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ORIT ROZIN, Ph.D
Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Humanities, Dept. of Jewish History, oritr@tauex.tau.ac.il

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 (completed courses only)
  • Ph.D. - 1997-2002 Tel-Aviv University, The Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies
         Title of Dissertation: From “We” to “I”: Individualism in Israeli Society in the Early 1950s                    Supervisors: Yosef Gorny, Abraham Shapira

AREAS OF ACADEMIC INTEREST
  • Social, cultural, and legal history of Israel 
  • Relations between citizens and state
  • Jewish immigration
  • Law and national identity
  • Women’s History
  • Civil and social rights
  • History of emotions
  • Food history

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
  • 1999-2011 Adjunct, Department of History, the Open University
  • 2002-2006 Adjunct, Department of General and Interdisciplinary Studies, Tel Aviv University
  • 2002-2006 Adjunct, Department of Land of Israel Studies, University of Haifa
  • 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
  • 2010-2011 Doctoral Instructor, Tel Aviv University, Department of Jewish History
  •  2011-2016    Senior Lecturer, Tel Aviv University, Department of Jewish History
  • Sept. 2014 Visiting scholar, Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies, Boston University
  • 2016 –       Tenured Associate Professor, Tel Aviv University, Department of Jewish History
  • Feb. 2017  Visiting professor, Jindal School of International Affairs and Jindal Centre for Israel Studies, O.P Jindal Global University, Sonepat (Haryana), India
  • 2020 Spring term - Harry Starr fellow, Harvard University
     


EDITOR / MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARD OF SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
  • Member of the editorial board of the 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.
  • 2013 and currently, Member of the editorial board of a book series, the David Berg Institute for Law and History 
  • 2017  Member of the editorial board,  Israel Studies book series, Ben-Gurion University Press, The Ben-Gurion Research Center
  • 2021 Editor (together with Alexander Kaye) the Journal of Israeli History 

PROGRAMS

  • Co-initiator and former advisor 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
  • Former supervisor of the Israel Studies minor, International undergraduate program in Liberal Arts, Tel-Aviv University
  • Currently the first academic director - the Dan David Society of Fellows

EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Courses Taught


Undergraduate Courses:
  • Israel – The First Decade of Independence: 1948-1956
  • Israel – The Second Decade of Independence
  • 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
  • Israeli Culture: Publishing, Journalism and Literature, University of Haifa
  • Immigrants in Israel During the Early Years of Statehood
  • Zionist and Israeli Women: a Gendered Perspective of a National History
  • Nation-Building: The Making of Hebrew Culture, Tel Aviv University
  • Eat, Drink, Man, Woman - a Cultural History of Israel
  • Israeli Histories - introduction to history research for law students
Graduate Courses:
  • Key events in Israeli history, Tel Aviv University, York University
  • Family Life in Israel, Tel Aviv University
  • Becoming a citizen in the new state of Israel

PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTION
  • 2003 and currently Coordinator of the 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- 2013 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 committee for Best Dissertation in Israel Studies, Association for Israel Studies
  • 2012–2013 Head of the teaching committee, department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University
  • 2013 and currently member of the Tel Aviv University conference committee
  • 2014 and currently member of the Scientific Council of the Yad Ben-Zvi Institute, Jerusalem
  • 2014–2015 member of the Association for Israel Studies vice president nomination committee
  • 2015 and currently member of the Tel Aviv University, Faulty of Humanities committee for gender equality
  • 2015 and currently member of the Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Humanities, research committee
  • 2016  member of the Yaniv foundation research grants committee, Tel Aviv University, The Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies
  • 2016: Member of the Goldberg Foundation Prize committee for best book manuscript, the Open University Press, Israel
  • 2016-2017: member of the Ben Halpern Award committee for best dissertation in Israel Studies, Association for Israel Studies
  • 2018 - Board member Association for Israel Studies
  • 2019-2020 - Member ad-Hoc advisory committee - Association for Israel Studies 
  • Reviewer of numerous articles for the following journals 
  • : Israel Studies Review/Israel Studies Forum, Zion [Hebrew], Israel ]Hebrew], Journal of Israeli History, Israel Studies, Iyunim Bitkumat Israel [Hebrew], Bitachon Sotziali [Hebrew],  Cathedra [Hebrew], Historia [Hebrew], Gastronomika, Jewish Quarterly Review, Journal of Comparative Legal History, Politics, Groups and Identities, Yisraelim [Hebrew] American Journal of Legal History,  American Historical Review, Mishpatim [Hebrew]; 
    ; and of books for the following publishers: Routledge, Zalman Shazar Center, Yad Ben-Zvi, University of Haifa Press, Ben Gurion Research Institute Press ), Stanford University Press, Indiana University Press. 
  • Reviewer of Ph.D. research proposals for Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, Ben-Gurion University, Ben-Gurion Institute; Hebrew University, Middle Eastern studies; Bar-Ilan University; MA thesis proposals for the Department of History, Tel Aviv University;  MA thesis, for the University of Haifa, Tel Aviv University , and Ph.D dissertations for the University of Haifa and Tel Aviv University. 

