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·Personal Information

EhudManor

25November 1960, Nizzanim

 Phone: 052-6585417, 0737-252177

Email: udimanor@gmail.com

·Academic Titles

2018: Asociate Professor at ArielUniversity and Oranim College

2008: Senior Lecturer at OranimCollege

2001: Ph.D., Haifa University -Jewish History Department Department

1996: M.A.,  Haifa University – Jewish History Department

1994: B.A. Open University –History Department

• Employment History

  2002-2020,History Department at Oranim Academic College for Education

2016-2018 SeniorLecturer, Jewish Heritage Department at Ariel University

 2015-2016, Jewish Heritage Department at ArielUniversity  

2000-2002 Seminar HakibutsimAcademic College for Education

2000-2007, 2012-2013, AdunctLecturer at Haifa University

2001-2004, Adunct Lecturer atHebrew Union College, Jerusalem

1996-2000, Program Developerat Shorashim – Jerusalem

1993-1996, High School Teacherat Sheiber High School in Beit Shemesh

1991-1993, Emisary for TheJewish Agency in Cordoba, Argentina

1985-1990, Education Counselorin United Kibbutz Movement

• Professional Activities

(a)   Positionsin academic administration

2017-2018Member of teaching Committee at the Jewish Heritage Departement, ArielUniversity

2017-2018 Member of Research Committee at MA program of the JewishHeritage Departement, Ariel University

2007-2011, Head of Excellence Program at Oranim Academic Collegefor Education

(b)   Professional functions

2012-2020, Lecturer at Ein Prat Educational Center

2016-2018, Lecturer at Ben Zvi Institute

2011-2017, Lecturer at Hanaton Educational Center

2017 Head organizer of Orient and Us Conference,Oranim College

2016 Head organizer of Islam, Europe and the Middle EastConference, Oranim College

2016 Evaluation of a Research Proposal Submitted to the ISF (application1237/16-21.0)

2015 Head organizer with Professor Amos Hofman of Enlightment– Now and Then Academic Conference, Oranim College

2010 Head organizer of Politics of Shoa RenumerationAcademic Conference, Oranim College

2010-2014, Scientific editing of High School History &Civics text books 

2002-2008, Mifneh Journal editorialboard

2002-2007, 2012-2013, AdunctLecturer at Haifa University

2001-2004, Adunct Lecturer at HebrewUnion College, Jerusalem

2000-2002, Management Board member at Hakibutsim Academic College

(c)   Membershipin professional/scientific societies

2004-2020, Council member of theYesodot Shalom-Memri Foundation

2017-2020, Board Member of Massuah – Institute forHolocaust Studies

2013, Member of the AcademicCouncil  of the American Jewish HistoricalSociety

• Educational activities

(a)   Coursestaught

History of Jewish socielty and cutlure in the United States1700-1950

Introduction to Modern History     

The Arab-Jewish Conflict             

Text and historical context

Migration and the press – the case of American Jews

From emancipation to auto-emancipation     

Introduction to the History of the United States

History of Israel 1949-1967           

The history and praxis of Democracy

(b)   ResearchStudents

2018 – Ronen Sela – Ariel University – MA

2018 – Shimon Friedman – Ariel University - MA

2009 - Mahamid Abed Elbassat - Oranim College for Education- MA

(c)   TeachersCapacitation

2019 – Summer Capacitation for South American Jewish Teachers

2018 –   Instituto Hebreo, Santiago,Chile [Spanish]

2018 –  Colegio Colombo Hebreo, Bogota,,Colombia [Spanish]

2017 –  Colegio Martin Buber, BuenosAires, Argenitna [Spanish]

2017 – Colegio San Martin, Cordoba, Argenitna [Spanish]

2014 – Colegio San Martin, Cordoba, Argenitna [Spanish]

2014 – Colegio Bialik, Santa Fe, Argenitna [Spanish]

2011 – Shefaram Pisga Center [Hebrew, Arab History teachers]

