Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos

Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos (born 1949) is a Professor of History at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel).

Life

Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos is a social and cultural historian of early modern England. She studies for a BA and MA at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and she wrote her Ph.D. at Stanford University. Her topics of interest include the history of childhood and family, networks, social interactions and reciprocity, poverty, welfare, gift-exchange and the history of the emotions.

Works

• "Failure to Become Freemen: Urban Apprentices in Early Modern England," Social History Vol. 16, No. 2, May 1991
• Adolescence and Youth in Early Modern England (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994).
• "Gifts and Favors: Informal Support in Early Modern England," The Journal of Modern History Vol. 72, No. 2, June 2000
• The Culture of Giving: Informal Support and Gift-Exchange in Early Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, paperback edition, 2010).

External links

• Faculty Page at Ben Gurion University of the Negev [in Hebrew]