The Open University of Israel
Prof. Aviva Halamish

Prof. Aviva Halamish

Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies

Updated: March 2010

 

Personal

Tel: Office: 972-9-7781383; Mobile: 972-54-492-5572

Fax: 972-9-7781416

E-mail: avivaha@openu.ac.il

Born in Haifa, Israel
Mother of two

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Education

1973 B.A. (summa cum laude), History of Muslim Countries, History and History of the Jewish People, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
1976 M.A., Jewish History and Middle East Studies, Columbia University, New York
1982 High School Teaching Certificate, Department of Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
1996 Ph.D., Jewish History, Tel Aviv University
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Academic Appointments

2006 Associate Professor, Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies, The Open University of Israel
2004 Senior Lecturer, Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies, The Open University of Israel
2000 Senior Lecturer, Netanya Academic College
1996 Senior Instructor (after receiving Ph.D.), Tel Aviv University
1992 Instructor, Tel Aviv University
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Professional Experience

1982 – The Open University of Israel
1995 – 1996 Menashe College (affiliated with Tel Aviv University)
1997 – 1998 University of Haifa, teacher
1998 – 1999 Bar Ilan University, teacher
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Administrative and Other Academic Activities

1992 – 1997 Coordinator, BA program "Peoples, Religions and Cultures in Palestine Eretz Israel", The Open University
1997 – 1999 Coordinator, "Israel Studies", Tel Aviv University
1997 – Member, sub-committee for Humanities, The Open University
1998 – 2001 Member, Academic Board of the Institute for the Study of Zionism, Tel Aviv University
2000 – 2006 Member, Academic Board, Illegal Immigration Museum, Athlit
2003 – Member, Board of Overseers, Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem
2004 – 2009 Member, Executive Board, Academic Committee, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
2005 – Member, Board of Directors, Association for Israel Studies
2006 Member, Committee for the Accreditation of Prior Non-Academic Studies, The Open University
2006 – 2008 Member, Committee for Examining Teaching Matters, The Open University
2006 – 2009 Chair, Ministry of Education Committee for re-writing and updating History curricula for grades 6-9 in the general school system
2007 Member, Committee on limiting the length of studies toward a degree, The Open University
2007 – 2008 Head, Academic Development Unit, The Open University
2007 – Member, Academic Committee, The Open University
2007 – Member, Board of Directors, The Historical Society of Israel
2007 – 2009 Vice-President, Association for Israel Studies
2007 – Member, Academic Committee, Yad Yaari
2007 – Head, Modern History Studies, Dept. of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies, The Open University
2008 – Member, Ministry of Education Committee on History
2008 – Member, Open University Council
2008 – Member, Academic Committee, The Lavon Institute
2009 – Chair, Academic Committee, Yad Yaari
2009 – President, The Association for Israel Studies
2009 – Member, Executive Committee, The World Union of Jewish Studies
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Fields of Research

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Scholarships

1987 The Luba Datlow and Emma Rosenberg Ph.D. Fund, Tel Aviv University
1988 The Joseph and Ceil Mazer Post Doctoral Fellowship Fund, Tel Aviv University
1989 The Faculty of the Humanities, Tel Aviv University
1990 The Hannah and Zvi Brander Fund, The Institute for the Research of Zionism, Tel Aviv University
1991 The Rashi Fund for Distinguished Ph.D. Candidates, The Open University
1991 The David Ben-Gurion Fund for Research Promotion, General Federation of Labor
1991, 1992 Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York
1994 The Rothschild Yad Avi ha-Yishuv Fund
1999 Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York
2000 The Eisenstadt Scholarship, Lavon Institute, Tel Aviv
1999, 2000 Rivlin Institute, Bar Ilan University
2000 The Eisenstadt Scholarship, Lavon Institute, Tel Aviv
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Prizes

2007 The Association for Israel Studies Annual Shapiro Award for Best Book in Israel Studies during the year 2006, for the book: Be'merutz Kaful Neged Hazman [A Dual Race Against Time: Zionist Immigration Policy in the 1930s] (Yad Ben Zvi).
2008 Hecht Prize of the Herzl Institute for the Research and Study of Zionism, University of Haifa, for a research book in History of Zionism, the Yishuv and the State of Israel, for the book: Be'merutz Kaful Neged Hazman [A Dual Race Against Time: Zionist Immigration Policy in the 1930s] (Yad Ben Zvi).
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Sponsored Research

