Dr. Mor Presiado

Book

• Presiado, Mor. Heroine, Mother, Body: Women's Art and the Holocaust (Beer Sheva: BGI Press, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev). (Hebrew)

A book of essays

• Presiado, Mor. "Wounded Matriarchs: Israeli Artists Hava Raucher and Sigalit Landau Confront the Sexual Violence of October 7, 2023" In It Hurts!: Violence against Women in Art and Psychoanalysis edited by Elana Shapira and Daniela Finzi, 191-214. De Gruyter, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111336077-013

Journal Articles

• Presiado, Mor, and Hilit Erel-Brodsky. "Layers of Symbolization in the Wake of a Collective Trauma in Psychoanalysis and in Art." The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. Forthcoming.

• "The Body as Memory: Breast Cancer and the Holocaust in Women’s Art"  Arts 12(2), 65 (2023). https://doi.org/10.3390/arts1202006

• Rinat Podissuk Reisner and Mor Presiado. "The Search for Individual Voice: Fatma Shanan – A Groundbreaking Druze Woman Artist in Israel."

• Third Text: Critical Perspective on Contemporary Art and Culture 36, no. 4 (2022): 383-405. https://doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2022.208037

• "The Expansion and Destruction of the Symbol of the Victimized and Self-Scarfing Mother in Women's Holocaust Art," Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues 33 (Spring 2018): 177-208. https://doi.org/10.2979/nashim.33.1.09

• "Jewish Symbolism and Israeli Reality in the Work of Arieh Bermatz," Art and Research: Bulletin of the Gershon and Judith Leiber, Center for Jewish Art Exhibitions, Issue 2, (2017): 7-19. (Hebrew)

• "'Never Say You Are Not Hungry': Images of Hunger in Holocaust Art Works of Contemporary Women Artists as an Expression of Poverty, Feminist Ideology and Intergenerational Memory." Motar 22-23 (2016): 97-110. (Hebrew)

• "A New Perspective on Holocaust Art: Women’s Artistic Expression of the Female Holocaust Experience (1939-1949)," Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, 22, 4 (2016): 417-446. https://doi.org/10.1080/17504902.2016.1201365

• "Reconstructing Life Stories of Holocaust Survivors through Art: The Case of Esther Nisenthal Krinitz and Ilana Ravek," Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 15, 2, (2016):  246-266. https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2015.1063235

• "These Threads Capture Shadows': Sewing and Embroidery in Holocaust Art Works of Contemporary Jewish Women Artists." Ars Judaica 8 (2012): 99-118.

Articles in Books

• “Wounded Matriarchs: Israeli Artists Hava Raucher and Sigalit Landau Confront the Sexual Violence of October 7, 2023.” In It Hurts! Gewalt gegen Frauen in Kunst und Psychoanalyse/Violence against Women in Art and Psychoanalysis, edited by Elana Shapira and Daniela Finzi (Forthcoming De Gruyter, 2025).
• "Female Experiences of the Holocaust and Their Expression in Art." Forgotten Bauhaus Women: Fates of Lives in the 1930s and 1940s, Exhibition Catalogue, edited
• by Anke Blümm and Patrick Rössler, 93-100. Weimar: Klassik Stiftung Weimar, 2021. (German)
• Mor Presiado and Frank Jacob. "Introduction: War and Creativity." In War and Art: The Portrayal of Destruction and Mass Violence, edited by Frank Jacob and Mor Presiado, 1-25. Brill: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2020.  https://doi.org/10.30965/9783657702923_002
• "Multi-generational Memory of Sexual Violence during the Holocaust in Women's Art." War and Sexual Violence: New Perspectives in a New Era, edited by Sarah K., Danielsson, 147-182. Brill: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2019. https://doi.org/10.30965/9783657702664_009

 MOOC- Masive Open Online Course

Fixing the World: Feminist Art and Jewish Identity", 2019.

