Sara Yael Hirschhorn
Visiting Assistant Professor of Israel Studies at Northwestern University
Personal details
OccupationScholar, historian,[1][2] author

Sara Yael Hirschhorn is currently the Visiting assistant professor of Israel Studies at Northwestern University. She was formerly the University Research Lecturer and Sidney Brichto Fellow in Israel and Hebrew Studies at the University of Oxford, historian and author.[3] In May 2017, Harvard University Press published her first book City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement. She began fieldwork for the book in 2008.[4]

She is a contributor at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change,[5] as well as news publications such as The New York Times,[6] Haaretz, The Times of Israel and Jewish Chronicle.[7] She is considered an expert on Diaspora-Israel relations, the Arab-Israeli Conflict, and Israeli domestic politics, including Israel's ultra-nationalist movement.[8]

Education

Hirschhorn holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Yale University, as well as both a Master of Arts degree in Middle Eastern Studies and a PhD in History from the University of Chicago.

Career

In 2017, her research was published by The Atlantic, reporting that 60,000 out of 400,000[9] (roughly 15 percent) of settlers on Israel's West Bank are American.[10]

In 2018, she became the visiting assistant professor of Israel Studies at Northwestern University's Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies.[11]

In 2019, Haaretz covered her research into American Jews' role in the US settler movement,[12] including her analysis of Baruch Goldstein.[1] Hirschhorn has mainly focused her research on Diaspora-Israel relations.[13]

Hirschhorn is currently working on a new book project on Zionism, Identity Politics, and Jewish Power Since 1967.

Apart from her academic work, she is also frequent public speaker, media commentator, and foreign policy consultant.

Awards

In 2018, Hirschhorn was awarded silver medal (Choice Award) as runner-up to Ilana Kurshan in the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, winning an $18,000 prize for City on a Hilltop.[14]

Selected publications

  • City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement. Harvard University Press, 2017. ISBN 978-0674975057[15]

References

  1. 1 2 Michele Chabin (2019-09-04). "American ideals draw these U.S. citizens to settle in Israel's West Bank". USA Today.
  2. ↑ "We Asked 9 Historians: What Would Theodor Herzl Say About The Israel Of Today?". The Forward. 2019-08-27.
  3. ↑ "Do American Jews Really Care About - Or Understand - Israel's Elections?". The Forward. 2019-09-17.
  4. ↑ Amanda Borschel-Dan (2019-05-24). "How to square a circle: When liberal American Jews become Israeli settlers". The Times of Israel.
  5. ↑ "Sara Yael Hirschhorn". Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.
  6. ↑ "Israeli Terrorists, Born in the U.S.A." New York Times. 2019-09-04.
  7. ↑ "How Netanyahu's win deepened the grief of liberal American Jews". Jewish Chronicle. 2019-04-17.
  8. ↑ Luke Baker (2015-12-07). "Amid Palestinian violence, Israel tracks far-right Jewish threat". Reuters.
  9. ↑ Alex Kane (2016-10-27). "Republicans in Jerusalem rally for Donald Trump". Al Jazeera News.
  10. ↑ Emma Green (2019-05-22). "Israeli Settlers Weren't Always So Religious—They Were Once Secular Hippies". The Atlantic.
  11. ↑ Airel Sobel (2019-02-14). "Nobody knows what Zionism means anymore. Two historians help explain why". Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
  12. ↑ Judy Malz (2019-04-03). "In 'Occupied Scarsdale,' There's Only One Question: Is Far-right Right Enough?". Haaretz.
  13. ↑ John Reed (2019-06-01). "The Six Day War: Israel looks back to 1967". Financial Times.
  14. ↑ "Ilana Kurshan wins $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature". jta.org. June 5, 2018.
  15. ↑ "Exclusive Excerpt 'City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement'". Haaretz. 2019-06-03.
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