Yael Ben-Moshe

Yael Ben-Moshe is a lecturer on terrorism and media at the Jerusalem Multidisciplinary College (JMC) and a research associate at the European Forum at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She is supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and works on a project involving the appropriation and archaeological research of historical footage and photographs from the Nazi era.

Her Ph.D. research at Technische Universität Berlin examines the formation of collective memory on Hitler and National Socialism in Germany and the USA from 1945 to 2009. She is the author of Hitler Konstruieren (Leipziger Universitätsverlag).

She was awarded the Presidential Fellowship for her postdoctoral research on terrorism and trauma in the age of the “new wars”, as well as a DAAD fellowship at the Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam (ZZF).

Among her academic publications is "This is Your Trauma, Not Mine! Terrorism and Trauma in Recent German Films", published in Unsere Väter, unsere Mütter. Deutsche Generation seit 1945 (edited by V. Benkert, Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, pp. 105-129).

As a publicist, she has written dozens of newspaper articles in leading publications on political, cultural, and historical themes. Her latest article, "Confronting the Myths of Hitler and the Holocaust," was published in January 2025 in The Jerusalem Post.

Her fields of interest include visual history, German culture, mass media, and trauma studies, with a focus on the effects of trauma caused by terrorism.