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Forum Dvorah Experts

Efrat Aviv

Modern Turkey

אורנה מזרחי

Dr. Efrat Aviv is a senior lecturer in the Dept. of General History at Bar Ilan University. 


She is a member of the Dahan Center academic committee. 


She is currently a research fellow at BESA (Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies) and was a fellow at SICSA (Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism) from 2011 to 2015. 


Efrat is the author of Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism in Turkey: From Ottoman Rule to AKP (Routledge, 2017). 


She has published various articles in academic journals and a chapter in a book various topics related to Turkish affairs. 


Dr. Aviv’s fields of research include: Turkish Anti-Semitism, religious movements in Turkey, state-religion-minority group dynamics in Turkey, Turkish-Israeli relations and Jewish Women in the Ottoman Empire

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