Areas of Research/Interest: Israeli identity formation, immigrant absorption and the integration of Holocaust Survivors into Israeli society, the relationship between mental health and gender.
Fellowships/Honors: 2008, Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Award for Junior Scholars, Brandeis University; 2007: Abramovicz Fellowship Emerging Scholar, Yivo; 2006-2008: Dorot Post-Doctoral Fellowship, New York University, Skirball Center; 2006, Bucerius Fellowship, Haifa University; 2003-2004: School of History, Tel-Aviv University; 2003: Neuberger-Fund, Institute for German History, Tel-Aviv University; 2001: Institute for German History, Tel-Aviv University; 1999 Institute for German History, Tel-Aviv University; 1999: Levkowich- Fund, Tel-Aviv University; 1998: Lessing-Fund, Tel-Aviv University; 1996-1997, Munich Municipality.
Select Publications:
(In English)
Zalashik R., Psychoanalysis and Colonialism – The Case of Wulf Sachs (1893-1949), Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für Deutsche Geschichte; 2004; XXXII: 93-106.
Zalashik R., The Psychiatric Asylum In Bnei-Brak and “The Society For The Help Of The Insane”, 1929-1939, Korot, 2003-2004; 17: 47-69.
Zalashik R., Psychiatry, Ethnicity and Migration: The Case of Palestine 1920-1948, Dynamis; 2005; 25: 403-422.
Zalashik R. Davidovitch N., Last Resort? Lobotomy Operations in Israel, 1946-1960, Journal for the History of Psychiatry, 2006; 17: 91-106.
Zalashik R. Davidovitch N., Measuring Adaptability: Psychological Examinations of Jewish Detainees in Cyprus Internment Camps, Science in Context, 2006; 19: 419-441.
Davidovitch N., Zalashik R., Guest Editors, Medical Borders: Historical, Political, and Cultural Analyses, Science in Context, 2006; 19: 309-316.
Davidovitch N. Zalashik R., Recalling the Survivors: Between Memory and Forgetfulness of Hospitalized Holocaust Survivors in Israel, Israeli Studies, 2007; 12.2.
Davidovitch N., Zalashik R., Air, Sun, Water: Ideology and Activities of OZE During the Interwar Period, Dynamis, 2008; 28: 127-149.
Zalashik R., Ad Nafesh: Refugees, Immigrants, Newcomers and the Israeli Psychiatric Establishment, Tel-Aviv: Hakibutz Hameukhad, 2008.
