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Itamar Radai July 2018
CURRICULUM VITAE
1. Personal Details
Permanent Home Address: 21 Kubovy Street, Jerusalem 9675733 Israel.
Home Telephone Number: 972-2-6421704
Office Telephone Number: 972-3-6406438
Cellular Phone: 972-54-5485580
Electronic Address: [email protected]
2. Higher Education
A. Undergraduate and Graduate Studies .
Year of Approval of
Degree
Degree Name of Institution
and Department
Period of
Study
1999 BA Hebrew University
of Jerusalem,
Islamic and Middle
Eastern Studies,
History
1996-1999
2002 MA Hebrew University,
History
1999-2002
2010
(Approved without
corrections)
PhD Hebrew University 2003-2009
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B. Post-Doctoral Studies
Year of Completion Degree Name of
Institution,
Department and
Host
Period of
Study
2010 Hebrew University,
Harry S. Truman
Institute, Prof.
Steven Kaplan
(academic director)
Academic year
2009-2010
2011 New York
University (NYU),
Taub Center for
Israel Studies, Prof.
Ronald Zweig,
Director
Academic year
2010-2011
2012 Hebrew University,
Harry S. Truman
Institute, Prof.
Steven Kaplan
Academic year
2011-2012
3. Academic Ranks and Tenure in Institutes of Higher Education
Rank/Position Name of Institution and
Department
Dates
Post-Doctoral Fellow
(visiting faculty)
NYU, Department of Hebrew
and Judaic Studies, Taub
Center for Israel Studies
Academic year 2010-
2011
Teaching Fellow University of Haifa,
Department of Israel Studies
2011 -
Teaching Fellow Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, School of History/
Rothberg School of Overseas
Students
2011-
Teaching Fellow Tel-Aviv University,
Department of Middle Eastern
and African History
2013 -2015
Adjunct Lecturer NYU, Tel Aviv Campus 2013 -2017
Research Fellow
(visiting faculty)
NYU, Department of Hebrew
and Judaic Studies, Taub
Center for Israel Studies
2017-2019
(Second year to be in
residence)
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4. Offices in University Academic Administration
Since January 2014 - Academic Director, Konrad Adenauer Program for Jewish-Arab
Cooperation at the Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel-Aviv
University.
5. Scholarly Positions and Activities outside the University
Membership in professional associations:
Middle East and Islamic Studies Association of Israel (MEISAI): since 2005.
Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA): since 2007.
Association for Israel Studies (AIS): since 2008.
British Society of Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES): since 2014.
Editorial work:
Bayan: the Arabs in Israel, academic newsletter on contemporary politics and society of
the Arab citizens in Israel, Konrad Adenauer Program, Dayan Center, Tel Aviv
University (with Arik Rudnitzky, since May 2014).
‘Aley Zait Vacherev: Studies in the security of the Yishuv and the state of Israel, guest
editor, vol. 13, 2014, Jerusalem: Studies in the Struggle for Jerusalem in the War of
Independence. (with Nir Mann, resident editor).
Kamal Moed, Khalil al-Sakakini, Educational Biography, Ben Gurion Institute Press –
academic editor.
Membership in Academic committees:
‘Aley Zait Vacherev (since 2013).
