Dr. Andre Levy
Born: 1957, Morocco
Academic Qualifications:
    Ph.D. 1996, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Lecturer 1996 .
Academic Positions:
Department of Sociology - Anthropology - Senior Lecturer
Research Interests:
Diasporas, as well as identity politics and ethnicity in Israel. Examining the conjunctures and meeting points between social and political organization and ethnic identities.
Research Projects:
Conceptualization of ``diasporas``, ``ethnic identitities``, ``peripheriality`` as well as identity politics and ethnicity in Israel. Examining the conjunctures and meeting points between social and political organization and ethnic identities.
Publications:
  • Levy, André. Conditional Homelands and Diasporas: Moroccan Jewish Perspectives Studies in Contemporary Jewry 22: 210-226 (2007)
  • Weingrod, Alex and Levy, André . Paradoxes of Homecoming: The Jews and Their Diasporas Anthropological Quarterly 79(4): 691-716 (2006)
  • Andre Levy. Notes on Jewish-Muslim Relationships: Revisiting the Vanishing Moroccan Jewish Community. Cultural Anthropology. 18(4): 365-397 (2003)
  • Andre Levy. Diasporas through Anthropological Lenses: Contexts of Postmodernity Diaspora 9(1): 137-157 (2000)
  • . Playing for Control of Distance: Card Games between Jews and Muslims on a Casablancan Beach American Ethnologist 26(3): 632-653 (2000)
  • Andre Levy. Controlling Space, Essentializing Identities: Jews in Contemporary Casablanca City And Society 1998: 175-199 (1998)
  • Levy, A.. To Morocco and Back: Tourism and Pilgrimage among Moroccan-Born Israelis. Grasping Land: Space and Place in Contemporary Israeli Discourse and Experience. E. Ben-Ari and Y. Bilu, eds. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.: 25-46 (1997)
  • Bilu, Y. & Levy, A.. Nostalgia and Ambivalence: The Reconstruction of Jewish-Muslim Relations in Oulad-Mansour. Modern Sephardi and Middle-Eastern Jewries: History and Culture. H. Goldberg, E., ed. Bloomington, IND.: Indiana University Press.: 288-311 (1997)
Books:
  • Levy, André and Alex Weingrod, Homelands and Diasporas: Holy Lands and Other Places, 262, Stanford University Press , 2005
Keywords:Ethnicity, Space, Diasporas, Minorities.
Phones:
  1. Phone: 972-8-6472068
  2. Fax: 972-8-6472932
Email:andre@bgu.ac.il
Last Time Updated: 20/11/2008