Research

Dr. des. Shaul Marmari

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Editorial coordinator of the blog »Mimeo«;
Affiliated Researcher

mimeo(at)dubnow.de

Working at the Dubnow Institute as an affiliated researcher in the research unit »Politics« and since 2023 as an editorial coordinator of the blog »Mimeo«. PhD Candidate from 2018 to 2024.

Studied History and Global History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and completed his MA degree in 2018. Subject of the Master's thesis: »Red Sea Horizons: Palestine and the Jewish-Yemeni Diaspora, 1881–1948«. 2024 PhD at the Leipzig University. Subject of PhD thesis: »A Jewel in the Crown: Arabian Jews and British India«.

Dissertation Project

A Jewel in the Crown: Arabian Jews and British India

Research Interests

  • Indian Ocean history (modern and pre-modern periods),
  • History of Palestine/Israel
  • Migration and diaspora
  • Maritime history

Publications

Editorships

Straße, special iusse in: Jüdische Geschichte & Kultur. Magazin des Dubnow-Instituts 7 (2023), 4–41 (together with Nicolas Berg and Jakob Stürmann).

Essays and Articles

Grüße aus einem anderen Aden. Bilder der Moderne vom Crescent, in: Jüdische Geschichte & Kultur. Magazin des Dubnow-Instituts 7 (2023), 8 f.

The Forgotten Sea: Israel and the Red Sea, in: Hazman Hazeh. Magazine of Political Thought, Culture and Science, March 2023 (hebr.).

National and Transnational Trade: Israel and the Jewish-Yemeni Diaspora at the Red Sea, in: Iyunim 37 (2022), 201–225 (hebr.).

Marginalia. A Hebrew Book’s Trajectory, in: Mimeo. Blog der Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden am Dubnow-Institut [Weblog], 26 April 2022.

Cradles of Diaspora: Bombay, Aden and Jewish Migration across the Indian Ocean, in: Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Asian Interactions 19:2 (2020), 1–32.

The »Rothschilds of Arabia«. Jewish-Yemeni Merchants in Palestine and Beyond, in: Mimeo. Blog der Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden am Dubnow-Institut [Weblog], 28 May 2019.

The Israel Prize, the State and the Intellectuals: Creating Israeli Culture in an Emerging Nation, in: Israelis 8 (2017), 49–78 (hebr.).