Hanan Harif Hanan Harif teaches at the Rothberg International

Hanan Harif Hanan Harif teaches at the Rothberg International School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania (2015), a Warburg Fellow at the Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2014), and a George Mosse Fellow at the University of Wisconsin in Madison (2012). Hanan studies the wide range of attitudes of Jewish intellectuals, scholars, and writers toward the Orient during the 19th and 20th century as well as the role and impact of approaches to the Orient in Jewish nationalism and modern Jewish identity. Currently, Hanan’s research is focused on Shlomo Dov Goitein. Selected Publications Asiatische Brüder, Europäische Fremde: Eugen Hoeflich und der ‘Panasiatische Zionismus’ in Wien”, in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft, no. 7‐8 (2012), pp. 646‐660. [English version: Asiatic Brothers, European Strangers: Eugen Hoeflich and ‘Pan‐Asian Zionism’ in Vienna, in: E. Mendelsohn, R. Cohen and S. Hoffman (eds.): Against the Grain: Jewish Intellectuals in Hard Times. New York 2013.] Pan‐Asianist Zionism – between orientalist aesthetics and Transnationalism (in Hebrew), in: Chidushim: Studies in the History of German and Central European Jewry, 15 (2011), pp.77‐96.

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