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Contributors Ran Aaronsohn is a lecturer in the Department of Geography at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Areas of research include the historical geography of settlement, mainly the first Jewish colonies in nineteenth-century Palestine, and rural geography. Aaronsohn's book titled The Colonies and the Baron, the beginning of the Jewish resettlement in Palestine and Edmund de Rothschild, was published by Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem (1990), (Hebrew). Yaffa Berlovitz is a lecturer in the Department of Am-Israel (Hebrew and Jewish literatures) at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, and is affiliated with the Kurzweil Institute for Hebrew Literary Research, Bar-Ilan University. Main fields of research are the study of the literature of first settlers (Eretz Israel literature, American Colonial literature), Jewish -American literature (1880- 1920) and women's literature in Eretz Israel. Author and editor of Women's Stories of the First Aliyah, Tel Aviv, 1985 (Hebrew) and Short Stories of Aaron Meged, Tel Aviv (1989), (Hebrew). Deborah Bernstein is a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Haifa. Spheres of interest include ethnic and class relations in Israel, women and work, and women in the Yishuv. Author of The Struggle for Equality: Urban Women Workers in ?restate Israeli Society, published by Praeger, N.Y. (1987). Nitza Druyan is Director of Long Island Center for Jewish Studies and Associate Professor ofJewish Studies at Hofstra University , New York. Professional experience includes teaching at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Yeshiva University in New York City. Areas of research include: Jews and Arabs; Yemenite Jewry; Immigration of Jews from Moslem 305 306 Contributors countries; Sephardi Jews and Zionism; social and cultural development in Israeli society. Druyan's book Without a Magic Carpet (Yemenite Settlement in Eretz-Yisrael, 18811914 ), was published by Yad Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem (1981), (Hebrew). Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui is a lecturer of Sociology at Beit Berl College and in the Department of Sociology at the Hebrew University , Jerusalem. Also affiliated with the Yad Tabenkin research center of the Kibbutz Hameuchad. Main spheres of interest include political sociology, sociology of the kibbutz, and women studies. Fogiel-Bijaoui is author of Cooperation, Integration or Alienation? The Relationships between the Kibbutz and the Development Towns, published by Yad Tabenkin (1988, Hebrew), and Motherhood and Revolution: The Case of the Kibbutz Women, 1910-1986, published by Everyman's University, Tel Aviv (1990), (Hebrew). Nurit Govrin is an associate professor in the Department of Hebrew Literature at Tel Aviv University. Her research has dealt mostly with the beginnings of modern Hebrew literature in Palestine, with early literary journals and with such contemporary writers as Berdyczewski, Brenner, Baron and Shoffman. The two most recent of the numerous books she has published are: The First Half-the Life and Work of Dvora Baron (1882-1923), published by Bialik Institute, J erusalem (1988), (Hebrew) and Honey from the Rock, Studies on the Literature ofEretz Israel. Ministry ofDefense Publishing House, Tel Aviv (1989), (Hebrew). Hanna Herzog is senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University. Areas of study include political aspects of ethnicity; political communication; women and politics; identity and politics. Ongoing research includes, among others, a study on elected women in local government in Israel. Has published Political EthnicityThe Image and the Reality. Tel Aviv, Hakibbutz Hameuchad , (1986), (Hebrew) and Contest of Symbols- The Sociology of Election Campaigns Through Israeli Ephemera. Cambridge: Harvard University Library, (1987). Dafna N. Izraeli is an associate professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Bar-Ilan Univer- Contributors 307 sity. Co-author of The Double Bind: Women in Israel. Tel Aviv, Hakkibutz Hameuchad (1982), (Hebrew), and co-editor of Women's World: The new scholarship (1985) and Women in Management Worldwide (1988). Her current research is on the interface of family-work and public policy and dual career families. Musia Lipman was chief archivist of the Labor Archive, at the Lavon Institute for the Study of the Labor Movement, Tel Aviv. Has specialized in personal archives and the period of the Second Aliyah. Has written extensively on the Second and Third Aliyah, on the beginnings of kibbutzim and on Jewish journalism. Shulamit Reinharz has taught psychology and women's studies at the University of Michigan, and is currently an associate professor of Sociology at Brandeis University. Reinharz has written, among other books, On Becoming a Social Scientist (transaction, 1984) and Methods of Feminist Research (Pergamon , 1990). Reinharz has done extensive research in Israel , including participant observation...

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