibbutz Institute for Festivals and Holidays, The annual prize for excellent
works on the renewal of Jewish culture in memory of Efra Goren (NIS 1000).
2011-2012, Yad Ben-Zvi Institute for the research of Eretz Israel, post doctorate
Fellowship (NIS 50,000).
2012-2013, University of Haifa, Research scholarship for postdoctoral studies abroad
(USD 3000)
2015, Posen Foundation, Grant for book publication (NIS 14,000).
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11. Teaching
a. Courses Taught in Recent Years
Number of
Students
Level
Type of Course Lecture/Seminar/
Workshop/ Online Course/
Introduction Course
(Mandatory)
Name of
Course
Years
2016-2017: 40 B.A. Lecture Sea Stories 2010-2011
2016-2017 25 B.A. Lecture The Jewish
Legend –
Origins,
Definitions and
Functions
2009-2010
2011-2012: 25 B.A. Lecture Writers as
storytellers –
Bialik,
Berdyczewski,
Agnon
2009-2010
2011-2012
12 M.A. Seminar H.N. Bialik –
From Sefer
ha’aggadah to
the Jewish
Bookcase
2010-2011
2016-2017: 13 B.A. Seminar Folklore and
Ideology
2011-2012
2016-2017
12 B.A. Lecture (Indiana
University, The
Borns Jewish Studies
Program)
The Jewish
Folktale – Its
Evolution,
Poetics and
Roles
2013
2016-2017: 32 B.A. Required course Introduction to
Modern Hebrew
Literature
2013-2017
2015: 42 B.A. Required course Introduction to
Folk Literature
2014-2017
30 B.A. Lecture The Hebrew
Folktale in the
Middle Ages
2014
60 B.A. Required course Introduction to
Prose Genres
2015
12 B.A. Lecture The Power of a
Tale – The Arab
Folktale in
Israel
2015
12
10 M.A. Seminar Between
Canonic
Literature and
Popular
Literature
2016
b. Supervision of Graduate Students
Students'
Achievements
Year of
Completion/
In Progress
Degree Title of Thesis Name of
Other
Mentors
Name of
Student /
M.A.
Students
In Progress M.A. Personal
Narratives on
reincarnations
among young
Druze
Faten Bisan
Ph.D.
Students None Post
Doctorate
Students None
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PUBLICATIONS
A. Ph.D. Dissertation
Title: 'From Sefer ha-aggadah (The Book of Legends) to the Jewish bookcase (Aron
hasefarim hayehudi): The aggadic anthologies and their place in the configuration of
Judaism in modern Hebrew culture'. Awarded with distinction.
Date of submission: January 2009
Number of pages: 490
Language: Hebrew
Name of supervisor: Prof. Eli Yassif
University: Tel Aviv University
Publications: A revised and elaborated version of the dissertation was published as a
book [see, B1]
B. Scientific Books (Refereed)
Authored Books - Published
Authored Books - Accepted for Publication
1. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, In Search for New Memories - The national anthologies
and their place in the configuration of the Modern Hebrew Canon.
Forthcoming in Yad Ben-Zvi's research center (308 pages). [Hebrew]
Edited Books and Special Journal Issues – Published
1. Tsafi Sebba-Elran (Co-editor, with Eli Yassif, Limor Weissman, David
Rotman), Sadan – Studies in Hebrew Literature, Tel Aviv University Press,
Vol. 6 (2007). [Hebrew]
Edited Books and Special Journal Issues - Accepted for Publication
2. Tsafi Sebba-Elran (with Tova Rosen, Nili Aryeh-Sapir, David Rotman), Tehuda
– Researches of the school for Jewish studies – Festschrift in honor of Prof. Eli
Yassif, Vol. 27, Forthcoming. [Hebrew]
3. Tsafi Sebba-Elran (with Haya Milou and Idit Pintel-Ginsberg), Masoret haya –
32 Stories and Studies Dedicated to Prof. Haya Bar-Itzhak, The Israel Folktale
Archives and Pardes Publishing, Forthcoming. [Hebrew]
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Textbooks
4. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, The Revival of Hebrew National Poetry: Ahad Ha'am, H.N.
Bialik and S. Tshernichowsky, Unit 4 in Adia Mendelson- Maoz (ed.), A History
of Modern Hebrew Literature, Raanana: The Open University 2015 (pilot
edition); final edition is forthcoming. [Hebrew]
D. Articles in Refereed Journals
Published
1. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘The Personal Narrative: From Memorate to
Fabulate’, Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Folklore, The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, Vol. 22 (2002): 69-98. [Hebrew]. V.
2. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘ ”Like a Tree Planted on Sea Wave”: The
Personal Narrative as a Door to the Seaman’s World’, Sadan- Studies
in Hebrew Literature, Tel-Aviv University Press, Vol. 6 (2007): 81-
112. [Hebrew].
3. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘ “Solomon and Ashmeday” or “King of Horrors”
– A Modern Adaptation of a Rabbinic Story in Ze’ev Jawitz Sihot Mini
Kedem”, Iggud- Selected Essays in Jewish Studies, World Union of
Jewish Studies, Vol. 3 – Languages, Literatures, Arts (2008): 167-176.
[Hebrew].
4. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘From Sefer Ha'aggadah to the Jewish Bookcase-
Dynamics of a Cultural Change’, Jewish Studies Quarterly, Vol. 20
No. 3 (September 2013): 272-295.
5. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘Honi the Circle Maker and the 2000 Years of
Sleep - Ze’ev Jawitz Sihot Mini Kedem and the Beginning of Cultural
Affinity to the Jewish Bookcase’, Iyunim Bitkumat Israel (Studies in
Israeli and modern Jewish society), Ben-Gurion University of the
Negev, Vol. 7 (2014): 5-34. [Hebrew]. V.
6. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘The Canonization and Censorship of the Modern
Jewish Joke in Alter Druyanow's “Book of Jokes and Witticisms”
(1922)’, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Volume 16, Issue 1 (2017):
118-137. V. SJR (2014) = 0.158, SJR (Average 2013-2015) = 0.124;
R=255/717 (Q2): Cultural Studies.
6.a. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘ “What is on top, what is below”? Sefer ha-
Bediha ve-ha-Hiddud of A. Druyanow and the “archiving-work”
beside it’, Mikan (an international board reviewed periodical), Ben-
Gurion University of the Negev, Forthcoming. [Hebrew]. V. [This article
is based on item 6, with one extra chapter and a few adaptations and new references].
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Accepted for Publication
7. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘Contemporary Israeli Midrash and the
Construction of a dialogic intragroup discourse’, Jewish Cultural
Studies, Vol. 6, Forthcoming.
7.a. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘ “Ana Heruta” – A Rabbinic legend and
the portrait of local Judaism’, Shdemot Veruah: A Tribute to
Avraham Shapira, Avihu Zakai, Paul Mendes-Flohr and Zeev
Gries (eds.), Jerusalem: Carmel Publishing House 2015, pp. 270-
284. [Hebrew] [This chapter is a version of item 7, with an elaborated
discussion about the Hazalic story, and without the political discussion at the
end].
8. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘Sippurei yeshurun by I. Margolis and the
Midrash of Judaism as Culture’, Tehuda – Researches of the school
for Jewish studies in honor of Prof. Eli Yassif, Vol. 27, Tel-Aviv
University, Forthcoming. [Hebrew].
9. Tsafi Sebba-Elran [with Haya Milou], ‘The struggle over locality in
Israeli humoristic memes from the 2014 military conflict in Gaza’,
Narrative Culture, Wayne State University Press, Forthcoming.
E. Articles or Chapters in Scientific Books (Refereed)
Published
1. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘The Queen and the Fish’, The Power of a Tale- The
Jubilee Book of IFA, Haya Bar-Itzhak and Idit Pintel-Ginsberg (eds.),
Haifa: Israel Folktale Archive (IFA) and the University of Haifa 2008, pp.
375-381. [Hebrew]
1.a. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘The Queen and the Fish’, The Power of a Tale-
The Jubilee Book of IFA, Haya Bar-Itzhak and Idit Pintel-Ginsberg (eds.),
Wayne State University Press, Forthcoming.
2. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘Sefer Ha-Aggada – The Aggadic Anthology in Light
of H.N. Bialik Cultural Vision’, Ma’aseh Sippur- Studies in Jewish
Narrative, Vol. 3 in the Tema series, Avidov Lipsker and Rella
Kushelevsky (eds.), Ramat-Gan: Bar Ilan University Press 2013, pp. 85-
113. [Hebrew]
Accepted for Publication
3. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘In Search for New Memories - The national Jewish
anthology at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries’, Roots and Legacies
[e-Book publication], Oxford, UK: Inter-Disciplinary Press, Forthcoming.
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3.a. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘Ha-teda Behema Nefesh Zadika? R. Yossi of
Yokeret in the Modern Anthologies’, Folklore and Ideology- Studies
dedicated to Prof. Aliza Shenhar, Haya Bar-Itzhak and Idit Pintel-
Ginsberg (eds.), Haifa: Pardes and The University of Haifa Press 2014,
pp.133-163. [Hebrew]
4. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, “The Intertextual Jewish Joke at the Turn of the
Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Between the sacred and the
profane”, Laughter – A collection of articles in humor studies, Arie Sover
(ed.), Jerusalem: Carmel Publishing House, Forthcoming. [Hebrew]
F. Articles in Conference Proceedings
Published
1. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘Inventing a Pacifist Tradition: Rabban Yohanan ben
Zakkai as a Zionist Leader’, Narrative across space and time:
Transmissions and Adaptations (proceedings of the 15th congress of the
International Society for Folk Narrative Research), Vol. 3, Athens:
Publications of The Hellenic Folklore Research Centre, Academy of
Athens - 31, 2014, pp. 195-204.
G. Entries in Encyclopedias (Refereed)
1. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘Sea’, ‘Seamen Tales and Traditions’, Encyclopedia
of Jewish Folklore and Traditions, Raphael Patai (Founding ed.) and Haya
Bar-Itzhak (ed.), New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2013, pp. 475-477.
2. Tsafi Sebba-Elran (with Raphael Patai), ‘Adam’, Encyclopedia of Jewish
Folklore and Traditions, Raphael Patai (Founding ed.) and Haya Bar-
Itzhak (ed.), New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2013, pp. 5-8.
3. Tsafi Sebba-Elran (with Raphael Patai), ‘Age and The Aged’,
Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions, Raphael Patai (Founding
ed.) and Haya Bar-Itzhak (ed.), New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2013, pp. 18-20.
4. Tsafi Sebba-Elran (with Raphael Patai), ‘Angels’, Encyclopedia of
Jewish Folklore and Traditions, Raphael Patai (Founding ed.) and Haya
Bar-Itzhak (ed.), New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2013, pp. 31-34.
5. Tsafi Sebba-Elran (with Raphael Patai),’Ba’al Shem Tov (Besht)’,
Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions, Raphael Patai (Founding
ed.) and Haya Bar-Itzhak (ed.), New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2013, pp. 57-60.
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H. Other Scientific Publications
Published
1. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘Reflections of the Sea in Literature’, Perspective-
Journal for Architecture, Vol. 13 (June 2002):12-16. [Hebrew]
2. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘Sefer ha’aggada- continuity or revolution?’ Panim-
Journal for Culture, Society and Education, Vol. 55 (2011): 84-93. [Hebrew]
Accepted for Publication
3. Tsafi Sebba-Elran (annotator) in Elliott Oring (editor), Very First Book of
Jewish Jokes: A Prolegomena to a history of Jewish Humor, Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, Forthcoming.
I. Other Works and Publications
1. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘”Ze lecha hasade beyom bahir vepne oref el ha’ir
ha’afela”- On R. Ze’ev Jawitz’, Ha’aretz, tarbut vesifrut (10.2.2006): 1.
[Hebrew]
2. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘Ometz Lehulin - How Bialik, Alterman and Amichai
Saved the Spiritual Life of the Jewish People – “The Order of Rebels: Studies
in Modern Hebrew Literature” by Boaz Arpaly’, Ha’aretz, Sefarim magazine
(21.4.2010): 12. [Hebrew]
3. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘ “Rome” and “Greece” in the rabbinic legend for
children’, Beit Avi-Chai internet magazine (July 2014). [Hebrew]
In Preparation
“Last telegrams” – Humor and Politics in the humoristic periodicals of the Yishuv in
Palestine