Marco Di Giulio Associate Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature

PhD University of Florence

Disability history, history of the Hebrew language, Israel studies

2022     Travel Grant, Association for Israel Studies,  38th annual conference,  Bar-Ilan University, June 27-29
2014-2015      Adjunct Fellow, Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, "New Perspectives on the Origins, Context, and Diffusion of the Academic Study of Judaism"
2013-2014       Dorset Fellow, Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies "On the Word of a Jew: Oaths, Testimonies, and the Nature of Trust," Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Yarnton Manor, Oxford
2011       Jacob Kabakoff Memorial Grant (travel grant)
2010       Summer Institute for Israel Studies, Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University
Publications

MONOGRAPH

Disability in Israel (1920-1960) (under advance contract, McGill-Queen's University Press)

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

“Contesting the Politics of British Prosthetic Care: Pain, Nativeness, and the Plight of Palestinian Jewish Amputees in WWII,” in eds. Sara Scalenghe and Beverly Tsacoyianis, Disability History in the Middle East (Bloomsbury Press, forthcoming).

“Beyond Silenced Voices: Gender, Power, and Psychiatric Care in Mandatory Palestine,” All of Us (May 2024). Https://allofusdha.org/research/beyond-silenced-voices-gender-power-and-psychiatric-care-in-mandatory-palestine/

"Motherhood, Mental Incompetence, and the Denial of Reproductive Autonomy in the Early Years of Israeli Statehood." Journal of Social History (2024): shad087. Https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shad087

“Killing out of Compassion: Disability, Care, and the Value of Life in the Early Decades of Israeli Statehood,” Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 23.2 (2024): 327-347. DOI: 10.1080/14725886.2023.2227611

"The Origins of Israeli Deaf Ethnicity." Jewish Social Studies  27.2 (2022): 144-182

"Negotiations of Jewish Memory: Rome's Holocaust Museum and the Progetto Talmud Babilonese." Annali d'Italianistica  36 (2018): 415-440.

"Protecting the Jewish Throat: Hebrew Accent and Hygiene in the Yishuv," The Journal of Israeli History 35.2 (2016): 1-23.

"Scholarship, Politics, and Jewish Identity in Italian Post-Unification Academia," History of Universities 29.1 (2016): 88-111.

"S. D. Luzzatto's Program for Restoring Jewish Leadership in Hebrew Studies," Jewish Quarterly Review 105.3 (summer 2015): 340-366.

"Resisting Modernity: Jewish Translations of Scripture and Rabbinic Literature in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Italy," Modern Judaism 35.2 (May 2015): 203-232.

"There is no time more pleasurable than when I converse in the sacred language.  A plan for the revival of spoken Hebrew in 19th-Century Italy," Hebrew Studies 53 (2012): 203-230.

“Mitigating Devices in Biblical Hebrew,” Kleine Untersuchungen zur Sprache des Alten Testaments und seiner Umwelt 8/9 (2008): 33-62.

“Pragmatics as a Theoretical Framework for Interpreting Ancient Hebrew Texts: An Appraisal,” Materia Giudaica XII/1-2 (2007): 51-61

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

“Exclamations in Modern Hebrew,” “Italy, Hebrew in (Modern Period),” “Discourse markers in Biblical Hebrew,” “Pragmatic studies in Biblical Hebrew,” “Exclamations in Biblical Hebrew” in G. Khan (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, Leiden (2013)

INVITED TALK

2022  "The Deaf Community in Israel: Israeli Dancer and Poet Tami Assouline in Conversation with Professor Marco Di Giulio." Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, Brandeis University (8 November).

2017 “Explaining Modernization of Jews in Nineteenth Century Italy.” Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Jews in Modern Europe Study Group.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATION

2023 “Taking the Wheel: Automobility and the Israeli Disabled Veteran Community.”  AJS 55th Annual Conference (17–19 December). 

2023 “Contesting the Politics of British Prosthetic Care: Pain, Nativeness, and the Plight of Palestinian Jewish Amputees in WWII.” 39th Annual Conference of the Association for Israel Studies (26–28 June)

2023 “Contesting the Politics of British Prosthetic Care: Pain, Nativeness, and the Plight of Palestinian Jewish Amputees in WWII.” Online Conference on Histories of Disability and Emotions, Leuven Centre for Health Humanities, organizers Pieter Verstraete, Sara Scalenghe, and Ninon Dubourg (13–15 June)

2022 "The Will to Work: Disabled War Veterans and the Israeli Prosthetics Industry."  Association for Jewish Studies 54th Annual Conference, Boston (18–20 December)

2021 “'Mental Retardation', Parent Advocacy, and the Need for Undisrupted Domesticity in the Early Decades of Israeli Statehood." Association for Jewish Studies 53rd Annual Conference, Chicago (19–21 December)

2018 "What Does a Healthy Zionist Look Like? Medical Rationing and the Redefinition of Disability in the Yishuv."  Association for Jewish Studies 50th Annual Conference, Boston (16–18 December)

2017 “The Society for the Hard of Hearing and the Beginnings of Deaf Activism in the Yishuv.” Association for Jewish Studies 49th Annual Conference, Washington, DC (17–19 December)

2016 “Hebrew Language and Hygiene in the Yishuv.” 32nd Annual Conference of the Association for Israel Studies (18-20 June)

2014 Roundtable “On the Word of a Jew: The Problem of Trust in Jewish History.” Association for Jewish Studies 46th Annual Conference", Baltimore, MD (14–16 December)

2014 “Jewish Academics and Cultural Politics in Post-Unification Italy.” 10th Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies, Paris (20–24 July)

2013 "Trustworthy Educators in a New Nation: Jewish Academics in Post-Unification Italy." Oriental Institue, Oxford University, UK (4 December)

2012 "Reclaiming Hebrew Studies: Language and National Pride in Ninenteenth-Century Italian Scholarship."  American Association for Italian Studies 32nd Annual Conference, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC (3-5 May)

2011 "National Implications in the Linguistic Theory of S. D. Luzzatto." AJS 43rd annual conference, Washington, DC (18-20 December)

2011 "Instructing youngsters to speak the pure tongue today in an easy and pleasurable manner: Hebrew schoolbooks in 19th-Century Italy." NAPH Conference on Hebrew Language, Literature and Culture, University of Maryland in College Park (28-30 June)

2011 “When Dialog Met Grammar: Hebrew Learning in 19th-century Italy.” The American Association for Italian Studies. XXXI Conference, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh (7-9 April)

2011 "Hebrew Revivalist Tendencies in 19th Century Italy," Forging Linguistic Identities, Towson University, Towson (17-19 March)

2010“’Conversing in the sacred language is pleasurable to me …’ A 19th-Century Grammar and the Italian Contribution to the Hebrew Language Revival.” AJS 42nd annual conference, Boston (19-21 December)  

Dr. DiGiulio's recent courses include Modern Hebrew and Disability Across Borders.