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The Unexplored History of Ashkenazi Integration in Late Ottoman Palestine (2024)
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Wallach, Y. (2024). The Unexplored History of Ashkenazi Integration in Late Ottoman Palestine. Jewish social studies, 29(1), 161-192. https://doi.org/10.2979/jss.00006

To what extent did Ashkenazi Jews integrate and acculturate into the local society, culture, and politics of late Ottoman Palestine? This question has been almost entirely ignored by the voluminous scholarship on the migration of Jews from central an... Read More about The Unexplored History of Ashkenazi Integration in Late Ottoman Palestine.

Unsilencing Palestine 1922–1923: hundred years after thebeginning of the British Mandate – the Frank Scholtenphotographic collection revisited (2023)
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Sanchez Summerer, K., Zananiri, S., Wallach, Y., & Tamari, S. (2024). Unsilencing Palestine 1922–1923: hundred years after thebeginning of the British Mandate – the Frank Scholtenphotographic collection revisited. Contemporary Levant, 9(1), 16-32. https://doi.org/10.1080/20581831.2023.2281853

This piece presents an interview conducted by Karène Sanchez Summerer and Sary Zananiri with Salim Tamari and Yair Wallach about the Frank Scholten photographic collection (now available with Creative Commons access), discussing the archive's signifi... Read More about Unsilencing Palestine 1922–1923: hundred years after thebeginning of the British Mandate – the Frank Scholtenphotographic collection revisited.

Review of: Toda’at Mishna, Toda’at Mikra: Tzfat ve-ha-tarbut ha-Tzionit [Mishna consciousness, biblical consciousness: Safed and Zionist culture] by Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Makhon Van Leer and Ha-Kibbutz Ha-Meuhad, (2023)
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Wallach, Y. (2023). Review of: Toda’at Mishna, Toda’at Mikra: Tzfat ve-ha-tarbut ha-Tzionit [Mishna consciousness, biblical consciousness: Safed and Zionist culture] by Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Makhon Van Leer and Ha-Kibbutz Ha-Meuhad,. Journal of Israeli History, 41(2), 335-338. https://doi.org/10.1080/13531042.2024.2360263

Tourist, Pilgrim, Migrant, Settler: Rethinking the Modern History of Ashkenazim in the Levant Through Sites of Hospitality (2023)
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Wallach, Y. (2023). Tourist, Pilgrim, Migrant, Settler: Rethinking the Modern History of Ashkenazim in the Levant Through Sites of Hospitality. Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies, 10(2), 68-94. https://doi.org/10.24847/v10i22023.362

This article looks at Ashkenazi-operated hotels in Tiberias, Beirut, Jerusalem, Jaffa, Cairo, Alexandria, and elsewhere, in the late Ottoman period and under British rule, to consider the confusing ambiguities that these stories reveal. Ashkenazi pre... Read More about Tourist, Pilgrim, Migrant, Settler: Rethinking the Modern History of Ashkenazim in the Levant Through Sites of Hospitality.

De l’inscription rituelle au texte séditieux : les graffitis hébraïques du mur des Lamentations, de l’Antiquité au 20e siècle (2023)
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Wallach, Y. (2023). De l’inscription rituelle au texte séditieux : les graffitis hébraïques du mur des Lamentations, de l’Antiquité au 20e siècle. Vingtième siècle, revue d'histoire, 2022/4(156), 85-101

For centuries, Jewish pilgrims to Jerusalem wrote their names on the stones of the Western Wall as part of their devotional practice. This custom was abruptly outlawed by British colonial authorities in 1930, after the Western Wall became the epicent... Read More about De l’inscription rituelle au texte séditieux : les graffitis hébraïques du mur des Lamentations, de l’Antiquité au 20e siècle.

The racial logic of Palestine's partition (2022)
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Wallach, Y. (2023). The racial logic of Palestine's partition. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 46(8), 1576-1598. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2022.2151845

The partition of Palestine was first proposed more than eight decades ago. It remains a consensus international approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Why was Palestine the only settler-colonial context outside Europe in which partition became... Read More about The racial logic of Palestine's partition.

The Unbuilt Parliament: British Colonial Plans for a Legislative Assembly in Jerusalem (2022)
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Wallach, Y., & Cirujano, J. (2022). The Unbuilt Parliament: British Colonial Plans for a Legislative Assembly in Jerusalem. Jerusalem quarterly file, 92, 69-101

The deliberations over the establishment of a legislative assembly in Mandatory Palestine have long been dismissed by the historiography as one of many failed ideas of the Mandate. Yet the legislative assembly was not a mere concept thrown around in... Read More about The Unbuilt Parliament: British Colonial Plans for a Legislative Assembly in Jerusalem.

How to fight antisemitism? Lessons from the Russian Revolution (2021)
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Wallach, Y. (2022). How to fight antisemitism? Lessons from the Russian Revolution. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 45(8), 1520-1527. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2021.1954221

Brendan McGeever’s book on Antisemitism in the Russian Revolution provides an analysis of Soviet response to “Red Antisemitism” – the involvement of some Bolsheviks in the pogroms of the Civil War. McGeever’s analysis provides insights that are relev... Read More about How to fight antisemitism? Lessons from the Russian Revolution.

رايات موسم النبي موسى: سجل اختفاء (2016)
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Wallach, Y. (2016). رايات موسم النبي موسى: سجل اختفاء. Maǧallaẗ al-dirāsāt al-filasṭīniyyaẗ, 27(105),

يعالج يائير فالاخ في مقالته هذه، مسألة رايات موسم النبي موسى واختفائها، كجزء من دراسة للمشهد النصِّيّ العربي والعبري في القدس خلال الفترة 1858 1948 ، والاعتبارات التي دفعت سلطات الانتداب البريطاني إلى صناعة المشهد الفلسطيني عبر الكتابة والنصوص، كآلية... Read More about رايات موسم النبي موسى: سجل اختفاء.

Creating a country through currency and stamps: state symbols and nation-building in British-ruled Palestine (2011)
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Wallach, Y. (2011). Creating a country through currency and stamps: state symbols and nation-building in British-ruled Palestine. Nations and Nationalism, 17(1), 129-147. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8129.2010.00470.x

Recent studies have examined the use of currency and stamps for nation-building in various contexts, with these artefacts seen as vehicles for indoc- trination and gaining legitimacy by ruling elites – as a form of ‘‘banal nationalism’’. This article... Read More about Creating a country through currency and stamps: state symbols and nation-building in British-ruled Palestine.

Trapped in mirror-images: The rhetoric of maps in Israel/Palestine (2011)
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Wallach, Y. (2011). Trapped in mirror-images: The rhetoric of maps in Israel/Palestine. Political Geography, 30(7), 358 - 369. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2011.07.004

The map of Israel/Palestine has long been used by both Israelis and Palestinians, from their unequal power positions, as a celebrated national symbol. It is virtually the same map, depicting a sliver-shaped land between River Jordan and the Mediterra... Read More about Trapped in mirror-images: The rhetoric of maps in Israel/Palestine.