Referee for Academic Journals/ Press Houses
British Journal of Middle East Studies
Cathedra
Hamizrach Hechadash
History and Memory
Israel
Iyunim
Journal of Contemporary History
Journal of Israeli History
Journal of Levantine Studies
Journal of Modern Jewish Studies
Public Administration
Teoriya Ubikoret
War in History
Ben Gurion Institute Press, Sde Boker, Ben Gurion University
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Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi Academic Press
Israel Science Foundation (ISF)
6. Participation in Scholarly Conferences
a. Active Participation
Role Subject of
Lecture/Discussion
Place of
Conference
Name of
Conference
Date
Presenter The Collapse of the
Palestinian Middle
Class in 1948: the Case
of Qatamon
Montreal,
Quebec
Middle East
Studies
Association
(MESA)
annual
meeting
18/11/2007
Presenter Qatamon, 1948: the fall
of a Neighborhood, the
collapse of a Society
New York
University
(NYU)
Association
for Israel
Studies (AIS)
annual
meeting
19/5/2008
Presenter The Palestinian Middle
Class under the
Mandate
Washington,
DC
MESA annual
meeting
23/11/2008
Presenter;
Panel chair
A Tale of Two Cities:
The Palestinians in
Jerusalem and Jaffa,
1947-1948
University of
Toronto
AIS annual
meeting
12/5/2010
Presenter
A Tale of Two Cities:
The Palestinians in
Jerusalem and Jaffa,
1947-1948
San Diego,
California
MESA annual
meeting
21/10/2010
Presenter and
panel
organizer
A Story of a Defeat
Foretold? Palestinian
Arab Jerusalem in 1948
University of
California in
Los Angeles
(UCLA)
AIS annual
meeting
24/6/2013
Presenter Palestinian Arab
Jerusalem in 1948
New Orleans,
Louisiana
MESA
annual
meeting
11/10/2013
Presenter A Bourgeois Society under Colonial Rule: The Palestinian Arab Middle Class under the Mandate
University of
Sussex, UK
British
Society of
Middle
Eastern
Studies
(BRISMES)
annual
meeting
18/6/2014
Presenter and Current Arab Socio- Concordia AIS annual 1/6/2015
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panel
organizer
Political Trends in Israel University,
Montreal,
Quebec
meeting
Presenter Jaffa, Bride of the Sea? University of
Wales -
Trinity St.
David,
Lampeter, UK
BRISMES
annual
meeting
15/7/2016
Presenter Jaffa, Bride of the Sea School of
Oriental and
African
Studies
(SOAS),
University of
London
European
Association of
Israel Studies
(EAIS) annual
meeting
5/9/2016
Presenter Jaffa, Bride of the Sea? University of
Malta,
Valletta,
Malta
Mediterranean
Studies
Association
(MSA) annual
meeting
2/6/2017
Presenter Al-Madaniyyat: an alternative civil agenda for the Arab Minority in Israel?
Brandeis
University,
Waltham,
Massachusets
AIS annual
meeting
12/6/2017
Presenter Al-Madaniyyat: an alternative civil agenda for the Arab Minority in Israel?
Washington,
DC
MESA annual
meeting
20/11/2017
b. Organization of Conferences or Sessions
Main conferences organized as academic director of the Adenauer program (not
including meetings, workshops, and lectures for public audience). All conferences were
organized together with Mr. Arik Rudnitzky, Project Manager of the Adenauer
Program.
Role Subject of
Conference/
Role at
Conference/
Comments
Place of
Conference
Name of
Conference
Date
Organizer Annual
Conference held
by the Adenauer
Program
Tel Aviv
University
The Arabs in
Israel: A New
Political
Agenda?
1/5/2014
Organizer Annual
Conference held
by the Adenauer
Tel Aviv
University
Arab Politics in
Israel and the
Elections to the
10/3/2015
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Program 20th
Knesset
Organizer Festive
Conference held
by the Adenauer
Program marking
its 20th
anniversary
Tel Aviv
University
Jewish-Arab
Relations in
Israel Tested by
Time and
Reality
22/3/2016
Organizer Annual
Conference held
by the Adenauer
Program
Tel Aviv
University
Arabs Youth in
Israel: Social,
Cultural, and
Political