2010 – Nitzan Primary School

2010 – OrtBuenos Aires, Argenitna [Spanish]

2008 – Har Va'Gai Regional High School

2004 – Oranim College of Education (teachers from Latin America) [Spanish]

2004 – Ort (teachers from Latin America) [Spanish]

2003 – Herzog Center (teachers from Latin America) [Spanish]

Awards, Citations, Honors, Fellowships

(a)    Honors

2013, Netanyah Academic Center, Identity in Israel Project

2012, Tel Aviv University, scholarship for researchers

2012, Havazelet Fund, scholarship for researchers

 (b)  Fellowships 

2020 Yesodot, 8,000$, Research and writing

2019, Yesodot, 12,000$, Research and writing

2017, Ariel Research Department, 2000$, BookPublishing

2017, Oranim Research Department, 1000$, BookPublishing

2017, Berl Katzenelson Fund, 2500$, Book Publishing

2015, YigalAllon Memorial Center, 25,000$, Yigal Allon Biography

2012, Ad Fund for Culture, 1000$, Historical researchof the Israel-Arab conflict

2012, Guteiner Fund at Haifa University, 1000$, BookPublishing

2012, Oranim Research Department, 1000$, BookPublishing

2011, Berl Katzenelson Fund, 2500$, Book Publishing

2011, Yigal Allon Memorial Center, 2500$, BookPublishing

2009, Bialik Institute, 20,000$ Berl Lockerbiographical research

2007, Guteiner Fund at Haifa University, 1000$, BookPublishing

1997-2000, Haifa University,  36,000$, Dissertation research and writing

 ScientificPublications

(a)ScientificBooks    

1.      Ehud Manor. 2008: The Jewish Daily Forward  –Immigrants, Socialism and Jewish Politics, 1890-1917. Hakibutz Hameuchad, Tel Aviv[262 pp.]  [Heb]

2.      Ehud Manor. 2009: The Jewish Daily Forward (Forverts) Newspaper – Immigrants, Socialismand Jewish Politics, 1890-1917. Sussex AcademicPress, Brighton & Portland [162 pp.] C

3.      Ehud Manor. 2010. Berl Locker – A Zionist Diplomat,Socialist and Optimist. HasifriaHatzionit. Jerusalem [374 pp.]  [Heb]

4.      Ehud Manor. 2012.  MakingPeace with the Palestinians –the Israeli debate about the West Bank, 1967-1987. Carmel Publishing House.Jerusalem [275 pp.] [Heb]

5.      Ehud Manor. 2012. Louis Millerand Di Warheit (“The Truth”) : Yiddishism, Zionism and Socialism in New York,1905–1915. Sussex Academic Press, Brighton &Portland [144 pp.]

6.      Udi Manor. 2016. YigalAllon – a Political Biography 1949-1980. Dvir-Zmora Publishing House[472 pp]. [Heb]

7.Udi Manor. 2017. Yigal Allon – a Neglected Political Legacy1949-1980. Sussex Academic Press, Brighton &Portland[240 pp.]

(b)  Other Books

8.EhudManor. 2010. Jaume Renyer y Ehud Manor, Un Estado Judio yDemocratico – Aproximacion al sistema constitucional en Israel, EditorialMilenio, Lleida [144 pp.] [Spanish]

9.      Ehud Manor. 2014. AnOptimistic Outlook: A Subjective Historical View from an Objective Standpoint,Mofet, Tel Aviv [179 pp.] [Heb]

PublicationsSince Last Promotion

10.  Udi Manor. 2018. 1967 – La Guerra delos Seis Dias en su contexto Politico: Una Revision Historica 1957-1977, Autores deArgentina, Buenos Aires [178 pp] [Spanish]

11.  UdiManor. 2019. Dayan Allon Peres Rabin – Reframing the 'Seventh Day' of theSix Day War, Lambert Acadamic Publishing, Beau Basin Mauritius [97 pp.]

