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CURRICULUM VITAE

Prof. Aviva Halamish

February 2016

Personal

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Email: [email protected]

Born in Haifa, Israel

Professional Education

1973: B.A., History of the Muslim Countries, History and History of the Jewish

People; The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (summa cum laude)

1976: M.A., Jewish History and Middle East Studies; Columbia University, New

York, USA

1982: High School Teaching Certificate, Department of Education; The Hebrew

University of Jerusalem, Israel

1996: Ph.D., Jewish History; Tel Aviv University, Israel

Academic Appointments

2000 Senior Lecturer, Netanya Academic College

2004 Senior Lecturer, The Open University of Israel

6002 Associate Professor, The Open University of Israel

2012 Professor, The Open University of Israel

Professional Experience (since 2004)

1982-2004: The Open University of Israel, junior-staff member

2000-2006: Netanya Academic College, Senior Lecturer

2004-2006: The Open University of Israel, Senior Lecturer

2006-2012: The Open University of Israel, Associate Professor

2012-2014: The Open University of Israel, Full Professor

Administrative and Other Academic Activities (partial list; since 2000)

1998-2001: Member of the Academic Board of the Institute for the Study of Zionism,

Tel Aviv University

2000-2006: member of the Academic Board, Illegal Immigration Museum, Athlit

2003-on: Member of the Board of Overseers, Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem

2004-2009: Member of the Executive Board, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv; and of

its Academic Committee

2005-2008: Head of the Center for the Research of Eretz-Israel and Its Yishuv

of the Open University of Israel and Yad Ben-Zvi

6002-on: Member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Israel Studies

2006-2008: Chair, The Ministry of Education Committee for re-writing and updating

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History curricula for grades 6-9 in the General School System.

2007-2014: Member of the Senate, The Open University

2007-2011: Member of the Board of Directors, The Historical Society of Israel

2007-2009: Vice-President of the Association for Israel Studies

2007-2008: Head, Academic Development, The Open University

2007-on: Member of Yad Yaari's Academic Committee

2008-2014: Head, Modern History Studies, Dep. of History, Philosophy and Judaic

Studies, The Open University

2008-2010: Member of the Ministry of Education Committee of History

2008-2011: Member of the Open University Council

2008-on: Member of the Academic Committee of the Lavon Institute

2009-2011: President, The Association for Israel Studies

2009-on: Chair of Yad Yaari's Academic Committee

2009-on: Member of Machon Avshalom's Board of Directors

2009-on: Member of the Executive Committee, The World Union of Jewish Studies

2010-2011: Member of the Higher Education Council's committee for the approval of

B.Ed in History at the Sha'anan Religious Academic College for Education

2010-on: Member of Machon Avshalom's Academic Committee

2011-2014: Chair, Academic Committee of the Kibbutz Researchers' Forum

2011-on: Member of the Academic Committee of The School for Jerusalem Studies,

Yad Ben Zvi, Jerusalem

2012-2014: Chair, Accreditation Committee, The Open University of Israel

2012-2014: Member of the Open University appointment committee for lecturer and

senior lecturer

2013-2014 Member of the Open University appointment committee for associate

professor and full professor

2013-2014: Member of the Open University selection committee of potential senior

faculty members with exceptional research record

2013-on: Head and Editor-in-Chief, The Open University of Israel Press

Fields of Research

Jewish immigration in the twentieth century

Illegal Jewish immigration to Mandatory Palestine

The Jewish community in Mandatory Palestine (The Yishuv)

History of the State of Israel

History of the Kibbutz movement

Zionist Youth Movements

Historical biography

Scholarships

1987: The Luba Datlow and Emma Rosenberg Ph.D. Fund, Tel Aviv University

1988: The Joseph and Ceil Mazer Post Doctoral Fellowship Fund, Tel Aviv

University

1989: The Faculty of the Humanities, Tel Aviv University

1990: The Hannah and Zvi Brander Fund, The Institute for the Research of Zionism,

Tel Aviv University


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1991: The Rashi Fund for Distinguished Ph.D. Candidates, The Open University

1991: The David Ben-Gurion Fund for Research Promotion, General Federation of

Labor

1991 and 1992: Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York, USA

1994: The Rothschild Yad Avi ha-Yishuv Fund

1999: Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York, USA

1999 and 2000: Rivlin Institute, Bar Ilan University

2000: The Eisenstadt Scholarship, Lavon Institute, Tel Aviv

Prizes

2007 The Association for Israel Studies Annual Shapiro Award for Best Book in

Israel Studies during the year 2006, for the book: Be'merutz Kaful Neged Hazman

[A Dual Race Against Time: Zionist Immigration Policy in the 1930s] (Yad Ben

Zvi Press)

2008 Hecht Prize of the Herzl Institute for the Research and Study of Zionism,

University of Haifa, for a research book in History of Zionism, the Yishuv and the

State of Israel, for the book: Be'merutz Kaful Neged Hazman [A Dual Race

Against Time: Zionist Immigration Policy in the 1930s] (Yad Ben Zvi Press)

2010 Yitzhak Ben Zvi Award for research book in the History of Eretz Yisrael, for the

book Meir Yaari: Biographya Kibbutzit [Meir Ya'ari: Collective Biography, the

First Fifty Years, 1897-1947] (Am Oved Publishers)

Sponsored Research and Grants

1984-1987: The Inter-University Project for the Research of Illegal Immigration in

Honor of Shaul Avigur; Illegal Immigration Ship "Exodus 1947"

2001-2004: Yad Ya'ari, The Center for Research and Documentation of HaShomer

HaTzair Movement and of the Kibbutz Artzi Federation: Biography of Me'ir Ya'ari

2009-2011: Grant from Yad Chaim Weizmann at the Weizmann Institute of Science,

Rehovot and The Chaim Weizmann Institute for Research of Zionism and Israel at

Tel Aviv University for a research titled: "Chaim Weizmann and Jewish

Immigration to Palestine: Ideology and Political Activity"

Three years grant from the Israel Science Foundation (240,000 NIS): "1934 - Profile

of a Year: Toward an Integrative History of the Yishuv" [Application No. 36/12]

Membership in Editorial Boards

1998-2001: member of the Editorial Board, Ha-Tziyonut

1998-2001: member of the Editorial Board, The Journal of Israeli History

2002-on: member of the Editorial Board, Aley Zayit ve-Herev

2003-2012: co-editor, Cathedra for the History of Eretz Israel and its Yishuv

2003-2012: member of the editorial board of Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi Press [Acting

Chair September 2011-May 2012]

2005-2016: member of the editorial board of Iyunim bi-Tkumat Israel

2009-on: member of the editorial board of The Ben-Gurion Research Institute Press

(Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

2012-on: member of the editorial board of Moreshet: Journal for the Study of the

Holocaust and Antisemitism [English and Hebrew issues]


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2013-on: Head and Editor-in-Chief, The Open University of Israel Press

Membership in Professional Societies

The Historical Society of Israel

World Union of Jewish Studies

Association for Jewish Studies

Association for Israel Studies

Visiting Scholar

Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University, August

2005-February 2006

The Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.,

January-July 2010

The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, Rutgers University,

New Brunswick, NJ, October 2014-September 2015

Scientific Consulting

Mordechai Naor, Birkat ha-Hashmal [The History of Israel Electric Corporation],

Jerusalem 2003.