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 look at 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
  • "Meat Consumption and Collective Identity in 1950s Israel”, Tel Aviv University – conference titled: The Cultural Turn in Israeli Historiography, 26 March, 2014
  • “On the Right to be Heard: Immigrants Demanding Recognition in Israel,” International conference on Jewish Rights, Minority Rights, Human Rights, Tel Aviv University, March 19, 2015.
  • “New Books on the Shelf: Recent Trends in Israeli Legal History,” Tel Aviv University, Law Faculty, 27 December 2015.
  • 8th GISFOH Symposium 2016, Witnessing and Knowing: Challenging Re/Sources of Knowledge, Sponsored by the Israel Science Foundation and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Potsdam, 4-7 September 2016. (Discussant)
  • Book Launch: A Home for All Jews: Citizenship, Rights and National Identity in the New Israeli State, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, 28 September, 2016
  • Public Lecture: A Home for All Jews: Citizenship, Rights and National Identity in the New Israeli State, Jindal School of International Affairs, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonepat, India, 28 February, 2017
  • Public Lecture: A Home for All Jews: Citizenship, Rights and National Identity in the New Israeli State,  University of Mumbai, India, March 3, 2017
  • "Food and Nation Building", American University 13 November, 2017
  • Sovereignty as Mentality,”, Tel Aviv University, 13 March, 2019
  • “The In-Between Time from The Rabin Assassination to the 1996 Elections – On Emotions and Their Impact on the Public Sphere,” International workshop on The Emotionalizaion of the Public Domains in International Perspective: Russia, Israel, USA, Ben-Gurion University and Van Leer Institute, 28-31 May 2019
  • Chair and Commentator, International webinar, How the Law Treats Hate: Antisemitism and Anti-Discrimination Reconsidered, University of Virginia, September 10, 2020
 

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 for Jewish Studies, Hebrew University, 3 August 2005
  • “God Behind the Scenes – The Sublime Aspect of the Proposed Constitution 1949-1950,” Israeli Organization for Law and History, Yad Ben 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 20th Century,` 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 Law and History, 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
  • “Settlers, Soldiers and Policy Makers Facing Palestinian Infiltration,” International conference,  Association or Israel Studies, Ben-Gurion University, Sde Boker, 24 June 2013
  • “On the Concept of Voice in a Young  Democracy,” International conference, European Association or Israel Studies, SOAS, London UK, 16 September 2013
  • “Anger, Revenge and the Art of Government: Reevaluating Reprisal Raids in the 1950s,” International conference, Association or Israel Studies, Montreal, June 1-3, 2015.
  • “Mandate Palestine between West and East: Jewish Women, the International Arena and the Struggle to Criminalize Child Marriage,” – international conference, Association for Israel Studies, Jerusalem 21-23, 2016.
  • "Confronting Fear and Enriching the Self and the Nation: Practices and Emotions in the Aftermath of the Czechoslovakian-Egyptian Arms Deal", International conference, Association for Israel Studies, Brandeis University, 12-14 June 2017.
  • “Public emotions and security policy: reprisal raids and the question of revenge,” European Association for Israel Studies, London, 2-4 September, 2018
  • “Constructing a Sovereign Self Between Law and Vengeance,” International conference, Association for Israel Studies, Kinneret College, 24-26 June, 2019
  • “From Fear to Solidarity and Elation: Getting Ready for War in 1956”, International conference, European Association for Israel Studies, Charles University Prague, 8-10 September, 2019
  • Anger, Revenge and the sense of Justice in law and reprisal raids in Israel’s formative years; the 15th annual conference of the Israeli organization for history and law, 24 October, 2019
  • “Nikmat dam yeled katan: Children as the victims of terror in the 1970s,” the Annual conference of the Association for Israel Studies (International conference held on-line due to the pandemic) June 2021
  • “Having a European Identity in Mind,”, the German historical society annual conference (International conference held on-line due to the pandemic) October, 2021

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
  • 2014 School for Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford
  • 2014 Jewish Studies Seminar, Elie Wiesel Center, Boston University
  • 2014 Gender, Culture, Religion and the Law Seminar, Hadassah-Brandeis                           Institute, Brandeis University
  • 2015 Ben Gurion Institute, Ben Gurion University
  • 2015 Theodor Herzl Seminar, Masaryk University, Brno, the Czech Republic
  •  2016    Taub Center, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University
  • 2016    Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, Brandeis University
  • 2016    European University – Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)
  • 2017    University of Maryland – Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies 
  • 2020    Harvard University – Center for Jewish Studies 
  • 2020   Ben-Gurion Institute, Ben-Gurion 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 a member 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,  4 March 2014
  • Organizer of a conference on the status of Individuals and collectives in  Mandate Palestine and Israel: law and history - forthcoming 19 April, 2015
  • Member of the Organizing committee of the eleventh annual conference of the Israeli Organization of Law and History, 12 October 2015
  • Chair of the Organizing committee of the twelfth annual conference of the Israeli Organization of Law and History, forthcoming 2016
  • Organizer of a conference on Israeli Culture during the short 1960s, , 8 June 2016.

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
Post-Doctoral Fellowship
  • 2003 – Tel Aviv University, Rich Foundation Post Doctoral Fellowship
  • 2006-2009 – Tel Aviv University, Keshet Post Doctoral Fellowship (3 years)
Awards
  • 2009 Association for Israel Studies, Shapiro best book award 2009
  • 2018 Association for Jewish Studies, Finalist Jordan Schnitzer Book Award 
  • 2021 Zalman Shazar Center, The Yuval Heimann award for Innovative Research 
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
  • 2014 – Yaniv Foundation
  • 2014 – The Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, Brandeis University translation grant
  • 2014 – Gender, Culture, Religion and the Law, Hadassah Brandeis Institute translation grant 2014 – Dean of Humanities, Tel Aviv University
  • 2016 – 2018 Israel Science Foundation 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 second term) (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 – 2013 and currently – Israeli Historical Society
  • 2013 - and currently European Association for Israel Studies
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