12.  UdiManor. 2020 . Evreryone Takes Part – A Concise History of Hanoar HazioniYouth Movement, 1925-2020. Forthcoming [Heb]

13.  UdiManor. 2020 . Evreryone Takes Part – A Concise History of Hanoar HazioniYouth Movement, 1925-2020. Forthcoming

14.  UdiManor. 2020 . Todos Construyen – Breve Historia del Hanoar Hazioni,1925-2020. Forthcoming. [Spanish]

(c) Book Chapters

1. Ehud Manor. 2009.  "Nationalism, the Press and Politics: The Forgotten Case of Louis Miller and Die Warheit", In: Eliezer Ben-Refael et al.The Jewish People Today: Ingathering and Dispersion, Essays in Honor of Yosef Gorny, Yad Ben-Zvi, The Chaim Weizmann Institute and The Ben-Gurion Institute. Jerusalem Tel Aviv and Beer Sheba. Pp. 283-297 [Heb]
2. Ehud Manor. 2015. "The War to end all Wars – and then what?  Some Jewish Insights  into the 'Jewish Question', New York and Stockholm, 1915-1919". In: Antonello Biagini and Giovanna Motta (eds.) The Great War: Analysis and Interpretation, Vol. 2. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Pp. 47-56.
3. Ehud Manor. 2015.  "Towards a More Objective and Productive Approach in Israeli Civic Education". In: Lucretia Baluta (Ed.), Nature and Culture, Semep-Unesco, Bucharest. Pp. 43-48.
4. Ehud Manor. 2016.  "The wagon of Zionism rides slowly – Chaim Weizmann and Cooperative Settlements", In: Uri Cohen and Meir Chazan (eds.) Weizmann – Leader of Zionism, Shazar Center. Pp. 299-338 [Heb]

 Articles

(a)  Refereedarticles

1.Ehud Manor. 2002.  "Conservative Socialism? The Forverts and the Radical PlutocraticCoalition, New York 1897-1917”,  Iyuinim Bitkumat Israel – Vol. 12. Pp.427-463. [Heb+English Abstract] Bar Ilan List A+

2. Ehud Manor. 2002. "Abe Cahan as a Reformer: The Political and Journalistic Road Taken By the Editor of the Forverts", Kesher – Vol.32. pp. 65-74 [Heb+English Abstarct] Haifa List Peer Reviewed
3. Ehud Manor. 2002. "Why democratic civic education must be based on deep historical understanding", Hachinuch U'Svivo - Vol.25. pp. 59-71 [Heb+English Abstarct] Haifa List Peer Reviewed
4. Ehud Manor. 2003. "Spiritual Anti-semitism as Jewish Identity? Abe Cahan’s Role in Molding the Modern Jewish Agenda", Kesher – Vol.33. pp. 54-60 [Heb+English Abstract] Haifa List Peer Reviewed

5.      Ehud Manor. 2004. "A ConflictingEra", Israel – Studies in Zionism and the State of Israel – Vol. 6,pp. 207-212. [Heb.] Haifa List PeerReviewed