Dosh: Karikaturist 1921-2000 [Dosh: A Caricaturist], Tel Aviv 2007.

Beno Rothenberg: Tzulam ve-nirsham 1947-1957 [Beno Rothenberg: Photographed

and Reported 1947-1957], Tel Aviv 2007.

Yemima Rosenthal (Series Editor), Louise Fischer (Editing and historical notes),

Moshe Sharett: The Second Prime Minister – Selected Documents (1894-1965),

Jerusalem 2007 [State of Israel – Israel Archives / Commemorative Series: The

Presidents and prime Ministers of Israel], scientific consultation to ch. 1-7, pp. 1-

340 [Hebrew].

Zvi Zameret and Hannah Yablonka (eds.), The Third Decade: 1968-1978 [Idan Series

of Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi], Jerusalem 2008.

Ruvik Rosenthal, Dictionary of Hebrew Idioms and Phrases [Hebrew], Jerusalem

2009: "Zionism".

Asaf Zeltzer, The Story of Mekorot: Israel National Water Company: The First 75

Years, Jerusalem: Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi, 2011 [Hebrew].

Scientific Consulting to Junior-High and High School History Textbooks

Ketzia Tabibian, The Twenties Century – In the Cause of Freedom, Tel Aviv: Center

for Educational Technology 1999.

Ketzia Avieli-Tabibian, 1870-1970: The Age of Horror and Hope, Tel Aviv: Center


Ketzia Avieli-Tabibian, A Modern World is Born: The 19th

Century, Tel Aviv: Center


Ketzia Avieli-Tabibian, Building a State in the Middle East, Tel Aviv: Center for

Educational Technology 2009.

Yuval Kovarsky, Nationalism in Israel and Other Nations, Tel Aviv: Kinneret-

Zemora-Dvir Publishers 2014


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Academic Advising to Open University Books

Between Zion and Zionism, Units 1 (1995) and 8 (1998)

Trends in Israeli Society, Unit 4 (2001)

Israel’s First Decade, Units 2, 3, 4, 5, 10 (2001 and 2002)

Introduction of Local Government, Unit 3 (2004)

Yemeni Jews: History, Society and Culture, Unit 7

National Myths in Israeli Culture (Temporary edition)

Mira Katzburg-Yungman (ed.), The American Jewish Experience, (2006)

Mira Katzburg-Yungman (ed.), The American Jewish Experience [a Collection of

Articles in English] (2006)

Ariel Horowitz, The Holocaust, a unit in the course “Genocide” (2006)

Bat-Sheva Margalit-Stren, Women in the Jewish Society in Palestine (1882-1948)

(2014)

Inbal Ofer, The French Revolution (2015)

Referee for Prize Committee

Auschwitz Foundation Prizes, 6002

Member of Prize Committees

The Goldhirsh Prize for Outstanding MA Thesis in Holocaust Studies, Ben-Gurion

University (2005)

KKL [Jewish National Fund] Prize Committees for Doctoral Dissertations (2005,

2006 and 2007)

The Shimon Ben Shemesh Prize, KKL [Jewish National Fund] (2006)

The Ephraim E. Urbach Post-Doctoral International Fellowship for Jewish Studies of

The Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture in co-operation with the World

Union of Jewish Studies, 2009, 2011

Association for Israel Studies' Ben Halpern Award for Best Dissertation in Israel

Studies, 2013

Association for Israel Studies' Yonathan Shapiro Award for Best Book in Israel

Studies, 2015

Chair of Prize Committees

Yitzhak Ben-Zvi Award for research book in the History of Eretz Yisrael, 2011

Mordechai Ish-Shalom Award for first research book in the History of Eretz Yisrael,

2011

Yizhak Sadeh Prize for book in Military Writing, 2011

Association for Israel Studies' Yonathan Shapiro Award for Best Book in Israel

Studies, 2012

Organizing Academic Conferences (since 2007)

Program Chair of the 23rd

Annual Conference of the Association for Israel Studies:

"Israel as an Immigrant Society: Between the Melting Pot and Multiculturalism"

held at the Open University, June 11-13, 2007

Member of the Academic Committee of the 15th

World Congress of Jewish Studies

(2007-2009)


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Member of the organizing committee of the First International Conference on

Jerusalem Studies to inaugurate the School for Jerusalem Studies, Yad Ben Zvi,

Jerusalem, July 2012

Head of the Contemporary Jewish Society Division of the 16th

World Congress of

Jewish Studies (2011-2013)

Organizing Panels in Academic Conferences (since 2001)

2001 13th

World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, Israel:

- "Writing Biography"

2002 18th

Annual Meeting of the Association for Israel Studies, Vail, Co.:

- "Jewish Immigration from Muslim Countries to pre-State Israel: The Case of

Yemen"

- "Mizrahi Jews in Israeli Society"

2002 1st World Congress of Middle East Studies, Mainz, Germany:

- "Jewish Immigration from Muslim Countries to Israel"

2003 19th

Annual Meeting of the Association for Israel Studies, San Diego, Ca.:

- "Soviet Influences on Israeli Life"

2004 20th

Annual Meeting of the Association for Israel Studies, Jerusalem, Israel:

- "Economy and Society in Mandatory Palestine: History and Historiography"

- "The Higher Education Revolution in Israel"

2005 14th

World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, Israel

- "From Yishuv to Statehood"

2006 22nd

Annual Meeting of the Association for Israel Studies, Banff (Canada):

- "Ideology and Pragmatism in Defining the Borders of the Jewish State"

2007 39th

Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, Toronto:

- "The Art and Politics of Writing Biographies in Israel" [double session]

2008 24th

Annual Meeting of the Association for Israel Studies, New York:

- Meet the Author: Anita Shapira, Author of: Yigal Allon: Native Son

2008 The 40th

Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies,

Washington, DC:

- "Ha-Shomer ha-Tzair in Europe after the Holocaust: Shaping Collective Memory,

Molding Common Future"

2009 The 15th

World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem:

- "'A Signal Non-Failure'? The Kibbutz in Historical Retrospect" (Plenary Session)

2009 The 41st Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, Los

Angeles:

- (1) The Kibbutz in Comparative Perspectives

- (2) Major Issues in the History of the Kibbutz

- (3) The Kibbutz: Present and Future

2011 The 43rd

Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies,

Washington DC: "Bi-Nationalism in Mandatory Palestine: Comparative and

Critical Analysis"

Invited Lectures in Academic Workshops (partial list)

"Palestine and Jewish Refugees from Nazi-Germany"; "Relations between Native

Jewish Communities and the Refugees, 1933-1939: The Case of Palestine and


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Zionism"; "'If I am not for myself, who will be for me': The contemporary Israeli

perception of the refugee crisis of the 1930s": papers delivered at the workshop and

the public presentation on Refugees from Nazi-Germany in West-European

border states, 1933-1939/1940, organized by the Study and Documentation

Centre on War and Contemporary Society, Brussels, January 15-17, 2004

"Ha-shomer ha-tza'ir and the Arab Problem following the Arab Revolt", Researchers'

