ד"ר שלמה גוזמן-כרמלי

Books (as author)

Guzmen-Carmeli, Shlomo. 2020. Encounters around the Text, Ethnography of Judaisms. Haifa: Pardes and Haifa University Press [Hebrew].

·       Winner of the Bahat Grant for outstanding academic manuscripts for 2017.

·       Winner of the Goldberg Grant for Culture and Literature. Jewish National Fund, 2018.

Review: Anna Prashizky, Israeli Sociology.

Review: Yair Berlin, Israel: Journal of the Study of Zionism and the State of Israel

Review: Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar, The Issues of the Israeli Society.

Review: Shai Secunda, Jewish Review of Books.

Review: Elazar Ben-Lulu, Dor Ledor- Studies and Documentation in the History of Jewish Education.

Books (as editor)

Rubin, Nissan and Guzmen-Carmeli, Shlomo (Eds.). 2021.  The Power of Words: Anthropology of Jewish Textuality. Jerusalem: Carmel Press [Hebrew].

Chapters in Books

Rachel Werczberger and Shlomo Guzmen-Carmeli. 2020. "Judaism, Rituals and Practices" in Newberg, Andrew, David Yaden, Yukun Zhao and Kaiping Peng (Eds.). Religion, Spirituality and Health: A Social Scientific Approach, Vol. 5: Rituals and Practices in World Religions: A Cross-Cultural Classification. New York: Springer Academic Press.

Cooper, Samuel and Guzmen-Carmeli, Shlomo. 2021. “Towards a Jewish cultural grammar.” In Rubin, Nissan and Guzmen-Carmeli, Shlomo (Eds.). The Power of Words: Anthropology of Jewish Textuality. Jerusalem: Carmel Press [Hebrew].

Rubin, Nissan and Guzmen-Carmeli, Shlomo. 2021. “From words to deeds.”  In The Power of Words: Anthropology of Jewish Textuality. Jerusalem: Carmel Press [Hebrew].

Guzmen-Carmeli, Shlomo. 2021. "The Text between Preservation and Change" in Haim Hazan, Rachel Sharabi, and Inbal Sikurel (eds.) Between Times, Ritual and Text in a Changing Society. Jerusalem: Carmel Press [Hebrew].

Cooper, Samuel and Guzmen-Carmeli, Shlomo. 2021. “Anthropological Perspective on the Biblical story of Joseph” in Haim Hazan, Rachel Sharabi, and Inbal Sikurel (eds.) Between Times, Ritual and Text in a Changing Society. Jerusalem: Carmel Press [Hebrew].

Guzmen-Carmeli, Shlomo. 2022. “We also learn in a yeshiva: Ethnography in a secular yeshiva in Tel Aviv.” in Monterscu Daniel and Werczberger Rachel (eds.) Jewish Revival Inside Out: Remaking Jewishness in a Post-Secular Age.  The Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology, Wayne University Press.

Articles in refereed journals

Guzmen-Carmeli, Shlomo. 2013. "With God's Help, the Holy Land Will Tremble: Street Demonstrations by the Ultra-Orthodox as Cultural Performance.” Democratic Culture 15: 31-59 [Hebrew].

Sharabi, Asaf and Guzmen-Carmeli, Shlomo. 2013. "The Teshuva Bargain: Healing Ritual Performances at Rabbi Amnon Yitzchak's Rallies." Journal of Ritual Studies 27 (2): 97-110.

Guzmen-Carmeli, Shlomo and Sharabi, Asaf. 2014. "The Holy Contract: The Social Contract of the Toldos Aharon Hasidic Dynasty.” Social Compass 61 (3): 290-309.

Guzmen-Carmeli, Shlomo and Rubin, Nissan. 2014. "’Tikkun' (Divine Repair) and Healing in a Kabbalistic Yeshiva: Using Sacred Texts as Instrumental Devices." Contemporary Jewry 34 (3): 217-241. 

Guzmen-Carmeli, Shlomo and Sharabi, Asaf. 2019. "Textual Healing, Tailor Made Kabbalistic Therapeutics" Anthropology & Medicine 26 (2): 244-258.

