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ORIT ROZIN, PH.D

Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Humanities, Dept. of Jewish History, [email protected]

 

 EDUCATION

§  B.A. - 1984-1989 Tel-Aviv University, Department of Jewish history, Department of   General and Interdisciplinary studies, cum laude

§  M.A. - 1993-1996 Tel-Aviv University, Department of Jewish history

§  Ph.D. - 1997-2002 Tel-Aviv University, School of Jewish Studies, Title of Ph.D Dissertation: From “We” to “I”: Individualism in Israeli Society in the Early 1950s, Supervisors: Yosef Gorny, Avraham Shapira

 

AREAS OF ACADEMIC INTEREST

§  Social, cultural, and legal history of Israel 1948-1967

§  Relations between citizen and state

§  Jewish immigration

§  Law and national identity

§  Women’s History

§  Civil and social rights

 

  ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

§  1999-2011 Adjunct, Department of History, the Open University

§  2002-2006 Teacher Part-Time, Department of General and Interdisciplinary Studies, Tel Aviv University

§  2002-2006 Adjunct, Department of Land of Israel Studies, University of Haifa

§  2004-           Adjunct, Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University

§  2005-2006 Adjunct, Department of History and Theory, Bezalel Academy for Art and Design

§  2006-2009 Keshet Post-doctoral fellowship, Tel Aviv University, Department of Jewish History

§  2009-2010 Visiting professor, York University, Toronto, Canada

§  2010-2012 Lecturer, Tel Aviv University, Department of Jewish History

§  2012-          Senior Lecturer, Tel Aviv University, Department of Jewish History

 

EDITOR/ MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARD OF SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

§  Member of the editorial board of the Berg Institute book series on Law and History, Tel Aviv University

§  2011-2013 Guest co-editor of a special issue titled House as Home in Israeli Culture, Journal of Israeli History, 32 (1) (2013).

§  2009-2011 Guest co-editor of a special issue titled Gender and Nationalism, Israel: Studies in Zionism and the State of Israel, History, Society and Culture,  18-19 (2011)

§  Member of the editorial board of a volume One Law for Man and Woman: Women, Rights and Law in Mandatory Palestine (Bar-Ilan University 2010) edited by Margalit Shilo, Ruth Halperin-Kaddari and Eyal Katvan

§  Member of the editorial board of the volume Women Artists in Israel 1920-1970, (Hakibutz Hameuchad 2008) edited by Ruth Markus

§  Guest co-editor of a special issue dedicated to Haaretz  : A Portrait of aNewspaper, Israel: Studies in Zionism and the State of Israel, History, Society and Culture, 10 (2006)

 

PROGRAMS

§  Co-initiator and currently coordinator of the Israel Studies Program, the Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University

§  Supervisor of the Israel Studies program and until 2010 the 20th Century History Program , Department of General and Interdisciplinary Studies, Tel-Aviv University

§  2010-2013 – Developed an international M.A. Program in Israel Studies, Tel Aviv University

 

EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES

Courses Taught

Undergraduate Courses:

§  Israel – The First Decade of Independence: 1948-1956, Tel Aviv University

§  Israel – The Second Decade of Independence: 1956-1967, Tel Aviv University

§  Culture, Society and Values in Israel, York University, Toronto

§  Gender and Womanhood in Israel, Tel Aviv University, York University, Toronto

§  Israel: Politics, Ideology and Law, Tel Aviv University, University of Haifa

§  Israeli Family Life in The 1950s, Tel Aviv University, University of Haifa, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design

§  Israeli Culture: Publishing, Journalism and Literature, University of Haifa

§  Immigrants in Israel During the Early Years of Statehood, Tel Aviv University, University of Haifa, Bezalel Academy for Art and Design

§  Zionist and Israeli Women: a Gendered Perspective of a National History, Tel Aviv University

§  Nation-Building:  The Making of Hebrew and Israeli Culture, Tel Aviv University

§  The Zionist movement 1882-1914, The Open University

Graduate Courses:

