Efrat
Yerday
Efrat Yerday
Research Topic
Ethiopian Jewish Women in Israel between 1968 and 1975
Bio
Efrat Yerday’s research focuses on Ethiopian Jews and Blackness in Israel. From 2023 to 2024, she was a teaching fellow at UMD and American University where she taught, among other things, “Blackness in Israeli Popular Culture and Contemporary Art.” Beyond academia, Yerday has served as chair of the Association of Ethiopian Jews for the last five years and has founded several initiatives and writing projects, including Ra’av (Hunger) Publishing House; the “Ethiopolitics” reading group; the research group “Ethiopian Jews Rewriting Their Story” at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. She wrote the blog, Shchora M’Shachor for HaMakom Hahi Kham Bagehinom, among other op-eds in Haaretz, Ynet, and Middle East Eye.
Yerday received her Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University.
Selected publications
- “To Be Black and Beautiful in Israel,” Anthropology of the Middle East 14.1 (2019): 70–86.
- The Monk and the Lion: Contemporary Ethiopian Visual Art in Israel, edited with T. Dekel, E. A. Wexler, and S. Keshnet (Achoti Press, 2017).
