Yair Berlin is a British Academy Newton International Fellow at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.
His research focuses on the cultural and historical study of emotions. His current project explores the emotional dimensions of the Zionist negation of the diaspora. Yair completed his PhD at Bar-Ilan University through the Program for Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies, writing on religious emotions in the Israeli Ultra-orthodox community.
Publications include:
"Beyond the Negativity of the Emotion of Fear: religious fear as a case in point", Emotions and Society, Early View, DOI: 10.1332/26316897Y2024D000000048; Yair Berlin.
“Falling in Love with Scripture: Intellectuality and Emotionality in Lithuanian Haredi Torah Study”, Religions 16, no. 5: 613 (2025). https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16050613.