Asher Salah

Asher Salah (born 1967 in Florence, Italy) is an Israeli historian. He is one of the leading specialists in the literature of the Italian Jews, and a translator of Hebrew literature. He has written extensively in cinema studies and contemporary Middle East politics working as a columnist for different Italian newspapers.

Education and teaching

Salah went to school in Spain, Argentina and Italy before entering the University of Geneva where he graduated in political philosophy. He received his Ph.D. in Paris with a thesis on Italian Jewish Literature in the 18th century. He immigrated to Israel in 1991. He teaches at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem since 1998 and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1998 to 2005 and since 2008. He is a member of the ASSEI (Israeli Historical Association of Italian Jewish Studies), of the AISG (Associazione Italiana per lo Studio del Giudaismo) and of the AIS (Association of Israel Studies). He has been the president of the Swiss Union of Jewish Students (UEJS) from 1988 to 1990, MP of the European Union of Jewish Students, researcher for the Israel Democracy Institute, from 1997 to 1999 and he is presently vice-president of the Dante Alighieri Society in Jerusalem.

Awards and Fellowships

Publications

Books
Selected articles on Jewish Literature and History
Selected articles 0n Film Studies
Selected articles On Israel
Book Translations

External links

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