SOAS Research Online

Authored Books

Wallach, Yair (2020) A City in Fragments: Urban Texts in Modern Jerusalem. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

Book Chapters

Wallach, Yair (2023) 'Ha-Yehudim ve-Svivatam = היהודים וסביבתם.' In: Ben Naeh, Yaron and Held, Michal, (eds.), Ha-Yishuv Ha-Sfaradi Ha-Yashan = היישוב הישן הספרדי בארץ ישראל. Jerusalem: Yad Ben Zvi, pp. 39-56.

Wallach, Yair (2020) 'Jerusalem's Lost Heart: The Rise and Fall of the Ottoman City Centre.' In: Maksudyan, Nazan and Alkan, Hilal, (eds.), Urban Neighbourhood Formations. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 138-158.

Wallach, Yair (2018) 'Reading the City, Writing the Self: Arabic and Hebrew Urban Texts in Jerusalem, 1840–1940.' In: Dalachani, Angelos and Lemire, Vincent, (eds.), Ordinary Jerusalem, 1840-1940: Opening New Archives, Revisiting a Global City. Leiden: Brill, pp. 287-304. (Open Jerusalem, Volume: 1)

Wallach, Yair (2016) 'Jerusalem Between Segregation and Integration: Reading Urban Space through the Eyes of Justice Gad Frumkin.' In: Goldstein-Sabbah, S. R. and Murre-Van Den Berg, H. L., (eds.), Modernity, Minority, and the Public Sphere: Jews and Christians in the Middle East. Leiden: Brill, pp. 205-233. (Leiden Studies in Islam and Society)

Wallach, Yair (2016) 'Jewish Nationalism: On the Impossibility of Muslim Jews.' In: Meri, Josef, (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Muslim-Jewish Relations. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, pp. 331-350. (Routledge Handbooks in Religion)

Journal Article

Wallach, Yair (2024) '›Straße der Juden‹ und ›jüdisches Viertel‹ in Jerusalem: Räumliche Vorstellung versus historische Wirklichkeit.' Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur. Magazin des Dubnow-Instituts, 7 (2023). pp. 12-15.

Sanchez Summerer, Karène, Zananiri, Sary, Wallach, Yair and Tamari, Salim (2024) 'Unsilencing Palestine 1922–1923: hundred years after thebeginning of the British Mandate – the Frank Scholtenphotographic collection revisited.' Contemporary Levant, 9 (1). pp. 16-32.

Wallach, Yair (2024) 'The Unexplored History of Ashkenazi Integration in Late Ottoman Palestine.' Jewish Social Studies, 29 (1). pp. 161-192.

Wallach, Yair (2023) 'ا ّتفاق أوسلو بين التقسيم «المدني» و«العرقي» = The Oslo Accords: Between Civic and Ethnic partitions.' قضايا إسرائيلية = Israeli Issues (91). pp. 42-52.

Wallach, Yair (2023) 'Tourist, Pilgrim, Migrant, Settler: Rethinking the Modern History of Ashkenazim in the Levant Through Sites of Hospitality.' Mashriq and Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies, 10 (2). pp. 68-94.

Wallach, Yair (2023) 'De l’inscription rituelle au texte séditieux : les graffitis hébraïques du mur des Lamentations, de l’Antiquité au 20e siècle.' 20 and 21. Revue d'histoire, 2022/4 (156). pp. 85-101.

Wallach, Yair (2023) 'The racial logic of Palestine's partition.' Ethnic and Racial Studies, 46 (8). pp. 1576-1598.

Wallach, Yair and Cirujano, Julio (2022) 'The Unbuilt Parliament: British Colonial Plans for a Legislative Assembly in Jerusalem.' Jerusalem Quarterly, 92. pp. 69-101.

Wallach, Yair (2022) 'How to fight antisemitism? Lessons from the Russian Revolution.' Ethnic and Racial Studies, 45 (8). pp. 1520-1527.

Wallach, Yair (2017) 'جينيولوجيا مسألة تقسيم فلسطين والمنطق الذي احتكمت إليه [The Genealogy and Logic of the Palestine Partition].' Israeli Affairs (67). pp. 9-18.

Wallach, Yair (2016) 'Rethinking the Yishuv: Late-Ottoman Palestine's Jewish Communities Revisited.' Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 16 (2). pp. 275-294.

Wallach, Yair (2011) 'Creating a country through currency and stamps: state symbols and nation-building in British-ruled Palestine.' Nations and Nationalism, 17 (1). pp. 129-147.

Wallach, Yair (2011) 'Trapped in mirror-images: The rhetoric of maps in Israel/Palestine.' Political Geography, 30 (7). 358 - 369.

Book Reviews

Wallach, Yair (2023) 'Review of: Toda’at Mishna, Toda’at Mikra: Tzfat ve-ha-tarbut ha-Tzionit [Mishna consciousness, biblical consciousness: Safed and Zionist culture] by Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Makhon Van Leer and Ha-Kibbutz Ha-Meuhad,.' Journal of Israeli History, 41 (2). pp. 335-338.