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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: 8177-828-4-972

Cellular Phone: 972-52-833-8833

Email Address: tsafisebba@gmail.com

2. Higher Education

a. Undergraduate and Graduate Studies

Degree Name of Institution

and Department

Period of Study

B.A. Cum Laude University of Haifa

Hebrew and Comparative

Literature and Philosophy

2000-1997

M.A. Cum Laude Tel Aviv University

Hebrew Literature

1999-2002

Ph.D. Awarded with

distinction

Tel Aviv University

The Chaim Rosenberg School

of Jewish Studies

2003-2009

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b. Post-Doctoral Studies

Name of Host Name of Institution and

Department/Lab

Period of Study

Prof. Haya Bar-Itzhak

University of Haifa

The Department of Hebrew

and Comparative Literature

2009-2010

Prof. Avigdor Shinan Yad Ben-Zvi Institute for the

research of Eretz Israel

2011-2012

Prof. Dov-Ber Kerler Indiana University

The Borns Jewish Studies

Program

2012-2013

3. Academic Ranks and Tenure in Institutes of Higher Education

Rank/Position Name of Institution and

Department

Years

Adjunct Lecturer University of Haifa

The Department of Hebrew

and Comparative Literature

2004-2012

Visiting Assistant

Professor

Indiana University

The Borns Jewish Studies

Program

2012-2013

Adjunct Lecturer University of Haifa

The Department of Hebrew

and Comparative Literature

2013-2014

Lecturer University of Haifa

The Department of Hebrew

and Comparative Literature

2014-

4. Offices in Academic Administration

Role Name of Institution and

Department

Years

Member of the steering

committee, The Self-

Evaluation Process for

the Council for Higher

Education

University of Haifa

The Department of Hebrew

and Comparative Literature

2011-2012

3

Supervisor, Preparatory

program for applicants

of the Department of

Hebrew and

Comparative Literature

University of Haifa

The Department of Hebrew

and Comparative Literature

2015

Supervisor, Research

Forum

University of Haifa

The Department of Hebrew

and Comparative Literature

2016

Academic adviser,

Research students’

conference

University of Haifa

The Department of Hebrew

and Comparative Literature

2016

5. Scholarly Positions and Activities outside the University

Memberships in Academic Professional Associations Years

Member of the World Union of Jewish Studies 2011-

Member of the Israeli Humor Society 2011-

Member of IFA (Israel Folktale Archives) 2014-

Member of SIEF (International Society for Ethnology and

Folklore)

2015-

Member of ISFNR (International Society for Folk

Narrative Research)

2015-

Editorial Assignments Years

Co-editor, Sadan – Studies in Hebrew Literature, Vol.

6, Tel Aviv University Press.

2007

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]

In progress

Reviewing for Academic Press and Refereed Journal Years

Referee for Academic Studies Press 2015

Referee for Dapim – Research in Literature 2015, 2016

Reviewing for Fund Agencies Years

None

Leading and Teaching Study Programs and Directing Public

Activities outside the University Years

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.

1996-1999

4

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.

2002-2004

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).

2010-2011

Member of the steering committee of Avi Chai

foundation's Nitzanim program, aiming to conduct and

support Jewish cultural activities in Haifa.

2012

6. Active Participation in Scholarly Conferences

a1. International Conferences - Held Abroad

Role Subject of

Lecture/Discussion

Place of

Conference

Name of

Conference

Date

Presenter Inventing a pacifist

tradition- Rabban

Yohanan Ben-Zakai as

a Zionist leader

Academy of

Athens

The 15th

congress of the

International

Society for Folk

Narrative

Research

(ISFNR):

Narratives

across space

and time,

transmissions

and adaptations

June 2009

Presenter 'The jokes that were

never published' – A

new collection of

sexual Jewish jokes

from the beginning of

the 20th century

The College

of William

and Mary,

Williamsburg,

Virginia

The 25th

International

Conference of

the Society for

Humor Studies

July 2013

Presenter From ancient

fragments to modern

maps: Heritage

representations and

inner tensions in

national Jewish

anthologies

University of

Zagreb,

Croatia

The 12th

International

SIEF

(International

Society for

Ethnology and

Folklore)

Congress:

Utopias,

Realities,

Heritages

June 2015

5

Presenter

and

participant

in a study

group

In search for new

memories – The

national Jewish

anthology at the turn of

the 19th and 20th

centuries

Mansfield

College,

Oxford,

United

Kingdom

International

conference of

the Inter-

Disciplinary.

