Rachel Manekin

Rachel Manekin (PhD, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) works on the social, political, and cultural history of Galician Jewry.  Her recent publications include: Religion, Politics and the Constitutional Monarchy: The Struggle Over the Control of the Jewish Communities in Galicia, 1848-1883. Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 2015; “Moses Mendelssohn and Joseph II: The Galician Connection. In Essays on Mendelssohn. Eds. Michah Gottlieb and Charles H. Manekin. Bethesda, MD.: Maryland University Press, forthcoming. “Galician Haskalah and the Discourse of Schwärmerei.” In Secularism and its Discontents: The View from Jewish Studies. Eds. Ari Joskowicz and Ethan Katz. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming.“The Galician Roots of Polish-Jewish Historiography.” In Between Coexistence and Divorce. Ed. Daniel Blatman, Jerusalem: Magnes Press, forthcoming. (Hebrew). “The Moral Education of Jewish Youth: The Case of Bne Zion.” In Man and Morals in Central Europe. SVEC: Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century. Eds. Ivo Cerman, Rita Krueger, and Susan Reynolds. Oxford: SVEC, 2011, 273-294. “The 1816 Herem in Lemberg – Maskilic Triumphalism and Jewish Historiography,” Zion 73 (2008); “Joseph Perl on Hok le-Yisra’el and the Spread of Hasidism,” Let the Old Make Way for the New: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Eastern Europen Jewry Presented to Immanuel Etkes (Jerusalem, 2009); “Die hebräische und jiddische Presse in Galizien,” Die Habsburgermonarchie 1848-1918. Band VIII/2: Politische Öffentlichkeit und Zivilgesellschaft (Wien, 2006); and “Naftali Herz Homberg: the Man and the Myth,” Zion 71 (2006).