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Yair Wallach is an Israeli-born, UK-based historian. He specialises in the urban history of the Middle East and is based at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). He is also a commentator on Israel/Palestine and on antisemitism.

Academic work

Wallach's website describes him as a "social and cultural historian of modern Palestine/Israel, studying the entangled and relational histories of Jews and Palestinians... focussed primarily on visual and material culture and on the urban fabric as sites and vehicles of contestation and transformation in late Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine"

He was a post-graduate researcher at Cambridge University, then a lecturer at SOAS.

His book, A City in Fragments: Urban Text in Modern Jerusalem was published by Stanford University Press in 2020.It won the Association for Jewish Studies’ Jordan Schnitzer Book Prize in 2022. In 2020-22, he was a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow, working on Ashkenazi Jewish migrants in Egypt, Palestine and Lebanon in the 19th and 20th century. He has written on Zionism for Ethnic and Racial Studies, Jewish Social Studies and other journals.

Commentary

References

1. ^ "Dr Yair Wallach". SOAS. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
2. Wallach, Yair (11 June 2023). "The racial logic of Palestine's partition". Ethnic and Racial Studies. 46 (8): 1576–1598. doi:10.1080/01419870.2022.2151845. ISSN 0141-9870.
3. Wallach, Yair (2024). "The Unexplored History of Ashkenazi Integration in Late Ottoman Palestine". Jewish Social Studies. 29 (1): 161–192. doi:10.2979/jss.00006. ISSN 1527-2028.

External links

• "Dr Yair Wallach". SOAS. Retrieved 7 January 2025.

• British historians