Efrat Tzadik, PhD candidate, department of Jewish studies, Bar Ilan University.
Efrat Tzadik is currently working on a PhD thesis on Jewish women living in Belgium. Her main question focuses on identities of women within the context of great social change such as migration and anti-Semitism.
Recently Efrat worked as a research assistant in a research about three European cities via Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry at Tel Aviv University.
Efrat worked at the KU Leuven as an assistant- researcher at the Centre for Migration Rights and Legal Anthropology in the Law department, K.U. Leuven. Efrat also worked at Universiteit Gent as a teaching assistant for Modern Hebrew in the ‘Languages and Cultures of the Near East and North Africa’ Department, Faculty of Arts.
Efrat obtained a pre-doctoral degree from the K.U. Leuven, during which her research interest was Israeli expatriate women living in Belgium.
Efrat obtained a MA in Anthropology from Bar Ilan University, Israel. The main topic of her thesis was Israeli civil religion and the ways it is represented in pilgrimage to secular tombs. During that period, Efrat worked as a research and teaching assistant at Bar Ilan University, teaching the course ‘introduction to Anthropology’. She also worked as a research assistant on a study about the experience of women with breast cancer. She worked as well at the Rambam hospital in Haifa, Israel, as a research assistant in the unit for the improvement of quality of care.