Curriculum Vitae

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Name: Tsafi Sebba-Elran December 2016

CURRICULUM VITAE

1. Personal Details

Permanent Home Address: 17 Avshalom St. Haifa.

Home Telephone Number: 972-4-811-2774

Office Telephone Number: 972-4-828-8177

Cellular Phone: 972-52-833-8833

Email Address: [email protected]

2. Higher Education

a. Undergraduate and Graduate Studies

Period of Study Name of Institution Degree and Department 1997-2000 University of Haifa B.A. Cum Laude Hebrew and Comparative Literature and Philosophy

1999-2002 Tel Aviv University M.A. Cum Laude Hebrew Literature

2003-2009 Tel Aviv University Ph.D. Awarded with The Chaim Rosenberg School distinction of Jewish Studies

b. Post-Doctoral Studies

Period of Study Name of Institution and Name of Host Department/Lab 2009-2010 University of Haifa Prof. Haya Bar-Itzhak The Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature

2011-2012 Yad Ben-Zvi Institute for the Prof. Avigdor Shinan research of Eretz Israel

2012-2013 Indiana University Prof. Dov-Ber Kerler The Borns Jewish Studies Program

3. Academic Ranks and Tenure in Institutes of Higher Education

Years Name of Institution and Rank/Position Department 2004-2012 University of Haifa Adjunct Lecturer The Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature 2012-2013 Indiana University Visiting Assistant The Borns Jewish Studies Professor Program 2013-2014 University of Haifa Adjunct Lecturer The Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature 2014- University of Haifa Lecturer The Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature

4. Offices in Academic Administration

Years Name of Institution and Role Department 2011-2012 University of Haifa Member of the steering The Department of Hebrew committee, The Self- and Comparative Literature Evaluation Process for the Council for Higher Education 2

2015 University of Haifa Supervisor, Preparatory The Department of Hebrew program for applicants and Comparative Literature of the Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature 2016 University of Haifa Supervisor, Research The Department of Hebrew Forum and Comparative Literature 2016 University of Haifa Academic adviser, The Department of Hebrew Research students’ and Comparative Literature conference

5. Scholarly Positions and Activities outside the University

Years Memberships in Academic Professional Associations 2011- Member of the World Union of Jewish Studies 2011- Member of the Israeli Humor Society 2014- Member of IFA (Israel Folktale Archives) 2015- Member of SIEF (International Society for Ethnology and Folklore) 2015- Member of ISFNR (International Society for Folk Narrative Research)

Years Editorial Assignments 2007 Co-editor, Sadan – Studies in Hebrew Literature, Vol. 6, Tel Aviv University Press. In progress Editor, Te’uda – Researches of the school for Jewish studies; Vol. 27, Festschrift in honor of Prof. Eli Yassif [in Hebrew] [forthcoming] In progress Editor, Festschrift in honor of Prof. Haya Bar-Itzhak [in Hebrew] [forthcoming]

Years Reviewing for Academic Press and Refereed Journal 2015 Referee for Academic Studies Press 2015, 2016 Referee for Dapim – Research in Literature

Years Reviewing for Fund Agencies None

Years Leading and Teaching Study Programs and Directing Public Activities outside the University 1996-1999 A member of the national board of Dor Shalom organization and the head of the northern branch of the movement. Directing and guiding study meetings and debating groups and conducting community projects.

2002-2004 Leader of the “Beit Midrash for Jewish leadership” at the Lokey seminar center- a weekly program aimed to discuss varied educational dilemmas in Israeli-Jewish contexts. 2010-2011 Forming and teaching at the study program of young leaders (Gar’in Omanuiot, the arts communes) supported by the New Israel Fund and The Kibbutz Institute for Festivals and Holidays (Shitim). 2012 Member of the steering committee of Avi Chai foundation's Nitzanim program, aiming to conduct and support Jewish cultural activities in Haifa.

