Books

Israeli Culture Between the Two Intifadas: A Brief Romance, University of Texas Press, Fall 2008 .
Reviews
Orientalism and the Hebrew Imagination, Cornell University Press, 2005 .
Reviews
Derech Gever, Homoeroticism in Hebrew Literature, 1880-200, Shufra, 2003 (in Hebrew).
Reviews
Brandeis Modern Hebrew, New England University Press, 2002, 2003, 2004.


Articles

- "Ecce Homo: The Transfiguration of Manhood in Israeli Cinema," submitted to Identities in Motion, University of Texas Press.

- "Zionism and Postcolonialism in Y. H. Brenners' Short Story 'Avla'." Hador, 2008.

- "From Black to White: The Changing Image of Mizrahim in Israeli Cinema, 1960-2000." Journal of Israel Studies, Volume 13, Number 2, Summer 2008, pp. 122-145.

- "Love, Suddenly: Etgar Keret and the Emergence of Hebrew Romance." Forthcoming in Hebrew Studies, 2008.

- "Israeli Identity in a Post-Zionist Age," Ruth Wisse festschrist, 2007.

- "Heroic Conduct: Homoeroticism and the Creation of Modern, Jewish Masculinities," Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture, Society n.s. 13, no. 1, (Fall 2007): 31-58.

- "Love at First Sight David, Jonathan and the Biblical Politics of Gender," Journal for the Study of Old Testament, Vol 30.2 (2005): 171-189.

- "The Unbearable Lightness of Being Jewish in America: Anxiety and Success in the American Hebrew Short story," Hadoar, September, 2003.

- "The Critic as a Dialectical Zionist: Gershon Shaked's Hebrew Fiction 1880-1980," Prooftexts, volume 23, No. 3, Fall 2003.


Work in Progress

- Hebrew literature in American, 1900-1950. A critical anthology of poetry and prose. This is a joint project with Alan Mintz of the Jewish Theological Seminary and the Heksherim Institute of the Ben Gurion University in the Negev.

- Israeli Cinema Reader. A comprehensive anthology of articles on Israeli cinema in a critical-historical perspective. This is a joint project with Dr. Miri Talmon-Bohm.

      Associate Proffessor of Hebrew
      Coordinator Hebrew Program
      Department of Classical & Semitic Languages and Literatures
      George Washington University
      Phillips Hall 343
      ypeleg@gwu.edu
      (202)994-6198