Acdemic Affiliation
Adjunct lecturer at the Department of Culture, Creation and Production
SapirAcademicCollege, Sderot (2011 – Current)
Post Doctoral Fellow,Ben-GurionUniversity, Beer-Sheba (2012-2013)
Research Topic: Free-time Activity in Early-modern German Jewish Life
Supervisor, Prof. Edward Fram, Department of Jewish History
Non-Academic Occupation
Lecturer at “Alma– Home for Hebrew Culture”, Tel-Aviv (2011-Current)
Director of Shashar Publishing & Initiatives in Culture and Education
Current projects: research and publication of family histories for private clients.
Education
2007- 2012: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Jewish History, Ph.D. Dissertation: Deserted Women and Disappearing men in Ashckenaz 1648-1850. Supervisor: Professor Immanuel Etkes. (Dissertation approval August 2012)
2007: The Hebrew Universityof Jerusalem, M.A. Thesis: The Role of Niddah Purity Laws in Daily Lives of Ashkenazi Jews in 17th-19th Centuries
2000: Jewish Theological Seminary (JerusalemBranch - Schechter Institute)Jerusalem, M.A. Jewish and Gender Studies
1986-1990: TheHebrewUniversityofJerusalem, B.A. History of Theatre and Humanities
Awards and Fellowships
Leobaeck Fellowship program (German Studienstiftung) (October 2010-September 2011)
Guggenheim Scholarship for research in Jewish Ethics (2009-2011)
Scholion Research Fellowship for Doctoral candidates (October 2007-September 2010)
Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines (2009)
Presentations at Conferences and Workshops:
July 2013: Marital Conflicts Before the Jewish Courts inGermany, 1750-1800,
The Sixteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies,Jerusalem
July 2012: Agunot in Seventeenth-Century Hamburg-Altona: Reality and
Representation of Jewish and Feminine Identities, Leo-Baeck fellowship
program seminar in Freudental.
July 2010: Agunot in responsa written by Galician Rabbis 1650-1850, The Summer
Workshop for Polish and Israeli PhD Students and Young Scholars on the
History and Culture ofPolishJewry JagiellonianUniversity, Department of
Jewish Studies, Kraków,
May 2010 in Germany : Rabbinic attitudes towards deserted Women’s pain
1648-1829. Conference: “Knowledge and Pain”, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
February 2010: Real Agunot among Real Rabbis: The Meaning of Jewish Law a
Specific Social Context, 18th CenturyGermany. Conference: “Jewish
Family Law”FordhamUniversityLawSchooland Jewish Law
Association,New York
August 2009: Living Widows: Widows and “Anchored Women” in 17th and 18th
Century in German-speaking Jewish Communities
Conference: “Gender and Loss: Experiencing Widowhood inEurope”,
BathSpaUniversity, Great Britian
Publications:
(Currently reworking my Dissertation titled Deserted Women and Disappearing men in Ashckenaz 1648-1850 into a book)
Shashar Noa, “Real Agunot among Real Rabbis: The Meaning of Jewish Law in a Specific Social Context” in: Proceedings of the Agunah Summit, Jofa and Tikva Foundation, New-York (June 2013)
Shashar Noa, "Forever Anchored? Attitudes towards Deserted Women and Deserting Men in Jewish Thought and Practice: 18th-21st Centuries," in: Alessio Nencini and David White (eds .(Ethics in Everyday Life, Inter-Disciplinary Press,Oxford, (2010)
Shashar Noa, “Hebrew Woman, Who Shal know thogh plight? – Brief historical survey” (Hebrew), in: Ariel-Yoel D. (ed.), Baruch Sheaasani Isha,Jerusalem (1999) pp. 74-75
)ששר-אטון נועה, אשה עבריה מי ידע חייך- סקירה היסטורית חטופה בתוך: אריאל-יואל ד. (עורך) ברוך
שעשני אשה? (1999) עמ' 74-57(
Shashar Noa, “The impact of Feminism on religious Zionism” (Hebrew), in: Ariel-Yoel D. (ed.), Baruch Sheaasani Isha,Jerusalem (1999) pp. 207-223
)ששר-אטון נועה, גילוי חדש של הרצון האלוהי: השפעת הפמיניזם על הציונות הדתית בתוך: הנ"ל
עמ' 207-223(