Contributors
- Contributors
Ran Aaronsohn is a Senior lecturer at the Department of Geography, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published widely on the field of historical geography, specializing on early Jewish colonies in the nineteenth century in Palestine and communes in North America. His recent publications include, The Baron and the Moshavot: The Beginnings of Jewish Settlement in Eretz Israel, 1882-1890 (Jerusalem, 1990) [Hebrew; an English version is forthcoming]; and “Baron Rothschild and the Initial Stage of Jewish Settlement in Palestine (1882-1890): A Different Type of Colonization?” Journal of Historical Geography, 19(2) (1993) 142-156.
Maoz Azaryahu is a Lecturer at the Department of Geography, University of Haifa. His recent publications include, State Cults—Celebrating Independence and Commemorating the Fallen in Israel, 1948-1956, (Beer-Sheva, 1994) [Hebrew]; and Von Wilhelmplatz zu Thmannplatz, Politiische Symbole im ffenlichen Lebender DDR (Gerlingen, 1991) [German].
Amir Bar-Or is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His thesis is entitled, “The Relationship Between the Political Institutions of the Yishuv and the Hagana Organization (1920-1948): The Development of Patterns of Supremacy by a Political Entity over its Military Organ.” Recent publications include, “Min Hayessod—The Story of Political Movement,” Iyunim Bitkumat Israel, 4 (1994) 478-493 [Hebrew].
Ya‘acov Blidstein is Professor of Jewish Thought at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His recent publications include, Prayer and Maimonian and Halacha (Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem, 1994); and “Halacha—The Governing Rule,” Jewish Political Studies, 8(1) (1996).
Yinon Cohen is a Senior Lecturer with a joint appointment in the Departments of Sociology and Labor Studies, Tel-Aviv University. His most recent publications include, “The Labor Market Status of Immigrants: The Roles of Unemployment at Arrival and Duration of Residence” [End Page 315] (with Barry Chiswick and Tzippi Zach), Industrial and Labor Relations Review, forthcoming.
Arieh Issar is at the Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede-Boker Campus. His most recent publications include, “Fossil Water under the Deserts of the Middle East: A Safeguard against Strife,” in J. Isaac and H. Shuval (eds), Water and Peace in the Middle East. Proceedings of the First Israeli-Palestinian International Academic Conference on Water (Zurich, 1994); “Climatic Change and the History of the Middle East,” American Scientist, 83 (1995) 350–355; and, The Impact of Climate Change on the Hydrological Cycle and Socio-Economic Systems—UNESCO-IHP Technical Report (1995).
David Levi-Faur is presently a Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent publications include, “Friedrich List and the Political Economy of the Nation State,” Review of International Political Economy, forthcoming.
Yoram Peri is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Communications and Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is former Chief-Editor of the daily, Davar, and is Vice-President of the New Israel Fund. He is best known for his book, Between Battles and Ballots: Israeli Military Politics (Cambridge, 1983). He is presently editing a book on Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination and Israeli society. Recent publications focus on political communication in Israel.
Gershon Shafir is a Lecturer at the Department of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. His recent publications include, Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882–1914 (Cambridge, 1989); and, “Land, Labor and Population in Zionist Colonization: General and Specific Aspects,” in Uri Ram (ed), Israeli Society: Critical Aspects (Tel-Aviv, 1993) 104–119 [Hebrew].
Michael Shalev is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Political Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Recent publications include, Labour and the Political Economy of Israel (Oxford, 1992).
Avi Shlaim is a Reader in International Relations, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St. Antony’s College. He is a frequent commentator [End Page 316] on Middle-Eastern affairs in the British media and author of Collusion Across the Jordan (Oxford, 1988); The Politics of Partition: King Abdullah, the Zionists and Palestine, 1921–1951 (New York, 1990); and, War and Peace in the Middle East—A Concise History (Harmondsworth (UK), 1995). He presently has a British Academic Research Readership (1995–97) to write a book on...