Aspects
24/11/2016
Organizer Annual
Conference held
by the Adenauer
Program
Tel Aviv
University
Citizenship,
Identity, and
Political
Participation:
Measuring the
Attitudes of the
Arab Public in
Israel
27/9/2017
7. Invited Lectures
Presentation/Comments Name of
Forum
Place of Lecture Date
The Rise and Fall of the
Palestinian Arab Middle
Class in Jerusalem under
the Mandate
Innovations in
the study of
Jerusalem – a
conference
Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi,
Jerusalem
31/10/2013
Comments A Tale of Two
Cities: The
Palestinian
Arabs in
Jerusalem and
Jaffa, 1947 –
1948 – Book
Launch
Tel Aviv University 18/2/2015
Comments A Tale of Two
Cities: The
Palestinian
Arabs in
Jerusalem and
Jaffa, 1947 –
1948 – Book
Launch
University of Haifa 8/6/2015
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Bourgeois Society Under
Colonial Rule: The
Palestinian Arab Middle
Class, 1920 - 1939
Colonial
Encounters:
Administration,
Society, and
Culture Under
the Mandate
University of Haifa 3/4/2016
Jews, Muslims, and
Christians Under the
Mandate
Jews and Arabs
in Mixed Cities
– Past and
Present
Tel Aviv University 29/5/2016
Khalil al-Sakakini:
Political Heritage as an
Educator
Pedagogies of
Separation:
Jewish and Arab
Education
Under the
Mandate
The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem
23/6/2016
Transformation and
Borders: The Palestinian-
Arab Southern Suburbs
of Jerusalem, 1947 -
1949
Cross Border
Ethno Histories
in East and
West Asia
Tel Hai Academic College 6/3/2017
UNGA Partition
Resolution: The
Palestinian Arab
Perspective
Balfour,
Partition, and
the Six-Day
War: Critical
Turning Points
in Israeli
History
New York University 12/11/2017
Book event Palestinians in
Jerusalem and
Jaffa, 1948
New York University 16/11/2017
8. Colloquium Talks
Presentation/Comments Name of Forum Place of Lecture Date
Palestinian Arab Society
in Jaffa, 1947-1948
Gabriel Baer
Forum, MEISAI
Tel-Aviv University 18/5/2012
The Palestinian Arab
Middle Class in
Jerusalem under the
Mandate
Jerusalem
Researchers
Forum
Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi,
Jerusalem
May
2013
Socio-cultural history of Sede Boqer Ben Gurion Institute, Sede 4/3/2014
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the Palestinians under the
Mandate
Forum Boqer.
The Palestinian National Identity of the Arab Minority in Israel
Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel Young Researchers Colloquium
Ein Harod July 2014
The Palestinian Arab Middle Class under the Mandate
Department of Middle East History
University of Haifa 20/1/2015
The British Rule from a Muslim Perspective
Mandate Forum Tel Aviv University 2/12/2015
The Palestinian Arab Revolt, 1936 – 1939: A Reappraisal
Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel Young Researchers Colloquium
Ein Harod July 2016
9. Scholarships, Awards and Prizes
2007: Karmon Dissertation Prize, Leonard Davies Institute, Hebrew University of
Jerusalem.
2008: Grunstein Dissertation Prize, Faculty of Humanities, Hebrew University of
Jerusalem. 2009 – 2010: The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of
Peace, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Post-Doctoral Fellowship.
2010: AIS Travel Grant.
2010 – 2011: Taub Center for Israel Studies, NYU: Schusterman Post-Doctoral
Fellowship; Research and Travel Grant, $2000; Translation Award.
2011 - 2012: Truman Institute, Hebrew University, Post-Doctoral Fellowship.
2011 – 2013: Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem Researchers Award.
2013: Truman Institute, Editing Award, $1500; AIS Travel Gran.
2016: Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi Prize for Studies on Jerusalem, for the book
Palestinians in Jerusalem and Jaffa, 1948 (Hebrew edition).
2017-2019: Taub Center for Israel Studies, NYU: Research Fellowship.
