About me

Emanuela Barasch Rubinstein is a writer and an independent researcher in the Humanities.

Emanuela was born in Jerusalem. Her father, Moshe Barasch, was an art historian. He encouraged her humanistic education and enthusiastically nurtured her intellectual curiosity. The choice of studying in the faculty of the Humanities at the Hebrew University was a natural one. Her B.A. is in Comparative Literature and Philosophy. Her M.A. and Ph.D. are in the field of Comparative Religion. She taught at the Comparative Religions graduate program at Tel Aviv University and is now teaching at the Reichman University (IDC) in Herzlya. She lives in Tel Aviv but often travels to London, as her husband is a professor at the London School of Economics.

Emanuela has published scholarly books on the cultural perception of Nazism. Her books, The Devil, the Saints, and the Church (Peter Lang, 2004), and Nazi Devil (Magnes Press, 2010) deal with literary descriptions of the Nazis in terms of the Christian devil. Another book, Mephisto in the Third Reich (De Gruyter Press, 2014), provides various cultural explanations for the Holocaust.

In recent years Emanuela has engaged in literary writing. A collection of five novellas, Five Selves, was published by Holland House Books in the UK. She wrote the stories in Hebrew and translated them into English. The book got excellent reviews, including a Publishers Weekly Starred Review.  Short stories she wrote were published in literary magazines. Delivery, a novel about various aspects of giving birth, was published in Hebrew in 2018 by  Hakibbutz Hameuchad. The English translation was published by Holland House Books in 2021.

Her novel Intimate Solitude is scheduled for publication by Academic Studies Press in September 2024. The novel delves into the transformations within Israeli society from 1967 to the present day and grapples with the origins of the ongoing crisis in Israel. A non-fiction book, Women Managers in American Popular Culture, will be published by Routledge in  2025. The book explores the portrayal of women managers from the 1960s until today. It will be part of the Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies series.

Just as important: Emanuela has three sons.  This part of her life is just as crucial in shaping a personal perspective as her academic and literary achievements.