6. Ehud Manor. 2005.  "Propaganda Organization or A Political Party? New York's Jewish-Socialism: One Ideology, Two Ways”,   Iyuinim Bitkumat Israel – Vol. 15.  Pp. 435-462. [Heb+English Abstract] Bar Ilan List A+
7. Ehud Manor. 2005.  "Socialism should not be a question of the future but an actual deed”,  Iyuinim Bitkumat Israel – Vol. 15.  Pp. 513-521. [Heb.] Bar Ilan List A+
8. Ehud Manor. 2006.  "They are like the Bund: The Forverts Support of Zionism since the 1920s”, Iyuinim Bitkumat Israel – Vol. 16. Pp. 499-535. [Heb.] Bar Ilan List A+
9. Ehud Manor. 2006. "President on the Scope – the Forverts and the 1^st amandment", Kesher – Vol.34. pp. 13-20. [Heb+English Abstract] Haifa List Peer Reviewed
10. Ehud Manor. 2009. "It was written in the newspaper – the legacy of Louis Miller", Kesher – Vol.38. pp. 124-135 [Heb+English Abstract] Haifa List Peer Reviewed
11. Ehud Manor. 2010.  "A Jewish American in Tel Aviv, 1911", Cathedra – Vol. 136 (June 2010), pp. 91-120. [Heb+English Abstract] Bar Ilan List A+
12.  Ehud Manor. 2011.  "A source of satisfaction to all Jews, wherever they may be living - Louis  Miller between New York and Tel Aviv, 1911", Quest – Issues in Contemporary Jewish History – No. 2 ( October 2011),  pp. 263-285.ISI Q2. Cited 11; viewed 28. IF 0.424
13.  Ehud Manor. 2011.  Louis Miller, the Warheit, and the Kehillah of New York, 1908-1909, Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal, Vol.25, pp.175-200. ISI Q2. IF 0.632

14.    Ehud Manor. 2013. "Patternsof Partnership ", Israel – Studies in Zionism and the State ofIsrael – Vol 21, pp. 253-261. [Heb.] HaifaList Peer Reviewed

15. Ehud Manor. 2014. "Early Identity Politics–The Case of Cahan and Schiff, 1915-1917”. Quest–Issues in Contemporary Jewish History–No.7 (July 2014), pp.90-106. ISI Q2. IF 1.017
16. Ehud Manor. 2014. "Zichron Yaakov – The Jewish State Capital", Zmanim – Vol. 127 (Summer 2014), pp. 80-89. [Heb.] Bar Ilan List B
17. Udi Manor. 2014. "Responsibility, Academy, Economy, History – some Reflections about a Practical-Theoretical Discussion", Dvarim Journal of Oranim College – Vol.7 (November 2014), pp. 284-287. [Heb.] Haifa List Peer Reviewed
18. Ehud Manor. 2015.  "To what extent do we influence reality? – the Great War, perplexed Socialism and the City Hall, New York 1917". Socialist History Journal – Vol. 47. Pp. 14-32. ISI Q2. IF 0.549
19. Ehud Manor. 2016.  "An Israeli 'Bomb'?". Politika (LDIIR) – Vol. 25. Pp. 166-183[Heb] Haifa List Peer Reviewed
20. Ehud Manor. 2017.  "Allon and the Golan Heights – Israeli and anti-Israeli prespective in retrospective". Hamizrah Ha'dash - MEISAI. pp. 89-108 [Heb] Haifa List Peer Reviewed
21. Ehud Manor. 2017.  " Diplomacy in times of distruction – Socialist-Zionists politics 1917-1942". Jama'a - Journal for the study of the Middle East – Vol. 23, pp. 4-57 [Heb.] Haifa List Peer Reviewed
22. Ehud Manor. 2017.  " A Generating or a Catalytic Factor? The Settlement of Elon Moreh in the Context of the Political Struggles in the Israeli Leadership, 1961–1977". Judea and Samaria Research Studies –Vol. 26. Pp. 237-244  
23. Ehud Manor. 2017. "‘Functional’ or ‘Territorial’ Compromise: The Controversy between Dayan and Allon about the Future of the West Bank". Judea and Samaria Research Studies - Vol. 26 pp. 139-156 [Heb]

PublicationsSince Last Promotion

24. Ehud Manor. 2018.  "An infantile judgement" - Dayan, Alon, nuclear ambiguity and the debate over Israel's place in the region". Politika (LDIIR) – Vol. 27. Pp. 76-103 [Heb] Haifa List Peer Reviewed
25. Ehud Manor. 2019.  "Socialists by name only? – Socialist-Zionists wartime progressivism". Israel Afairs – Vol. 25 PP. 318-338  Bar Ilan List B
26. Ehud Manor. 2019. "Yigal Allon and his plan to establish an independent Druze State", Israel Afairs – Vol. 26 pp. 1-8 Bar Ilan List B
27. Ehud Manor. 2020. "Argentinian Jews or simply Argentinians – The Spanish Page in Davkeh in the first presidency of Peron, 1949-1954", Kesher 54, pp. 86-98 [Heb+English Abstract] Haifa List Peer Reviewed
28. Ehud Manor. 2020. "Friedman's Pencil and Beyond: Some Experiences and Reflections on Teaching American Political Economic History", Ariel Journal of Education . Forthcoming

