Contributors
- Contributors
Uri Bialer is Professor of International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of Between East and West, Israel’s Foreign Policy Orientation 1948–1956 (Cambridge University Press, 1990). His forthcoming book, Oil and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, will be published in association with St. Antony’s College, Oxford in October 1998.
Avner Cohen received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He is a Senior Jennings Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, where he is working on issues related to arms control and the peace process in the Middle East. His recently completed study, Israel and the Bomb, is to be published by Columbia University Press in the Fall of 1998.
Alan Dowty is Professor of Government and International Studies and Fellow of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He edited The Arab-Israel Conflict (New York, 1991). His most recent book, The Jewish State: A Century Later, from which his essay in this volume is drawn, has recently been published by University of California Press.
Michael Feige is a Lecturer at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and a Researcher at Ben-Gurion Research Center, Sede Boker. His recent publications include, “Let the fallen rest? Gush Emunim, Peace Now and movement martyrs,” in David Ohana and Robert Wistrich (eds), Myth and Memory: Transfigurations of Israeli Consciousness (Jerusalem, 1996) [Hebrew]. His research focuses on the politics of identity, collective memory, and social movements.
Robert O. Freedman is President of Baltimore Hebrew University. He has published widely on Soviet policy toward the Jews. Recent publications include Soviet Policy toward Israel under Gorbachev (New York, 1991) and Israel Under Rabin (Boulder, CO, 1995). [End Page 277]
Isaiah Friedman is Emeritus Professor of History at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His publications include The Question of Palestine, 1914–1918: British-Jewish-Arab Relations (London, 1973); Germany, Turkey and Zionism, 1897–1918 (Oxford, 1977); and, as editor, twelve volumes of Documents on the History of Zionism. He is completing Palestine: A Twice Promised Land? A Creation of the Historical Myth.
Tuvia Friling is Director of Ben-Gurion Research Center and Ben-Gurion Heritage Institute. His forthcoming book, An Arrow in the Dark: David Ben-Gurion, Yishuv Leadership and Rescue Efforts During the Holocaust, will be in published in Hebrew by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press in 1998.
Giora Goldberg lectures at the Department of Political Science at Bar-Ilan University. Publications include, The Israeli Voter 1992 (Jerusalem, 1994) [Hebrew]; “Governing in a Turbulent National Policy Environment,” in Efraim Ben Zadok (ed), Critical Essays on Israeli Society, v3 (Albany, 1994); and, Political Parties in Israel—From Mass Parties to Electoral Parties (Tel Aviv University, 1992) [Hebrew].
Hannah Herzog is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel-Aviv University. Her research focuses on political sociology, political communication, and the sociology of gender. Recent publications include “Penetrating the System: The Politics of Collective Identities,” in Asher Arian and Michael Shamir (eds), The Elections in Israel, 1992 (New York, 1995); and Realistic Women: Women in Local Politics (Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, 1994) [Hebrew]. Her book, Gendering Politics—Women in Israel, is forthcoming.
Benny Morris is Associate Professor in the Department of History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Publications include 1948 and After: Israel and the Palestinians (Oxford, 1990), and Israel’s Border Wars, 1949–1956: Arab Infiltration, Israeli Retaliation, and the Countdown to the Suez War (Oxford, 1993).
Ilan Peleg is Charles A. Dana Professor of Social Science in the Department of Government and Law at Lafayette College. His publications include Begin’s Foreign Policy, 1977–1983: Israel’s Move to the Right (Westport, CT, 1987); and Human Rights in the West Bank and Gaza (Albany, 1995). He has also edited The Middle East Peace Process: Interdisciplinary [End Page 278] Perspectives (Albany, 1998); and, with Ofira Seliktar, The Emergence of a Bi-National Israel (Boulder, CO, 1989).
Uri Ram is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Recent publications include The Changing Agenda of Israeli Sociology (Albany, NY, 1995), and, as editor, Israeli Society: Critical...