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10. Teaching
a. Courses Taught in Recent Years
Number of
Students
Degree
Type of Course
Lecture/Seminar/
Workshop/High Learn Course/
Introduction Course (Mandatory)
Name of Course Year
35-45 BA Introduction Course (Mandatory),
School of History, Hebrew
University of Jerusalem
Introduction to
Historical Thought
2008 -
2013
12 BA Lecture, NYU The War of 1948 2011
14 - 35 BA,
MA
Lecture/ seminar, Department of
Israel Studies, University of Haifa
The Palestinian
Arabs under the
Mandate
2011 -
2012 ,
2013 –
2014,
2015
2018
15-20 BA Seminar, Department of Israel
Studies, University of Haifa
The Palestinians in
the 20th
Century
2012 ,
2012-
2013
18 MA,
PhD
Seminar, School of Overseas
Students, Graduates Division,
Program of Middle East Studies,
Hebrew University
1948: The War of
the Historians
2012-
2013
33-20 MA,
PhD
Seminar, School of Overseas
Students, Graduates Division,
Program of Middle East Studies,
Hebrew University
The Palestinian
Arabs under the
Mandate
2013-
2014
2015-
2016
2016-
2017
2018
19 BA Lecture, Department of Middle
Eastern and African History, Tel-
Aviv University
The Palestinian
Arab Minority in
Israel
2013-
2014
9, 20 MA Seminar, Department of Land of
Israel Studies, University of Haifa
The Arab Minority
in Israel
2014 ,
2015
70 MA Department of Middle Eastern and
African History, Tel-Aviv
University, Seniors MA Program
The Palestinians in
the 20th
Century
2014
8-12 BA Lecture, NYU Tel-Aviv The Israeli-Arab
Conflict
2013-
2015
15-20 MA Seminar, MA in Midlle Eastern
Studies (MAMES) Program, Tel
Aviv university
History and
historiography of
the Israeli-Arab
Conflict/ Selected
2015,
2017-
2018
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topics in Middle
East Studies
PUBLICATIONS
A. Ph.D. Dissertation
1. Itamar Radai, A Tale of Two Cities: Palestinian Arab Society, Institutions,
and Fighters in Jerusalem and Jaffa. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
(2010: Hebrew, 274 pp.) Supervisors: Prof. Alon Kadish, Prof. Moshe
Ma‘oz (see also B1, B1a).
B. Scientific Books (Refereed)
Authored Books - Published
1. Itamar Radai, Palestinians in Jerusalem and Jaffa, 1948: A Tale of Two
Cities (London and New York: Routledge, 2016, 212 pp).
1a. Itamar Radai, A Tale of Two Cities: The Palestinians in Jerusalem and
Jaffa, 1947-1948, (Tel Aviv: Dayan Center for the Study of the Middle East and
Africa, and the Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel, Tel
Aviv University, 2015. Hebrew, 302 pp).
2. Itamar Radai, The Third Battalion: The 'Galilee Battalion' of the Yiftach
Palmach Brigade in the Israeli War of Independence (Tel Aviv: Yehuda
Dekel Publishers and the Council for Heritage Sites in Israel, 2014. Hebrew,
260 pp.).
Edited Books and Special Journal Issues – Published
1. Nir Mann (editor), Itamar Radai (guest editor), Jerusalem: Studies in the
Struggle for Jerusalem at the War for Independence, ‘Aley Zait Vacherev
Series, vol. 13. (Jerusalem: Carmel, 2013. Hebrew, 357 pp).
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C. Articles in Refereed Journals
Published
1. Itamar Radai, "The Collapse of the Palestinian-Arab Middle Class in 1948:
the Case of Qatamon", Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 43, no. 6, November
2007 (961-982). Impact factor 0.208; Ranking 56/69; Citations per article 15.
1a. Itamar Radai, "Qatamon, 1948: The Fall of a Neighborhood",
Jerusalem Quarterly, Issue 46, summer 2011 (6-14).
2. Itamar Radai, "Jaffa, 1948: the fall of a City", Journal of Israeli History,
vol. 30, no. 1, March 2011 (23-43). Impact factor 0.125; Ranking 43/69;
Citations per article 14.
3. Itamar Radai, "The Rise and Fall of the Palestinian Arab Middle Class
under the Mandate, 1920-1939", Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 51,
no. 3, July 2016 (487–506). Impact factor 0.527; Ranking 23/87 in History
(see also D5).
4. Itamar Radai, "‘Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni: a Palestinian Commander in the
1948 War", Nir Mann (editor), Itamar Radai (guest editor), Jerusalem:
Studies in the Struggle for Jerusalem at the War for Independence, ‘Aley
Zait Vacherev Series, vol. 13. (Jerusalem: Carmel, 2013. 213-254, Hebrew).
5. Itamar Radai, "Arab Irregular Forces in the Battle for Jerusalem, Late April
– Late May 1948", Assnat Shiran (ed.), Jews and Arabs in a Protracted
Struggle, Aley Zayit Vacherev, vol. 6, 2006 (55-98, Hebrew).
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D. Articles or Chapters in Scientific Books
(Which are not Conference Proceedings)
Published
1. Itamar Radai, "The Collapse and Exodus of the Palestinian Middle Class:
Qatamon as a Case Study", Mordechai Bar-On and Meir Chazan (eds.),
Citizens at War: Studies on the Civilian Society during the Israeli War of
Independence, Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Zvi and Tel Aviv University, 2006 (339-
372, Hebrew). See also D1.
