Résumé

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