Conference on Seventy Years to the Palestinian-Arab Revolt 1936-1939, Ben-

Gurion Institute for the Research of Israel and Zionism and The Dayan Center, Tel-

Aviv University, Sde Boker Campus, 16-17 May 2006 [Hebrew]

"Where Has the 'New Jew' Been Shaped: In the 'Old World', in the 'Desert' or Was He

'Born from the Sea'?, Workshop: The Idea of "The New Jew", The Cherick

Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 11-12 April 2007 [Hebrew]

"From Negation of Exile to Fondness of the Diaspora", Research workshop: "Exile"

and "Diaspora" in Jewish and Zionist Discourse, The Ben-Gurion Research

Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism, 17 May, 2011 [Hebrew]

4391" : A Year in the Life of the Jewish Community in Palestine (the "Yishuv")": [1]

The Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, Brandeis University, Graduate and

Faculty Seminar, 21 October 2013; [2] The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the

Study of Jewish Life, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 11 November 2014;

[3] Azreili Institute of Israel Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, 18

November, 2014; [4] Stroum Center for Jewish Studies, University of Washington,

Seattle, WA, 18 February 2015

"The Zionist View", workshop on "The Mandate for Palestine: Past and Present",

International Law Forum, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 11 February 2016

Papers Delivered in Academic Conferences (since 2001; partial list)

2001-2007: other than the Annual Conferences of the Association for Israel Studies

(2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006) and the Annual Conferences of the Association for

Jewish Studies (2004, 2005, 2006)

"Meir Yaari: Collective Biography", 13th

World Congress of Jewish Studies,

Jerusalem, August 2001 [Hebrew]

"Jewish Immigration from Muslim Countries to Israel: A Comparative Perspective",

1st World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies, September 8-13, 2002, Mainz,

Germany

"The Historical Kibbutz Leadership: Between Ideology and Collectivism", Third

International Conference on Hierarchy and Power in the History of

Civilizations, Russian Academy of Sciences and Russian State University for The

Humanities, Moscow, Russia, 18-21 June 2004

"The Holocaust as a Turning Point: From Jewish Solidarity to Zionist Commitment",

International Conference on War, Holocaust, State: Sixty Years since the End of

World War II, Tel Aviv University and Israel Historical Society, 14-16 June 2005

[Hebrew]

"The Zionist Left in the First Years of Statehood", 14th

World Congress of Jewish

Studies, 31 July-4 August 2005, Jerusalem [Hebrew]

"The Kibbutz as a Burden on the Israeli Left", The Eighth Conference on the

Research of the Kibbutz and the Communes, Giv'at Haviva, 8-10 May 2006


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[Hebrew]

"Decoding Enigmatic Leadership: Biographies of Kibbutz Movement's Leaders", The

39th

Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, December 16-18

2007, Toronto, Canada

"Against Many Odds: Immigration of Jewish Women to Palestine between the World

Wars", Seventh European Social Science History Conference, 26 February-1

March 2008, Lisbon, Portugal

"Israel's Open Immigration Policy and Attempts at Restriction in Historical and

Comparative Perspective", 24th

Annual Meeting of the Association for Israel

Studies, New York, May 19-21 2008

"'My Heart is in the East, and I in the Uttermost West' and Vice Versa: Images of

Europe and Palestine in Zionist Nostalgia", Coming home? Conflict and return

migration in twentieth–century (An International conference hosted by the

Centre for Transnational Studies, Department of Modern Languages, University of

Southampton, England), 1-3 April 2009

"Historical Biography: Literary and Cultural Aspects", The 2009 NAPH Conference

on Hebrew Language, Literature and Culture at University College, London,

July 2009 [Hebrew]

"The Puzzle of Meir Ya‘ari’s Leadership: The Power of Charisma, Ideology and

Organization", The 15th

World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, 2-6

August, 2009 [Hebrew]

"Kibbutz and Aliyah: Symbiotic Relations", The 41st Annual Conference of the

Association for Jewish Studies, Los Angeles, December 2009

"The Role of Palestine as a Destination for Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany:

The British Perspective", Eighth European Social Science History Conference,

Ghent (Belgium), 13-16 April, 2010

"Ha-Shomer ha-Tza'ir's Bi-Nationalism: Moral Idealism vs. Pragmatic Zionism", The

43rd

Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, Washington DC,

December 2011

"Europe in Zionist Nostalgia: Between Negation of Exile and Search for Identity",

Israel and Europe: Mapping the Past, Shaping the Future, European

Association for Israel Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, 10-

12.9.2012

"Meir Yaari's Vacillating Attitude toward the Notions of 'Exile' and 'Diaspora'", The

45th

Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, Boston,

December 2013

"Ben-Gurion and Ben-Zvi: A Comparative Leadership Analysis", 30th

Annual

Meeting of the Association for Israel Studies, Ben-Gurion Research Institute for

the Study of Israel and Zionism, Sede Boqer Campus, June 2014

"Masada, Tel-Hai and Warsaw: Contesting Zionist Models of Jewish Heroism",

Western Jewish Studies Association, University of British Columbia, Vancouver,

Canada, May 2015

"The Conflicting Impact of the Holocaust on the 1947 Partition Plan", 31st Annual

Meeting of the Association for Israel Studies, Concordia University, Montreal,

Canada, June 2015


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Active Participation in Academic Symposia (last 10 years; partial list; mostly in

Hebrew)

"Jewish-Arab Relations in Mandatory Palestine in the Israeli Historiographic

Discourse", Madatory Palestine: Colonial Reality / Dual Society, The Open

University, Tel Aviv 29.5.2003

"Ideological Collectivism: Paper Bonds", Ha-Shomer ha-Tza'ir: Hopes, Illusions

and Politics, Tel Aviv University and Yad Ya'ari, Tel Aviv 19.11.2003

"The Second Aliya and the Zionist Left: Continuity, Rebellion, Acceptance",

Hundred Years for the Second Aliya, Tel Aviv University and Sapir Academic

College, Tel Aviv 24.2.2004

"The Attitude of the Zionist Movement towards Jerusalem", Jerusalem: A City of

Many Religions and Peoples, The Open University, 30.12.2004

"The Sailing of the 'Pan's Illegal Immigration Ships From Bulgaria in Historical

Perspective", Immigration and Illegal Immigration from and through Bulgaria

1939-1949, Tel Aviv University, 2.1.2005

"Mapam's Dual Struggle to Abolish the Military Government 1954-1966", Us and

Our Neighbors: Mapam's Path 1927-1977, Tel Aviv University and Yad Yaari,

7.2.2005

"The Big Brother Syndrome in Mapai-Mapam Relations", 75 Years to the Founding

of Mapai, Tel Aviv University, 4.4.2005

"The Immigrants: The Silent Heroes of Illegal Immigration", Sixty Years to the End

of the Second World War, Haifa University, Lohamei ha-Geta'ot Museum,

8.5.2005

"Unity and Division over the Partition of Palestine 1937-1947", The Calgary Jewish

