Born in Tel Aviv, 1961, Gadi Algazi is associate professor at the Department of History, Tel Aviv University, and senior editor of the journal History & Memory He is also member of the editorial board of the journals Past & Present and Historische Anthropologie. He lives in Tel-Aviv with his three children and currently serves as Head of the Department of History.

Publications

• Herrengewalt und Gewalt der Herren im späten Mittelalter: Herrschaft, Gegenseitigkeit und Sprachgebrauch. (Frankfurt am Main/New York: Campus, 1996) ) [Seigniorial Power and Violence in the Later Middle Ages: Lordship, Reciprocity and Language Use]

• Gadi Algazi, Valentin Groebner & Bernhard Jussen, eds., Negotiating the Gift: Pre-Modern Figurations of Exchange [Veröffentlichhungen des Max-Planck-Instituts für Geschichte, 188] (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2003)

• "The Social Use of Private War: Some Late Medieval Views Reviewed", Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte: Zur Sozial- und Begriffsgeschichte des Mittelalters 27 (1993), pp. 253-274
• "Violence, mémoire et pouvoir seigneurial au Moyen Age tardiv", Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales (Paris) no. 105 (1994), pp. 26-29
• "Sie würden hinten nach so gail: Vom sozialen Gebrauch der Fehde im späten Mittelalter", in: Physische Gewalt: Studien zur Geschichte der Neuzeit, Alf Lüdtke and Thomas Lindenberger eds. [STW 1190] (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1995), pp. 39-77
• "Sich selbst Vergessen im späten Mittelalter: Denkfiguren und soziale Konfigurationen", in: Memoria als Kultur, Otto Gerhard Oexle ed. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1995), pp. 387-427 ["Forgetting Oneself in the Later Middle Ages: A Figure of Thought in its Social Configurations"]
• "The Shape of the Landscape: Nicholas of Cusa, the Mosel Peasants and the Rural Law", in: Popular Culture, B.-Z. Kedar ed. (Jerusalem: Shazar Center, 1996), pp. 123-139 [in Hebrew]
• "Culture Heroes and Heroes' Cult", Zmanim - A Historical Quarterly No. 58 (1997), pp. 40-47 [in Hebrew]
• "Lords Ask, Peasants Answer: Making Traditions in Late Medieval German Village Assemblies", in: Between History and Histories: The Making of Silences and Commemorations, Gerald Sider & Gavin Smith eds. [Anthropological Horizons Series, 11] (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1997), pp. 199-229
• "Otto Brunner - 'Konkrete Ordnung' und Sprache der Zeit", in: Geschichtsschreibung als Legitimationswissenschaft, 1918-1945, Peter Schöttler ed. [STW 1333] (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1997; 2nd edition, 1999), pp. 166-203 (Japanese edition, 2001)
• "Ein gelehrter Blick ins lebendige Archiv: Umgangsweisen mit der Vergangenheit im 15. Jahrhundert", Historische Zeitschrift 266 (1998), pp. 317-357   ["A Learned View of a Living Archive: Coping with the Past in the Fifteenth Century"]
• "Tradition als Gespräch der Ungleichen: Bauern und Herren in der spätmittelalterlichen Dorfversammlung", in: Eid und Wahrheitssuche, Stefan Esders & Thomas Scharff eds. [Gesellschaft, Kultur und Schrift: Mediävistische Beiträge, vol. 7] (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1999), pp. 191-210 ["Unequal Dialogs: Lords and Peasants in Late Medieval Village Assemblies"]

• "Bodily Rites and Social Organization: Norbert Elias' Process of Civilization", Zmanim - A Historical Quarterly no. 70 (March 2000), pp. 62-83 [in Hebrew]
• "Norbert Elias - His Life and Main Works", Zmanim - A Historical Quarterly no. 70 (March 2000), pp. 60-61 [in Hebrew]
• "Kulturkult und die Rekonstruktion von Handlungsrepertoires", L'homme: Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft 11:1 (2000), pp. 105-119   ["Culture Cult and the Reconstruction of Repertoires of Action"]
• "Pruning Peasants: Private War and Maintaining the Lords' Peace in Late Medieval Germany", in: Medieval Transformations: Texts, Power and Gifts in Context, Esther Cohen & Mayke de Jong eds. (Leiden: Brill, 2000), pp. 245-274
• (together with Rina Drory), "L'amour à la cour des Abbaside: un code de compétence sociale", Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales 55:6 (2000), pp. 1255-1282   ["Love: A Code for Social Competence at the Abbasid Court"]

• "Gelehrte Zerstreutheit und gelernte Vergesslichkeit: Bemerkungen zu ihrer Rolle in der Formierung des Gelehrtenhabitus", in: Der Fehltrittt: Vergehen und Versehen in der Vormoderne, Peter von Moos ed. [Norm und Struktur, 15] (Köln/Weimar/Wien: Böhlau, 2001), pp. 235-250    ["Scholarly Absent-Mindedness and Learned Forgetfulness: Notes on their Role in Shaping the Scholarly Habitus"]

