Dr. Zalashik received her Ph.D. in History from Tel-Aviv University in 2006, with a dissertation on the development of psychiatry in Palestine and Israel, 1892-1960.
Her work focuses on the history of psychiatry in Israel, Palestine and Germany; immigrant absorption and the integration of Holocaust survivors into Israeli society; the relationship between mental health and gender; and Israeli identity formation.
She was a Dorot Post-Doctoral Fellow at New York University. Dr. Zalashik has held positions in the United States at the University of Virginia and in Germany at the Hochschule für Jüdische Studien in Heidelberg and the University of Potsdam’s Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies. She has received fellowships from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, YIVO, and the University of Haifa’s Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society, among others. She is the author of two books and many journal articles. Contact: zalashik@post.bgu.ac.il