Iris

Idelson-Shein

Tel Aviv University

Samuel T. Lachs Fellowship

Research Topic

Jews, Christians, and Others in Travel Literature of Haskalah

Bio

Iris Idelson-Shein teaches at Tel-Aviv University. She studies early modern and modern Jewish thought and has published on early modern perceptions of gender and ethnicity. During her stay at the Katz Center, Iris will investigate the ways in which notions of identity and alterity are expressed in the travel literature of the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment).

Fellowship

2011–2012

Travel Facts, Travel Fictions, and the Performance of Jewish Identity

Applying an interdisciplinary approach to the richness and diversity of travel writing.

2017–2018

Nature between Science and Religion: Jewish Culture and the Natural World

Posing new questions about the theories, institutions, and paradigms shaping the study of nature, and about the cultural and religious consequences that emerge from such study.