Publications
- Authored Books
“Nazi Fantasy”: Vilém Flusser and History as Site of Experiment (New York: Routledge, accepted for publication)
Photography and Jewish History: Five Twentieth-Century Cases (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Race and Photography: Racial Photography as Scientific Evidence, 1876–1980 (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2016)
Photography and Race: Racial Photography as Scientific Evidence, 1876–1980 (Ha-kibutz ha-meuchad/Yad Vashem: Tel Aviv, 2024) [Hebrew translation]
The Quest for Jewish Assimilation in Modern Social Science (New York and London: Routledge, 2008; paperback 2012)
- Edited Books
- Editor (with Margaret Olin), Photography and Imagination (Routledge: New York, 2019)
- Editor (with Dirk Rupnow), Ideas of “Race” in the History of the Humanities, (Palgrave MacMillan: London, 2017)
- Editor, The Jewish Body and Other Protruding Organs: A Selection of Essays by Sander Gilman (Resling: Tel Aviv, 2015) [Hebrew]
- Editor: Georg Simmel: "How Is Society Possible?" and Other Essays (Ha-kibutz ha-meuchad: Tel Aviv, 2012) [Hebrew]
- Journal Articles
- “Return to Jewish History,” special issue on the 7th of October War Israel Studies 29 (1) 2024, 148-162
- “Antisemitism as a Semiotic Problem: The Prehistory of the Definitions of Antisemitism,” Israel Studies (accepted for publication)
- (with Danny Trom) “The Fusion of Zionism and Science: The First Two Decades—And the Present Day?” Jews and Science: Casden Yearbook in Jewish Studies (2022), ed. Sander L. Gilman, 141–156
- “La photographie comme instrument de mesure: Rudolf Martin et la photographie anthropométrique,” Photographica 5 (5) 2022, 137–141 (trans. Jean-François Cornu) DOI : 10.54390/photographica.973
- “Antisemitism in Doubt: Historical and Methodological Reflections on Contemporary Europe,” Special issue on antisemitism, Zeitschrift für Pädagogik und Theologie 73 (2) 2021, 202–215
- “The Stranger as a Threshold Figure,” Special forum on Georg Simmel’s “The Stranger” and Jewish History, The Jewish Quarterly Review 111 (2) 2021, 314–317
- “History and ‘Noise,’” Special issue on David Engel’s “Away from a Definition of Antisemitism,” Zion LXXXV (1–4) 2020, 59–72 [Hebrew]
- “Georg Simmel’s Logic of the Future: ‘The Stranger,’ Zionism, and ‘Bounded Contingency,’” Theory Culture & Society 36 (5) 2019, 71–94
- “Two Modes of Political Engagement in Contemporary Israeli Photography,” Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture, 11 (2018), 85–108
- (with Sharon Livne) “Fundraising and Collaboration: The Administration of Hebrew University and the Germany Question, 1959–1965,” Naharaim: Journal of German-Jewish Culture History, 11 (1–2) 2017, 47–66
- “The ‘First Letters’ of Jacob Wahrman,” Leo Baeck Yearbook 61 (1) 2016, 199–218
- “The Israeli Paradigm of Territory,” Space and Culture (20) 2016, 127–138
- (with Sharon Livne), “Early Contacts in Genetics: A Historical and Sociological Perspective,” A special issue on early German-Israeli scientific relations, Simon Dubnow Yearbook 15 (2015), 371–198
- “Photographs and Economies of Demonstration: The Idea of the Jews as a Mixed-Race People,” Jewish Social Studies 20 (1), 2014, 150–183
- “Taboo and Classification: Post-1945 German Racial Writing on Jews," Leo Baeck Yearbook 58, 2013, 195–215
- “Anthropology, Standardisation and Measurement: Rudolf Martin and Anthropometric Photography,” British Journal for the History of Science 46 (3) 2013, 487–516
- “Science and ‘Race’ in Solomon Yudovin’s Photographic Documentation of Russian Jewry, 1912–1914,” Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture 6 (2012), 27–54
- “Argumentative Patterns and Epistemic Considerations: Responses to Anti-Semitism in the Conceptual History of Social Science," Jewish Quarterly Review 100 (3) 2010, 454–482
- “Circumventions and Confrontations: Responses to Anti-Semitism in Georg Simmel, Franz Boas, and Arthur Ruppin," Patterns of Prejudice, 44 (2) 2010, 195–215
- “Life in Two Dimensions: A Cultural History of ‘Territory’ in Israeli Culture,” Theory and Criticism 36 (10) 2010, 35–60 [Hebrew]
- “Surface, Depth, and Teleology in Israeli Culture: The Case of the Hebrew Expression ‘tachles bashetach,’" Jewish Culture and History 11 (3) 2009, 39–58
- “Ruppin and the Peculiarities of Race: A Response to Etan Bloom,” History of European Ideas 34 (1) 2008, 116–119
- “Extinction of Jewish Existence or a Modern Form of Identity? Assimilation as an Analytical Category in Early Formulations of Social Science," Iyunim Bitkumat Israel: Studies in Zionism, the Yishuv and the State of Israel 17, 2007, 179–195 [Hebrew]
- “End on Surface: Teleology and Ground in Israeli Culture,” Representations 97 (Winter) 2007, 123–150
