Academic interests: Film studies and film history, German-Jewish studies, American-Jewish studies.

Yuval Rivlin is a post doc fellow at the History Department/Koebner Minerva Center of the Hebrew University and also serves as the Managing Editor of the online publication of the Koebner Center "Slil – Journal for History, Film and Television".

He earned his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2019. He wrote his PhD study under the guidance of Prof. Richard I. Cohen on the subject: “Traditional and Modern Identity in the Films by Jewish Immigrants to Hollywood” (1933 – 1942). The book adaptation of his doctoral dissertation – "From Berlin to Hollywood" - won the "Shlomo and Bela Bartal Prize" for 2021 and will be published in 2024 by The Hebrew University Magnes Press in the book series of the Koebner Minerva Center

Yuval teaches in the field of history and film at a variety of institutes including The Hadassah Academic College and Ma’aleh School of Television, Film and the Arts. 

Selected Publications

Books:
Yuval Rivlin, The Mouse that Roared: Jewish Identity in American and Israeli Cinema. Jerusalem: Tobypress 2009.

Yuval Rivlin, From Berlin to Hollywood: Immigration and German-Jewish Immigrants in the American Film Industry 1933-1942, Jerualem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press, forthcoming Nov 2024 in the book series of the Koebner Minerva Center.

Articles:

Yuval Rivlin, 'Proto-noir: Alienation and Homelessness in the films of the German Jewish émigrés to Hollywood' in: Uzi rabhon and Richard I. Cohen (Eds.) Studies in Contemporary Judaism. Institute for Contemporary Judaism at the Hebrew University 2024.