Dr Yair Berlin
- British Academy Newton International Fellow
- Research Associate, Sidney Sussex College
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Yair Berlin He is a British Academy Newton International Fellow at The Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Cambridge and a Research Associate at Sidney Sussex College. His research focuses on the emotional dimensions of the Zionist negation of the diaspora. He wrote his PhD on religious emotions in the Lithuanian Haredi community through the Program for Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies at Bar-Ilan University.
Research
Research interests
- Cultural and historical study of emotions
- Religious emotions
- Nationalism
- Fear
- Happiness
- Jewish textuality
- Zionism and Israel studies.
Recent publications:
“Revisiting Fear in Zionism: Pogroms and the Emergence of ‘Jewish fear’ as a problem in Zionist discourse”. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Volume 24, No. 3-4, (2025) 755–778. doi:10.1080/14725886.2025.2545789.
“Falling in Love with Scripture: Intellectuality and Emotionality in Lithuanian Haredi Torah Study”, Religions 16, no. 5: 613 (2025). https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16050613
"Beyond the Negativity of the Emotion of Fear: religious fear as a case in point", Emotions and Society, Early View, DOI: 10.1332/26316897Y2024D000000048
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Co-Teacher MES19