Tel Aviv University Unit of Culture Research				אוניברסיטת תל-אביב היחידה למחקר התרבות תוכנית הלימודים לתואר השני במחקר התרבות
M.A Dissertations
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	Author	Year	English Title of Dissertation		Under the Supervision of
1.	Ze’ev Posner	1998	[*] Flat and Street in Israel as a Component of World Modelling [*] English Summary.		Professors Itamar Even-Zohar and Juval Portugali
2.	Michal Daliot-Bul	1998	[*] Borrowings of Words and Other Repertoires in Japan		Prof. Gideon Toury & Prof. Jacob Raz
3.	Yuval Amit	1999	[*] 1904: The Institutional Turn in the Language Initiative of Eliezer Ben Yehuda and his Group		Prof. Itamar Even-Zohar
4.	Natalie Rotman	1999	[*] Regimentation through Sound: Music in the Making of Soldiers in Early Modern Germany		Prof. Gadi Algazi
5.	Inbal Saggiv	1999	[*] Science Fiction in Israel		Prof. Gideon Toury
6.	Dora Heller	1999	[*] From a Product to an Option: The Adoption of Coffee in Germany between the 17^th and the 19^th Centuries		Prof. Itamar Even-Zohar
7.	Dafna Hirsch	2000	[*] “We’re Spreading Here Culture” -- Hygiene Education of the Jewish Population in British-ruled Palestine		Prof. Gadi Algazi
8.	Dana Kaplan	2001	High Middle Class Weddings in Israel: The Production of Culture, Repertoires and Tastes [*] Hebrew abstract [*] Full text		Prof. Gadi Algazi
9.	Orna Naftali	2002	[*] Models of Love and Relationships in the Journalistic Discourse of Contemporary China		Dr. Rakefet Sela-Sheffy and Prof. Aharon Shai
10.	Hadas Kruk	2003	[*] “A New Profession In Israel – Product Design”: The Establishment Initiations to Promote the Profession 1956 - 1975		Prof. Gideon Toury
11.	Alona Golan	2003	[*] Immigrants Soldiers of Israeli Extraction look at Israeli Culture		Prof. Itamar Even-Zohar
12.	Etan Bloom	2003	[*] The Reproduction of The Model of ‘The Oriental’ in the Israeli Social Field: The 1950’s and The Speedy Immigration [*] English Summary		Prof. Itamar Even-Zohar
13.	Rami Shir	2003	[*] The Formation of the Hacker Community and its Transformation into an Elite Group		Dr. Rakefet Sela-Sheffy
14.	Eleanor Eytam	2004	[*] The Formation of Hi-Tech Culture in Israel as an Elite Culture		Dr. Rakefet Sela-Sheffy
15.	Shiri Hagani	2004	[*] Social Mission and Social Commitment in the New Age: The Circle of Festival In the Beginning Producers		Prof. Gideon Toury and Prof. Eli Ben Raphael
16.	Hagit Kahan	2004	[*] Kiryat Borukhov in Ramat Gan: From a Case of Cultural Planning in a Histadrut Cooperative Housing Project to a Gradual Transformation into a Regular Neighborhood [*] English Summary		Dr. Rakefet Sela-Sheffy
17.	Nahuel Ribke	2004	[*] “THE UGLY” VS. “THE BEAUTIFUL” ISRAELI : Struggles over Defining Israeli Identity [*] English Summary		Dr. Rakefet Sela-Sheffy
18.	Noa Mendel	2004	[*] The Jerusalem Film Festival: Self Presentation and Cultural Affiliation of Those who Chose to Attend It		Prof. Zohar Shavit
19.	Simona Wasserman	2004	[*] Mediating Agencies in the field of World Music in Israel: Strategies of operation and Self- Presentation		Dr. Rakefet Sela-Sheffy
20.	Einat Weizman	2004	[*] Behind the Curtain of the Everyday: The Interaction in a group of Theater Actresses		Prof. Itamar Even-Zohar
21.	Sigalit Mofaz	2004	[*] Culture Contact: A Case Study of Acculturation in Attitudes and Concepts of Pregnancy, Motherhood and Rearing Children among Nigerian Workers in Israel		Prof. Gideon Toury
22.	Shlomit Kanari	2004	[*] “When We Sing – God has to Wake Up”: Music in African Migrants Churches in Tel-Aviv		Prof. Gideon Toury and Dr. Galia Tzabbar
23.	Shiri Hornik Shoham	2004	[*] Can two Communicate Together, Unless they Hear? Hard-of-Hearing Communication in the Internet Age		Prof. Gideon Toury
24.	Talia Babecoff-Kimhi	2004	[*] Motherhood in the Information Age: The Effect of Cultural Differences on the Family-Work Conflict		Prof. Itamar Even-Zohar
25.	Rachel Koriat	2004	[*] "Clear the way to the new pioneering in the conquest of the dog for the building of our country:” Building up the Field of Professional Dog Breeding in Palestine 1948-1934		Dr. Rakefet Sela-Sheffy