§  Key events in Israeli history, Tel Aviv University, York University

§  Family Life in Israel, Tel Aviv University

§  Being a citizen in the new state of Israel

 

PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTION

§  2003 – and currently Coordinator of the Junior Researchers’ Forum -  the Chaim Weizmann institute for the study of Zionism and Israel, Tel Aviv University (member since 1999)

§  2009 – 2010 – Member of the Kimmerling Prize committee, Association for Israel Studies

§  2009 – currently – Board member – Association for Israel Studies (member since 2003)

§  2010 – 2011  – Chair of the Kimmerling Prize committee, Association for Israel Studies

§  2011 – Co-chair of the Asher Cohen Prize committee for an outstanding Ph.D dissertation – the Strochlitz institute for Holocaust Research, University of Haifa

§  2011 – 2012 member of the Ben Halpern Award for Best Dissertation in Israel Studies

§  2012 – Head of the teaching committee, dep. of Jewish History

§  2013 – Conference committee, Tel Aviv University

§  Reviewer of numerous articles for the following journals (Israel Studies, Israel Studies Review/Israel Studies Forum,Journal of Israeli History, Zion, Israel, Iyunim be-tkumat Israel, Cathedra, Historia), and books (Routlege, Zalman Shazar Center, Yad Ben-Zvi, the University of Haifa press, the Ben Gurion Research Institute Press)

 

ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

Invited Lectures:

§  “The Rule of Law and the Austerity Policy,” Tel Aviv University – conference titled “The Israeli Democracy 1948-1998,”4 March 1998

§  “Israeli Housewives and Austerity 1950-1952,” Yad Ben Zvi – conference honoring Mordechai Bar-On, 13 December 1999

§  “The Image of Immigrants in the Eyes of Veteran Israelis in 1950s Israel,” Yad Ben Zvi – conference titled – “Back to the Melting Pot”, 1 January 2001

§  “Mapai and the Women’s Vote,” Tel Aviv University – conference tilted “A Fresh lookat  MAPAI,” 1 April 2004

§  “‘The People’s Voice’ Supreme Court Ruling in its Historical Context,” Hebrew University – conference titled “50 years to the ‘People’s Voice’ Ruling,” 12 November 2003

§  “The Concept of Statism in the Debate over the Israeli Constitution in the 1950s,” Tel Aviv University – international conference on the nation-state and other political traditions, 30 November 2005

§  “Terms of Aversion: Between Veteran Israelis and Immigrants,” Tel Aviv University – conference honoring Yosef Gorny, 25 January 2006

§  “The right to exit the country prior to the Sinai Campaign,” conference titled “50 years to 56,”University of Haifa, 13 November 2006

§  Commentator on Yoram Shachar’s paper: “From Divine Providence to the Rock of Israel: Two Declarations of Independence,” International conference on Histories of Legal Transplantations, The Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University, 11 June 2008

§  “Ben Gurion and the Debate over Israel’s Constitution – Examining the Scholarly Perspective,” Ben Gurion University, annual conference honoring David Ben-Gurion, 12 January 2009

§  “Motherhood and Childhood in 1950s Israel,” Tel Aviv University – conference titled “Children Come First,” 15 January 2009

§  “Austerity Tel Aviv: Everyday life 1948-1953,”International conference titled –  Tel Aviv at 100 Myths and Realities, Brandeis University, Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, 22-23 March 2009

§   “Israeli Housewives and the Austerity policy,” International conference titled –  Jews, Commerce & Culture, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 27-29 April 2009

§  “Black and White in Gray: Where the Trial ends and the Story Begins,” conference in honor of Tuvia Friling’s book: Who Are You Leon Beger, University of Haifa, 30 November 2010

§   “Democracy’s Users – Israel in the 1950s,” conference on Law of Democracy, Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Law, 19 May 2011

§  “Citizenship, Individual Rights and the Transition to Sovereignty,” international conference titlted: Exploring the Meanings of Jewish Sovereignty, UCLA, 6-7 May 2012

 

Presentation of Papers at Conferences

§  “Women Meeting Women: the Role of Veteran Women in the Absorption of Mass Immigration,” International conference :World Union of Jewish Studies, 15 August 2001