Community Council and the Israel Studies Program, Faculty of Social

Sciences, University of Calgary, 16.10.2005

"From the Biographer's Workshop: Where to Draw the Line between Curiosity and

Peeping", Annual Conference of the Israeli Librarians Association, The Open

University, 28.6.2006

"From the Author's Workshop", Symposium on my book "B'Merutz Kaful Neged

ha-Z'aman", Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, 19.9.2006

"When Did the Zionist Race Against Time End?", Symposium on my book "B'Merutz

Kaful Neged ha-Z'aman", Tel Aviv University, 7.11.2006

"Ben-Gurion and Meir Ya'ari: Statehood vs. Partisanship", David Ben-Gurion and

His Contemporaries, Inauguration of the Chair for Research of the History of

Palestine (Eretz-Yisrael), Kinneret Academic College at the Jordan Valley,

5.12.2006

"Alterman's Seventh Column as a Historical Source", Symposium on Mordechai

Naor's book Ha-Tur ha-Shmini, Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, 15.1.2007

"Leaders Against the Stream: The Historical Leadership of ha-Shomer ha-Tza'ir from

Biltmore to Lake Success", 60 Years to 29 November: The Holocaust and the

Establishment of the State of Israel, University of Haifa and Lohamei ha-Geta'ot

Museum, 26-27.11.2007

"Mapai between Pioneering Ethos and Party Politics", Symposium on How to Build a

State: Mapai and the Shaping the State of Israel in Early Independence, Tel

Aviv University, 14.1.2008


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"Illegal Immigration: From Inner-Zionist Competition to Rescue Efforts and

Instrument in the Struggle against Britain", Zionism Put to Test of Time,

University of Haifa, 15.5.2008

"Nostalgia in Zionist History and Historiography", International Conference on

History and Memory in Honor of Professor Anita Shapira, Tel Aviv University

27-29.5.2008

"The British Struggle against Jewish Illegal Immigration into Palestine as a Chapter in

'The March of Folly'", The End of the British Mandate over Palestine: A View

from and on Britain, University of Haifa, 15.6.2008

http://actv.haifa.ac.il/programs/Item.aspx?it=1361

"The Historiography of the State of Israel", Symposium on "The Warrior and

Peace" in Honor of Mordechay Bar-On, Tel Aviv University, 1.12.2008

"Reciprocal Relations between Territory and Demography in the Zionist Ideology and

Practice", conference on Zionism Put to Test of Time: Ideology, Vision and

Reality, Bar Ilan University, 16.6.2009

"The Yishuv and the Holocaust: Time for Synthesis", Symposium following the

publication of Shoah mi-Merhak Tavo (When Disaster Comes from Afar: Leading

Personalities in the Land of Israel Confront Nazism and the Holocaust, 1933-

1948), Dina Porat (editor) and Aviva Halamish (Associate Editor), Tel Aviv

University, 15.9.2009

"Illegal Immigration: A human Drama and National Myth", Conference on Holocaust

and the Resurrection of Israel: Methods of Research and Education" in Honor

of Prof. Dalia Ofer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 29.10.2009

"Writing a Leader's Biography", Symposium on my book Meir Yaari: Biographia

Kibbutzit, The Open University, 27.4.2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZUEsxWiJkk

"Meir Yaari and The Kibbutz Artzi Movement: I am the Movement, the Movement is

Me", Symposium on my book Meir Yaari: Biographia Kibbutzit, University of

Haifa, 29.4.2010

"Zionism – History, Memory and Image", conference in Honor of Prof. Yoav Gelber,

University of Haifa, 2.11.2010


"'Israeli' as a Surname", Symposium on Yair Auron's Book Zehuyot Israeliot [Israeli

Identities], The Open University, 3.1.2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMA3IlOpvD8 [starts at 5:45]

"Ha-Shomer ha-Tza'ir and the Arab Question: Political and Educational Encounter

with Existential and Moralistic Dilemmas", Conference on Nationalism and

Morality: The Zionist Discourse and the Arab Problem, Tel Aviv University,

23-24.3.2011.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUV3O7ZVFjw

"An Author Encounters Criticism", Symposium on my book Meir Yaari: Biographia

Kibbutzit, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 31.3.2011

"The Role of Warsaw and Negba in the Heroic Ethos of ha-Shomer ha-Tzair",

Symposium following the publication of Dina Porat's book Kafe ha-Boker b'Re'ach

he-Aashan, Tel Aviv University, 9.1.2012

"'There is no Future for Palestine Rather than Partition': The Concealed Alliance


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZUEsxWiJkk


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMA3IlOpvD8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUV3O7ZVFjw


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between the Zionist Leadership and Cunningham", Symposium following the

publication of Motti Golani's book The Last Commissioner, University of Haifa,

22.1.2012

"Moshe Sneh and Meir Yaari: A Comet over a Long Path", Symposium in

Commemoration of Moshe Sneh, Tel Aviv University, 16.4.2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPua34gZmYo

"Meir Yaari's Encounter with Holocaust Survivors", Symposium on Avihu Ronen's

Book, Nidona L'Haim [Condemned to Life: The Diaries and Life of Chajka

Klinger], University of Haifa and Lohamei ha-Geta'ot Museum, 14.5.2012

"The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising – From Autobiography to Biography", Yad Vashem,

Jerusalem, 18.4.2013

"The Zionist Left's Tangled Search for Identity", The Open University of Israel,

18.6.2013

http://www.youtube.com/embed/7A3aCvZ6oH0

"Ha-Shomer ha-Tza'ir in Search of Reconciling the 'Immanent Contradiction' between

Zionism and Socialism", an international conference: "Something Happened to

Zionism: Continuity and Change in Jewish Nationalism", The Hebrew University

of Jerusalem, 29-31.12.2013

Miscellaneous (selection)

2006 - Member of the Nahum Sokoloff Prize for Electronic Media

2008 – Member of the Book Prize Committee of Tel Aviv Centennial Celebration

2010 – Evaluation of the proposal for MA degree Program by The Israel Studies

International Program, The Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel

and Zionism

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPua34gZmYo

http://www.youtube.com/embed/7A3aCvZ6oH0


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List of Publications

Master’s Thesis, Columbia University

Aviva Halamish Goldstein, Mapam and the Arab Minority in Israel, 1957-1966.

Supervisor: Prof. J.C. Hurewitz [1975].

Doctoral Dissertation, Tel Aviv University

Immigration and Absorption Policy of the Zionist Organization 1931-1937.

Supervisor: Prof. Anita Shapira [1995].

Professional Books

Exodus – Ha-Sippur ha-Amiti [Exodus – The Real Story, Hebrew], Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv

University and Am Oved Publishers, 1990, 325 pp.

The Exodus Affair: Holocaust Survivors and the Struggle for Palestine, Syracuse:

Syracuse University Press 1998 [Published simultaneously by Vallentine Mitchell,

London], xxii + 313 pp. [slightly different from the Hebrew edition].

B’Merutz Kaful Neged ha-Zman [A Dual Race against Time: Zionist Immigration

Policy in the 1930s, Hebrew], Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Press, 2006, 539 pp.