6. Active Participation in Scholarly Conferences

a1. International Conferences - Held Abroad

Date Name of Place of Subject of Role Conference Conference Lecture/Discussion June 2009 The 15th Academy of Inventing a pacifist Presenter congress of the Athens tradition- Rabban International Yohanan Ben-Zakai as Society for Folk a Zionist leader Narrative Research (ISFNR): Narratives across space and time, transmissions and adaptations July 2013 The 25th The College 'The jokes that were Presenter International of William never published' – A Conference of and Mary, new collection of the Society for Williamsburg, sexual Jewish jokes Humor Studies Virginia from the beginning of the 20th century June 2015 The 12th University of From ancient Presenter International Zagreb, fragments to modern SIEF Croatia maps: Heritage (International representations and Society for inner tensions in Ethnology and national Jewish Folklore) anthologies Congress: Utopias, Realities, Heritages

September International Mansfield In search for new Presenter 2016 conference of College, memories – The and the Inter- Oxford, national Jewish participant Disciplinary. United anthology at the turn of in a study Net: Roots and Kingdom the 19th and 20th group Legacies centuries October AFS (American Miami, The struggle over Presenter 2016 Folklore Florida ‘locality’ in Israeli Society) and Humoristic Memes ISFNR from the 2014 military (International conflict in Gaza Society for Folk Narrative Research) joint annual meeting: Unfinished stories

a2. International Conferences - Held in Israel

Date Name of Place of Subject of Lecture Role Conference Conference /Discussion August The 14th world The Hebrew Solomon and Ashmeday or Presenter 2005 congress of University ‘King of horrors’- The Jewish Studies of aggadic anthologies and Jerusalem their place in the configuration of Judaism as culture August The 15th world The Hebrew The rabbinic legend of the Presenter 2009 congress of University sages and the secular Jewish Studies of halacha of H.N. Bialik Jerusalem January International Bar Ilan Ha-teda behema nefesh Presenter 2010 Conference on University zadika? R. Yossi of Yokeret aggadah and and Lander in the modern anthologies aggadic Institute interpretation throughout the generations

August The 16th world The Hebrew 'Why Was the Land Presenter 2013 congress of University Destroyed’? Zionism from Jewish Studies of the Perspective of Sefer Jerusalem ha’agaddah

May The 7th Israeli Tel Aviv 'Ana Heruta' – A Rabbinic Presenter 2015 Conference for University legend and the portrait of Contemporary local Judaism Religion and Spirituality

a3. Local Conferences

Date Name of Place of Subject of Role Conference Conference Lecture/Discussion June 2006 IFA (Israel University ‘The Queen and the Fish’ Presenter Folktale of Haifa – Reading a sea story Archive) Annual meeting

June 2006 The 25th Inter- Ben-Gurion Under the test of Presenter University University evolution: The aggadic Conference for of the anthologies at the the Study of Negev beginning of the modern Folklore Hebrew culture May 2007 The 2nd Folklore Achva A girl in each port? Presenter conference of college Seamen tell about their Achva college loves May 2008 The 27th Inter- The Sefer ha’aggadah and Presenter University Hebrew the transition of the Conference for University rabbinic tale to modern the Study of of times Folklore Jerusalem May 2009 The 28th Inter- University From ‘The power of the Presenter University of Haifa tale’ to the power of Conference for interpretation the Study of Folklore May 2011 The 6nd Folklore Achva The body and soul of Presenter conference of college Safed legends Achva college January The 31th Inter- Tel Aviv Margolis' Sippurei Presenter 2012 University University yeshurun and the quiet Conference for revolution of modern the Study of aggadic anthologies Folklore September Research The Van The invention of 'Jewish Presenter 2013 Seminar on Leer Realism'- The national Secularization, Jerusalem anthologies and their the Critique of Institute contribution to the Secularization formation of renewable and Tradition Jewish language

May 2015 The 34th Inter- Bar Ilan The 'holy' and the Presenter University University 'profane' in Alter Conference for Druyanow's Sefer the Study of Habediha vehahiddud Folklore February The 2nd Kibbutzim Waza – The missing Presenter 2016 Interdisciplinary College of overview in the jokes of Conference for Education, Zuk Eitan military Humor Studies Technology operation and the Arts