§    ”Ben Gurion and Haaretz“, Tel Aviv University – conference titled – “Ha’aretz: a Portrait of a Newspaper,” 11 May 2003

§  “‘Terms of disgust’: Hygiene and parenthood of immigrants from Moslem countries as viewed by veteran Israelis in the 1950s,” International conference, Association for Israel Studies, UCSD, San Diego, California, 29 May 2003

§  “The complex relationship between David Ben Gurion and Ha`aretz  during the 1950s and 1960s,” International conference, Association for Israel Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 15 June 2004

§  “Israeli Housewives in the 1950s and the Austerity Policy,” International conference, Economic History Society, Leicester Great Britain, 10 April 2005

§  “Food and Nation Building, Israel 1949-1952,” Association for Israel Studies, Tucson Arizona, 30 May 2005

§  “Rule of Law and Austerity Policy”, International conference, World Union forJewish Studies, Hebrew University, 3 August 2005

§  “God Behind the Scenes – The Sublime Aspect of the Proposed Constitution 1949-1950,” Israeli Organization for Law andHistory, YadBen Zvi, 9 October 2005

§  “The Austerity Policy and the Rule of Law: Relations between Government and Public in Fledgling Israel,” International conference, Association for Israel Studies, Banff Canada, 30 May 2006

§  “The Austerity Policy and the Rule of Law: Relations between Government and Public in Fledgling Israel,” International workshop on `Consumption Constrained: Austerity and Rationing in the 20thCentury,` Tartu University, Estonia, 27-29 April 2007

§  “Right of Exit Policy as a Prism for Political, security and Economic Changes,”International conference, Association for Israel Studies, Open University, Raanana (Israel), 12 June 2007

§  “Israel and the Right to Exit the Country in the 1950s,” Israeli Organization for LawandHistory, YadBen Zvi, 18 September 2007

§  “The Wandering Jew in the Jewish State: The right to exit the country 1948-1961,” Israeli Law and Society Association, University of Haifa, 21 February 2008

§  “Physicians as Elite Specialists: The Role of the Israel Medical Association in the 1950s and the 2000s: A Comparative Study,” International conference, Association for Israel Studies Annual Conference, New York University, 19-21 May 2008.

§  “Gender and Citizenship in Israel’s formative years,” Tel Aviv University – conference titled – Gender and Nationalism, 25 November 2008

§  “The right to travel abroad in Israel’s first decade: Between state and citizens,”International conference, Association for Jewish Studies Annual conference, Washington DC, 21-23 December 2008

§   “The Age of Marriage Law 1950: Fear of a demographic nightmare or an emblem of modernity and liberation?” International conference, Association for Israel Studies annual conference, Beer Sheva 1-3 June 2009

§  “Femininity and Nation-Building in Israeli Propaganda Films from the 1950s: a Portrait of Women Immigrants from Islamic Countries,” International conference, The Association for the Study of Nationalism and Ethnicity annual conference, London, April 5-7, 2011

§   “The Concept of Voice in a Fledgling Democracy: Israel in the 1950s,” International conference, Association for Israel Studies annual conference, Boston, June 12-15, 2011

§  “The Struggle over the Legislation of the Age of Marriage Law: Continuity and Change”,conference titled “The Transition from Yishuv to Statehood: Law and History, Tel Aviv University, 21 September 2011

§  “On Progress”, Buchman law school, Tel Aviv University, conference dedicated to the Israeli Declaration of Independence, 12 December, 2011

§  “Craving Meat during Israel’s Austerity Period”, International conference, Association for Israel Studies annual conference, University of Haifa, June 25-27, 2012

§  “Israel’s Age of marriage Law: Memory, Belonging and Longing”, International conference, Legal Histories of the British Empire: Law, Spaces, Cultures & Empire: Engagements & Legacies, National University of Singapore, 5-7 July 2012

§  “On the Concept of Voice in a Young  Democracy,” International conference, European Association or Israel Studies, SOAS, London UK, 16 September 2013

 