♦ Winner of (1) The Association for Israel Studies Annual Shapiro Award for Best

Book in Israel Studies during the year 2006; (2) Hecht Prize of the Herzl Institute,

University of Haifa, for a research book in History of Zionism, the Yishuv and the

State of Israel, 2008.

Me’ir Ya’ari: Biographya Kibbutzit, Hamishim ha-Shanim ha-Rishonot 1897-1947

[Meir Ya'ari: Collective Biography, The First Fifty Years, 1897-1947], Tel Aviv:

Am Oved / Ofakim Series, 2009.

♦ Winner of Yitzhak Ben Zvi Award for research book in the History of Eretz

Yisrael, 2010.

Me’ir Ya’ari: Ha-Admor mi-Merhavia, Shnot haMedina [Meir Ya'ari: The Rebbe

from Merhavia, The State Years], Tel Aviv: Am Oved / Ofakim Series, 2013.

♦ Finalist in the 2013 Zalman Shazar Prize for a research book in Jewish History.

Edited Books

Aviva Halamish and Yaacov Shavit, Ha-Tzyonut, 17 [Hebrew], Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv

University and Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 1993, 350 pp.

Zvi Zameret, Aviva Halamish and Esther Meir-Glitzenstein (eds.), Ayarot ha-

Pitu'ach (Development Towns), Jerusalem: Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi Press 2009, 449

pp.

Aviva Halamish and Zvi Zameret (eds.), Ha-Kibbutz: Me'a ha-Shanim ha-Rishonot

[The Kibbutz: The First Hundred Years], Jerusalem: Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi Press

2010, 392 pp.

Dina Porat (editor) and Aviva Halamish (Associate Editor), Shoah mi-Merhak Tavo

(When Disaster Comes from Afar: Leading Personalities in the Land of Israel

Confront Nazism and the Holocaust, 1933-1948), Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Zvi Press

2009, 552 pp.

Roni Stauber, Aviva Halamish, Esther Webman (eds.), Holocaust & Anti-Semitism:

Research and public discourse - Essays Presented in Honor of Dina Porat,

Jerusalem 2015


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Open University Books [All in Hebrew and some also in Russian]

Jerusalem in the Period of the British Mandate, Tel Aviv 1991, 142 pp. {H&R}.

Yoram Erder and Aviva Halamish, Jerusalem during the First Muslim Period

(638-1099), Tel Aviv 1994, 135 pp. {H&R}.

From National Home to a State in the Making: History of the Jewish Community in

Palestine between the World Wars, Vol. I, Tel Aviv 2004, 360 pp. {H&R}.


Palestine between the World Wars, Vol. II, Ra’anana 2004, 271 pp. {H and part of

it in R}.


Palestine between the World Wars, Vol. III, Ra’anana 2012, 402 pp. (including

index for the three volumes) {H}.

Articles in Refereed Books

“Illegal Immigration: Values, Myth and Reality,” (Hebrew) in N. Gertz (ed.), Nekudot

Tatzpit - Tarbut ve-Hevra be-Eretz-Yisrael, Tel Aviv: The Open University, 1988,

pp. 86-98 [Hebrew, almost identical to English version published previously].

“The First Battle of ‘Exodus’,” (Hebrew) in A. Shapira (ed.), Ha’apala, Tel Aviv: Tel

Aviv University and Am Oved Publishers, 1990, pp. 302-333.

“Zionism and the Jewish Problem (1918-1939),” (Hebrew) in N. Barzel (ed.) and Z.

Tzahor (Academic Advisor), Mekimim Medina, Tel Aviv: Oranim Academic

College and Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishers, 1997, pp. 209-224.

“Immigration of Jewish ‘Capitalists’ to Palestine between the World Wars,” (Hebrew)

in D. Hacohen (ed.), Kibbutz Galuyot: Aliyah L’Eretz-Israel – Mythos U’metzi’ut,

Jerusalem: The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 1998, pp. 193-232.

“Colonial Capital, Modern City and Arena of National Conflict: Jerusalem in the

Period of the British mandate,” (Hebrew) in Y. Shavit (ed.), Yerushalayim:

Biographya, Jerusalem: The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History and Am

Oved Publishers, 1998, pp. 233-246.

“‘Selective Immigration’ in Zionist Ideology, Praxis and Historiography,” (Hebrew)

in A. Shapira, J. Reinharz, J. Harris (eds.), Idan ha-Tziyonut, Jerusalem: The

Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 2000, pp. 185-202.

“Exodus: A Film that Changed History,” (Hebrew) in H. Bresheeth, S. Sand, M.

Zimmermann (eds.), Cinema and Memory: A Dangerous Relationship?, Jerusalem:

The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 2004, pp. 341-359.

“What are Biographers Trying to Do?,” (Hebrew) in Amir Horowitz, Ora Limor, Ram

Ben-Shalom and Avriel Bar-Levav (eds.), The Past and Beyond: Studies in History

and Philosophy Presented to Elazar Weinryb, Raanana: The Open University

2006, pp. 219-243.

“From ‘The Jewish State’ to the Law of Return: Herzl’s Immigration Vision in

Historical Perspective” (Hebrew), Avi Sagi and Yedidia Z. Stern (eds.), Hanan

Mandel (assistant ed.), Herzl Then and Now: ‘The Jewish State’ in the State of the

Jews, Jerusalem: The Shalom Hartman Institute / The Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan

University / Keter 2008, pp. 205-225.

"'Hashomer Hatzair' and the 'Arab Question': A Case of Optical Illusion?" (Hebrew),

in Eliezer Ben-Refael, Avi Bareli, Meir Chazan, Ofer Shiff (eds.), The Jewish


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People Today: Ingathering and Dispersion / Essays in Honor of Yosef Gorny,

Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Zvi; The Chaim Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism

and Israel, Tel Aviv University; The Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study

of Israel and Zionism, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Beit Berl College

2009, pp. 243-260.

"Merhavya and Stalingrad! Neither Warsaw nor Massada: Meir Ya'ari Confronts the

Holocaust and Its Aftermath" (Hebrew), in Dina Porat (ed.) and Aviva Halamish

(associate ed.), When Disaster Comes from Afar: Leading Personalities in the

Land of Israel Confront Nazism and the Holocaust, 1933-1948, Jerusalem: Yad

Ben-Zvi Press 2009, pp. 475-504.

"Palestine as a Destination for Jewish Immigrants and Refugees from Nazi Germany",

Frank Caestecker and Bob Moore (eds.), Refugees from Nazi Germany and the

Liberal European States, New York: Berghahn Books 2010, pp. 122-150.

"Kibbutz and Immigration: Reciprocal Relations and Mutual Reliance" (Hebrew), in

Aviva Halamish and Zvi Zameret (eds.), Ha-Kibbutz: Me'a ha-Shanim ha-Rishonot

[The Kibbutz: The First Hundred Years], Jerusalem: Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi 2010,

pp. 25-42.

"The Yishuv: The Jewish Community in Mandatory Palestine", Jewish Virtual

Library Publications;

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/isdf/text/halamish.html

"Nostalgia in Zionist History and Historiography" (Hebrew), in Meir Chazan, Uri

Cohen (eds.), Culture, Memory, and History: Essay in Honor of Anita Shapira, II.

