Prof. Rachel
Sharaby is a
historical sociologist. She is a lecturer at the Sociology and Anthropology
Department of the Ashkelon Academic College and at the Interdisciplinary
Department of Social Sciences of Bar-Ilan University. She is an editor of the
journal “Hagira – Israel Journal of Migration”, which is published by the Israel
Sociology Society and the Ruppin Academic Center. Her researches were published
in scientific journals and congresses in Israel and around the world, and deal
in immigration, settlement, tradition and modernity, intercultural encounter,
syncretism and gender.
Her books include: The
Sephardic Settlement in Jerusalem towards the End of the Ottoman Period
(Ministry of Defense, 1989); Syncretism and Adjustment: Encounter between a
Traditional Community and a Socialist Soceity (Zerichover, 2002); The
Mimouna Holiday: From the Periphery to the Center (Hakibbutz Hameuchad and
Yad Ben Zvi, 2009). She also edited the anthology: Women Immigrants (in
the journal: Sugiot Hevratiot Be’Israel, vol. 14, 2012).