- “Arthur Ruppin's Concept of Race,” Israel Studies 11 (3) 2006, 1–30
- “Arthur Ruppin's Conception of Race and the Middle East,” Transversal: Zeitschrift für jüdische Studien 7 (2) 2006, 19–32
- “Method, Project, and the Racial Characteristics of Jews: A Comparison of Franz Boas and Hans F. K. Günther,” Jewish Social Studies, 13 (1) 2006, 136–169
- “The 'Negative' Jew and Individuality,” Jewish Quarterly Review 97 (1) 2006, 100–127
- “Race, Ideas, and Ideals: A Comparison of Franz Boas and Hans F. K. Günther,” History of European Ideas 32 (3) 2006, 313–332
- “Franz Boas’ Linguistic Paradigm and the Paradox of the Jews’ Group-Existence,” Studies in Contemporary Jewry 21, 2005, 252–269
- “From Autonomous Subject to Free Individual in Simmel and Lacan,” History of European Ideas 31 (1) 2005, 103–127
- “Epistemologies of Jewish Assimilation—Ethnic Markers and Social Scientific Paradigms,” Simon Dubnow Yearbook 3, 2004, 431–473
- “Three Paradigms of ‘The Negative Jew’: ‘Identity’ from Simmel to Zizek,” Jewish Social Studies 10 (2) 2004, 179–214
- “The Beautiful Jew Is a Moneylender’: Money and Individuality in Simmel’s Rehabilitation of the ‘Jew,’” Theory Culture & Society 20 (4) 2003, 127–142
- “Simmel’s and Lacan’s Ethics of the Exception,” Telos 123 (Spring) 2002, 131–148
- “What Will Be Done With the Shattered Subject? Simmel’s and Lacan’s Radically Contrasting Views,” Almanac of Psychoanalysis III (2002), 187–197
- Book Chapters
- “Aspects of Asymmetry in Visual Stereotypes,” in: Susanne Korbel et. al. (eds.), Jewish History and Culture beyond Borders (London: Bloomsbury, forthcoming).
- “History and Noise,” in Guy Miron and Scott Ury (eds.), Antisemitism: Historical Concept, Public Discourse (Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2023), 45 – 64.
- “Zionism and the ‘Jewish Pathos Formula’ in Helmar Lerski’s Type Photographs,” in Ofer Ashkenazi and Thomas Pegelow Kaplan (eds.), Rereading Jewish History and Memory Through Photography (forthcoming, NYU Press)
- “Science and Ideology: Photographic ‘Economies of Demonstration’ in Racial Science,” in Christopher P. Webster van Tonder (ed.), Photography in the Third Reich: Art, Physiognomy and Propaganda (Open Press: London, 2021), 205–237.
- (with Margaret Olin) “Introduction,” in Amos Morris-Reich and Margaret Olin (eds.), Photography and Imagination (New York: Routledge, 2019), xiv–xxiv
- (with Margaret Olin) “Epilogue: Photography and the Question of the Image,” in Amos Morris-Reich and Margaret Olin (eds.), Photography and Imagination (New York: Routledge, 2019), 193–199
- “Photography and Imagination in Nazi Racial Science,” in Amos Morris-Reich and Margaret Olin (eds.), Photography and Imagination (New York: Routledge, 2019), 102–117
- “Jews between Volk and Rasse,” in Richard McMahon (ed.), National Races: Transnational Power Struggles in the Sciences and Politics of Human Diversity, 1840–1945 (Lincoln: Nebraska University Press, 2019), 175–204
- “Society, Culture, and Demographics: Towards a Unified History,” in Dean Bell (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Jewish History and Historiography (New York: Routledge, 2018), 474–485
- “Arthur Ruppin’s Concept of Race,” in Kzia Alon (ed.), The Back Side of Israeli Photography (Tel Aviv: Gama, 2017), 97–136 [Hebrew]
- (with Dirk Rupnow) “Introduction,” in Amos Morris-Reich and Dirk Rupnow (eds.), Ideas of “Race” in the History of the Humanities (Palgrave MacMillan: London, 2017), 1–30
- “On the Beliefs of Antisemites: Mental Constructs and Political Practice in Chaim Weitzman," in Meir Chazan and Uri Cohen (eds.), Chaim Weizmann: New Studies (Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar, 2016), 103–136 [Hebrew]
- “From Assimilationist Anti-Racism to Zionist Anti-Antisemitism: Georg Simmel, Franz Boas and Arthur Ruppin," in Marcel Stoeltzer (ed.), Antisemitism and the Constitution of Sociology (Lincoln: Nebraska University Press, 2014), 160–182
- “After the Fact: 'Jews' in German Physical Anthropology, 1945–1992," in Efraim Sicher (ed.), Race, Color, Identity: Rethinking Discourses about “Jews” in the Twenty-First Century (Berghahn: Oxford, 2013), 217–233
- “Elements of Controversy: Responses to Antisemitism in Nascent German Social Science," in Dana Riesenfeld and Giovanni Scarafile (eds.), Philosophical Dialogue. Perspectives on Theory of Controversies and the Ethics of Communication—Explorations of Marcelo Dascal's Contributions to Philosophy (Heidelberg: Springer, 2013), 131–140
- “Introduction: Georg Simmel in His Historical and Intellectual Contexts," in How is Society Possible and Other Essays by Georg Simmel (Tel Aviv: Ha-kibutz ha-meuchad, 2012), 7–68 [Hebrew]