Israeli Culture and Memory, Jerusalem: Tel Aviv University and Zalman Shazar

Center for Jewish History 2012, pp. 747-765.

"Bi-Nationalism in Mandatory Palestine: The Case of ha-Shomer ha-Tza'ir", Anita

Shapira, Yedidya Z. Stern and Alexander Yakobson (eds.), Nationalism and

Binationalism: The Perils of Perfect Structures, Vol. I, Brighton: Sussex Academic

Press and The Israel Democracy Institute 2013, pp. 89-120.

"Between Literature and History: A Dialogic Reading in the Literary Works of Nurit

Gertz" (Hebrew), in Sandra Meiri, Yael Munk, Adia Mendelson-Maoz, Liat Stier-

Livny (eds.), Identities in Transition in Israeli Culture: Jubilee Book in Honor of

Nurit Gertz, Raanana: The Open University of Israel 2013, pp. 31-49.

"Mapam in the War of Independence: From the Front's Trenches to the Opposition

Benches" (Hebrew), in Mordechai Bar-On, Meir Chazan (eds.), Politika ba-

Milhama [Politics in Wartime: Studies on the Civilian Society during the Israeli

War of Independence],Jerusalem: The Galili Center for Defense Studies / Tel Aviv

University / Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi 2014.

"'Ha-Shomer ha-Tza'ir' and the Arab Question: Political and Educational Encounter

with Existential and Moral Dilemmas" (Hebrew), in Ephraim Lavie (ed.),

Nationalism and Morality: The Zionist Discourse and the Arabic Question,

Jerusalem: Carmel 2014, pp. 251-268.

Articles in Refereed Journals

“The United States’ Position in the ‘Exodus 1947’ Affair,” (Hebrew) Yahadut

Zemanenu, 3 (1986), pp. 209-225.

“Illegal Immigration: Values, Myth and Reality,” Studies in Zionism, 9, 1 (1988), pp.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/isdf/text/halamish.html


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47-62.

“Was the Year 1933 a Turning Point in the Zionist Immigration Policy” (Hebrew),

Iyunim bi-Tkumat Israel, 3 (1993), pp. 98-113.

“‘Exodus’ - The Specific Case and the Overall Significance,” (Hebrew) Ha-Ziyonut,

18 (1994), pp. 383-390.

“American Volunteers in Illegal Immigration, 1946-1948,” Jewish History, 9, 1

(Spring 1995), pp. 91-106.

“American Volunteers in Illegal Immigration to Palestine, 1946-1948,” (Hebrew) Ha-

Ziyonut, 21 (1998), pp. 267-285 [a slightly revised version of the English article].

“Zionist Immigration Policy in the 1930s: From ‘Redemption’ to ‘Survival’,”

(Hebrew) Zemanim, 58 (1997), pp. 86-98.

“Finished - But Not Completed” (Hebrew) [The Yishuv Leadership and Rescue

Efforts during the Holocaust], Cathedra, 94 (1999), pp. 155-172.

“The Struggle for ‘Certificates’: Prelude to the Secession of the Revisionists from the

World Zionist Organization,” (Hebrew) Yahadut Zemanenu, 14 (2001), pp. 165-

181.

“A Leader in Search of Disciples: Me’ir Ya’ari’s Road to the Leadership of ha-

Shomer ha-Tza’ir 1918-1927,” (Hebrew) Iyunim bi-Tkumat Israel, 12 (2002), pp.

99-121.

“Me’ir Ya’ari: A Collective Biography,” (Hebrew) Israel, 3 (2003), pp. 69-96.

“Immigration According to the Economic Absorptive Capacity: The Guiding

Principles, the Implementation and the Demographic Ramifications of the British

and the Zionist Immigration Policy in Palestine between the World Wars,”

(Hebrew) Iyunim bi-Tkumat Israel / Thematic Series: Economy and Society in

Mandatory Palestine 1918-1948 (Avi Bareli and Nahum Karlinsky, eds.), Ben

Gurion University Press and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2003, pp.

179-216.

“The Dialectic Influence of A.D. Gordon on Hashomer Hatza’ir,” (Hebrew)

Cathedra, 114 (December 2004), pp. 99-120.

“Mandatory Palestine: A Dual Society or Colonial Reality?,” (Hebrew) Zmanim, 92

(Autumn 2005), pp. 16-25.

“A New Look at Immigration of Jews from Yemen to Mandatory Palestine,” Israel

Studies, Vol. 11, No. 1 (2006), pp. 59-78.

“Me’ir Ya’ari’s Attitude towards Rescue and Immigration during the Holocaust,”

(Hebrew) Yalkut Moreshet, 83 (2007), pp. 25-51.

"Meir Yaari's Attitude toward Rescue and Aliyah during the Holocaust", Moreshet:

Journal for the Study of the Holocaust and Antisemitism, Vol. 7 (Winter 2009), pp.

83-120 [a slightly revised version of the Hebrew article].

“The Role of Illegal Immigration in the Struggle for Palestine 1945-1945,” (Hebrew)

Aley Zayit v’Herev, 7 (2007), pp. 63-85.

“Me’ir Ya’ari as an Artist of Polemic Writing,” (Hebrew) Kesher: Journal of Media

and Communications History in Israel and the Jewish World, 36 (Autumn 2007),

pp. 63-69.

“Zionist Immigration Policy Put to the Test: Historical analysis of Israel’s

immigration policy, 1948-1951,” Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2

(July 2008), pp. 119-134


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"Loyalties in Conflict: Mapam's Vacillating Stance on the Military Government,

1955-1966: Historical and Political Analysis", Israel Studies Forum, Vol. 25, No. 2

(Fall 2010), pp. 26-53.

"'Ha-Shomer ha-Tza'ir's Youth Rebel (1911-1948)" (Hebrew), Dor L'Dor, 36 (2010),

pp. 163-190.

"The Historic Leadership of Hakibbutz Ha'artzi: The Power of Charisma,

Organization and Ideology", Journal of Israeli History, vol. 31, no. 1, March 2012,

pp. 45-66.

"Education and Politics: The Position of Hashomer Hatzair Leadership in the Years

1939-1959 toward the Heroism of Movement Members during the Holocaust"

(Hebrew), Moreshet – Journal for the Study of Holocaust and Antisemitism, vol.

92/93, April 2013, pp. 234-255.

"The Historiographical Era in Israeli Historiography" [Hebrew], Cathedra, 150

(December 2013), pp. 239-262.

"Mapam in the War of Independence: From the war front to the opposition back

benches", Journal of Israeli History, vol. 33, no. 2, 2014, pp. 145-168.

Encyclopedia Entries

“Refugees”, entry in The Holocaust Encyclopedia (Walter Laqueur, ed., Judith Tydor

Baumel associate ed.), Yale University Press, 2001, pp. 519-524.

“Meir Yaari”, (Hebrew) entry in Zman Yehudi Hadash [New Jewish Time: Jewish

Culture in a Secular Age – An Encyclopedic View], Vol. II (Yermiyahu Yovel

chief ed.), Israel 2007, pp. 139-141.