b. Organization of Conferences or Sessions

Year Name of Place of Subject of Role Conference Conference Conference

2002 The 21th Inter- Tel Aviv Ha-kol Sipur? Steering and University University [Every voice can be organizing Conference for the a story?] committee Study of Folklore member 2007 The 26th Inter- Tel Aviv East and West Steering and University University organizing Conference for the committee Study of Folklore member 2007 The Inter- University of Authors as Culture Steering and University Haifa Heroes organizing Conference for committee Hebrew member Literature 2008 The Inter- University of 60 Years of Israeli Steering and University Haifa Literature organizing Conference for committee Hebrew Literature member 2009 The 28th Inter- University of Folklore and Steering and University Haifa Ideology organizing Conference for the committee Study of Folklore member 2014 The 33th Inter- University of Text and Context Steering and University Haifa organizing Conference for the committee Study of Folklore member 2016 Study session in University of H.N. Bialik and Y.C. Organizer honor of Avigdor Haifa Ravnitzky’s Sefer Shinan’s new ha’aggadah is reread edition of Sefer ha’aggadah

7. Invited Lectures (Others than in Scholarly Conferences)

Year Name of Place of Subject of Lecture Role Forum Lecture March Faculty project: Technion, Reflections of the sea Presenter 2002 Planning a Faculty of in literature museum by the Architecture sea and Town Planning March Jewish culture The Daniel The aggadic Presenter 2009 in a changing centre for anthologies and the world progressive secularisation process (dedicated to Judaism, Tel in the Hebrew culture the publication Aviv of ‘New Jewish Time – An Encyclopaedic View’) September The annual Kibbutz The aggadic Presenter 2009 prize in Ha’ogen anthologies and the memory of Efra the cultural challenge Goren- award of modern Judaism ceremony November The mermaid Bialik house, Revelation and Presenter 2009 meets the Tel Aviv concealment in the goldfish – an rabbinic legend of evening of fairy H.N. Bialik tales in Bialik house April Posen fund The officer Inventing a pacifist Presenter 2010 series of school of the tradition – R. Yohanan lectures on Israel Defence Ben-Zakai and the contemporary Force (Bahad 1) Zionism Jewish culture April The annual Leo-Baeck Old scriptures, new Presenter 2010 meeting of the education heroes literature circle centre, Haifa January The Opening University of Variation on Presenter 2012 meeting of Haifa improvisation - The Mahshava drasha as a new song Tehila - The in Roni Shweka Beit Midrash ‘Essays on Israeli study program Rock Songs’ April The Ministry of University of H.N. Bialik and the Presenter 2012 education Haifa myth of ‘national poet’ conference for literature teachers

July 2014 Beit Avi-Chai Beit Avi-Chai, 'Rome' and 'Greece' in Presenter series of Jerusalem the rabbinic legend for lectures children December Bimat Sefer, University of 'Complete the story' or Presenter 2014 The public Haifa accept the part, stage of The thoughts on Shani Department of Boianjiu's novel: 'The Hebrew and People of Forever Are Comparative Not Afraid' Literature December Book Launch: Ben-Gurion Z. Jawitz's Sihot Mini Presenter 2014 Beyond University of Kedem and the late Halacha- the Negev return to the Jewish Secularism, bookcase at the turn of Traditionalism the 19th and 20th and 'New Age' centuries. Culture in Israel

8. Colloquium Talks

Year Name of Place of Lecture Presentation Forum November Departmental The Hebrew The personal narrative as a door to 2009 Seminar, The University of the Seaman’s world department of Jerusalem Hebrew literature, Yiddish and folklore January The origins of Tel-Aviv H.N. Bialik in front of the Jewish 2009 Judaism as a University bookcase culture, the Ofakim study program October Bimat Sde- Ben-Gurion 2010 Boker- Research Institute Research for the Study of Seminar on the Israel and perceptions of Zionism Diaspora in the Jewish and Israeli discourse February Jewish Studies Indiana From Sefer ha’aggadah to the 2013 Workshop University Jewish Bookcase: The Aggadic Anthology and the Configuration of Judaism in Modern Hebrew Culture

May 2013 Jewish Studies The University of The emergence (and concealment) Workshop Chicago of the Jewish joke in Alter Druyanow's Sefer habediha vehahiddud (The Book of Jokes and the Witticisms)

