Itamar is a PhD candidate in the Department of Educational Studies at UBC, where he focuses ethical and existential dimensions of adult language learning, and in particular the educational significance of the experience of error. Itamar is co-executive director of the Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture, and has been teaching Yiddish and Jewish History in the community since 2021. He is also a Yiddish Pedagogy Fellow at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst Massachusetts. Itamar has worked in community based adult education initiatives for the past 15 years. In Palestine and Israel, he was co-founder of This is Not an Ulpan, a grassroots, community led cooperative language school for Hebrew and Arabic based on the principles of critical pedagogy.

Itamar works in the fields of language education studies, phenomenology, critical pedagogy, and philosophy of education. His research deals with questions of ethics in language education, and more specifically the role mistakes play in shaping the relationships between students and teachers in the language classroom. Related research interests/fields: Philosophy of Education, Critical Applied Linguistics, Intercultural Communication, Phenomenology, Existentialism, Ethics, Political Theory.

Manoff, I. (2024). Arendt’s conception of love and anti-fascist education. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/10714413.2024.2319985

Krabbe, S. C., Lewis, T. E., Manoff, I., Siefert, K., & Klein-Cardeña, K. (2024). Anti-fascist education in an age of dis and mis-information. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/10714413.2024.2370098

Takeda, Y., & Manoff, I. (2024, April 17). Skepticism and education. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.013.1878

Manoff, I., & Ruitenberg, C. W. (2023). Returning to the other, returning to Levinas: The impossibility of satisfaction in intercultural communication. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 31(2), 253-267. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2022.2164342

Manoff, I. (2020). Toward a Phenomenology of the Mistake: A Reading of Plato’s Meno. Philosophy of Education 76, no. 3, 80-92.

Najman, H., Manoff, I., & Mroczek, E. (2012). How to Make Sense of Pseudonymous Attribution: The Cases of 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch. A Companion to Biblical Interpretation in Early Judaism, 308-336.

Graduate Studies Completion Award in Educational Studies, 2024

President’s Academic Excellence Initiative PhD Award, University of British Columbia, 2020-2024.

Faculty of Education Graduate Award, University of British Columbia, 2021.

Four Year Doctoral Fellowship (4YF), University of British Columbia, 2018-2022.