Born in Poland. Made Aliyah in 1947. Married, 3 children
Ph.D. (summa cum laude) in 1974, Tel Aviv University
Full Professor since 1985, Dept. of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University
Field of Study: Modern Jewish History
Specialization: History of Zionism, the Jewish community in Palestine since 1882,
.the State of Israel. Recent works concentrate on questions of identity and culture
Incumbent of the Ruben Merenfeld Chair on the Study of Zionism, Tel Aviv
University, since 1996
Vice- Chairperson of the Israeli Historical Society since 1982 and member of the
boards of many scholarly organizations
Served as the head of the Weizmann institute on Zionist Research, Dean of the
Faculty of Humanities, at Tel Aviv University, as member of the National Planning
.and Grants Committee
Currently Head of the Yitzhak Rabin Center for Israel Studies, the national
commemoration project on behalf of the late Prime Minister
Berl Katznelson, A Biography of a Socialist Zionist, a shortened (400 pp.)
version of the Hebrew edition, adapted to the English reader, Cambridge
University Press, 1984
Berl Katznelson, Ein Sozialistischer Zionist, Judischer Verlag Bei Athenaum,
.1988, (450 pp.), A German version of the above mentioned book
Berl, A Biography, Aliyah Library, 1987, 2 vol., A Russian version of the
above mentioned book
(New Jews, Old Jews, Tel Aviv, 1997, 364 pp. - a collection of essays)
Reinharz, Shapira, (Eds.), Essential Papers on Zionism, New York University
Press, New York and London, 1996 (855 pp.)
Articles
"Black Night - White Snow: Attitudes of the Palestinian Labor Movement to
the Russian revolution, 1917-1929", Studies in Contemprary Jewry, Jonathan
Frankel (Ed.), Vol. 4, The Hebrew University and Oxford University Press,
1988, pp.144-171
"The Dynamics of Zionist Leftist trends", Jewish History, Essays in Honour of
Chimen Abramsky, Ada Rapoport-Albert and Steven J. Zipperstein (Eds.),
London, 1988, pp. 629-682
"The Zionist Labor Movement and the Hebrew University"
Ben Gurion and the Bible: The Forging of an Historical Narrative?
Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 33, No. 4, October 1997, pp. 645-674
The Holocaust and World War 2 as Elements of the Yishuv Psyche until 1948, Thinking About the Holocaust, ed. Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Indiana Uni. Press.
1997, pp. 61-82
Teaching topics:
The history of the Zionist idea
Zionism and the Arabs
Political history of the Mandate
Social and cultural history of the Yishuv
Russia and Palestine: Zionism and the social revolution
The memory of the Holocaust in Jewish and Israeli society
The encounter of the Survivors with Israeli society
Myth, memory and historiography of the War of Independence
The rise and fall of the "new Jew"
Currently teaching:
New Zionists, old Zionists: Zionism in Movies and in historiography
Shoa and Tkuma - the changing role of the Holocaust in Israeli Identity
Research areas:
The history of Zionism
The social and political history of the Jewish community in Palestine
The Zionist labor movement
A biographical study of Berl Katznelson
Cultural trends in Israeli and pre-Israeli society