Michal Aharony

Michal Aharony is an Israeli political scientist specialized in political philosophy and Holocaust studies. 

Overview

Aharony is one of the editors of The Journal of Holocaust Research, a bilingual peer-reviewed academic journal published quarterly by the Weiss-Livnat International Center for Holocaust Research and Education, Routledge, and the Ghetto Fighters' House. As of June 2025, she has an h-index of 5 and an i10-index of 2.

Early life

Aharony got a BA in international relations and an MA in political science from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Career

Aharony did her PhD at the New School for Research in New York City. She worked as a research fellow at the Miles Lerman Center for the Study of Jewish Resistance and the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature & Cultural History for the project "Total Domination: Between Conception and Experience: Rethinking the Arendtian Account through Holocaust Testimony", then as an adjunct instructor at Hofstra University, and a research assistant at The Lauder School of Government, Policy and Diplomacy at the Inter-Disciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel,  before joining The Journal of Holocaust Research.

Works

Articles

  Publications List (year in descending order) 
 Aharony, M. (2022). A Special Issue of The Journal of Holocaust Research in Honor of Yehuda Bauer on His 95th Birthday: Introduction. The Journal of Holocaust Research, 36(1), 1–6.
 Aharony, M. (2021). Fredy Hirsch: Changing Perspectives on his Memory. Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 35(1), 1–24.
 Aharony, M. & Landa, I. (2019). Fascism, Extremism, and Extermination. The Journal of Holocaust Research, 33(1), 1–3.
 Aharony, M. (2019). Why does Hannah Arendt's' Banality of Evil'still anger Israelis?". Haaretz.
 Aharony, M. & Rosenfeld, G. D. (2016). Holocaust Commemoration: New Trends in Museums and Memorials. Dapim: Studies on the Holocaust, 30(3), 162–165.
 Aharony, M. (2015). Nihilism and antisemitism: the reception of Céline's Journey to the End of the Night in Israel. Rethinking History, 19(1), 111–132.
 Aharony, M. (2013). Über das Lager – die Vernichtung des Menschen als Menschen in der Totalen Herrschaft. Ambivalenzen der Ordnung: Der Staat im Denken Hannah Arendts, 95–118.
 Aharony, M. (2010). Hannah Arendt and the idea of total domination. Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 24(2), 193–224.
 Aharony, M. (2009). Total Domination–Between Conception and Experience: Rethinking the Arendtian Account Through Holocaust Testimonies.  

Books

  Publications List (year in descending order) 
 Aharony, M. (2015). Hannah Arendt and the limits of total domination: The Holocaust, plurality, and resistance, Routledge, 2015.

Conference papers

  Publications List (year in descending order) 
 Aharony, M. (2004). The Construction of Israeli Collective Memory of the Holocaust in the Formative Years of Israel. Conference on History natters: Spaces of violence, spaces of memory, at the New School University.

Related pages

 Shira Klein
 Havi Dreifuss
 Shimon Redlich
 Saul Friedländer
 Renée Poznanski

Footnotes



References

Category:Israeli historians
Category:Historical studies
Category:Jewish academics