- “Analytical Principle and Life–Philosophy: The Racial Theory of Hans F. K. Günther," in Yair Auron (ed.), Racism (The Open University: Tel Aviv, 2010), 65–84 [Hebrew]
- “The Controversy over the Foundation of Sociology and Its Object: Simmel's Form versus Durkheim's Collectivity,” in Marcelo Dascal and Han-Liang Chang (ed.), Traditions of Controversy (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2007), 227–243
- “Bildung and German-Jewish History: Idea and Ethos,” in Ben Mollov (ed.), The German Jewish Encounter: Sixty Years After the War (Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University Press, 2006), 38–47
- Encyclopedia Entries
- “Georg Simmel,” Bryan S. Turner (ed.), Blackwell–Wiley Encyclopedia of Social Theory (New York: Blackwell-Wiley, 2017 [online])
- “Typus,” Dan Diner (ed.), Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, Vol. 6, (Stuttgart/Weimar: Brill, 2016), 89–93
- “European Jewish Sociology,” Naomi Seidman (ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Jewish Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014)
- (with Tally Gur) “Palästina Amt,” Dan Diner (ed.), Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, Vol. 4 (Stuttgart/Weimar: Brill, 2013), 478–482
- “Assimilation,” Dan Diner (ed.), Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, Vol. 1 (Stuttgart/Weimar: Brill, 2011), 171–176
- Museum Catalogues
- “Race, Photography, and Jews between Ethnology and Folklore: A Perspective from the History of Science,” The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, for the catalogue for the exhibition on Erich Brauer [in print, Hebrew]
- “The Color of the Jews as a Question: A Perspective from the History of Science,” The Jewish Museum, Vienna, for the catalogue of the exhibition “Colors”[in print]
- “The Portraits from the Fayum Region in Egypt in Nazi Germany,” Online Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search#!?q=morris%20reich
- Book Reviews
- “The Science of Skulls from a Global Perspective,” review of James Poskett, Materials of the Mind: Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815–1920 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019), Metascience 29 (3) Nov. 2020, 421–423
- Review of Etan Bloom, Arthur Ruppin and the Production of Pre-Israeli Culture (Brill: Leiden, 2011), Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 31 (3) Spring 2013, 200–203
- Review of Veronika Lipphardt, Biologie der Juden: Jüdische Wissenschaftler über "Rasse" und Vererbung, 1900–1935 (Berlin: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008), Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 29 (2) 2011, 206–209
- Review of Mitchell B. Hart, The Healthy Jew (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), Studies in Contemporary Jewry 2010, 192–193
- Review of Susannah Heschel, The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008), The Journal of Religion 89, 2009, 586–587
- Review of Cyril Reade, Mendelssohn to Mendelsohn: Visual Case Studies of Jewish Life in Berlin (Bern: Peter Lang, 2007), Zion LXXIII (3) 2008, 367–370 [Hebrew]
- Other Publications
- “Israel, on the Cusp of Civil War?” K. Jews. Europe. XXIst Century, https://k-larevue.com/en/israel-on-the-cusp-of-civil-war/
- “Lodz, Ancient Egypt,” Alaxon [Hebrew], https://alaxon.co.il/thought/%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%93%D7%96%D7%B3-%D7%9E%D7%A6%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%94%D7%A2%D7%AA%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%94/
- (with Danny Trom), “On the Gray Area: Antisemitism and the Lexicon of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” K. Jews. Europe. XXIst Century, https://k-larevue.com/en/on-the-gray-area-antisemitism-and-the-lexicon-of-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict/
- “The Roles of Photography in the Study of Race,” ISF Laymen Report, https://isf.org.il/layperson-reports/%D7%AA%D7%A4%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%93%D7%95-%D7%A9%D7%9C-%D7%94%D7%A6%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9D-%D7%91%D7%97%D7%A7%D7%A8-%D7%94%D7%B4%D7%92%D7%96%D7%A2%D7%B4-20190527084142.html
- “Reading Faces,” Jews Beyond Reason, Herbert D. Katz Center Web Exhibition 2015–2016, http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/cajs/fellows16/cajs2016.html
- “Invisible Conflicts,” Protocols: History and Theory, October 26, 2012
- Contributor, “Yad Vashem,” Eclipse of Humanity: The History of the Jews in the Holocaust, Educational Disc, Yad Vashem 2000
- “'Individual Law' and Universal Ethics: A Question through a Heretic Sociologist,” Freudian Notebooks 2003 [Hebrew]