9. Research Grants

a. Grants Awarded

Role in Other Researchers Title Funded by Amount Years Research (Name & Role) (C= Competitive Fund) PI Prof. D. Stein, PI *The Israel C, ISF 600,000 2016- (University of Folktale (Israel NIS 2019 Haifa), Dr. H. Archives: Science Weiss, PI (Ben- Sites of Foundation) Gurion University), Memory, Dr. D. Schrire, PI Competing (Hebrew Narratives University)

b. Submission of Research Proposals – Pending None

c. Submission of Research Proposals – Not Funded None

10. Scholarships, Awards and Prizes

2005-2008, Posen Foundation, doctoral fellowship (USD 15,000 x 3). 2009, University of Haifa, post doctorate fellowship (NIS 61,700). 2009, The Kibbutz Institute for Festivals and Holidays, The annual prize for excellent works on the renewal of Jewish culture in memory of Efra Goren (NIS 1000). 2011-2012, Yad Ben-Zvi Institute for the research of Eretz Israel, post doctorate Fellowship (NIS 50,000). 2012-2013, University of Haifa, Research scholarship for postdoctoral studies abroad (USD 3000) 2015, Posen Foundation, Grant for book publication (NIS 14,000).

11. Teaching

a. Courses Taught in Recent Years

Years Name of Type of Course Level Number of Course Lecture/Seminar/ Students Workshop/ Online Course/ Introduction Course (Mandatory) 2010-2011 Sea Stories Lecture B.A. 2016-2017: 40 2016-2017 2009-2010 The Jewish Lecture B.A. 25 Legend – Origins, Definitions and Functions 2009-2010 Writers as Lecture B.A. 2011-2012: 25 2011-2012 storytellers – Bialik, Berdyczewski, Agnon 2010-2011 H.N. Bialik – Seminar M.A. 12 From Sefer ha’aggadah to the Jewish Bookcase 2011-2012 Folklore and Seminar B.A. 2016-2017: 13 2016-2017 Ideology 2013 The Jewish Lecture (Indiana B.A. 12 Folktale – Its University, The Evolution, Borns Jewish Studies Poetics and Program) Roles 2013-2017 Introduction to Required course B.A. 2016-2017: 32 Modern Hebrew Literature 2014-2017 Introduction to Required course B.A. 2015: 42 Folk Literature 2014 The Hebrew Lecture B.A. 30 Folktale in the Middle Ages 2015 Introduction to Required course B.A. 60 Prose Genres 2015 The Power of a Lecture B.A. 12 Tale – The Arab Folktale in Israel

2016 Between Seminar M.A. 10 Canonic Literature and Popular Literature

b. Supervision of Graduate Students

Name of Name of Title of Thesis Degree Year of Students' Student / Other Completion/ Achievements Mentors In Progress M.A. Students

Faten Bisan Personal M.A. In Progress Narratives on reincarnations among young Druze Ph.D. Students None Post Doctorate Students None

PUBLICATIONS

A. Ph.D. Dissertation

Title: 'From Sefer ha-aggadah (The Book of Legends) to the Jewish bookcase (Aron hasefarim hayehudi): The aggadic anthologies and their place in the configuration of Judaism in modern Hebrew culture'. Awarded with distinction. Date of submission: January 2009 Number of pages: 490 Language: Hebrew Name of supervisor: Prof. Eli Yassif University: Tel Aviv University Publications: A revised and elaborated version of the dissertation was published as a book [see, B1]

B. Scientific Books (Refereed)

Authored Books - Published

Authored Books - Accepted for Publication

1. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, In Search for New Memories - The national anthologies and their place in the configuration of the Modern Hebrew Canon. Forthcoming in Yad Ben-Zvi's research center (308 pages). [Hebrew]

Edited Books and Special Journal Issues – Published

1. Tsafi Sebba-Elran (Co-editor, with Eli Yassif, Limor Weissman, David Rotman), Sadan – Studies in Hebrew Literature, Tel Aviv University Press, Vol. 6 (2007). [Hebrew]

Edited Books and Special Journal Issues - Accepted for Publication

2. Tsafi Sebba-Elran (with Tova Rosen, Nili Aryeh-Sapir, David Rotman), Tehuda – Researches of the school for Jewish studies – Festschrift in honor of Prof. Eli Yassif, Vol. 27, Forthcoming. [Hebrew]