26.	Oded Schaffer	2004	[*] Japanese Diplomats and Food in Israel: Research in Adjustment to Cultural Change		Prof. Gideon Toury and Dr. Rotem Kowner
27.	Yifat Gutman	2005	[*] The Popular and the Elite: Negotiating Cultural Legitimacy as a struggle for Position		Dr. Rakefet Sela-Sheffy
28.	Konstantin Kravchinsky	2005	[*] Changes in Food Habits of Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union		Prof. Gideon Toury
29.	Ophira Dardikman	2005	Representation of the Intercultural Contacts among the Second Generation of Israelis of Oriental Origin in the Israeli Cinema		Prof. Gideon Toury
30.	Shoshi Rappaport	2005	Consumption Habits of Ex-Members of Kibbutzim		Prof. Itamar Even-Zohar
31.	Emanuela Calò	2005	[*] Change of Taste in Israeli Food: The Case of 'Italian Cuisine', 1980--2000		Dr. Rakefet Sela-Sheffy
32.	Sharon Goren	2006	Anxiety-provoking Images of Women in the Visual Culture		Prof. Ruth Ronen
33.	Yael Dvir Perry	2006	[*] Innovators of Wireless Technology in Israel: Habitus, Lifestyle and Changing Agency		Prof. Gideon Toury and Dr. Avigail Oren
34.	Ziv Reinstein	2006	[*] "A Personal Card to Love": The Presentation of Self in Internet Dating Sites		Prof. Rakefet Sela-Sheffy
35.	Gal Raz	2007	[*] Relative Feminine Dominance in Epigenetic Inheritance Research		Prof. Eva Jablonka and Dr. Snait Gissis
36.	Hagar Doppelt	2007	[*] Pursuing Serious Leisure based on an import model: The case of Israeli Flamenco Dancers		Prof. Itamar Even-Zohar
37.	Shlomit Sharvit	2007	[*] The Emergence, Institutionalization and Disintegration of an Alternative: The Case of “Hundred Meter under the Ground” [*] Volume II: Appendices		Prof. Itamar Even-Zohar
38.	Julia Sela	2007	[*] Immigration and Acculturation of Armenians In Israel		Prof. Itamar Even-Zohar
39.	Matan Yair	2007	[*] “’Cool’? ‘Nerd’? There Is No Such Thing”: Teenagers Talk about their Social World		Prof. Rakefet Sela-Sheffy
40.	Timna Grossman	2007	[*] Environmental attitudes among teenagers in Israel and the impact of the education system and the 'green' bodies’ activities: A case study in the Western Galilee.		Prof. Rakefet Sela-Sheffy
41.	Dan Even	2007	[*] Strategies of constructing professional identity of anesthesiologists in Israel: Dominated Field within a Dominating Field.		Prof. Rakefet Sela-Sheffy
42.	Tseela Klein-Birnbaum	2008	[*] Give a Boy a Good Name: Reasons and Rationales in Choosing Names.		Prof. Gideon Toury
43.	Claudia Stern	2008	[*] Proceso de inmigración a Israel de un grupo de jóvenes provenientes de Sudamérica.		Prof. Itamar Even-Zohar
44.	Hagai Eytan	2009	Vipassana in Israel: A Case-study on Transmission of Cultural Models. [*] Volume I [*] Volume II: Appendices		Prof. Gideon Toury and Prof. Itamar Even-Zohar
45.	Adi Farjon	2010	[*] The adoption and rejection of German patterns of life and the identity of young Israelis living in Berlin		Prof. Itamar Even-Zohar
46.	Adi Rofe	2010	The Practice of Religious Rituals within Israeli Secular Families: The Friday night Family Meal [*] Volume I + Volume II: Appendices		Prof. Zohar Shavit
47.	Maya Vinitsky	2010	Jewish Carpentry in Palestine, 1928-1929: A Case Study in the Formation of a Professional Field [*] Hebrew and English abstracts		Prof. Rakefet Sela-Sheffy
48.	Neta Kaminsky	2011	Nannies Talk about their Profession: The Case of Israeli Child-Care Workers – Field, Repertoire and Discursive Strategies [*] Vol I [*] Vol II: Appendices		Prof. Rakefet Sela-Sheffy
49.	Ronit Reitshtein	2012	[*] "I am the Queen in the Kingdom that is my Body: Identity Construction in the Israeli 'Pro Ana' Community		Dr. Dafna Hirsch
50.	Shira Eisenberg	2012	[*] Acculturation of Unwelcome Immigrants: Sudanese Community in Arad, Israel		Prof. Itamar Even-Zohar
51.	Elinor Carmi	2012	Penetration of the Psychedelic Trance Culture into Israel, 1989-1999 [*] Abstract		Prof. Rakefet Sela-Sheffy
52.	Donna Merenlender	2012	[*] The Failure to Reinforce Jewishness by Becoming Israeli: The Acculturation Frustrations of Modern Orthodox Jewish American Families after Their Immigration to Israel [*] Vol II: Appendices		Prof. Itamar Even-Zohar
53.	Michal Silbiger	2012	[*] Changes, Restoration and Renovation at HaBima Square, Tel-Aviv: Urban Design Analysis		Prof. Itamar Even-Zohar