Cooper, Samuel and Guzmen-Carmeli, Shlomo. 2020. The Structure of Change: A Structural Interpretation of the Biblical Story of Joseph. Religions, 11 (1), 8.

Guzmen-Carmeli, Shlomo. 2020. Eating the Bubbe: Culinary encounters between secular and haredi jews in Bnei Brak. Food and Foodways, 28 (2): 69-90.

Guzmen-Carmeli, Shlomo. 2020. Texts as Places, Texts as Mirrors: Anthropology of Judaisms and Jewish Textuality. Contemporary Jewry 40 (3): 471- 492.

Guzmen-Carmeli, Shlomo. 2020. "Not just a Rabbi's Blessing," Deep Healing in a Traditional Kabbalistic Yeshiva. Studies in Judaism, Humanities, and the Social Sciences 3 (1): 207-222 [Hebrew].

Friedman, Tammar and Guzmen-Carmeli, Shlomo. 2022. Lived Atheism and Post-Rationality in the Lives of Jewish Atheists in Israel. Iyunim: Multidisciplinary Studies in Israeli and Modern Jewish Society (38): 228-252 [Hebrew].

Guzmen-Carmeli, Shlomo and David A. Rier. 2023. Entrepreneurial treatment activism for undone science: mannitol and Parkinson’s disease. BioSocieties (18): 128–155.

*The article won the Outstanding Article Award of the Israeli Sociological Association for 2021 (second place).

Fuchs, Ofira; Werczberger, Rachel and Shlomo Guzmen-Carmeli. 2024. “Not Being Counted”: Women's Place and Religious Space in Jewish Orthodox Communities During the COVID‐19 Crisis. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 63(1): 181-195.

Cooper, Samuel and Guzmen-Carmeli, Shlomo. 2024. Inventing Culture: Structure and Symmetry in Jewish Life and Ritual. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 23 1: 26-46.

Guzmen-Carmeli, Shlomo, Rotem Weizman, and Tammar Friedman. 2024. A Permissible Sin: Perceptions of Smoking Among Haredi Men in Israel. Journal of religion and health 63.4: 2559-2580.

Friedman, Tammar, Shlomo Guzmen-Carmeli, and Rachel Werczberger. 2025. Faithful atheists: the paradox of Jewish nonbelievers in Israel. Religion 55.1: 300-320.

Alfi-Nissan, Sari R., Shlomo Guzmen-Carmeli, and Rachel Werczberger.  2025. “The Light within Me”: celebrating the self through Jewish holidays in Israeli state education. Journal of Contemporary Religion 40 2: 239–257.

‏‏‏Guzmen-Carmeli, Shlomo and Leon, Nissim. 2025. The Politics of Exception: Ex-Territoriality and the Meron Disaster. Contemporary Jewry, 45 4: Article 61. 

Pagis, Michal, and Guzmen-Carmeli, Shlomo. 2026. Enacting Religious Submission: Between Doing Religion and Being Done by Religion. Religion 56 2: 359–79.

Koren, Nadav, Shlomo Guzmen-Carmeli, and David A. Rier. 2026. Forced Agency: The Price of Being an Engaged Patient Managing Chronic Illness. SSM - Qualitative Research in Health 10: 100799.

Guzmen-Carmeli, Shlomo, and Rachel Werczberger. 2026. Living Text: The Multiple Lives of Tehillim in Contemporary Jewish Practice. Contemporary Jewry 46: Article 48.

Simon, Guy, Shlomo Guzmen-Carmeli, and Michal Pagis. 2026. ‘The Only Way Out Is Through’: The Flexibility and Limits of Trauma Discourse in Psychedelic Contexts. Social Science & Medicine: 119927. 

Reviews of Books in periodicals

Jackie Feldman’s “A Jewish Guide in the Holy Land: How Christian Pilgrims Made Me Israeli,” Bloomington: University of Indiana Press. 2018. Megamot 52 (2): 306-309 [Hebrew].