3. Tsafi Sebba-Elran (with Haya Milou and Idit Pintel-Ginsberg), Masoret haya – 32 Stories and Studies Dedicated to Prof. Haya Bar-Itzhak, The Israel Folktale Archives and Pardes Publishing, Forthcoming. [Hebrew]

Textbooks

4. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, The Revival of Hebrew National Poetry: Ahad Ha'am, H.N. Bialik and S. Tshernichowsky, Unit 4 in Adia Mendelson- Maoz (ed.), A History of Modern Hebrew Literature, Raanana: The Open University 2015 (pilot edition); final edition is forthcoming. [Hebrew]

D. Articles in Refereed Journals

Published

1. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘The Personal Narrative: From Memorate to Fabulate’, Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Folklore, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Vol. 22 (2002): 69-98. [Hebrew]. V.

2. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘ ”Like a Tree Planted on Sea Wave”: The Personal Narrative as a Door to the Seaman’s World’, Sadan- Studies in Hebrew Literature, Tel-Aviv University Press, Vol. 6 (2007): 81- 112. [Hebrew].

3. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘ “Solomon and Ashmeday” or “King of Horrors” – A Modern Adaptation of a Rabbinic Story in Ze’ev Jawitz Sihot Mini Kedem”, Iggud- Selected Essays in Jewish Studies, World Union of Jewish Studies, Vol. 3 – Languages, Literatures, Arts (2008): 167-176. [Hebrew].

4. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘From Sefer Ha'aggadah to the Jewish Bookcase- Dynamics of a Cultural Change’, Jewish Studies Quarterly, Vol. 20 No. 3 (September 2013): 272-295.

5. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘Honi the Circle Maker and the 2000 Years of Sleep - Ze’ev Jawitz Sihot Mini Kedem and the Beginning of Cultural Affinity to the Jewish Bookcase’, Iyunim Bitkumat Israel (Studies in Israeli and modern Jewish society), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Vol. 7 (2014): 5-34. [Hebrew]. V.

6. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘The Canonization and Censorship of the Modern Jewish Joke in Alter Druyanow's “Book of Jokes and Witticisms” (1922)’, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Volume 16, Issue 1 (2017): 118-137. V. SJR (2014) = 0.158, SJR (Average 2013-2015) = 0.124; R=255/717 (Q2): Cultural Studies. 6.a. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘ “What is on top, what is below”? Sefer ha- Bediha ve-ha-Hiddud of A. Druyanow and the “archiving-work” beside it’, Mikan (an international board reviewed periodical), Ben- Gurion University of the Negev, Forthcoming. [Hebrew]. V. [This article is based on item 6, with one extra chapter and a few adaptations and new references].

Accepted for Publication

7. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘Contemporary Israeli Midrash and the Construction of a dialogic intragroup discourse’, Jewish Cultural Studies, Vol. 6, Forthcoming.

7.a. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘ “Ana Heruta” – A Rabbinic legend and the portrait of local Judaism’, Shdemot Veruah: A Tribute to Avraham Shapira, Avihu Zakai, Paul Mendes-Flohr and Zeev Gries (eds.), Jerusalem: Carmel Publishing House 2015, pp. 270- 284. [Hebrew] [This chapter is a version of item 7, with an elaborated discussion about the Hazalic story, and without the political discussion at the end].

8. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘Sippurei yeshurun by I. Margolis and the Midrash of Judaism as Culture’, Tehuda – Researches of the school for Jewish studies in honor of Prof. Eli Yassif, Vol. 27, Tel-Aviv University, Forthcoming. [Hebrew].

9. Tsafi Sebba-Elran [with Haya Milou], ‘The struggle over locality in Israeli humoristic memes from the 2014 military conflict in Gaza’, Narrative Culture, Wayne State University Press, Forthcoming.

E. Articles or Chapters in Scientific Books (Refereed)

Published

1. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘The Queen and the Fish’, The Power of a Tale- The Jubilee Book of IFA, Haya Bar-Itzhak and Idit Pintel-Ginsberg (eds.), Haifa: Israel Folktale Archive (IFA) and the University of Haifa 2008, pp. 375-381. [Hebrew]

1.a. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘The Queen and the Fish’, The Power of a Tale- The Jubilee Book of IFA, Haya Bar-Itzhak and Idit Pintel-Ginsberg (eds.), Wayne State University Press, Forthcoming.

2. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘Sefer Ha-Aggada – The Aggadic Anthology in Light of H.N. Bialik Cultural Vision’, Ma’aseh Sippur- Studies in Jewish Narrative, Vol. 3 in the Tema series, Avidov Lipsker and Rella Kushelevsky (eds.), Ramat-Gan: Bar Ilan University Press 2013, pp. 85- 113. [Hebrew]

Accepted for Publication

3. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘In Search for New Memories - The national Jewish anthology at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries’, Roots and Legacies [e-Book publication], Oxford, UK: Inter-Disciplinary Press, Forthcoming. 15

3.a. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘Ha-teda Behema Nefesh Zadika? R. Yossi of Yokeret in the Modern Anthologies’, Folklore and Ideology- Studies dedicated to Prof. Aliza Shenhar, Haya Bar-Itzhak and Idit Pintel- Ginsberg (eds.), Haifa: Pardes and The University of Haifa Press 2014, pp.133-163. [Hebrew]

4. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, “The Intertextual Jewish Joke at the Turn of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Between the sacred and the profane”, Laughter – A collection of articles in humor studies, Arie Sover (ed.), Jerusalem: Carmel Publishing House, Forthcoming. [Hebrew]

F. Articles in Conference Proceedings

Published

1. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘Inventing a Pacifist Tradition: Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai as a Zionist Leader’, Narrative across space and time: Transmissions and Adaptations (proceedings of the 15th congress of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research), Vol. 3, Athens: Publications of The Hellenic Folklore Research Centre, Academy of Athens - 31, 2014, pp. 195-204.

G. Entries in Encyclopedias (Refereed)

1. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘Sea’, ‘Seamen Tales and Traditions’, Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions, Raphael Patai (Founding ed.) and Haya Bar-Itzhak (ed.), New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2013, pp. 475-477.

2. Tsafi Sebba-Elran (with Raphael Patai), ‘Adam’, Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions, Raphael Patai (Founding ed.) and Haya Bar- Itzhak (ed.), New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2013, pp. 5-8.

3. Tsafi Sebba-Elran (with Raphael Patai), ‘Age and The Aged’, Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions, Raphael Patai (Founding ed.) and Haya Bar-Itzhak (ed.), New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2013, pp. 18-20.

4. Tsafi Sebba-Elran (with Raphael Patai), ‘Angels’, Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions, Raphael Patai (Founding ed.) and Haya Bar-Itzhak (ed.), New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2013, pp. 31-34.

5. Tsafi Sebba-Elran (with Raphael Patai),’Ba’al Shem Tov (Besht)’, Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions, Raphael Patai (Founding ed.) and Haya Bar-Itzhak (ed.), New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2013, pp. 57-60.

H. Other Scientific Publications

Published

1. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘Reflections of the Sea in Literature’, Perspective- Journal for Architecture, Vol. 13 (June 2002):12-16. [Hebrew]

2. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘Sefer ha’aggada- continuity or revolution?’ Panim- Journal for Culture, Society and Education, Vol. 55 (2011): 84-93. [Hebrew]

Accepted for Publication

3. Tsafi Sebba-Elran (annotator) in Elliott Oring (editor), Very First Book of Jewish Jokes: A Prolegomena to a history of Jewish Humor, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, Forthcoming.

I. Other Works and Publications

1. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘”Ze lecha hasade beyom bahir vepne oref el ha’ir ha’afela”- On R. Ze’ev Jawitz’, Ha’aretz, tarbut vesifrut (10.2.2006): 1. [Hebrew]

2. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘Ometz Lehulin - How Bialik, Alterman and Amichai Saved the Spiritual Life of the Jewish People – “The Order of Rebels: Studies in Modern Hebrew Literature” by Boaz Arpaly’, Ha’aretz, Sefarim magazine (21.4.2010): 12. [Hebrew]

3. Tsafi Sebba-Elran, ‘ “Rome” and “Greece” in the rabbinic legend for children’, Beit Avi-Chai internet magazine (July 2014). [Hebrew]

In Preparation “Last telegrams” – Humor and Politics in the humoristic periodicals of the Yishuv in Palestine