My researh focuses on early modern European social and cultural history; history of the family in Europe and in Israel; History of women and of children. I am currently engaged in research about memoirs and family-history books which appeared in Israel between 2000-2018.
I live in Jerusalem, and am a mother of five.
* Leo Gaeck Fellowship program (German Studienstiftung) (2011-12)
* Guggenheim Scholarship for research in Jewish Ethics (2010)
* Scholion Research Fellowship for Doctoral candidates (2007-2010)
* Polonsky prize for Creativity and Originality in Humanistic Discipline (2009)
Academic Book:
Noa Shashar, Agunot Ugvarim Ne'elamim [Hebrew], Carmel, Jerusalem (2019, Forthcoming)
Articles in peer-reviewed periodicals:
Herzog O. and Shashar N. “I’ve Received Permission to Sing: Feminism, Religion and Humor Online” in: Humor Mekuvan – The Israeli Journal of Humor, 5 (2015, [Hebrew])
Shashar N, “Forever Anchored? Attitudes toward 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) b.
Chapters in peer reviewed books:
Shashar N. “Hebrew Woman, Who Shall Know thy plight? – Brief historical survey” in: Ariel-Yoel D. (ed.) Baruch She'asani Isha, Jerusalem (1999) pp. 57-74 [Hebrew]
Shashar N. “The Impact of Feminism on Religious Zionism” in: Ariel-Yoel D. (ed.) Baruch She'asani Isha, Jerusalem (1999), pp. 207-223 [Hebrew]
Family histories:
Shashar N., Not on Bread Alone – The Histories of the Krell and Murachovsky Families, Shashar Publishing, Jerusalem (2015)
Shashar N., Mazkeret Rishonim: The Story of the Levin and Miller Families in Mazkeret Batya (2013, [Hebrew])
Shashar N., Between Worlds: The Story of the Irma and Matthias Fischer Family (2003, [Hebrew])
Proceedings:
Shashar N., “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)
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 of Polish Jewry Jagiellonian University, Department Of Jewish Studies, Kraków
May 2010: Rabbinic attitudes towards deserted Women’s pain in Germany 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 Century Germany. Conference: “Jewish Family Law” Fordham University Law School and 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 in Europe”, Bath Spa University, Great Britain