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Dr Tal Kogman, PhD

2nd December 2020

is a Senior Instructor in the MA Program in Child and Youth Culture Research, The Shirley & Leslie Porter School of Cultural Studies, at Tel Aviv University. Her fields of specialization are child and youth culture, the history of Jewish education in modernity, Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment), modern Ashkenazic popular science and textbooks, and human-animal studies. Since 2004, Dr. Kogman has taught courses at Tel Aviv University dealing with human-animal relations and children’s culture. For the last four years, she has also taught a course in the Unit for Social Involvement at Tel Aviv University, which combines academic learning with social activities (the students contribute to organizations that educate children in the field of animal welfare). In several of her publications, Dr. Kogman has dealt with animal representations in 18th and 19th century Hebrew texts for children that were published in Europe. Moreover, in 2016 she edited a special issue on “Animals in Children’s Culture” in Animals and Society – The Israeli Journal for the Human-Animal Bond (in Hebrew).