Net: Roots and

Legacies

September

2016

Presenter The struggle over

‘locality’ in Israeli

Humoristic Memes

from the 2014 military

conflict in Gaza

Miami,

Florida

AFS (American

Folklore

Society) and

ISFNR

(International

Society for Folk

Narrative

Research) joint

annual meeting:

Unfinished

stories

October

2016

a2. International Conferences - Held in Israel

Role Subject of Lecture

/Discussion

Place of

Conference

Name of

Conference

Date

Presenter Solomon and Ashmeday or

‘King of horrors’- The

aggadic anthologies and

their place in the

configuration of Judaism as

culture

The Hebrew

University

of

Jerusalem

The 14th world

congress of

Jewish Studies

August

2005

Presenter The rabbinic legend of the

sages and the secular

halacha of H.N. Bialik

The Hebrew

University

of

Jerusalem

The 15th world

congress of

Jewish Studies

August

2009

Presenter Ha-teda behema nefesh

zadika? R. Yossi of Yokeret

in the modern anthologies

Bar Ilan

University

and Lander

Institute

International

Conference on

aggadah and

aggadic

interpretation

throughout the

generations

January

2010

Presenter 'Why Was the Land

Destroyed’? Zionism from

the Perspective of Sefer

ha’agaddah

The Hebrew

University

of

Jerusalem

The 16th world

congress of

Jewish Studies

August

2013

6

Presenter 'Ana Heruta' – A Rabbinic

legend and the portrait of

local Judaism

Tel Aviv

University

The 7th Israeli

Conference for

Contemporary

Religion and

Spirituality

May

2015

a3. Local Conferences

Role Subject of

Lecture/Discussion

Place of

Conference

Name of

Conference

Date

Presenter ‘The Queen and the Fish’

– Reading a sea story

University

of Haifa

IFA (Israel

Folktale

Archive)

Annual meeting

June 2006

Presenter Under the test of

evolution: The aggadic

anthologies at the

beginning of the modern

Hebrew culture

Ben-Gurion

University

of the

Negev

The 25th Inter-

University

Conference for

the Study of

Folklore

June 2006

Presenter A girl in each port?

Seamen tell about their

loves

Achva

college

The 2nd Folklore

conference of

Achva college

May 2007

Presenter Sefer ha’aggadah and

the transition of the

rabbinic tale to modern

times

The

Hebrew

University

of

Jerusalem

The 27th Inter-

University

Conference for

the Study of

Folklore

May 2008

Presenter From ‘The power of the

tale’ to the power of

interpretation

University

of Haifa

The 28th Inter-

University

Conference for

the Study of

Folklore

May 2009

Presenter The body and soul of

Safed legends

Achva

college

The 6nd Folklore

conference of

Achva college

May 2011

Presenter Margolis' Sippurei

yeshurun and the quiet

revolution of modern

aggadic anthologies

Tel Aviv

University

The 31th Inter-

University

Conference for

the Study of

Folklore

January

2012

Presenter The invention of 'Jewish

Realism'- The national

anthologies and their

contribution to the

formation of renewable

Jewish language

The Van

Leer

Jerusalem

Institute

Research

Seminar on

Secularization,

the Critique of

Secularization

and Tradition

September

2013

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Presenter The 'holy' and the

'profane' in Alter

Druyanow's Sefer

Habediha vehahiddud

Bar Ilan

University

The 34th Inter-

University

Conference for

the Study of

Folklore

May 2015

Presenter Waza – The missing

overview in the jokes of

Zuk Eitan military

operation

Kibbutzim

College of

Education,

Technology

and the

Arts

The 2nd

Interdisciplinary

Conference for

Humor Studies

February

2016

b. Organization of Conferences or Sessions

Role Subject of

Conference

Place of

Conference

Name of

Conference

Year

Steering and

organizing

committee

member

Ha-kol Sipur?

