Research

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Books

Embodying the Revolution: The New Jew and the Globalization of Modern Sports in Interwar Palestine

Rutgers University Press (2025)

Zionism: Emotions, Language and Experience

Cambridge University Press (2024)

Peer-Reviewed Articles

“Only the Will of the People is Needed Now”: Revolution, Experience and Hebrew Gymnastics in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine

Rethinking History (2026)

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Israeli Nonsense: Humor, Globalization and Vegetables During the Early Nineties (with Roni Cohen)

Humor: International Journal of Humor Research (2024)

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The Idea of Sports is Pure and Noble: Internationalism and a Universal Language

The International History Review (2024)

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Modern Sport, Ideal and Historiography (Published in Hebrew)

Historia: The Journal of the Israeli Historical Society, 51 (2023)

How to Lose Gracefully in an Internationally Selfish World: Gender, the ‘New Jew’ and the Underestimation of Athletic Performance in Interwar Palestine

Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 21 (2022)

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Can We Call Gymnastics Sport: The Inception of Competitive Sport in the Yishuv and the Limitations of Zionist Periodization (Published in Hebrew)

Israel, 27-28 (2021)

Imagined Games: Sport, The Yishuv and the XI Olympiad, 1931-1936 (Published in Hebrew)

Cathedra, 167 (2018)

Editorial & Encyclopedia Contributions

Sport, History, and Historiography (Published in Hebrew)

Special Issue Editor, Historia: The Journal of the Israeli Historical Society, 51 (2023)

Zionism

1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War (2018)

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Book Reviews

Review of Viola Alianov-Rautenberg’s ‘No Longer Ladies and Gentlemen: Gender and the German-Jewish Migration to Mandatory Palestine’

AJS Review, 48 (2024)

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Review of Udi Carmi’s ‘The Home Field: Sports in Israel the First Two Decades’ (Published in Hebrew)

Zion, 89 (2024)

Review of Carl Rommel's ‘Egypt’s Football Revolution: Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics’

Journal of Sport History, 49, no. 1 (2022)

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Review of Wolfgang Paterno’s ‘Faust und Geist. Literature und Boxen zwischen den Weltkriegen’ (with Ohad Kohn)

Monatshefte, 111 (2019)

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Review of Moshe Zimmerman (Ed.), ‘Muscular Religion: Sport Nationalism, Judaism’ (Published in Hebrew)

Zmanim: A Historical Quarterly, 140 (2019)

Short Essays & Exhibitions

The Allure of Sport and Hebrew Culture

Intersections (2024)

Helene Mayer: Zuschreibung und Aneignung eines Sportstars

Never Walk Alone: Jüdische Identitäten im Sport (Exhibition Catalogue, Jewish Museum Munich, 2017)