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHOKMXEcXRlKAeqTmjKriarM-uFsn_1SJ

catalogs

Presiado, Mor. "Rachel Tauber – Between Fracture and Formation." In Parasite, exhibition catalogue, curated by Hadas Glazer, v–x. Jerusalem: Museo d’Arte Ebraica Italiana, 2025.

 Presiado, Mor. Textile and More: Rachel Tauber. Exhibition Catalogue. Ramat Gan: The Lieber Center for Exhibitions, Bar-Ilan University, 2016. (Hebrew)

 Presiado, Mor Motherhood in the Shadow of the Holocaust. Exhibition Catalogue (curators: Presiado, Mor and Leah Fish). Ramat Gan: The Lieber Center for Exhibitions, Bar-Ilan University, 2014. (Hebrew)

Conferences and lectures

“Art, Motherhood, Identity, and the Search for Home: Tali Ratzker’s War Diary Photographic Series Following October 7,” European Encounters: East–West Discourse in Modern Jewish Art, Literature and Culture, Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation, Department of Jewish Art, Bar-Ilan University, and the Center for Jewish Studies, University of Graz, May 27–29, 2025.

“Women’s Art during the Holocaust: Representations from Concentration and Extermination Camps (Hebrew),” Real-Time Testimony: Literature and Art of the Holocaust from the Camps and the Ghettos, book launch of Poetics in Extremis: Literature Witnessing the Holocaust by Daniel Feldman and Efraim Sicher, Department of Jewish Art, Bar-Ilan University, November 11, 2024.

“Wound and Reparation: Israeli Art Following October 7 (Hebrew),” The Fourth Conference of Doctoral Students in Memory of Dr. Tzippi Kauffman, Department of Jewish Philosophy, Faculty of Jewish Studies, July 18, 2024.

“The Single Maternal Figure in Israeli Women's Art: Responses to October 7 and the Swords of Iron War,” 40th Annual Conference of the Association for Israel Studies; 12th Annual Conference of the European Association of Israel Studies: The European and International Perspective, Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Prague, July 1-3, 2024.

“Bleeding Amazons: Women’s Art in Israel Following October 7, 2023, and the Ensuing War,” Artistic Creativity in Times of War – Women’s Perspectives, The University of Graz, Graz (hybrid), May 23, 2024.

“Israeli Artists Confront the Sexual Violence of October 7, 2023 (Hebrew),” The War and the Grace: The Female Front, Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts, Faculty of Arts, Tel-Aviv, April 8, 2024.

“Israeli Art in the Shadow of October 7: Psychoanalytical Perspective (Hebrew),” Symposium – Israel Psychoanalytic Society (invited lecture), Israel Psychoanalytic Society, Tel-Aviv, June 4, 2024 (with Hilit Erel-Brodsky).

“Eyes Wide Open: Symbolism in Israeli Art Following the October 7 (Hebrew),” Art and Creation Following the October 7, Faculty of Jewish Studies, Bar-Ilan University, March 6, 2024 (with Hilit Erel-Brodsky).

“The Emergence of Holocaust Feminist Art at the Turn of the 1990s in The United States and Israel,” The Turn of the 1990s and its Impact upon the Study of Jewish Cultures and Arts, Colloquium: The Department of Jewish Art, Bar-Ilan University, and the Center for Jewish Studies, University of Graz, May 23-24, 2023.

“Responder to a lecture by Ariella Harel, 'Self Abuse in the Living Body: The Radical Physical Performance in the 1970s,’” The Fourth Conference for Research Students, The Program for Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies, Bar-Ilan University, January 2020.

“Violence against Women during the Holocaust: A Multi-Generational Look at Art,” Depicting Violated Jewish Women During the Holocaust, Bar-Ilan University, January 2020.

“The Multifaceted Image of the Victimized and Self-Sacrificing Maternal Figure in Post-Holocaust Feminist Art,” Maternal Sacrifice in Jewish Culture: Rethinking Sacrifice from a Maternal Perspective in Religion, Art, and Culture, CERMOM-INALCO - Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Paris, November 2019.

