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Adjunct Lecturer in the Program for Folklore and Folk Culture Studies
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, Dr. Carmela Abder teaches the following topics: Field work in Israeli folk culture; The construction and presentation of identities in visual image in Muslim countries and in Israeli society. Her fields of interest include the body, costume and gender in Yemen and other Muslim countries; the family album – family images reflecting historical periods and constructing memory; Orientalist photography – Oriental Jews depicted; the image of the Jew in Yemen in Hebrew and Israeli culture – between deconstructing the personal-communal body and constructing the national body.
Her research addresses material and visual culture, focusing on the interfaces between: art and folklore; folk culture, traditional culture and popular culture.
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She teaches courses on the research of costume and textile; material and visual aspects of religion; memory and gender; comparative aspects of beliefs regarding purity and impurity, cleanliness and dirt.
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Hebrew Literature and in the Graduate Program in Folklore and Folk Culture Studies, His research interests include Jewish folk literature from late antiquity to the present, the marvelous in medieval and early modern Jewish narrative, and the links between folk literature and history.
Chair of the Graduate Program in Folklore and Folk Culture Studies; the Max and Margarethe Grunwald Professor of Folklore; Senior Research Fellow at the Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace.
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Her research addresses the following topics: Symbolical and ritual aspects of folk culture; the folklore of Israeli ethnic groups focusing on the folk culture of the Jews of Ethiopia; folklore in public and private arenas in contemporary Israel.