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Avi Picard

Soft Religiosity: The Identity of North African Youths
in Israel in the 1950's

Brief Biography

Avi Picard is a visiting scholar at the Taub Center for Israel Studies at New York University. He received his Ph.D. from the History Department at Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. His dissertation is titled "Israeli Immigration and Absorption Policy for North African Jews, 1951-1956." A book based on this dissertation is in the process of being published. Dr. Picard has taught at Ben Gurion University, Achva Academic College and Hertzog College in Israel. He was a Fulbright Post Doctorate fellow at The Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University and served as a Schusterman Professor in Israel Studies at the University of Maryland and at Rutgers University. His specialty is Israeli society, with an emphasis on ethnicity. He has published articles on immigration, development towns in Israel, and the Shas political movement (Sephardic ultra-Orthodox party). He is currently working on a book about religious identities of Mizrahi Jews in Israel.