54.	Tamar Priel	2013	[*] Cultural Systems and Psycho-Cultural Models Change: Women Empowerment through Self Defense as a Case Study [*] Vol II: Appendices (password required)		Prof. Rakefet Sela-Sheffy
55.	Dana Friedmann-Balila	2013	[*] The Transfer & Adaptation of U.S Reality show in Israeli Market: How the Israeli Culture put their Distinctive Representation of Women in Romantic Situations		Prof. Gideon Toury
56.	Rotem Leshem	2013	[*] Experience in Interaction: Micro-sociological perspectives and an analysis of focus practices		Prof. Rakefet Sela-Sheffy
57.	Roni Gover	2013	[*] The Therapist’s Stance as a Factor in Psychiatric Diagnosis and Treatment		Dr. Shlomo Mendlovic & Prof. Itamar Even-Zohar
58.	Mary Loitsker	2013	[*] The Fragmented Memory of the Israeli Student Radicals: “Operation Sourasky” Reinventing Student Activism at Tel Aviv University		Prof. Itamar Even-Zohar
59.	Gagu Eshet	2014	[*] The Residence Place as a Component of Identity Construction		Prof. Rakefet Sela-Sheffy
60.	Tally Zevulun	2014	Female Endurance Athletes in Today’s Israeli and Dutch Societies (Text in English; Interviews in Hebrew and Dutch) [*] Volume I [*] Volume II (Appendices)		Prof. Itamar Even-Zohar
61.	Mati Shufan	2015	Keep Searching: How does "Google" affect's Israeli youth cultural toolkit? [*] Volume I [*] Volume II (Appendices)		Prof. Itamar Even-Zohar
62.	Basma Fahoum	2015	“They Didn’t Hide It, They Just Put It in a Place Where It Can’t Be Found”– Remembering Subterfuge among Arab Palestinian Tobacco Cultivators under the British Rule [*] Abstracts [*] Integral work (requires a username + password)		Dr. Khaled Furani and Dr. Gerardo Leibner
63.	Itamar Manoff	2016	Semantic Frames in Second Language Pedagogy: Repertoire Production and Acculturation in Asymmetric Discourse [*] Vol I + Vol II: Appendices		Prof. Rakefet Sela-Sheffy & Prof. Tamar Sovran
64.	Osnat Haramati	2016	Intercultural Tensions: East-West relationship in the 21st century in the British press [*] Vol I [*] Vol II: Appendices [*] Vol III: Appendices		Prof. Itamar Even-Zohar
65.	Chen Horak	2016	To be a Religious Artist: Religious Artists in the Field of Contemporary Art in Israel [*] Vol I [*] Vol II: Appendices (This volume is password protected. Please contact the author)		Prof. Itamar Even-Zohar
66.	Natanella Plavin	2017	“All in all, we have a cool country:” Visits of Israelis to foreign countries and their influence on perception of identity and considerations of emigration [*] Vol I [*] Vol II: Appendices		Prof. Itamar Even-Zohar
67.	Rana Awaisi	2017	“We did not cry at the hour of departure:” Internally Displaced Palestinians Coping with Memories of Displacement [*] Abstracts		Prof. Gadi Algazi
68.	Yarden Avital	2018	[*] Judeo-Sovieticus: Anti-Nostalgia and the Becoming of a New Self )English, Hebrew summary)		Prof. Gerardo Leibner
69.	Nany Ruben Drori	2018	[*] The Mall as a Space For Activity Options: Women over the age of fifty talk about Givatayim Mall		Prof. Itamar Even-Zohar
70.	Yasmin Einav Aharoni	2020	[*] "What shall we eat this evening?": An analysis of the "Israeli" dinner		Dr. Dafna Hirsch & Prof. Rakefet Sela-Sheffy
71.	Dorin Brener Turgeman	2020	[*] Identity Construction and Self-Presentation Among Volunteers and Workers of the National Red Cross Organization in Israel (MDA – Magen David Adom) [*] Vol. II: Appendix		Prof. Itamar Even-Zohar
72.	Revital Weil Gottshalk	2020	[*] Pain Talk: Identity and interaction among women suffering from chronic migraine		Prof. Rakefet Sela-Sheffy
73.	Anna Somershaf	2020	[*] Imagined Israeliness: Identity design and preservation of Israeli-Jewish immigrants in the physical community and in Facebook		Prof. Moshe Shokeid
74.	Hila Eitan	2020	[*] Temporarily Forever: Difficulties adapting to Israeli culture and acquiring it among young immigrants from the United States		Prof. Itamar Even-Zohar
75.	Netta Lavi	2021	[*] Taste Change of Food Consumption: The Israeli Coffee Culture as a Case Study		Prof. Itamar Even-Zohar
76.	Johnatan Verissimo Yanai	2021	[*] The Pedagogical Program of Ben Shemen Youth Village: Boarding School Graduates’ Narratives (1964-1980)		Prof. Gerardo Leibner & Prof. Avner Ben-Amos