Contributors
- Contributors
Maya Balakirsky Katz is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and the Graduate School of Jewish Studies at Touro College. Her latest publications include: “A Rabbi, A Priest, and a Psychoanalyst: Religion in the Early Psychoanalytic Case History,” Contemporary Jewry 31.1 (2011); The Visual Culture of Chabad (Cambridge, 2010); “Staging Protest: The New York Jewish Museum and the Soviet Jewry Movement,” American Jewish History 96.1 (2010).
Hillel Cohen is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Islam and Middle Eastern Studies and the School of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His recent publications include: “Society–Military Relations in a State-in-the-Making: Palestinian Security Agencies and the ‘Treason Discourse’ in the Second Intifada,” Armed Forces & Society 38.3 (2012); The Rise and Fall of Arab Jerusalem (London and New York, 2011); Good Arabs: The Israeli Security Agencies and the Israeli Arabs (Berkeley, CO, 2009); and “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Palestinian Pro-Zionist Propagandists between Zionist Institutions and Arab Nationalists, 1930–1931,” Israel Affairs 14.1 (2008).
Oded Haklai is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Studies, Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. His recent publications include: Co-Editor Democracy and Conflict Resolution: The Dilemmas of Israel’s Peacemaking (Syracuse, 2013); Palestinian Ethnonationalism in Israel (Philadelphia, 2011); “Religious–Nationalist Mobilization and State Penetration: Lessons From Jewish Settlers’ Activism in Israel and the West Bank,” Comparative Political Studies 40.6 (2007).
Abigail Jacobson is a lecturer in the Department of History at MIT. Her recent publications include: From Empire to Empire: Jerusalem between Ottoman and British Rule (Syracuse, 2011); “Jews Writing in Arabic: Shimon Moyal, Nissim Malul and the Mixed Palestinian/Eretz Israeli locale,” in Late Ottoman Palestine: The Period of Young Turk Rule, ed. Yuval Ben-Bassat and Eyal Ginio (London, 2011); “A City Living through Crisis: Jerusalem during World War I,” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 36.1 (2009). [End Page 194]
Batya Shimony is a lecturer in the Department of Hebrew Literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and at Achva Academic College. Her recent publications include: “On ‘Holocaust Envy’ in Mizrahi Literature,” Dapim, Studies on the Shoah 25 (2011); “The Role of Language in the Establishment of Identities in Literature of the Immigration of the 50s” in Studies in Hebrew and Arabic Literature, ed. Nurit Buchweitz, Abed-Alrahman Mar’i, and Alon Fragman (Tel-Aviv, 2010); On the Threshold of Redemption: The Story of the Ma’abara, First and Second Generations (Tel-Aviv, 2008) [all in Hebrew].
Hizky Shoham is a Fellow in Israel Studies at Oxford University. His recent publications include: Mordechai is Riding on the Horse: Purim Celebrations in Tel-Aviv (1908–1936) and the Building of a New Nation (Ramat Gan, 2012); “From the Third Aliya to the Second, and Back: On the Creation of the Periodization of the Numbered Aliyot,” Tziyon 77.2 (2012) [both in Hebrew]; and “Tel-Aviv’s Foundation Myth: A Constructive Perspective,” in Tel-Aviv: The First Century: Visions, Designs, and Actualities, ed. Maoz Azaryahu and S. Ilan Troen (Bloomington, IN, 2012).
Yaakov Tovi is research fellow at the Herzl Institute for Research and Studies of Zionism at the University of Haifa. His recent publications include: An All-out War: The Zionist Revisionist Movement and the Question of Aliya (immigration) to Eretz Israel: 1930–1940 (Haifa, 2011); On Its Own Threshold: The Formulation of Israel’s Policy on the Palestinian Refugee Issue, 1948–1956 (Sde-Boker, 2008); “David Ben-Gurion, Moshe Sharett and the Status of the Gaza Strip, 1948–1956,” Iyunim Bitkumat Israel 13 (2003) [all in Hebrew].
Tamar Wolf-Monzon is Head of the Department of Literature of the Jewish People at Bar-Ilan University and Co-Editor of the journal Criticism & Interpretation. Her recent publications include: “Hebrew Songs: Poetics, Music, History, Culture,” Criticism and Interpretation 44 (2012); “Between Tza’an and Canaan: The Limits of Attraction to the Other, a Reading of Ya’akov Orland’s Unpublished Poem Hanna’le of Dorohoy,” Iyunim Bitkumat Israel 19 (2009); Uri Zvi Grinberg’s Poetic and Journalistic Work 1920–1928 (Haifa and Tel-Aviv, 2005) [all in Hebrew]. [End Page 195]
