Zohar Shavit (Hebrew: זהר שביט, b.1951) is an Israeli professor at Tel Aviv University’s School for Cultural Studies.

[11] Shavit is the founder and chair of the Master's Program in the Research of Child and Youth Culture at Tel Aviv University.

Von der Haskalah bis 1945 (with Hans-Heino Ewers, 1996)[22] and in Deutsch-Jüdische Kinder- und Jugendliteratur: Ein literaturgeschichtlicher Grundriss (2002, with Annegret Völpel).

[23] In these studies, Shavit described how these books served as agents of social change and their function in the construction of the children's Jewish identity.

[26] This research project examined how various media for children and young adults participated in and activated significant reforms in the Jewish society.

Her own individual research project analyzed several cases of cultural translation: the first addressed the attempt to present new forms of daily practices, or more precisely – a new habitus, to the Jewish public.

With guidelines on daily practices including personal hygiene, dress, language, leisure, and interactions with one's surroundings, these texts reached not only children – their official readership – but the parents' generation as well.

[31][32][33] This study described how books published in West Germany since 1945, which received glowing reviews and were awarded prestigious literary prizes, have constructed a “story” in which the horrors of the Third Reich have been systematically screened and filtered.

It grapples with the unreliability of official assessments of Hebrew's dominance, and identifies and examines a broad variety of less politicized sources, such as various regulatory, personal, and commercial documents of the period as well as recently conducted oral interviews.