[Every voice can be

a story?]

Tel Aviv

University

-Inter thThe 21

University

Conference for the

Study of Folklore

2002

Steering and

organizing

committee

member

East and West Tel Aviv

University

-Inter th26The

University

Conference for the

Study of Folklore

2007

Steering and

organizing

committee

member

Authors as Culture

Heroes

University of

Haifa

The Inter-

University

Conference for

Hebrew

Literature

2007

Steering and

organizing

committee

member

60 Years of Israeli

Literature

University of

Haifa

The Inter-

University

Conference for

Hebrew Literature

2008

Steering and

organizing

committee

member

Folklore and

Ideology

University of

Haifa

-Inter th28The

University

Conference for the

Study of Folklore

2009

Steering and

organizing

committee

member

Text and Context University of

Haifa

-Inter th33The

University

Conference for the

Study of Folklore

2014

Organizer H.N. Bialik and Y.C.

Ravnitzky’s Sefer

ha’aggadah is reread

University of

Haifa

Study session in

honor of Avigdor

Shinan’s new

edition of Sefer

ha’aggadah

2016

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7. Invited Lectures (Others than in Scholarly Conferences)

Role Subject of Lecture Place of

Lecture

Name of

Forum

Year

Presenter Reflections of the sea

in literature

Technion,

Faculty of

Architecture

and Town

Planning

Faculty project:

Planning a

museum by the

sea

March

2002

Presenter The aggadic

anthologies and the

secularisation process

in the Hebrew culture

The Daniel

centre for

progressive

Judaism, Tel

Aviv

Jewish culture

in a changing

world

(dedicated to

the publication

of ‘New Jewish

Time – An

Encyclopaedic

View’)

March

2009

Presenter The aggadic

anthologies and the

the cultural challenge

of modern Judaism

Kibbutz

Ha’ogen

The annual

prize in

memory of Efra

Goren- award

ceremony

September

2009

Presenter Revelation and

concealment in the

rabbinic legend of

H.N. Bialik

Bialik house,

Tel Aviv

The mermaid

meets the

goldfish – an

evening of fairy

tales in Bialik

house

November

2009

Presenter Inventing a pacifist

tradition – R. Yohanan

Ben-Zakai and the

Zionism

The officer

school of the

Israel Defence

Force (Bahad 1)

Posen fund

series of

lectures on

contemporary

Jewish culture

April

2010

Presenter Old scriptures, new

heroes

Leo-Baeck

education

centre, Haifa

The annual

meeting of the

literature circle

April

2010

Presenter Variation on

improvisation - The

drasha as a new song

in Roni Shweka

‘Essays on Israeli

Rock Songs’

University of

Haifa

The Opening

meeting of

Mahshava

Tehila - The

Beit Midrash

study program

January

2012

Presenter H.N. Bialik and the

myth of ‘national poet’

University of

Haifa

The Ministry of

education

conference for

literature

teachers

April

2012

9

Presenter 'Rome' and 'Greece' in

the rabbinic legend for

children

Beit Avi-Chai,

Jerusalem

Beit Avi-Chai

series of

lectures

July 2014

Presenter 'Complete the story' or

accept the part,

thoughts on Shani

Boianjiu's novel: 'The

People of Forever Are

Not Afraid'

University of

Haifa

Bimat Sefer,

The public

stage of The

Department of

Hebrew and

Comparative

Literature

December

2014

Presenter Z. Jawitz's Sihot Mini

Kedem and the late

return to the Jewish

bookcase at the turn of

the 19th and 20th

centuries.