"Israel, State of: Youth Movements", The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and

Jewish Culture (Judith R. Baskin, ed.), New York: Cambridge University Press,

2011, pp. 307-308.

"Exodus", Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, Vol. 2, Stuttgard/Weimar:

Verlag J.B. Meltzer 2011 (Im Auftrag der Sächsischen Akademie der

Wissenschaften zu Leipzig; Dan Diner, ed.), pp. 304-309 [German].

"Zionism", in H. Anheier, & M. Juergensmeyer (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Global

Studies, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. 2012, pp. 1834-1839.

Article in Refereed Conference Proceedings

“Discrimination against Women in Immigration to Pre-State Palestine: Facts, Causes,

Consequences,” (Hebrew) Divrei ha-Kongress ha-Olami ha-12 l’Mada’ei ha-

Yahadut, Division E: Contemporary Jewish Society, World Union of Jewish

Studies (2001), pp. 49-57.

Invited Book Reviews (in refereed journals)

“We and Our Neighbors: The Zionist Primacy,” (Hebrew) Yahadut Zemanenu, 4

(1988), pp. 349-357 [on Y. Gorny, Ha-She’ela Ha-’Aravit ve-ha-Be’aya ha-

Yehudit; S. Teveth, Ben-Gurion ve-’Arviyei Eretz-Yisrael; D. Zayit, Ziyonut be-

Darchei Shalom].

“Like a Drop in the Ocean which is the Whole World,” (Hebrew) Yahadut Zemanenu,

6 (1990), pp. 369-372 [on D. Ofer, Derech ba-Yam: ‘Aliyah Bet bi-Tekufat

ha-Shoah].


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“The Central Role of Aliyah in the Yishuv and the State of Israel,” (Hebrew)

Cathedra, 66 (1992), pp. 168-174 [on Yahadut Zemanenu, vol. 7].

“A Damned Voyage,” (Hebrew) Iyunim bi-Tkumat Israel, vol. 3 (1993), pp. 563-564

[on H. Weiner, D. Ofer, Parashat Kladovo-Sabac].

Review of Exodus 1947 (Revised Edition), by David C. Holly, The Journal of Israel

History, 17, 1 (Spring 1996), pp. 154-156.

Review of Hevley Ne’urim: ha-Tenu’a ha-Shomrit 1911-1921, by M. Minc, Gal-Ed:

On the History of the Jews in Poland, XV-XVI (1998), pp. 251-258 (Hebrew).

“From Babel’s Tower to Hebrew Culture, and Back?” (Hebrew) Zemanim, 70 (2000),

pp. 118-120 [on Z. Shavit, B’niyata shel Tarbut Ivrit b’Eretz-Yisrael].

“The Pangs of Being a Proletarian,” (Hebrew) Cathedra, 98 (2000), pp. 148-152 [on

D. De Vris, Idealism v’Biyorokratya: Shorasheha shel Haifa ha-Aduma].

“Reserved Moderation Conducted by a Remote Control,” (Hebrew) Kivunim

Hadashim, 4 (2001), pp. 198-203 [on M. and Z. Sharett, Ma’asar Im Niyar

v’Iparon].

“The Fighter Who Molded Historiography,” (Hebrew) Iyunim bi-Tkumat Israel, 12

(2002), pp. 609-616 [on A. Boaz, Alum v’Noche’ach ba-Kol: Sippur Hayav shel

Shaul Avigur].

“Mandatory Palestine,” Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 36, 1 (Summer

2002), pp. 33-35 [Review of: Y. Katz, Partner to Partition: The Jewish Agency’s

Partition Plan in the Mandate Era; N. Shepherd, Ploughing Sand: British Rule in

Palestine 1917-1948; I. Friedman, Palestine – A Twice-Promised Land? Vol. 1:

The British, the Arabs & Zionism 1915-1920].

Review of Shmuel Berkovits, Milhemet ha-M’komot ha-K’doshim [The Battle for the

Holy Places: The Struggle over Jerusalem and the Holy Sites in Israel, Judea,

Samaria and the Gaza District], The Journal of Israeli History, 23, 2 (Autumn

2004), pp. 310-313.

Review of Baruch Kanari, Tabenkin be-Eretz-Yisarel, The Journal of Israeli History,

Vol. 24, No. 1 (March 2005), pp. 165-169.

Review of The Holocaust: The Unique and the Universal; Essays Presented in Honor

of Yehuda Bauer; The Holocaust: History and Memory; Essays Presented in

Honor of Israel Gutman, Studies in Contemporary Jewry, XXI (2005), pp. 291-

294.

“Between Faith’s Power and the Believers’ Weakness,” (Hebrew) on Hava Eshkoli

Wagman, Bein Hatzala Li’Geula [Between Rescue and Redemption: Religious

Zionism in Eretz Israel Confronts the Holocaust], Cathedra, 119 (2006), pp. 149-

154.

Review of the Hebrew edition of The Patron, by Anthony David, Israel, 10 (2006),

pp. 227-234 (Hebrew).

Review of Yael Darr, U’mi-safsal ha-limudim lukahnu [Called Away from Our

School-Desks: The Yishuv in the Shadow of Holocaust and in Anticipation of

Statehood in Children’s Literature of Eretz Israel, 1939-1948], Sociologia Israelit,

IX (1) 2007, pp. 205-207 (Hebrew).

Review of Yossef Gorny, Halufut Nifgashot [Merging Alternatives: The Bund and

Zionist Labor Movement, 1897-1985], Zion, LXXII / 3, 2007, pp. 371-374

(Hebrew).


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Review of U. Cohen et al. (eds.), Israel v’ha-Moderniyut [Israel and Modernity: In

Honor of Moshe Lissak], Megamot, XLV / 3, April 2008, pp. 606-609 (Hebrew).

Review of Henry Near, The Kibbutz Movement: A History, Israel, 15 (2009), pp. 227-

233 (Hebrew).

Review of Shula Keshet, The Story of Bithania: Origin and Literary Transformation),

Iyunim Bitkumat Israel, 19 (2009), pp. 498-508 (Hebrew).

Review of Yoav Gelber, History, Memory and Propaganda, Zmanim, 106 (Spring

2009), pp. 149-152 (Hebrew).

Review of Bella Gutterman, Zivia Ha-Ahat: The Life Story of Zivia Lubetkin,

Hamerhav Hatzibburi, vol. 7, Spring 2012, pp.175-179.

"Historical Research, First Hand Testimony and Interpretative Insight" (Hebrew), on

Mordechai Bar-On, Atzma'ut b'Tzel ha-Milhamot [Independence under the Shadow

of Wars], Aley Zait Vacherev, XIV (2014)' pp. 345-351.

Book Reviews in Gesher (in Hebrew)

“From Holocaust to Independence,” Gesher, 115 (1987), pp. 136-137 [on Y. Ganuz,

Kisufim ve-Sa’ar].

“Painful Absorption of the Postwar Immigrants,” Gesher, 131 (1995), pp.115-117 [on

D. Hacohen, Olim bi’Se’ara: ha-Aliya ha-Gedola u’Klitata b’Israel 1948-1953].

“Is There ‘Guide of the Perplexed’ on Matters of Underground and Terrorism?,”

Gesher, 134 (1997), pp. 101-103 [on H. Genizi, Dat u’Mahteret b’Eretz-Yisrael

bi’Tkufat ha-Mandat].

