Contributors
- Contributors
Maoz Azaryahu is Associate Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Haifa. His recent publications include: Tel-Aviv: The First Century; Visions, Designs, and Actualities, co-edited with S. Ilan Troen (Bloomington, IN, 2011); “Public Controversy and Commemorative Failure: Tel-Aviv’s Monument to the Holocaust and National Revival,” Israel Studies 16.1 (2011); “The Formation of the ‘Hebrew Sea’ in Pre-State Israel,” Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 7.3 (2008); Mythography of a City. Space, Place and Society Series (Syracuse, NY, 2006); State Cults: Celebrating Independence and Commemorating the Fallen in Israel, 1948–1956 (Sede-Boker, 1995) [Hebrew].
Steven Bayme serves as Director of AJC’s Koppelman Institute on American Jewish-Israeli Relations and Contemporary Jewish Life Department. His recent publications include: Continuity and Change, a Festschrift in Honor of Dr. Irving Greenberg, co-edited with Steven Katz (Lanham, MD 2011); “American Jewry Confronts the Twenty-first Century,” American Jewry’s Comfort Level; Present and Future, co-authored with Manfred Gerstenfeld (New York, 2010); “American Jewry and the State of Israel: How Intense the Bonds of Peoplehood?” Jewish Political Studies Review 20.1–2 (2008).
Matthew Boxer is a Research Associate at the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies and Steinhardt Social Research Institute, and a lecturer in the Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program at Brandeis University. His recent publications include: The 2010 Western North Carolina Jewish Demographic Study, co-authored with Benjamin Phillips (Waltham, MA, 2011); The Summer Institute for Israel Studies, 2004–2010, co-authored with Annette Koren (Waltham, MA, 2011).
Alon Confino is a Professor in the Department of History at the University of Virginia. His recent publications include: Foundational Pasts: The Holocaust as Historical Understanding (Cambridge, 2011); Germany as a Culture of Remembrance: Promises and Limits of Writing History (Chapel Hill, NC, 2006); and “Narrative Form and Historical Sensation; on Saul Friedländer’s ‘The Years of Extermination’,” History and Theory 48.3 (2009). [End Page 169]
Eliezer Don-Yehiya is Professor Emeritus of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University. His recent publications include: “Religion and Nationalism in the Conception of Begin,” in From Altalena to the Present Day, ed, Avraham Diskin (Jerusalem, 2011) [Hebrew]; Crisis and Change in a New State (Jerusalem, 2008) [Hebrew]; “Mamlakhtiyut, Education and Religion,” The Journal of Israeli History 26.2 (2007); “The Transformation of Jabotinsky’s Attitude toward the Religious Tradition,” in Essays on Ze’ev Zabotinsky, ed. Avi Bareli and Pinhas Ginossar (Sede-Boker, 2004) [Hebrew].
Yehezkel Dror is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a recipient of the Israel Prize for his work on strategic planning. His recent publications include: Israeli State-craft: National Security Challenges and Responses (New York and London, 2011); Be Our Leader! A Guide for Perplexed Jewish-Zionist Foundational Leaders (Tel-Aviv, 2011) [Hebrew]; “A Jewish People Leadership Academy Educational Deliberations,” Educational Deliberations; Studies in Education Dedicated to Shlomo (Seymour) Fox, ed. Mordecai Nisan and Oded Schremer (Jerusalem, 2005).
Yonatan Gez is a PhD candidate in Development Studies at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, University of Geneva.
Arnon Golan is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Haifa. His recent publications include: “Marginal Populations and Urban Identity in Time of Emergency: The Case of the 1936 Refugees in Tel-Aviv,” Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 9.2 (2010); “Soundscapes of Urban Development: Tel-Aviv in the 1920s and 1930s,” Israel Studies 14.2 (2009); “Wartime Drastic Spatial Transformation: The Formation of Tel-Aviv-Yafo,” in Tel Aviv-Yafo: From a Garden Suburb to a World City, ed. Baruch A. Kipnis (Haifa, 2009) [Hebrew].
Nili Scharf Gold is Associate Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Her recent publications include: Yehuda Amichai: The Making of Israel’s National Poet (Waltham, MA, 2008); “To Walk ‘on the Inner Streets’: Yoel Hoffmann and Ephraim,” Criticism and Interpretation 43 (2010) [Hebrew]; Introduction and Afterword in Lea Goldberg, and This is the Light (New Milford, CT, and London, 2011); “The Betrayal of the Mother Tongue,” Mikan 11 (2012) [Hebrew]. [End Page 170]
Daniel Gordis is President of the Shalem Foundation and Senior Fellow at...
