Prof. Hizky Shoham of Bar-Ilan University, Israel, heads the Program for Hermeneutics and Culture Studies and co-directs the Center for Cultural Sociology. He is also a research fellow at the Kogod Institute at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. His theoretical work examines the meanings of everyday conventions that seem meaningless by definition, while his empirical research focuses on the anthropological history of Zionism, the Yishuv, Israel, and world Jewry, with an emphasis on cultural processes that emerge from below with minimal institutional involvement. His most recent book is A Moving Feast: The Bar and Bat Mitzvah across Jewish Cultures (Berlin, De Gruyter, 2025).
