Amir Goldstein November 2017

CURRICULUM VITAE and LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Personal Details Place of work: Tel-Hai College. Home address: 43 Derekh Hahamaniyot, Sde Nehemya, 12145

Phone Number: mobile +972 (0) 543911157 tel. +972 (0) 4 8181540 E-mail: [email protected]

Higher Education B. A.: 1992-1998 Haifa University (including the Tel-Hai campus), programs for honors students (Ofakim) and Department of Israel Studies. Award of degree: June 1999 (with honors)

M. A.: Haifa University. Department of Land of Israel Studies. Award of degree: June 2004 (Dean’s Honor List). Ph. D.: Haifa University, Department of Land of Israel Studies. Award of degree: May 2006. Ph.D. thesis: Gahal between crisis and legitimation: The liberal Herut bloc, 1965-1969. Supervised by prof. Yechiam Weitz.

Roles in the department, faculty or college Appointments o Senior lecturer: October 2013 to present, Galilee Studies M.A., Departments of Education and Multidisciplinary Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences and the Humanities, Tel-Hai College.

o Dean of Students: October 2014, Tel-Hai College.

Teaching: o The history of education (BA)

o Educational issues in Israel (BA)

o Methodology in history studies (BA)

1 o The history of the Zionist movement (BA)

o A History of Zionism and the Creation of Israel (BA)

o Menachem Begin and the right wing in the State of Israel: From the Etsel to the “Reversal” (BA)

o Research seminar in human and community services in the periphery (BA)

o Changes in the social history of a region: The test case of Kiryat Shmona (MA) (Department of Galilee Studies)

o From Khalsa to Kiryat Shmona: A broad view of local history (Research seminar, MA).

o Galilean Zionist myths (Research seminar, MA).

o Collective Memory and Education in Israel (Research seminar, BA).

List of publications: Articles in refereed journals:

1. Goldstein, A. (2011). We have a rendezvous with destiny: The rise and fall of the Liberal alternative. Israel Studies, 16(1), 26-52. 2. Goldstein, A. (2015). Crisis and development in Menachem Begin’s path to power. Israel Studies, 20(1), 110-134. 3. Goldstein, A. (2015). 'Olei Hagardom – from institutional to collective memory', Journal of Israeli History, 34/2 (September 2015), pp. 159-180 4. Goldstein, A. (2016). 'The Kibbutz and the transit-camp (Maabara), the case of Kiryat Shmona', Journal of Israeli History, 35/1 (March 2016), 17-37 5. A. Goldstein, The Kibbutz and the Development Town: The Economic Dimension of their Reciprocal Relations - The Case of the Hula Valley, Israel Studies, 22, 2 (Summer 2017), 96-120. 6. A. Goldstein, 'Menachem Begin and Gahal During the Waiting Period', Israel Affairs (Summer 2017), 1-27. 7. A. Goldstein, 'Menachem Begin and The establishment of the Likud party', Middle Eastern Studies, 53,6 (2017), 915 – 933. 8. A. Goldstein, 'Partial Establishment – Menachem Begin, Gahal and The Black Panthers', Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 17, 1 (2017), 1-16.

2 9. A. Goldstein, 'Surprising Alliance in the 1960s: Haaretz, Menachem Begin and the Alternative Rule', Israel Affairs (forthcoming). 10. *A. Goldstein, 'The End of Evolutionary Zionism – Jabotinsky and the Ukrainian Pogroms', Modern Judaism (forthcoming). 11. A. Goldstein, 'The Establishment of the Likud in 1973 and the Struggle for the Identity of the Alternative Party in Israel', Israel Studies Review (forthcoming). 12. Goldstein, 'Who Represented the Israeli Middle Class? The Crystallization of the General Zionists from 1948 to 1949', Middle Eastern Studies (forthcoming).

Hebrew Publications

A. Books: 1. Goldstein, A. (2011). Heroism and exclusion: Olei hagardom and the Zionist memory. Yad Ben-Zvi Publishers and Jabotinsky Institute. 2. Goldstein, A. (2015). Zionism and Anti-Semitism in the thought and action of Ze’ev Jabotinksy. Ben-Gurion University Press and Jabotinsky Institute.

B. Articles in refereed journals:

1. Goldstein, A. (2006). Shlomo Ben-Yosef and realization of the Revisionist legend of the gallows. Tsiyon, 72, 63-90. 2. Goldstein, A. (2006). The “General Zionists”: The liberal alternative and its failure, 1959-1961. Iyunim Bitkumat Israel, 16, 293-342. 3. Goldstein, A. (2007). The big breakthrough: Menachem Begin and the “waiting period.” Iyunim Bitkumat Israel, 17, 345-380. 4. Goldstein, A. (2007). Menachem Begin, the Herut movement, and the Mizrahi protest: Between Wadi Salib and the Black Panthers. Israel, 12, 1-38. 5. Goldstein, A. (2008). Menachem Begin and the idea of the whole Land of Israel until the Six-Day War. Cathedra, 126, 103-125. 6. Goldstein, A. (2015). Man of the 'Shomer' and the Yemenites from Halsa: What brought an end to Eliezer Karol's mission in Kiryat Shemona? . Iyunim Bitkumat Israel 25, 151-178.

3 7. Goldstein, A. (2015). Olei Hagardom – from official memory to popular memory. Aley Zayit Vaherev 15, 115-150. 8. Goldstein, A. (2015). Haaretz Newspaper, Menachem Begin and the Ruling Alternative. Cathedra 158, 151-180 9. Abbasi M. and Goldstein, A. (2016) A Leadership in stormy times: Kamal Hussein from Khalsa and the struggle for hegemony in the Huleh Valley during the Mandate. The Journal of Israeli History: Politics, Society, Culture 24,241- 267

10. Goldstein A, (2017) The pathway to the Likud of 1973: From a party that Menachem Begin did not wish to create to the political home of the new Israeli identity, Iyunim Bitkumat Israel, Thematic Collection 11, 130-158. 11. Goldstein A (2017), Moderation, Legitimacy and Leverage: Menachem Begin during the Six-Day War, Cathedra 163, 131-162. 12. Goldstein, A. Distant neighbors: Kfar Giladi and Kiryat Shmona 1949-2015, Ofakim Begeografia, 91 (2017), 109 – 133.

5. Refereed book chapters 13. Goldstein, A. (2008). Akko prison: Memorialization, memory, politics. In Y. Markovitzki (Ed.), The rebels: The struggle of the Etsel against the British 1944- 1947 – A renewed discussion (pp. 296-323). Jerusalem and Haifa. 14. Goldstein, A. (2008). The Zionist right wing in the third decade: The path to the “reversal”, In Z. Zameret & H. Yablonka (Eds.), The third decade, 1968-1978 (pp. 232-339). Jerusalem. 15. Goldstein, A. (2011). Crisis and growth in Menachem Begin’s path to the Israeli political center. In A. Diskin (Ed.), From Altalena to the present day: The history of the movement – From Herut to Likud (pp. 116-148). Jerusalem: Carmel Publishers and Menachem Begin Heritage Center. 16. Goldstein, A. (2012). General Zionism, the civil society camp and the Liberal democratic issue. In M. Lissak, A. Gal, P. Morag Talmon, & G. