Michal
Kravel-Tovi
Tel Aviv University
Roberta and Stanley Bogen Visiting Scholar
Bio
Michal Kravel-Tovi is an associate professor of cultural anthropology at Tel Aviv University. Her work lies at the intersection of political ethnography, the anthropology of religion, and Jewish studies, with a particular focus on the collective construction of crisis. This focus spans her research and publications on messianism in Chabad, state-run religious bureaucracy, the “continuity crisis” among American Jews, sexual violence in Haredi communities, Haredi activism, and acts of public shaming amid Israel’s ongoing political crisis.
Kravel-Tovi received her Ph.D. from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Selected publications
- When the State Winks: The Performance of Jewish Conversion in Israel (Columbia University Press, 2017)
- Taking Stock: Cultures of Enumeration in Contemporary Jewish Life (Indiana University Press, 2016)