1984 – 1987 The Inter-University Project for the Research of Illegal Immigration in Honor of Shaul Avigur; Illegal Immigration Ship "Exodus 1947"
2001 – 2004 Yad Ya'ari, The Center for Research and Documentation of HaShomer HaTzair Movement and of the Kibbutz Artzi Federation: Biography of Me'ir Ya'ari
2009 – 2010 Yad Chaim Weizmann of the Weizmann Institute of Science and The Weizmann Institute for the Research of Zionism and Israel at Tel Aviv University: "Weizmann and Immigration"
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Membership on Editorial Boards

1998 – 2001 Member, Editorial Board, Ha-Tzyonut
1998 – 2001 Member, Editorial Board, The Journal of Israeli History
2002 – Member, Editorial Board, Aley Zayit ve-Herev
2003 – Co-editor, Cathedra for the History of Eretz Israel and its Yishuv
2005 – Member, Editorial Board, Iyunim Bitkumat Israel
2003 – Member, Editorial Board, Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi Press
2005 – Member, Editorial Board, Ben Gurion Institute for the Research of Israel and Zionism Press
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Membership in Professional Societies

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Visiting Scholar

Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University, August 2005-February 2006

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Teaching

The Open University
1986 – 1991 "Jerusalem throughout the Ages," Coordinator and instructor
2001 – 2005 "From National Home to a State in the Making: The Jewish Community in Palestine between the World Wars," Coordinator and instructor
Tel Aviv University
1987 – 1999, 2007 Courses in the history of the Yishuv and Israel
Menashe College (affiliated with Tel Aviv University)
1996 Courses in the history of Palestine Eretz Yisrael
University of Haifa
1998 MA course on Jewish Immigration
Bar Ilan University
1999 BA and MA courses in Jewish history and history of Palestine
Netanya Academic College
2001 – 2005 History courses in the school for communication studies
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Other Professional Activities

Co-supervisor, doctoral dissertations
University of Haifa (3); Bar Ilan University (1)

Referee, MA Theses and PhD Dissertations and Proposals
Tel Aviv University, Ben Gurion University, Bar Ilan University, University of Haifa, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Referee, Research Proposals
The National Foundation for Jewish Culture: Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships in Jewish Studies, 2007; German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development, 2009; Israel Science Foundation, 2009

Referee, Prize Committee
Auschwitz Foundation Prizes, 2008

Member, Academic Committee
15th World Congress of Jewish Studies, 2007-2009

Member, Ephraim E. Urbach Post-Doctoral International Fellowship for Jewish Studies
The Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture in cooperation with the World Union of Jewish Studies, 2009

Member, Prize Committees
The Goldhirsh Prize for Outstanding MA Thesis in Holocaust Studies, Ben-Gurion University (2005); KKL Prize Committees for Doctoral Dissertations (2005, 2006 and 2007); The Shimon Ben Shemesh Prize, KKL (2006)

Referee of books
Yad Ben Zvi, The Center for Ben-Gurion Heritage, Yad Tabenkin, Israel State Archive, Ha-Kibbutz ha-Meuchad

Referee of articles
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Cathedra, Ha-Tziyonut, Israel, Iyunim bi'Tekumat Israel, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Pe'amim, Studies in Zionism, The Journal of Israeli History, Zmanim, Israel Studies Forum, Dor l'Dor, Zion

Miscellaneous
Academic advisor on junior high and high school textbooks; Lectures in study series of Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi and Zalman Shazar Center; History courses in Machon Avshalom; Series of academic lectures in Akademia b'Alef, Israel Broadcasting Authority; Member, Academic Committee of the Eretz-Yisrael Museum, Tel Aviv, 2003-2009; Member, Committee, Nahum Sokoloff Prize for Electronic Media, 2006; Member, Book Prize Committee, Tel Aviv Centennial Celebration, 2008

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