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2017

Youth and IDF Trips to Poland: A Call for Research on Holocaust Remembrance Tours  

 

2016

Being at Home: Citizenship, Rights, and National Identity in Young Israel

Sixty-Year-Old War: Sinai, 1956 – Historiography and Memory

Israeli Culture in the “Short” 60s’

The Perpetually Renewing Face of Ze’ev Jabotinsky

Colonial Encounters: Governance, Society, and Culture during the British Mandate

Pioneer Zionism in the Diaspora: Post-1948 Jewish Youth Movements outside Israel

 

2015

The Israeli Society, Eshkol Government and the Territories that were Conquered in 1967

Why We Miss Him? On Anita Shapira's book, Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel

The Individual and the Collective in Palestine and Israel: Law and History

A Tale of Two Cities: The Palestinian Arabs in Jerusalem and Jaffa 

 

2014

 Jewish Refugees in Israel’s War of Independence

Ze’ev Jabotinsky and Betar: The 90th Anniversary of the Betar Youth Movement

Mandate Biographies

“A Statesman in Winter”: Chaim Weizmann – the Last Years

The “Cultural Turn” in the Study of Zionism and Israel

Identities and Cleavages in Mandate and Israeli Society: Historical-Juridical Aspects

Anita Shapira’s Israel: A History (A conference to mark the publication of the book)

 

2013

Hashomer Hatza’ir: A 100-Year-Young Movement

Between Dialogue and Duel: Ben-Gurion and the Media (on Rafi Mann’s book, The Leader and the Media)

Politics in Wartime: Civil Society in the War of Independence

The Welfare State: Historical-Legal Aspects

 
 
2012
 

Leaders between Cooperation and Rivalry: A Symposium to Mark the Fortieth Anniversary of Moshe Sneh's Death

The Kibbutz in Israeli Culture 

On Menachem Mauthner's, Law and the Culture of Israel

 

2011

The Transition from Yishuv to Sate: A Historical-Legal Perspective

Zionism of the Spirit, Zionism of the Land: Buber and Gordon 

David Raziel and the First Decade of the Etzel’s Activity 

Chaim Weizmann between Ideology and Politics

Twenty Years of Iyunim Bitkumat Israel  

The Past Changes Constantly: A Symposium on Yoav Gelber’s Book, Nation and History: Israeli Historiography between Zionism and Post-Zionism

The End of the Mandate: A Symposium to Mark the Publication of Motti Golani’s Book, The Last British High Commissioner of Palestine

Israeli Society and the Holocaust: Women’s Heroism

 

2010

 
 
 

On the Book, ‘The Jewish People Today’, in Honor of Yosef Gorny

Israel– Poland: 60 Years of Diplomatic Relations

Mapay at 80

 

2009

The Kibbutz: Between the Individual and the Collective

Herzl: New Perspectives

On Esther Meir-Glitzenstein’s, ‘Between Baghdad and Ramat Gan’

The Israeli Home

Maky 90 Anniversary

The Voice of the Individual in the Early Years of Israel

From Underground to Party: From IZL to Herut

 

2008

The Warrior and Peace: in Honor of Mordechai Bar-On

Gender and Nationality

The Jewish Iraqi Community in Israel

On Yuval Dror’s, ‘National Education through Mutually Supportive Devices’ 

Academy – Society – Government

On Itzhak Bezalel’s, ‘You Were Born Zionists’

The Ashkenazis’ in Israel

How to Build a State?

 

2007

The Kibbutz as an Alternative Culture

On Ahuvia Malkin’s, ‘Eliahu Golomb: Biography’

The 1977 Political Turnaround: Change in Israeli Political Culture

On Elhanan Yakira’s, ‘Post-Zionism, Post-Holocaust’

The Elites in Israel: Continuity and Renewal

 

2006

The Civilian Society during the Israeli War of Independence

On Sulamit Laskov’s, ‘The life of Ahad Haam’

On Aviva Halamish’s, ‘A Dual Race Against Time’

East European Jewish Modernity

The Bible: Original and Translation

The Two Mass Immigrations to Israel

Jewish Nationalism between Particularism and Universalism 

 

2005

The Nation-State and Other Political Traditions of the Jewish People

The Collapse of the Workers’ Society in Historical Perspective

War, Holocaust, State: Sixty Years since the End of World War II

Mapai: A Reconsideration 

‘Israel’ in Cairo: A Zionist Newspaper in National Egypt 

We and Our Neighbors: Ha-Shomer ha-Tza’ir, 1927–1977

Po’alei Zion and the Jewish Workers’ Movement

From Land of Birth to Homeland

 

2004

To Remember and to Forget

Leadership, Charisma and the Charm of the Second Aliyah

The Hundredth Anniversary of Herzl’s Death

The Intellectual and the Zionist Movement

Anti-Semitism & Anti-Zionism: Divergence and Convergence

The 60th Anniversary of the IZL Revolt

The Hundredth Anniversary of the Second Aliyah


2003

Ha-Shomer haTza’ir: Hopes, Illusions and Politics

Ze’ev Jabotinsky: Theory and Policy

‘Ha-aretz’: Portrait of a Newspaper

New Israel 1977-2000

Nahum Goldmann: Statesman Without a State

 

2002

Symposium on the Occasion of the Appearance of the Fifth Volume of Selected Writings by Moshe Sneh

Moshe Sharet: The Forgotten Leader

Israeliness and Russianness: An Encounter of Cultures

The Jews of Islamic Countries and their Nationalism

The Bund and Zionism: Rivals and Partners

Policy, Ideology and Leadership: In Memory of Moshe Sneh

‘All the Land is the Front’ ‘All the People are the Army’: The Home Front in the 1948 War

The Sages of the Sephardim and the Mizrahi Communities in Israel, 1948-1967

Society and Culture in Mandatory Palestine

 

2001

Illegal Immigration, Rescue and the Allies Policy During the Second World War and Afterwards

Israeli Autobiographies and Biographies

Mutual Reflections: Israel and Jewish America in Dialogue

The 120th Anniversary of Jabotinsky’s Birth

On the Book ‘Ahad Ha-Am: Letters on Eretz-Israel’

Israeli Historical Revisionism: from Left to Right

‘Gentleman, History Repeats Itself’: The Historiography of Zionism


2000

The Crisis of the Histadrut (Israel Labor Federation): Historical and Contemporary Inquiries

 

Being at Home: Citizenship, Rights, and National Identity in Young Israel

 

Sixty-Year-Old War: Sinai, 1956 – Historiography and Memory

 

Israeli Culture in the “Short” 60s’

 

The Perpetually Renewing Face of Ze’ev Jabotinsky

 

Colonial Encounters: Governance, Society, and Culture during the British Mandate

 

Pioneer Zionism in the Diaspora: Post-1948 Jewish Youth Movements outside Israel