Leisure and Cultural Change in Israeli Society (PDF)

Tali Hayosh is an accreditation advisor for undergraduate and graduate programs, Head of "Tzevet - Best for Education" Program, in Beit Berl College, Israel. She is a senior lecturer and her research interests are leisure culture, consumption, and leisure education. In 2018 she authored two books about leisure (in Hebrew): Serious Leisure: Culture and Consumption in Modern Society (2018) and After the Bell: The world of Leisure for Children and Teenagers (the latter with Fadia Nasser-Abu Elhija, 2018), and also was a guest editor (with Meir Teichman) of Special Issue Mifgash on leisure culture of children and youth in Israel (in Hebrew, 2018).

Elie Cohen-Gewerc is a senior lecturer and researcher in Beit Berl College, Israel. He was on the board of directors of the Israel Broadcasting Authority. The main issues he investigates are freedom and the human challenge of being free. He has written various articles and four books, including Serious Leisure and Individuality (2013), with Robert Stebbins.

Gilad Padva is a film and media and queer studies scholar. He currently works for the Program for Women and Gender Studies with NCJW at Tel Aviv University, Israel. He is the author of Queer Nostalgia in Cinema and Pop Culture (2014), and co-editor of Sensational Pleasures in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture (2014) and Intimate Relationships in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture (2017). He has published numerous articles, chapters, and entries in distinguished academic journals, edited volumes, and international encyclopedias.