(c)   Book Reviews

1. Ehud Manor. 2000. "A Prophetic Book - Die Gemeinschafts-Siedlung in Pal?stina by Siegfried Landshut (Hebrew version)". Mifneh – Vol. 30. Pp. 56-58.  [Heb.]
2. Ehud Manor. 2005. "Five Feminist Essays, by Emma Goldman", Mifneh – Vol. 46-47. pp. 30-35 [Heb.]
3. Ehud Manor. 2006. "A Historical Achievement and its Evolution – The Kibbutz and Moshav Settlement Movements, 1910-1990, edited by Abigail Paz-Yeshayahu & Yosef Gorny", Mifneh – Vol. 52. Pp. 39-44.  [Heb.]

4.      Udi Manor. 2014. "CitizenshipBetween the Lines: A Critical Look at Civic Studies in Israel, by Hillel Wahrman",Gilui Da'at – Vol. 5, pp. 95-101. [Heb.] Haifa List Peer Reviewed

PublicationsSince Last Promotion

5. Udi Manor. 2019. "Arab Israelies after the Arab Spring – a review of Yosri Hizran & Mohamad Halaila Abandoned to her fate". Itsur Yeda [August 2019],  https://tinyurl.com/yx9c52pg [Heb]
6. Udi Manor. 2019. "The Zorba the Greek Syndrome – a review of Richard Clogg Concise History of Greece", Itsur Yeda [September 2019],  https://tinyurl.com/yx9c52pg [Heb]
7. Udi Manor. 2019. "An Important perfunctory book – a review of Rivkah Shpak-Lissak, When and how the Arabs and Muslims immigrated to Palestine – Vol. 2 (1918-1948), Itsur Yeda [September 2019] https://tinyurl.com/yx9c52pg [Heb]
8. Ehud Manor. 2020.  "Yehuda Harel – an anarchist politician and the story of  Israel and the Golan", Cathedra - Vol. 174, pp. 183-188 [Heb] Bar Ilan List A+

(d)Unrefereedprofessional articles and publications

1. Ehud Manor. 2004. "A 'Society of Traitors'? The Benefits and Shortcomings of the Social-Molding Process in Israel Revisited", Kivunim Chadashim – Vol. 10 (June 2012), pp. 196-212. [Heb.]
2. Ehud Manor. 2012. "Towards the end of the Folly of No-Intervention", Kivunim Chadashim – Vol. 26 (June 2012), pp. 190-199. [Heb.]
3. Ehud Manor. 2014. "Back to the Jordanian-Palestinian Option?", Kivunim Chadashim – Vol. 30 (June 2014), pp. 225-228. [Heb.]
4. Ehud Manor. 2016. "The Jewish Immigrant Press between Forward and The Truth", Et-Mol – Vol.244 (February 2016), pp. 18-20  [Heb.]
5. Udi Manor. 2014. "Towards Objectivization of Civic Studies in Israel", Bimat Diun of Machon Mofet – Vol. 54 (December 2014), pp. 16-20. [Heb.]
6. Udi Manor. 2014. "Shma Israel – some Reflections on Meaningful Learning", Bimat Diun of Machon Mofet – Vol. 52 (February 2014), pp. 56-59. [Heb.]
7. Udi Manor. 2015. "Galnoor & Blander (2013): a Book Review on The Political System of Israel". http://udimanor.blogspot.co.il/2015/11/2013-8100.html
8. Udi Manor. 2016. "Jewish and Democratic Nevertheless", Kivunim Chadashim – Vol. 34 (May 2016), pp. 128-139. [Heb.]

