Nurit Peled-Elhanan is an Israeli professor of philology - specializing in linguistics and education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In her research she focuses on the Israeli education system. She taught comparative literature and education at the Hebrew University, specializing in the analysis of school textbooks and historical narratives. She is the author of “Palestine in Israeli School Books: Ideology and Propaganda in Education,” and “Holocaust Education and the Semiotics of Othering in Israeli Schoolbooks.” In 2001 Professor Nurit Peled-Elhanan was awarded the Sakharov Prize by the European Parliament for defending human rights
In 1997, her 13-year-old daughter Smadar was killed in a suicide attack carried out by a Palestinian in West Jerusalem. Despite this, Nurit Peled-Elhanan did not support Israel's retaliatory policies, but joined peace organizations such as “The Parents Circle - Families Forum” (an association of Israeli and Palestinian families of conflict victims). She has worked with Palestinian activists, including the Women Wage Peace Project, demanding an end to the occupation and dialogue.
In the lecture, Professor Nurit Peled-Elhanan is going to conduct a multifaceted analysis of Israeli schoolbooks, examining verbal discourse as well as visuals such as maps and graphs, photographs and caricatures. By means of such an analysis, it is possible to show how Israeli schoolbooks legitimize:
- ethnocracy and the marginalization of Non-European Jews,
- the exclusion and expulsion of Arab citizens from their lands and Judaization of the space,
- the military colonialism towards Palestinians in the occupied territories.
The lecture will be translated simultaneously into Polish.
You will find enclosed a link to the presentation of Professor Nurit Peled-Elhanan's achievements posted on the European Parliament website.
Event Venue: Aula A1, Faculty of Philology, University of Lodz 171/173 Pomorska Street, Łódź, Poland
Date and Time: May 27, 2025 (Tuesday), 6:00 PM
The event is held under the honorary patronage of the Rector of the University of Lodz and the Rector of the Władysław Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź.
We cordially invite you to attend this unique event.