2a. Itamar Radai, "The Last Days of Arab Qatamon", Alon Kadish and
Moshe Ehrnwald, The Yevusi Battles, Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defense, 2008
(99-143, Hebrew).
2. Itamar Radai, "Between the Hammer and the Anvil: The Collapse of the
Palestinian Society in Jaffa in 1948, and the Fall of the City", Mordechai
Bar-On and Meir Chazan (eds.), Citizens at War: Studies on the Civilian
Society during the Israeli War of Independence, Part II, Jerusalem: Yad Ben-
Zvi and Tel Aviv University, 2009 (120-149, Hebrew).
3. Itamar Radai, "Bourgeois Arab Society in Jerusalem under British Colonial
Rule", Avi Bareli (ed.), Iyunim Bitkumat Israel, 25 (Sede Boqer: Ben Gurion
Research Institute, 2015, 467-487, Hebrew).
4. Itamar Radai, "From Sadat's visit to the Intifada: The Palestinians under
Israel, 1977-1987", Yechiam Weitz, Zvi Zameret (eds.), Israel, the Fourth
Decade (Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Zvi, 2016, 359-376, Hebrew).
5. Itamar Radai, "Jaffa, 1948: Fighting, Institutions, and Society from the
Partition Resolution (1947) to the Entry of the Arab Liberation Army
(February 1948), Alon Kadish (ed.), 1948 and After: War, the Military
and Society – The Jerusalem School (Ben Shemen: Modan, 2016, 48-93,
Hebrew).
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E. Other Scientific Publications
Published Book Reviews
1. Itamar Radai, "Sandy Sufian and Mark LeVine (eds.), Reapproaching
Borders: New Perspectives on the Study of Israel-Palestine", Israel Studies
Forum, vol. 25, no. 1, summer 2010.
2. Itamar Radai, "Akram Musallam (ed.), Diaries of Khalil al-Sakakini, Vol.8,
1942 – 1952: The Exodus from Qatamon", Middle East Journal, vol. 65, no.
3, summer 2011.
3. Itamar Radai, "Hillel Cohen, The Rise and Fall of Arab Jerusalem:
Palestinian Politics and the City since 1967", Middle East Journal, vol. 66,
no. 3, Summer 2012.
4. Itamar Radai, "Avi Raz, The Bride and the Dowry: Israel, Jordan, and the
Palestinians in the Aftermath of the June 1967 war", Journal of Israeli
History, 34:2, 2015, 227-230.
5. Itamar Radai, "Menachem Klein, Lives in Common: Arabs and Jews in
Jerusalem, Jaffa, and Hebron", Middle East Journal, Summer 2016, 489-
491.
6. Itamar Radai, "Sherene Seikaly, Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in
Mandate Palestine", Review of Middle East Studies, Vol. 52, No. 1 (2018),
230-233.
7. Itamar Radai, "Abigail Jacobson and Moshe Naor, Oriental Neighbors:
Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine", Bustan: The
Middle East Book Review, Vol. 9, No. 1 (2018), 57-60.
Published Review Articles
8. Itamar Radai, "Indeed a Kings game? Response to Ronen Yitzhak, 'The
Kings game: The 1948 War as a Competition between Kings 'Abdallah and
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Faruq for Hegemony in the Arab World"', Assnat Shiran (ed.), A War – Sixty
Years After,‘Aley Zayit Vacherev, vol. 8, 2008 (292-301, Hebrew).
4a. Itamar Radai, "Another response to the Kings Game", Nir Mann (ed.),
"Woman of Valor", ‘Aley Zayit Vacherev, vol. 10, 2010 (305-309, Hebrew).
Published Annotated Sources
9. "War in the Old City: The Diaries of Constantin Mavrides, May 15 –
December 30, 1948" Translated: Yoram Sharett, Edited and Annotated:
Itamar Radai, in Nir Mann and Itamar Radai (eds.), Jerusalem: Studies in
the Struggle for Jerusalem in the War of Independence, (Jerusalem: Carmel,
2013), 319-337, Hebrew.