PublicationsSince Last Promotion

9. Udi Manor. 2019. "Some notes on the political debate between Dov Tamary and Gershon Hacohen". Itsur Yeda [March 2019],  https://tinyurl.com/yx9c52pg
10. Udi Manor. 2019. "4750 Words about the roots of the Jewish Arab Conflict - a   review of Nathan Feinberg's Book: On An Arab Jurists Approach to Zionism and The State of Israel". Itsur Yeda [April 2019],  https://tinyurl.com/yx9c52pg
11. Udi Manor. 2019. "To Whom Did You Call Fascist? - a parcial review of Jonah Goldberg's Book". Itsur Yeda [June 2019],  https://tinyurl.com/yx9c52pg
12. Udi Manor. 2019. "As far as 'Now' No Partner for Peace Now", Telem – Vol. 2 [August 2019]. pp. 4-5
13. Udi Manor. 2019. "Dilema? N?o… trilema, quadrilema, multilema e, inclusive, unilema", in:  Dilemas Do Cotidiano - Contos y Reencontos, Porto Alegre, Col?gio Israelita Brasileiro
14. Udi Manor. 2020. "The Initiated Recesion in Israel 1966 – Between History and Ideology", http://udimanor.blogspot.com/2020/02/blog-post.html [Heb]

• Lectures and Presentations

1. 2000, " The Jewish Daily Forward as a political factor ", Denver University, Collorado
2. 2000, "The Cultural Role of the Forverts as a political tool", Haifa University
3. 2003, "Freedom of Speech in times of political upheavel – The case of The Forverts, President Mckinley and Candidate Theodor Roosevelt", Haifa University
4. 2004, " From Washington to the Pale - The Forverts' Plan for the Jewish Question", Hebrew University
5. 2004, "The dialectics of Utopia  and the Legacy of Abe Cahan", Upsalla University, Sweden
6. 2005, "The battle on the Jewish Soul – the case of Di Warheit and Forverts", Haifa University
7. 2005, "The Messianic Scope of The Forverts", Bar Ilan University
8. 2007, "Yiddish-Speaking Socialists or Simply Jewish Nationalists”, Farleigh Dickinson University New Jersey MAWHA Annual Conference.

9. 2010, "Israel como estado judio y democratico", Universidad Austral Buenos Aires, Cloquio de la Facultad de Derecho Constitucional.
10. 2010, "Israel como estado judio y democratico: los desafios politicos en el campo de la opinion publica, Universidad de Valladolid Spain, Israel y la Union Europea.
11. 2010, "Israel y la opinion publica", Universidad de Buenos Aires Argentina, La Politica Actual en el Medio Oriente.
12. 2010, "Knowledge and Powerless Power: the case of the Forverts", Open University, Israel, Power and Knowledge in Immigrant Societies.
13. 2011, "Louis Miller, the Warheit, and the Kehillah of New York", Canberra, Australia, Religion and Politics.
14. 2013, "Yiddish and Politics – the case of New York in the time of the Great Migration", Leivik Home Tel Aviv, Hibridity, Language and Israeli Identity,
15. 2013,"Chaim Weizmann and The Kibbutz Movement", Oranim Researchers Conference.
16. 2014, "Palestino-centrism or minority rights politics? Socialist-Zionist efforts during the Great War",   Efrata Academic College, Israel, WWI and the Jewish People.
17. 2014, "The war to end all wars – and then what?: Some Jewish insights into the 'Jewish Question’: New York and Stockholm, 1915-1919", Univeristy of Rome, The Great War: Analysis and Interpretation.
18. 2014, "U.S. Jews, the Yiddish Press, and WWI:  The Warheit-Forverts Debate", Georgian Court University in Lakewood, New Jersey, World War I: Dissent, Activism, and Transformation
19. 2015, "Yigal Allon and the Teritories of 1967", Tel Aviv University, 'The Six Day War and Eshkol's Govermemt Policy' Conference
20. 2016, "Israeli-Arab Conflict: some Historical Reflections", The Faculty of Social Science – Universidad de Mar Del Plata, Argentina
21. 2016, "The Politics of Yigal Allon", The Taub Center – New York University
22.  2016, "Why the 'Allon second volume' was and is essential", Yad Yaari Research Center
23. 2016, "Minorities and the future of the Middle East", Ohalo College.
24. 2016, "Contesting Jewish Loyalties: Socialist-Zionism and Minority Rights", Centre for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex & The Jewish Museum Berlin
25. 2017, "The Political arena as percieved by Yigal Allon in June 1967", The Palmach Museum, Tel Aviv.
26. 2017, "Yigal Allon and the Jewish settlements after the Six Day War",The 17^th  World Concgress of Jewish Studies
27. 2017, "Combined Vessels - Yigal Allon and Jewish settlements", Yad Yaari Research Center