“Judy Chicago's 'Holocaust Project: From Darkness into Light': A Seminal Feminist Holocaust Artwork,” New Perspectives on Jewish Feminist Art in the United States, Yale University, Institute of Sacred Music, April 2019.

"Sexual Violence in Women's Holocaust Art in Israel: A Multidisciplinary Perspective," The Second National Conference of the Association for Women's Art and Gender Research in Israel, Faculty of the Arts, Tel-Aviv University, February 2019.

“The Deconstruction of the Heroic Maternal Figure in Holocaust and Post-Holocaust Art,” The Holocaust and Motherhood, Holocaust Research Institute, University of London, March 2018.

“Images of Coping with Hunger in Women's Holocaust Art,” A Past that Does Not Pass, Shem Olam, the Faith and the Holocaust Institute for Education, Documentation and Research in Israel, Jerusalem, January 2018.

“The Body as a Trauma Site: Cancer and the Holocaust in the Art of Women,” Journal Club, The Psychology Clinic in Assuta Hospital, Tel-Aviv, July 2017.

“Tikkun Olam: Jewish and Feminist Identity in the Work of Judy Chicago,” Ts’eno U’r’eno: Israeli Women Religious Artists, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, April 2017.

“Toby Knobel Flueck and Ilan Ravek: A Life Story in Paintings and Weaving,” Jewish Art as History, The Department of Jewish Art, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, April 2017.

“The Body as the Site of Pain and Trauma: Cancer in Women's Holocaust Art,” Gender and Pain in Modern History, Birkbeck, University of London, London, March 2017.

“Panel discussion on the Impact of Contemporary Cultural Discourse on Holocaust Education in the 21st Century,” Massuah Institute for Holocaust Studies and the Mofet Institute, May 2016.

“To Paint a Testimony – Sexual Violence in Women Holocaust Survivors' Paintings,” War and Sexual Violence Conference, City University of New York, April 2016.

“Feminist Ideology, Socialist Thought and Jewish-American Identity in Judy Chicago's 'Holocaust Project: From Darkness into Light,” New York/New Work: Contemporary Jewish Art Conference, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, November 2015.

“Jewish Art as Autobiography: Reconstructing Life Stories of Holocaust Survivors through Art,” Conference: Constructing and Deconstructing Jewish Art, Bar-Ilan University, Department of Jewish Art, Ramat-Gan, September 2015.

“Expanding the Perspective on Holocaust Art: The Female Experience during the Holocaust as Expressed in Women's Art (1939-1948),” International Workshop within the Framework of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI), Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, February 2015.

“Intergenerational Memory in the Art of Daughters of Holocaust Survivors,” Jewish Art in Contemporary Israel, Bar-Ilan University, Department of Jewish Art, Ramat-Gan, January 2015.

“Never Say You Are Not Hungry: Images of Hunger in Holocaust Art Works of Contemporary Women Artists as an Expression of Poverty, Feminist Ideology and Intergenerational Memory,” Annual Motar Conference, Tel-Aviv University, February 2014.

“Mother-Daughter Relationships and the Maternal Figure in the Works of Daughters of Holocaust Survivors,” The Sixteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, July 2013.

“Representations of Rape and Sexual Abuse in Women's Holocaust Art from 1945 to the Present,” Women and the Holocaust Conferences, The Sixth International Conference, Ghetto Fighters' House Museum, Beit Berl College, Beit Theresienstadt, March 2013.

“The Feminine Experience in Women's Art during and Immediately after the Holocaust,” Departmental Seminar/Colloquium, Faculty of Jewish Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 2012.

“Grief and Solace in the Works of Women Artists Who Survived the Holocaust as Children,” NYU/Haifa Graduate Student Conference, New York University, May 2010.

“'These Threads Capture Shadows': The Sewing and Embroidery Motif in the Holocaust Art Works of Contemporary Israeli and American Women Artists,” The Fifteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, August 2009.

“Judy Chicago's Double Jeopardy: A Feminist Response to the Holocaust in Contemporary Art,” First Junior Scholars Conference on Jewish Art, Tel Aviv University, March 2009.