Emotions of Conflict
Israel 1949-1967
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​A Home for All Jews

“​In her subtle depiction of the redefinition of citizenship through rights campaigns in early Israeli history, Orit Rozin achieves something few have done. Rights have to be transformed from abstractions on paper into realities of practice through struggles over inclusion, and her well-researched case studies vividly demonstrate how the search for inclusion can be contested and differential but nonetheless meaningful and real. The story of the dynamic relation of rights and nationhood told in A Home for All Jews is exemplary for students of the modern experience across the world. ”
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—Samuel Moyn, Harvard University, author of “The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History”

2018 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award Finalist
“Israel brought a multitude of people together, many of whom viewed one another as foreign and alien--who lived side by side and encountered one another in ways that changed everyone and shaped the nation's society and culture. Rozin brings this world to life. She enables us to see how new forms of thought and action could evolve out of rupture and how they could imprint a set of norms that would form the basis for the range of power citizens hold in the Jewish state. Even as Rozin's study is focused on Israel's past, it helps explain what the country has become in the present.”
The New Rambler

The rise of the INDIVIDUAL in 1950s Israel
“Rozin makes an important contribution to understanding how Israel moved from a society that emphasized national and communal needs first, to one that gradually allowed average Israelis to seek—and expect the state to grant—individual freedoms that steadily led to a rising standard of living and personal fulfillment. . . . A major contribution to Israeli social history. . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice
“[A] work of a cultural, social, and to an extent, political history, which shines methodologically in its critical discourse analysis. . . As much as it is a book about the rise of the individual in 1950s Israel, it is also a revisionist study of an era commonly remembered (and arguably mystified) by Israelis as extremely collectivist in ethos.”
H-JUDAIC

“This is a wonderful study, with a clear focus. The Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University is to be congratulated for bringing this work of Israeli scholarship to an English-reading audience. [...] Rozin’s book is a very useful source of well-collected information on the culture of austerity in early Israel, drawn from the period’s newspapers, speeches, testimonies, and government records.”
Israel Studies Review
Research topics – past and present:
Israeli Society, Israeli Culture, Security and Emotions, Israeli Home, Citizenship and Rights, Israeli Women, Childhood, Gender Relations, David Ben-Gurion, The Israeli Press, Civil Rights and Collective Identity, Immigration, Propaganda films, Food and Identity, Nation-building, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Movement, Haaretz Newspaper, Austerity, Hygiene, Parenthood, Rule of Law, Religion and State, Israeli Constitution.