PresentationsSince Last Promotion

28. 2018, "Allon, Dayan and the settlements in the West Bank", Ariel University
29. 2018, "Allon – A Neglected Political Biography", New York University
30. 2018, "El Medio Oriente – la Raiz del Conflicto Judio-Palestino", Universidad del Rosario, Bogota
31. 2019, "The Economic Role of Jews Reconsidered", Bochum Ruhr University
32. 2019, "Jews, Civil Rights and The French Revolution", Oranim College
33. 2020, "From The Lower East Side to Hollywood – Jews in American Culture", Ruderman Center at Haifa University

• Synopsis of research

My scholar activity is based on the premise that history is crucial for understandingreality: its' shortcomings as well as its' possibilities and limitations.Accordingly, my primary area of interest is modern history of Jewish politics.Fortunately enough, I have the advantage of cultivating a field that was markedand developed already by prominent scholars in the last 200 years. My specialinterest is to find and define political nuances, mainly within the JewishLabor Movement, which emerged in the larger context of modernization. Morespecifically, this movement was forged in the framework of industrialization,emancipation, urbanization and secularization, all of which had to do directlyor indirectly with politics.

Scholars agree that until the early modern period, Jews – being aminority within Christian or Islamic realms - either remained outside the politicalarena or, at best, were active within it in a partial, limited fashion. Challengesof modernity transformed things for good. In short, from late 18^thcentury on, Jews could either 'delete' their Jewish identity; reform it intovarious sorts of Jewish confessions; regroup themselves in a renewedsocio-spiritual "Ghetto"; and – what did most of them – redefinethemselves in competing versions along national concepts.

Members of Jewish Labor Movement – rank and file as well as prominentleaders of all sorts – were pivot in the process of Jewish modernnationalization schemes. On the one hand there was a fierce and bitter battleamong these different Jewish national projects, but on the other, no doubt theyall shared basically one centric notion: Jews ought to take an active part in theemerging new order. The questions of course were 'how', 'who', 'when', 'where'and the like. The success of Zionism brought about also chalenges, both in thefield of historical research and that of politics. Hence the importance of historicalresearch particularly focused on politics.

The main assumption I am using in order to decipher political history is thateach and every political factor should be measured mainly against its' closestrival on the scale, while taking into close account specific questionspresented by reality. In other words, the spotlight must be directed to thetensions among rhetoric, ideology, achievements, failures etc. After some 25years of academic endeavor on my behalf, I can unequivocally state that I have foundthis fundamental assumption to be convincing, useful, effective, and productive.I wish to believe that I managed to express it in my published studies.

• Present Academic Activities

I have in mind two main projects: 1. Aresearch about the way Israel's political condition between 1957 and 1977 waspresented in the radical-left Jewish press in the United States.  2. A concise book about the ensuing Jewish-Arab conflict thatwould tackle major myths and distorted concpets related to this issue.