Major scholarly fields of interest:
The Zionist-Arab Conflict; Arab political thought; Colonialism in the Middle East
Current Projects:
I am a historian of the modern Middle East, focusing on the history of Arab thought and politics, particularly within the context of the Arab-Zionist conflict. Currently, I am transforming my doctoral dissertation into a monograph that delves into Arab political imagination until 1948, and the place of Zionism and Jews within this Arab discourse on the future. My current project deals with the concept of decolonization in Arab thought between 1948 and 1988, and the place that recognition in the State of Israel occupied in this Arab liberation discourse. In my spare time I occasionally author articles on Israeli culture within its broader societal context.
Education:
2021: PhD, Hebrew U. Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Hebrew U.
2017-2019: Research Fellow at the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture, Leipzig.
2018: External research fellow, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin.
2014: MA, Hebrew U. Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (summa cum laude).
2010: BA, Hebrew U. Jewish and European History.
Post-Doctoral Research:
since Ocrtober 2023:
Postdoctoral Fellow, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jacob Robinson Institute for the History of Individual and Collective Rights.
2021-2023:
The Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace.
Publications:
Eli Osheroff, “The Deal of the Decade: Jewish Immigration for Arab Independence and Post-Ottomanism in 1930s Palestine”, in Borders, Boundaries and Belonging in Post-Ottoman Space in the Interwar Period, eds. Kate Fleet and Ebru Boyar (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2022), 33-52.
Eli Osheroff, “Was There Arab Bi-nationalism? Towards a History of Bi-nationalism from the ‘Other Side’”, Israel 27-28 (2020): 165-186 (Hebrew).
Dotan Halevy and Eli Osheroff, “In Between the Ruins: Understanding Destruction in the Great Mosque of Gaza”, International Journal of Islamic Architecture 8 ,1 (2019): 45-69.
Eli Osheroff, “On the Corner of Balfour and Achad-Ha'am: Zionism,, Nationalism and Imperialism in Early Palestinian Thought”, Theory and Criticism 49 (2018): 209-232 (Hebrew).