 Seminar Presentations

§  2002    Ben Gurion Institute, Ben Gurion University

§  2002    Geography Dep., Bar Ilan Universit

§  2003    Law and History Workshop, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University

§  2004    Land of Israel Dep., University of Haifa

§  2008    Law and History Workshop, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University

§  2008   Unit of Culture Research, Tel Aviv University

§  2009   Land of Israel Department, Bar Ilan University

§  2009   Ben Gurion Inst., Ben Gurion University

§  2009   Taub Center for Israel Studies, New York University

§  2010   Chicago Center for Jewish Studies, University of Chicago

§  2010   Cherick Center, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

§  2012   Cherick Center, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

§  2012   Law and History Workshop, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University

 

CONFERENCES

§   Organizer of a conference on “Ha’aretz – a Portrait of a Daily Newspaper,” (the Chaim Weizmann institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel) Tel Aviv University, May 2003

§  Member of the organizing committee of the First Annual Conference of the Israeli Organization for Law and History, September 2005

§  Member of the organizing committee of an international workshop entitled “Consumption Constrained”: Austerity and Rationing in the 20th Century,” held at Tartu University (Estonia), April 2007

§  Organizer of a conference on gender and nationalism (the Chaim Weizmann institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel)  held at Tel-Aviv University, November 2008

§  Organizer of a conference on the Israeli home (the Chaim Weizmann institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel) held at Tel-Aviv University, May 2009

§  2010-2011 amember of the program committee of the 2011 annual conference, The Association for Israel Studies,  Brandeis University (June 2011)

§  The transition from Yishuv to statehood:  Law and History: (the Chaim Weizmanninstitute for the Study of Zionism and Israel and the Berg Institute, Faculty of Law), Tel Aviv University September 2011

§  Member of the organizing committee of the seventh annual conference of the Israeli Organization for Law and History, Jerusalem (Yad Ben Zvi) 24 October 2011

§  Currently organizing a conference on the Welfare State: Law and History (forthcoming 2013) Organizer of a conference on Cultures, Borders and Dialogues, honoring Yaacov Shavit, January 16th, 2013

§  Organizer of a conference on the Legal Histories of the Welfare State, February 4, 2013 Law and History

§  Member of the Organizing committee of the ninth annual conference of the Israeli Organization of Law and History, 30 September 2013

§  Organizer of a conference on the legal histories of Israeli Identities, forthcoming 4 March 2014

 

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL AWARDS

Scholarships and Fellowships

§  1999 – Galili Scholarship

§  1998-2000 – Tel Aviv University, Doctoral Scholarship 2000-2001 – Rabin Center, Doctoral Fellowship

§  2003 – Tel Aviv University, Rich Foundation Post Doctoral Fellowship

§  2006-2009 – Tel Aviv University, Keshet Post Doctoral Fellowship

 

Awards

§  2009 – Association for Israel Studies, Shapiro best book award 2009

 

 Grants - PI

§  2009 – Littauer Foundation Book Translation Grant

§  2009 – American Israeli Cooperative Enterprise Publication Grant

§  2010 – Yoran-Sznycer Research Fund,  book translation grant (Tel Aviv University)

§  2011 – Yoran-Sznycer Research Fund,  book translation grant (Tel Aviv University)

§  2011 – Minerva Center for Human Rights, research grant (Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Law)

§  2009 – 2012 – Israel Science Foundation, research grant, “Struggles for Civil Rights in 1950s Israel: Law, Culture and Collective Identity

§  2012 – The David Berg Institute for Law and History 

§  2013 – The Israel Institue Research Grant

 

 MEMBERSHIP IN SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES

§  1999 – and currently Researchers Forum, Tel Aviv University: Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel

§  2003 – and currently– Association for Israel Studies ( board member since 2009) (USA)

§  2005 – Economic History Society (UK)

§  2005 – and currently – Israeli Law and History Association

§  2008 – and currently – Association for Jewish Studies (USA)

§  2011 – Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (UK)

§  2011 – and currently – Israeli Historical Society

§  2013 – European Association for Israel Studies

 

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