Israel: The First Decade of Independence

INFORMATION ON CONTRIBUTORS

INFORMATION ON CONTRIBUTORS Glenda Abramson received her Ph.D. in modem Hebrew literature from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, where she taught for thirteen years. She is now the SchreiberFellow in Modem Jewish Studies at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Cowley Lecturer in Post-Biblical Hebrew at the University ofOxford, arid a Fellow at St. Cross College. Among her publications are Modern Hebrew Drama (1979); The Great Transition (co-ed., 1983); The Writing ofYehudaAmichai(1989), and numerous articles on Hebrew literature. She is the editor of The Blackwell Companion to Jewish Culture(1989) and has recently completed Hebrew in Three Months (1993). Eliezer Don-Yehiya is Professor ofPolitical Studies at Bar-Han University. He has published extensively on the Israeli polity and its relationship to Jewish tradition, modem Zionism, and Diaspora Jewry. Among his recent publications is the book that he edited on Israel and Diaspora Jewry: Ideological and Political Perspectives (Bar-Ilan University Press, 1991). Alan Dowty is Professor of Government and International Studies at the University ofNotre Dame, specializing in international relations, U.S. foreign policy , nuclear weapons issues, and the international politics of the Middle East. His books include The Limits ofAmerican Isolation (New York), Middle East Crisis (California), which won the Quincy Wright Award of the International Studies Association, and ClosedBorders (Yale), written as aTwentiethCentury Fund Report. He has also published numerous scholarly and popular articles and reviews in journals such as American Political Science Review, International Studies Quarterly, CurrentHistory, Times Literary Supplement, The New Republic, and Commentary. He formerly taught at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and recently served as a Visiting Professorat the University ofHaifa. Ze 'ev Drori, IDF Colonel (ret.), is a graduate of the College of National Security . He has a BachelorofArts from the Hebrew University in Jersualem in History and International Relations and an MAin Political Science from the University of Tel Aviv. He is currently doing a Ph.D. at Ben-Gurion University in the Negev and at the Ben-Gurion Research Center at Sede Boqer on the role of the IDF in the establishment of Israeli society during the years 1949-1953. 751 752 Israel: The First Decade Menachem Friedman is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Bar-Ilan University. He has published widely on the character of religious societies in Israel including Society and Religion: The NonZionist Orthodoxy in Eretz-Israel, 1918-1936 (1978); Growth and Segregation -The Ultra-Orthodox Community ofJerusalem (1986); The Haredi Society -Sources, Trends and Processes (1991); and, with Emmanuel Sivan, Religious Radicalism and Politics in the Middle East (1990). He has also served as a visiting professor at Harvard, Oxford, and Berkeley. He recently chaired a research group on "Religion and Society" at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University (1991-92). Amon Golan is a recent PhD in the Department of Geography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His doctoral thesis in historical geography at the Hebrew University is on the transfer to Jewish control of lands abandoned by the Arabs during and after Israel's War ofIndependence. His first publications have recently appeared in Hebrew journals including Cathedra, and publication of his thesis as a book is planned. Yosef Gorny is Professor of Modem Jewish History in Tel Aviv University. Among his numerous publications in English are The British Labour Movement and Zionism, 1917-1948 (London: Frank Cass, 1982), Zionism and the Arabs, 1882-1948; A Study of Ideology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987), From Rosh Pina and Degania to Demona (Tel Aviv: MOD Books, 1989), The State ofIsrael in Jewish Public Thought: The Questfor Collective Identity (New York: New York University Press; and London: Macmillan, 1994). Yitzhak Greenberg received his Ph.D. in Jewish History from Tel Aviv University for his dissertation on "Hevrat Ha'Ovdim." He is currently at the BenGurion Research Center in Sede Boqer and a Lecturer at Beit Berl College as well as a member of the editorial staff of The Economic Quarterly. His publications include From Workers' Society to Workers Economy: Evolution ofthe Hevrat Ha'Ovdim Idea, 1920-1929 (Hebrew), and articles in Studies in Zionism , Shvut, and Zionism. Nachum T. Gross is Alexander Brody Professor of Economic History, emeritus , at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published extensively on the economic history ofthe Hapsburg Empire and Austria from the nineteenth century until mid-twentieth century as well as the standard studies on the economic history of Palestine and Israel. His most recent publications are...