Ben-Gurion

University of

the Negev

Book Launch:

Beyond

Halacha-

Secularism,

Traditionalism

and 'New Age'

Culture in

Israel

December

2014

8. Colloquium Talks

Presentation

Place of Lecture Name of

Forum

Year

The personal narrative as a door to

the Seaman’s world The Hebrew

University of

Jerusalem

Departmental

Seminar, The

department of

Hebrew

literature,

Yiddish and

folklore

November

2009

H.N. Bialik in front of the Jewish

bookcase

Tel-Aviv

University

The origins of

Judaism as a

culture, the

Ofakim study

program

January

2009

Ben-Gurion

Research Institute

for the Study of

Israel and

Zionism

Bimat Sde-

Boker-

Research

Seminar on the

perceptions of

Diaspora in the

Jewish and

Israeli

discourse

October

2010

From Sefer ha’aggadah to the

Jewish Bookcase:

The Aggadic Anthology and the

Configuration of Judaism in

Modern Hebrew Culture

Indiana

University

Jewish Studies

Workshop

February

2013

10

The emergence (and concealment)

of the Jewish joke in Alter

Druyanow's Sefer habediha

vehahiddud (The Book of Jokes

and the Witticisms)

The University of

Chicago

Jewish Studies

Workshop

May 2013

9. Research Grants

a. Grants Awarded

Years Amount Funded by (C= Competitive

Fund)

Title Other Researchers (Name & Role)

Role in

Research

2016-

2019

600,000

NIS

C, ISF

(Israel

Science

Foundation)

*The Israel

Folktale

Archives:

Sites of

Memory,

Competing

Narratives

Prof. D. Stein, PI

(University of

Haifa), Dr. H.

Weiss, PI (Ben-

Gurion University),

Dr. D. Schrire, PI

(Hebrew

University)

PI

b. Submission of Research Proposals – Pending

None

Not Funded –Submission of Research Proposals c. None

10. Scholarships, Awards and Prizes

2008-2005 , 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).

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11. Teaching

a. Courses Taught in Recent Years

Number of

Students

Level

Type of Course Lecture/Seminar/

Workshop/ Online Course/

Introduction Course

(Mandatory)

Name of

Course

Years

2016-2017: 40 B.A. Lecture Sea Stories 2010-2011

2016-2017 25 B.A. Lecture The Jewish

Legend –

Origins,

Definitions and

Functions

2009-2010

2011-2012: 25 B.A. Lecture Writers as

storytellers –

Bialik,

Berdyczewski,

Agnon

2009-2010

2011-2012

12 M.A. Seminar H.N. Bialik –

From Sefer

ha’aggadah to

the Jewish

Bookcase

2010-2011

2016-2017: 13 B.A. Seminar Folklore and

Ideology

2011-2012

2016-2017

12 B.A. Lecture (Indiana

University, The

Borns Jewish Studies

Program)

The Jewish

Folktale – Its

Evolution,

Poetics and

Roles

2013

2016-2017: 32 B.A. Required course Introduction to

Modern Hebrew

Literature

2013-2017

2015: 42 B.A. Required course Introduction to

Folk Literature

2014-2017

30 B.A. Lecture The Hebrew

Folktale in the

Middle Ages

2014

60 B.A. Required course Introduction to

Prose Genres

2015

12 B.A. Lecture The Power of a

Tale – The Arab

Folktale in

Israel

2015

12

10 M.A. Seminar Between

Canonic

Literature and

Popular

Literature

2016

b. Supervision of Graduate Students

Students'

Achievements

Year of

Completion/

In Progress

Degree Title of Thesis Name of

Other

Mentors

Name of

Student /

M.A.

Students

In Progress M.A. Personal

Narratives on

reincarnations

among young

Druze

Faten Bisan

Ph.D.

Students None Post

Doctorate

Students None

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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]

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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].

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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.

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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.

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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