Dr David Borabeck

Research Interests

Research Disciplines:

  • History

Research Keywords:

  • Israel/Palestine
  • Religion
  • Nationalism
  • Ethnicity
  • Sovereignty
  • Sanctity
  • Space
  • Bureaucracy

Countries:

  • Israel
  • Palestine

Research Cluster:

 

Contact Information

Email: david.borabeck@area.ox.ac.il

Telephone: 01865 613826

Publications

Articles

  • David Borabeck, "Every new synagogue is both a religious and a security fortress": Synagogues in Israeli Urban Internal Frontiers as Symbols of Sovereignty, Palestine/Israel Review 2(2): 2025.
  • David Borabeck, "Although they are Religious at the other Mitzvot": Observant Orientalism at the Religious-Zionist Bnei-Akiva Youth Movement, 1948-1967, Israel 31-32 (2024), pp. 323-346. [Hebrew]

Other publications

  • Pnina Shuker and David Borabeck, Introduction: Sacred Spaces in the Middle East - Catalysts of Conflict and Coexistence, Nexus: A Review of Middle Eastern Religions and Politics.
  • David Borabeck, Between the Normal and the Messianic: Post-October 7th Thoughts, Yashar (5.12.2023) [Hebrew]
  • David Borabeck, Habitus, Reflection, and the Destruction of the Sovereign Limits of the Jewish Theological-Political Imagination, Yashar (9.8.2023) [Hebrew]