Prof. Dana Arieli-Horowitz is currently the head of the history and theory department at Bezalel, Academy of art and design in Jerusalem.
She is studying the interrelations between arts and politics in democratic and totalitarian regimes.
Among the books she published are Romanticism of Steel: Art and Politics in Nazi Germany [Magnes - Hebrew University Press, 1999]; Creators in Overburden: Rabin Assassination, Art and Politics [Magnes – Hebrew University Press, 2005, winner of 2006 Israeli Prime Minister award]; Creators and Dictators: Avantgarde and Mobilized Art in Totalitarian Regiems (Tel Aviv University Press, 2008]. She is co-editor (with Dafna Sering) of Scared Stiff: Terror and the Arts [Magnes – Hebrew University Press, 2010]. Currently she is working on a new book The Nazi Phantom: A Journey After the Third Reich Relics (Forthcoming Ha`Kibutz Hameuhad, 2012).