Critical Essays on Israeli Society, Religion, and Government: Books on Israel, Volume IV

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Mohammed Abu-Nimer received his doctoral degree in Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University in Fairfax. Virginia while conducting research on Israeli-Palestinian dialogue groups. He has worked with Israelis and Palestinians for more than a decade. facilitating dialogue groups and in other educational projects. Currently. he is associate professor of Sociology at Guilford College in Greensboro. North Carolina. Kevin Avruch is professor and coordinator of Anthropology at George Mason University in Fairfax. Virginia. His specialties include conflict resolution. politics and culture. and the anthropological study of Israel. He is the author of American Immigrants in Israel: Social Identities and Change (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1981); and co-editor of Conflict Resolution: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Greenwood. 1991). Efraim Ben-Zadok is professor of Public Administration in the College of Urban and Public Affairs at Florida Atlantic University. He was a faculty member at the State University of New York and Tel-Aviv University. His fields of interest include public policy analysis and urban politiCS. His recent book is Local Communities and the Israeli Polity (Albany: State University of New York Press. 1993). Nancy E. Berg received her doctoral degree from the University of Pennsylvania in Modern Hebrew and Arabic literature. She is an assistant professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. The author of Exile from Exile: Israeli Writers from Iraq (Albany: State 227 228 Notes on Contributors University of New York Press. 1996}, she is currently writing about the politics of literary reception in Israel. Nurith Gertz is associate professor at the Open University of Israel. Her recent books include Motion Fiction: Israeli Fiction in Film (Tel Aviv: The Open University); and Captive oj a Dream: National Myths in Israeli Culture (Tel Aviv: Am Oved. Ofakim). Jeff Halper is an Israeli-Amerlcan urban anthropologist who has worked in Jerusalem for the past twenty-five years. He directs the Middle East Center of the Friends World College. an international program of Long Island University. where he also serves as professor. He is the author of Between Redemption and Revival: The Jewish Yishuv qfJerusalem in the Nineteenth Century (Westview. 1991). Samuel Krislov has taught at the University of Minnesota since 1964. A former president of the Law and Society Association . he has been a reci.pient of Guggenheim. Ford. Rockefeller. and Russell Sage fellowships. He has taught at universities in Poland. Israel. and Turkey. and is the author of numerous books. and a frequent contributor to legal and social-science journals. Pnina Lahav teaches constitutional law and comparative law at Boston University. Her book, Judgement in Jerusalem: ChieJ Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist Century. was published by the University of California Press in 1996. Ofira Seliktar is the Ann and Bernard Cohen professor of Israel Studies at Gratz College. and a fellow at the Associates for Middle East Research in Philadelphia. She is a collaborator on a large project on water resources in the Middle East based at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also the author of numerous articles and books on the Middle East. Walter P. Zenner is professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Albany. His works include Persistence and Flexibility: Anthropological Perspectives on the American Jewish Experience. and Minorities in the Middle: A Cross- Notes on Contributors 229 Cultural Analysis, both published by State University of New York Press. He was co-editor of Critical Essays on Israeli Social Issues and Scholarship (Books on Israel, III), and is editor of the SUNY Press series in anthropology and Judaic studies. Zvi Zohar directs the Shalom Hartman Institute's Center for Halakha in Jerusalem and teaches the history and culture of Jews in Muslim lands in modern times at the Hebrew University's Institute of Contemporary Jewry. CRITICAL ESSAYS ON ISRAELI SOCIETY, RELIGION, AND GOVERNMENT Books on Israel, Volume IV Kevin Avruch and Walter P. Zenner, editors This book is part of a series of review volumes sponsored by the Association for Israel Studies that provides a framework for discussion of research and scholarship on all aspects of Israeli society. It brings together original review essays commenting on issues in Israeli society, culture, politics, religion, literature, and film. The authors' evaluations of recently published books go beyond critical commentary on the works themselves to include the state of scholarship and social conditions. Among the issues addressed are the conflict over water...