“The Uniqueness of a Universal Phenomenon,” Gesher, 135 (1997), [on D. Ofer (ed.),

Beyn Olim l’Vatikim: Israel ba-Aliya ha-Gedola 1948-1953].

“Good Stuff for Critical Reading,” Gesher, 139 (1999), pp. 111-112 [on Y.

Grodzinsky, Homer Enoshi Tov: Yehudim Mul Ziyonim 1945-1951].

“The Fulfillment of Herzl’s Will,” Gesher, 140 (2000), pp. 102-104 [on T. Herzl,

Inyan ha-Yehudim: Sifrei Yoman, vol. I-II].

“The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothes,” Gesher, 141 (2000), pp. 94-98 [on T. Segev, Yemey

ha-Kalaniyot: Palestine in Mandatory Period].

“Growing Pains of the Israeli Society,” Gesher, 145 (2002), pp. 88-96 [on E. Karsh,

Fibruk ha-Historya ha-Israelit; S. Sand, Ha-Intelectual, ha-Emet v’ha-Koach, M.

Zukermann, Haroshet ha-Israeliyut, L. J. Silverstein, The Postzionism Debates, A.

Shlaim, The Iron Wall].

“Zionism and Holocaust” (Hebrew), Gesher, 146 (2003), pp. 95-98 [onO. Shiff,

Yehudim Mishtalvim].

Open University Publications (other than books)

Chapters in Open University Books (all in Hebrew)

“The Attitude of the Zionist Movement to the Arab Question,” Unit 4 of the Course:

The Middle East between the World Wars, 1993, pp. 425-435.

“The Jewish Community in Palestine during the 1920’s,” Unit 4 of the Course: The

Middle East between the World Wars, 1993, pp. 436-439.

“History of the Jewish Community in Palestine in the 1930s,” Unit 12 of the Course:

The Middle East between the World Wars, 2003, pp. 425-438.

“The Attitude of the Zionist Movement to the Arab Question in the 1930s,” Unit 12 of


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the Course: The Middle East between the World Wars, 2003, pp. 439-454.

Rewriting of Open University Books

Jerusalem during the Ottoman Period, Unit 8 of the course “Jerusalem Throughout

the Ages,” 1990.

Jerusalem under the Iyubbites and the Mamelukes, Unit 7 of the course “Jerusalem

Throughout the Ages,” 1995.

Miscellaneous

“Arthur Ruppin and the Arab Problem: An Active Search for Positive Solutions,”

Israel Horizons, 26, 1 (February 1978), pp. 24-27; 2 (April 1978), pp. 24-27; 3

(May 1978), pp. 20-23.

“A State of Trial: The Case of the ‘Exodus 1947’ Immigrants,”(Hebrew) Divrei

ha-Kongress ha-Olami ha-Asiri l’Madaey ha-Yahadut, Section B, Vol. I., World

Union of Jewish Studies, 1990, pp. 529-536.

“Great Britain vs. ‘Exodus 1947’: Who was the Victor and at What Price?,” (Hebrew)

Terumat ha-Ha’apala ba-Ma’avak Neged ha-Britim 1945-1947, The Center for the

History of the Armed Forces, 1991, pp. 37-48.

“The Double Jeopardy of Polish Jewry, 1933-1939,” (Hebrew) Divrei ha-Kongress

ha-Olami ha-Ahad Asar l’Madaey ha-Yahadut, Section B, Vol. II., World Union of

Jewish Studies, 1994, pp. 296-289.

“The Heroic Behavior of the Exodus Immigrants,” (Hebrew) Bi’Shvil ha-Zikaron, 22

(1997), The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority, pp. 9-14.

“The struggle for a Jewish state,” The Independent / review section, 12 August 1998.

“The Second Aliya and the Zionist Left: Continuity, Rebellion, Acceptance,”

(Hebrew) Mifne, 43 (2004), pp. 43-48.

“Immigration to Mandatory Palestine – Revisited,” 20th

Annual Meeting of the

Association for Israel Studies, Jerusalem, 14 June 2004;

http://www.aisisraelstudies.org/

“Who Coined the Slogan: First and Foremost – Hands?,” (Hebrew) Etmol, 189

(September 2006), pp.18-19.

"Israel's Open Immigration Policy and Attempts at Restriction in Historical and

Comparative Perspective", 24th

Annual Meeting of the Association for Israel

Studies, New York, May 19-21 2008;

http://www.aisisraelstudies.org/papers/Halamish2008.pdf

Consultation and writing the Foreword (pp. 4-5) in Emma Young, Israel, in the series

“Countries of the World,” National Geographic, Washington, DC, 2008.

"The Kibbutz at One Hundred"' Position Paper #3, December 2010, Joseph and Alma

Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies, the University of Maryland;

http://www.israelstudies.umd.edu/pdf/The%20Kibbutz%20position%20paper%203

.pdf

Prof. Aviva Halamish, Prof. Ze'ev Zachor and Assnat Shiran, "The Security

Dimensions of Zionist Settlement till Statehood: A Scholars Discussion Directed

by Dr. Mordechai Bar-On" (Hebrew), Aley Zait Vacherev, 11 (2011), pp. 82-110.

Book Reviews in the literary supplements and book review magazines of Ha’aretz

(Hebrew and English edition), Ma’ariv, Yedi’ot Ahronot, Al ha-Mishmar.

http://www.aisisraelstudies.org/

http://www.aisisraelstudies.org/papers/Halamish2008.pdf

http://www.israelstudies.umd.edu/pdf/The%20Kibbutz%20position%20paper%203.pdf

http://www.israelstudies.umd.edu/pdf/The%20Kibbutz%20position%20paper%203.pdf


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Reviews (in English) of my books:

Exodus – Ha-Sippur ha-Amiti [Exodus – The Real Story]

Mordechai Naor, "A Selection of Books on Zionism and the Land of Israel 1990", The

Journal of Israeli History, Vol. 12, no. 1 (1991), pp. 125-132.

The Exodus Affair

Eric Silver, “Come in, number 1947, your time is piece of history”, Jewish Chronicle,

2.10.1998.

Mark Roseman, "Recent Writing on the Holocaust", Journal of Contemporary

History, Vol. 36 (2) (April 2001), pp. 361-372.

Henry Near, Studies in Contemporary Jewry, XVII (2001), pp. 281-284.

B’Merutz Kaful Neged ha-Zman [A Dual Race against Time: Zionist Immigration

Policy in the 1930s]

David Engel, The Journal of Israeli History, Vol. 26, no. 2 (September 2007), pp.

276-279.

Judy Baumel-Schwartz, AJS Review: The Journal of the Association for Jewish

Studies, Vol. 32, no. 2 (November 2008), pp. 455-457.

Meir Yaari, Biographia Kibbutzit 1897-1947

Ilan Peleg, Israel Studies Forum, Vol. 25, no. 2 (Winter 2010), pp. 126-128.