Projects
Community without Commonality: "Samenleven" and the Jewish Communities of Antwerp. University of Antwerp
Tikkun and techné. A research into the Jewish contribution to the question concerning technology. University of Antwerp
Postmemory and Postmodern: Traumatic History and the Poetics of Absence in Recent Jewish American Novels Ghent University
This project investigates the ways in which postmodern historiographic metafiction, by its embrace of a poetics of absence, is employed for postmemorial purposes by Jewish American third generation authors after the Shoah, such as Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, and Michael Chabon. Their Holocaust novels paradoxically escape the lure of traditional historiographyU+2019s desire for emplotment, teleology, and closure of trauma.
Scrolls before the Sect(s)? Re−charting the Jewish Groups behind the Dead Sea Scrolls. KU Leuven
Scrolls before the Sect(s)? Re−charting the Jewish Groups behind the Dead Sea Scrolls.
The First Jewish Revolt (66-70 A.D.): a socio-anthropological study into its causes Ghent University
This project applies sociological and anthropological methods to the First Jewish Revolt in order to overcome the deadlock in the research, which is based on the implicit use of monocausal models of explanation. The focus is on the understanding of the decline of the social order through an analytical distinction between the ethical and the political control order.
Cinema & diaspora.A comparative study into ethnic film cultures in Antwerp: Bollywood, Northern African, Turkish and Jewish cinema. University of Antwerp
Scrolls before the Sect(s). Recharting the Jewish Groups behind the Dead Sea Scrolls. KU Leuven
Research and cooperation in the anthropology of religion and ethnographic methods, especially the study of Orthodox Jewish communities in West-Europe and Israel Ghent University
Prof. El-Or aims to exchange and cooperate with colleagues at UGent on the anthropology of religion methods in anthropology and the study of Orthodox Jewish communities. An intensive cooperation will be intiated including the exchange and sharing of research agendas, data and results: the launch of a multinational and interdisciplinary research group the organisation of a congress panel joint publication.
Dreaming al-Andalus: nineteenth-century representations of Spain’s Jewish and Muslim past Ghent University
Spain's multicultural history following the Arab invasions has left a lasting legacy on its culture. This project seeks to examine how writers in the nineteenth century turned to the past during moments of political and social transition.