• "Abelard, Heloise, and Astrolabe: A Note on Babies' Cries and Scholars' Peace of Mind", in: Women, Children and the Elderly: Essays in Honour of Shulamit Shahar, Miriam Eliav-Feldon & Yitzhak Hen eds. (Jerusalem: Shazar Center, 2001), pp. 85-98 [in Hebrew]

• "Hofkulturen im Vergleich: 'Liebe' bei den frühen Abbasiden", in: Das europäische Mittelalter im Spannbogen des Vergleichs, Michael Borgolte ed. (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2001), pp. 187-196    ["Court Cultures Compared: 'Love' in the Early Abbasid Period"]

• "Some Problems with Reciprocity," Endoxa, Series Filosoficas no. 15 (2002), pp. 43-50

• "Food for Thought: Hieronymus Wolf grapples with the Scholarly Habitus," in: Egodocuments in History: Autobiographical Writing in its Social Context since the Middle Ages, Rudolf Dekker ed. (Hilversum: Verloren, 2002), pp. 21-44

• "Studying Learned Nature: The Shaping of the Concept of Habitus in Bourdieu's Work", Israeli Sociology 4:2 (2002), pp. 401-410 [in Hebrew]

• "Doing Things with Gifts", in: Negotiating the Gift: Pre-Modern Figurations of Exchange, Gadi Algazi, Valentin Groebner & Bernhard Jussen eds. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2003), pp. 9-27

• "Feigned Reciprocities: Lords, Peasants, and the Afterlife of Medieval Social Strategies", in: Negotiating the Gift: Pre-Modern Figurations of Exchange, Gadi Algazi, Valentin Groebner & Bernhard Jussen eds. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2003), pp. 99-127

• "Scholars in Households: Refiguring the Learned Habitus, 1480-1550" Science in Context 16:1-2 (2003), (special issue: Scientific Personae, edited by Lorraine Daston & Otto Sibum), pp. 9-42

• " 'For this boy I prayed': The Making of Scholarly Familes in Northern Europe," Historia 14 (2004), pp. 7-48 [in Hebrew]

• "Listening to the Voice that says No", in: The Refuseniks' Trials (Tel Aviv: Babel Publishing House, 2004), pp. 11-35 [in Hebrew]

• "Between the Desert and the Forest: Reading a Foundation Story", Zmanim - A Historical Quarterly no. 89 (March 2005), pp. 50-59 [in Hebrew]

• "Geistesabwesenheit: Gelehrte zuhause um 1500", Historische Anthropologie 13:3 (2005), pp. 325-342   ["Absent-Minded: Scholars at Home around 1500"]

• "Matrix in Bil'in: A Story of Colonial Capitalism in Current Israel," Theory and Criticism 29 (2006), pp. 173-192 [in Hebrew]; German version: "Kapital, Kolonialismus und ziviler Widerstand in der Westbank," Historische Anthropologie 14:3 (2006), pp. 441-456; English version: "Offshore Zionism," New Left Review 40 (August 2006), pp. 27-37

• "Dogs, Scholars, and other Animals", in: Human Beings and Other Animals in Historical Perspective, Benjamin Arbel, Joseph Terkel, Sophia Menashe eds. (Jerusalem: Carmel, 2007), pp. 193-204 [in Hebrew]

• "Eine gelernte Lebensweise: Figurationen des Gelehrtenlebens zwischen Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit", Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 30:2 (2007), pp. 107-118   ["A Learned Way of Life: Figurations of the Scholarly Life between the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period"]

• "Sperrzonen und Grenzfälle: Beobachtungen zu Herrschaft und Gewalt im kolonialen Kontext zwischen Israel und Palästina," in: Staats-Gewalt: Ausnahmezustand und Sicherheitsregimes. Historische Perspektiven, Alf Lüdtke & Michael Wildt, eds. (Göttinger Gespräche zur Geschichtswissenschaft, 27) (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2008), pp. 309-346

• "Norbert Elias's Motion Pictures: History, Cinema and Gestures in the Process of Civilization" Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 39 (2008), pp. 444–458

• Sanjay Subrahmanyam, David Shulman, & Gadi Algazi, "On Connected Histories and the Unknown Faces of Modernity: A Conversation with Sanjay Subrahmanyam," Historia 22 (2008), pp. 5–28 [in Hebrew]

• "Public Sociology: Some Comments," Israeli Sociology 10:2 (2009), pp. 449–455 [in Hebrew]

• "Habitus, familia und forma vitae: Die Lebensweisen mittelalterlicher Gelehrten in muslimischen, jüdischen und christlichen Gemeinden – vergleichend betrachtet," in: Zur Kulturgeschichte der Gelehrten im späten Mittelalter, Frank Rexroth ed. (accepted)

• "Middling Ages as Objects to Think with: Two Figures of the Historical Imagination," in: Le Moyen Âge au XXIe siècle, Néri de Barros Almeida, Marcelo Cândido da Silva, Didier Méhu, eds. (accepted)