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  • Contributors

Mooli Brog is a Ph.D. student of Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His recent publications include: “In Blessed Memory of a Dream: Mordechai Shenavi and Initial Holocaust Commemoration Ideas in Palestine 1942–1945,” Yad Vashem Studies, 30 (Jerusalem, 2002), and “Netzurim beHomot haZikaron: Warsaw Ghetto Monument as a Symbol of Holocaust and Heroism in Poland and Israel,” Alpayim, 14 (Tel-Aviv, 1997) [Hebrew].

Ruth Ebenstein is a Ph.D Student at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, writing on Haredi responses to the Shoah in the Haredi press and other Haredi publications and writings from 1950 to 1973.

Ben-Ami Feingold is Associate Professor (Emeritus) in the School of Education, Tel-Aviv University. He is author of The War of Independence in the Theater (Tel-Aviv, 2001) [Hebrew]; Education and the Theater (Tel-Aviv, 1996) [Hebrew]; and Hebrew Holocaust Drama (Tel-Aviv, 1989) [Hebrew].

Tuvia Friling is the Israel State Archivist and Researcher at the Ben-Gurion Research Institute, and Senior Lecturer at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His recent publications include: “The Negative Stereotype—David Ben-Gurion and the Holocaust,” in T. Friling (ed), An Answer to a Post-Zionist Colleague (Tel-Aviv, 2003) [Hebrew], and Arrow in the Dark: David Ben-Gurion, the Yishuv Leadership and Rescue Attempts during the Holocaust (Sede-Boker and Jerusalem, 1998) [Hebrew].

Meir Litvak is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Middle-Eastern and African History at Tel-Aviv University. His recent publications include: Shi‘i Scholars of Nineteenth Century Iraq: The ‘Ulama’ of Najaf and Karbala (Cambridge: UK, 1998); “Money, Religion and Politics: The Oudh Bequest in Najaf and Karbala, 1850–1903,” International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 33(1) (2001). [End Page 214]

Iris Milner teaches in the Department of Hebrew Literature at Tel-Aviv University. Her recent publications include: “Writing and the Holocaust: Problematics of Representation in Second Generation Literature in Israel,” The Journal of Israeli History, 22(1) (2003); and “‘A Burst Dam’—The Failure of Repression as Depicted in the Fiction of the Second Generation,” Yad Vashem Studies, 31 (2003). Her book, Past Present—Biography, Identity and Memory in Second Generation Literature (Tel-Aviv) is forthcoming.

Roni Stauber is a researcher at the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism at Tel-Aviv University. His recent publications include: A Lesson for this Generation—Holocaust and Heroism in Israeli Public Discourse in the 1950s (Jerusalem, 2000) [Hebrew], and co-editor with Dina Porat, Anti-Semitism and Terror (Tel-Aviv, 2003) [Hebrew].

Esther Webman is a researcher at the Dayan Center and the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism and Racism at Tel-Aviv University. She is working on her Ph.D. thesis on “The Representation of the Holocaust in the Egyptian Public Discourse in Egypt between 1945 and 1962.” Her recent publications include: as editor, Islam and the West—Clash or Co-existence (Tel-Aviv, 2002) [Hebrew]; and It Was Written on the Wall—Usama Bin Ladin, the Man and His Deeds (Tel-Aviv, 2002) [Hebrew].

Hanna Yablonka is Associate Professor in the Department of History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Her recent publications include: Survivors of the Holocaust: Israel after the War (New York, 1999); and (co-edited with Zvi Zameret) Israel: The First Decade (Jerusalem, 1998), and, Israel: the Second Decade ( Jerusalem, 2001) [both in Hebrew]. Her book, The State of Israel vs. Adolph Eichmann (Tel-Aviv, 2001), will appear in English in 2004.

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