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Dr. Yair Berlin serves as a British Academy Newton International Fellow and College Research Associate at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, conducting interdisciplinary research at the intersection of cultural history and emotion studies with specialized focus on Jewish communities and Zionist discourse.
His academic formation includes a PhD from Bar-Ilan University earned through the Program for Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies, where his dissertation investigated religious emotional frameworks within the Israeli Ultra-Orthodox community.
Berlin's research program critically examines how emotions operate within collective identity formation, particularly analyzing the emotional dimensions of the Zionist negation of diaspora and religious affective practices in Haredi Judaism. His methodological approach synthesizes historical analysis, anthropological observation, and religious studies theory to deconstruct culturally specific emotional paradigms, revealing how fear, love, and intellectual engagement manifest in Jewish textual traditions and communal life. This work significantly contributes to expanding the history of emotions beyond Western-centric frameworks.
His recent publications demonstrate rigorous thematic continuity in exploring religious emotions through case studies of Lithuanian Haredi Torah study and religious fear phenomena, establishing a distinctive scholarly voice that bridges emotion theory with Jewish cultural analysis across historical contexts.
His principal recognition includes:
- British Academy Newton International Fellowship
Berlin's current fellowship supports independent research without indication of student supervision or major grant administration beyond the award itself. No laboratory affiliations or collaborative research teams are specified in available documentation.
