Contributors
- Contributors
Shlomo Aronson is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Schusterman Visiting Professor in Israel Studies at the University of Arizona, Tucson. His recent publications include: Hitler, the Allies, and the Jews (Cambridge, 2004); “The Post-Zionist Discourse and Critique of Israel: a Traditional Zionist Perspective,” Israel Studies, 8.1 (2003); (ed) New Records, New Perspectives: Lectures on the Holocaust, the Birth of Israel and the Contemporary Middle East (Sede-Boker, 2002); David Ben-Gurion, The Renaissance Leader and the Waning of an Age (Sede-Boker, 2002) [Hebrew]; and, “Israel’s Nuclear Programme, the Six Day War and its Ramifications,” Israel Affairs, 6.3–4 (2000).
Mitchell Bard is Executive Director of the nonprofit American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise and director of the Jewish Virtual Library. His recent publications include: Will Israel Survive? (New York, 2007), and 1001 Facts Everyone Should Know about Israel, co-authored with Moshe Schwartz (New York, 2005).
Paula Kabalo is Lecturer at the Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Her recent publications include: “Leadership Behind the Curtains: the Case of Israeli Women in 1948,” Modern Judaism, 28.1(2008); Shurat Hamitnadvim: The Story of a Civic Organization (Tel-Aviv 2007) [Hebrew]; and “Constructing Civil Society: Citizen Associations in Israel in the 1950s,” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 35.2 (2006).
Menachem Klein is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University. His recent publications include: “Hamas in Power,” Middle East Journal, 61.3 (2007); A Possible Peace between Israel and Palestine: An Insider’s Account of the Geneva Initiative (New York, 2007); “Jerusalem without East Jerusalemites—The Palestinian as the ‘Other’ in Jerusalem,” The Journal of Israeli History, 23 (2004); and The Jerusalem Problem: The Struggle for Permanent Status (Gainesville, FL, 2003). [End Page 189]
Shaul Kelner is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Jewish Studies in the Sociology Department at Vanderbilt University. His recent publications include: “Who is Being Taught? Early Childhood Education’s Adult-Centered Approach,” in Jack Wertheimer (ed), Family Matters: Jewish Education in an Age of Choice (Hanover, NH, 2007); and “Reconceptualizing Religious Change: Ethno-Apostasy and Change in Religion among American Jews,” co-authored with Benjamin Phillips, Sociology of Religion, 67.4 (2006).
Yagil Levy teaches in the Department of Public Policy and Administration, and the Division of Military and Security at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His recent publications include: Israel since 1980 co-authored with Guy Ben-Porat, Shlomo Mizrahi, Arye Naor, and Erez Tzfadia (Cambridge, 2008); Israel’s Materialist Militarism (Lanham, MD, 2007); and From “People’s Army” to “Army of the Peripheries” (Tel-Aviv, 2007) [Hebrew].
Yaron Peleg is Assistant Professor of Hebrew language, modern Hebrew literature and Israeli culture in the Judaic Studies Program at the George Washington University. His recent publications include: Homoeroticism in Hebrew Literature, 1887–2000 (Tel-Aviv, 2003) [Hebrew]; and, Orientalism and the Hebrew Imagination (Ithaca, NY, 2005).
Ted Sasson is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology/Anthropology at Middlebury College, and Visiting Research Professor in the Department of Sociology at Brandeis University. His recent publications include: “A House Divided: Grassroots National Religious Perspectives on the Gaza Disengagement and Future of the West Bank,” co-authored with Ephraim Tabory, Journal of Church and State, 49.3 (2007); and Crime Talk: How Citizens Construct a Social Problem (Piscataway, NJ, 1995).
Moshe Shemesh is Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Senior Fellow at the Ben-Gurion Research Institute for Research on Israel and Zionism. His publications include: Arab Politics, Palestinian Nationalism and the Six Day War: The Crystallization of Arab Strategy and Nasir’s Descent to War, 1957–1967 (Sussex, UK, 2007); The Arab Israeli Conflict and the Emergence of the Palestinian National Movement (Sede-Boker, 2004) [Hebrew]; and, The Palestinian Entity 1959–1974, 2nd revised edition (London, 1996). [End Page 190]
Dov Waxman is Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at Baruch College of the City University of New York. His publications include: The Pursuit of Peace and the Crisis of Israeli Identity: Defending/ Defining the Nation (New York, 2006); and...
