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Gideon Shelach

Professor, Department of Asian Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Prof. Gideon Shelach

Head of China Sector
5883727
Gideon.shelach@mail.huji.ac.il
Room 48715
Personal Website

Prof. Gideon Shelach is the Louis Freiberg Professor of East Asian Studies and the Chair of the Institute of African and Asian Studies, the Hebrew University.

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He hold a Ph.D. in archaeology from the University of Pittsburgh and since 1995 he is conducting archaeological field works in Northeast China. Currently he is heading the Fuxin Regional Archaeological Project in Liaoning province. Gideon published 8 books and more than 60 papers in leading academic journals (including Science, Antiquity, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology,Journal of Archaeological Science, and more, including academic journals in China). Among his recent books are: The Archaeology of China: From Prehistory to the Han Dynasty (Cambridge University Press, 2015); Prehistoric Societies on the Northern Frontiers of China: Archaeological Perspectives on Identity Formation and Economic Change during the First Millennium BCE (Equinox, 2009); Chifeng International Collaborative Archaeological Project (co-author, Pittsburgh 2011), The Birth of Empire: The State of Qin revisited (co-editor, University of California Press 2013).

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Dan Sherer

Dr. Dan Sherer

Japan Studies
Dan.Sherer@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal website

Dan Sherer is a historian of Pre-Modern Japan, with a focus on the Sengoku period (roughly the 15th and 16th century). His research interests are primarily how smaller political entities of the time functioned and how they interacted with the powerful warrior regimes that ruled and fought over Japan at the time. A graduate of the University of Southern California, Dr. Sherer has been a researcher at the Tokyo University Historiographical Institute and a visiting fellow at the Kyoto Institute, Library and Archives (KILA).

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Dr. Sherer current project focuses on how the Kyoto temples of the Nichiren Buddhist sect survived the turbulent 16th century. This project utilizes the documents left behind by the Council of Head Temples, a governing body that allowed them to negotiate with the imperial court and powerful warriors as a unit, rather than temple by temple. This Council allowed them to see their way through one of the most violent periods in Japan’s history without taking up the sword themselves. Dr. Sherer has also published works on banditry and the history of Japanese conjuring.
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Ben-Ami Shilony

Prof (Emeritus) Ben-Ami Shilony

Department of Asian Studies
shillony@mscc.huji.ac.il

Prof. Ben-Ami Shillony is Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and honorary president of the Israeli Association of Japanese Studies.

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After receiving his Master degree in history from the Hebrew University in 1965, he studied Japanese language in Tokyo, and received his Ph.D. degree from Princeton University in 1971. Since then he taught Japanese history and culture at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem until his retirement in 2006. He also taught, lectured and did research at the universities of Harvard, Berkeley, Tokyo, Oxford, Cambridge, and Colorado. In 2000 the Japanese emperor bestowed on him the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold and Silver Star. In 2013, his book The Secret of Japan's Strength (the Japanese version of his Hebrew book Yapan bemabat ishi) was awarded the prize of the best book promoting international cultural understanding in Japan. His main books are Revolt in Japan (Princeton University Press, 1973), Politics and Culture in Wartime Japan (Clarendon Press, 1981. Paperback edition Oxford University Press, 1991), Yapan hamesoratit: tarbut ve-historia (Schocken Publishing House, 1995. Revised and expanded edition, 2001), Yapan hamodernit: tarbut ve-historia (Schocken Publishing House, 1997.), The Jews and the Japanese, (Charles E. Tuttle, 1992), Collected Writings of Ben-Ami Shillony (Japan Library, Curzon Press, 2000) Enigma of the Emperors: Sacred Subservience in Japanese History (Global Oriental, 2005). ed., The Emperors of Modern Japan (Brill, 2008), Yapan bemabat ishi (Tel Aviv: Schocken Publishing House, 2011), ed., Critical Readings on the Emperors of Japan (Leiden: Brill, 2012).

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David Shulman

Prof. David Shulman

Department of Asian Studies
5883678
shulman@prism.as.huji.ac.il

Prof. David Shulman's research interest are Indian poetics, live Sanskrit theater, the Renascence in South India in the 16-17 centuries and the Islam in south India and the Carnatic classic music.

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ilingual in Hebrew and English, he has mastered Sanskrit, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu, and reads Greek, Russian, French, German, Persian, Arabic and Malayalam. He has authored or co-authored more than 20 books on various subjects ranging from temple myths and temple poems to essays that cover the wide spectrum of the cultural history of South India. Prof. Shulman is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

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Dr. Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein

Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr Katzeff Silberstein received his PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania in 2021. His research primarily focuses on social history and everyday life in North Korea. He is also a non-resident fellow with the Stimson Center and 38 North where he researches the society and economy of North Korea. He has previously worked as a journalist and as an advisor to the Swedish government, and frequently publishes and comments on East Asian affairs. 
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Dr. Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein

Korean Studies
02-5883910
benjamin.katzeffsilberstein@mail.huji.ac.il
Reception by appointment via E-mail
Dr Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein is a Senior Lecturer in the Asian Studies Department. His main research focus is North Korean society and history, with a special interest in surveillance, and social and political control, as well as state-society relations and North Korea’s markets. He received his PhD in History from University of Pennsylvania in 2021 with a dissertation about the historical evolution of surveillance in North Korea from the late-1950s till the present. He is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Swedish Institute for International Affairs and at the Stimson Center’s program 38 North.
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He is frequently cited on North Korea and Korean affairs by international media outlets such as the BBC, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The Economist, and many others. At Hebrew University, he teaches courses on Korean history, North Korean society and politics, and security issues in East Asia. 

 

Office phone: 02-5883910, cell: 050-5954885. Office hours: by appointment via email, benjamin.katzeffsilberstein@mail.huji.ac.il. 

 

Publications: "What's Up with North Korea's Skyrocketing Exchange Rates?", https://www.38north.org/2024/10/whats-up-with-north-koreas-skyrocketing-exchange-rates/

 

Co-editor: "Everyday Politics in North Korea," special issue of Asian Studies Review, vol. 28, 2024, issue 2, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10357823.2024.2312140. 

 

"The Red, Big Family: Utopian Surveillance in North Korean Cities," chapter in Pursuing Sustainable Urban Development in North Korea, ed. Pavel Em (London, UK: Routledge, 2024). 

 

"Strategies of Political Control under Kim Jong Un: Understanding the Changing Mix of Containment, Repression, Co-optation, and Coercive Distribution," Asian Survey, vol. 63, no. 4 (2023): pp. 557–583. With Peter Ward. 

 

"Social (Im)mobility and Bureaucratic Failings: Family Background and the Sŏngbun System in North Korea," Journal of Korean Studies, vol. 28, no. 1 (2023): 111–137. 

 

 

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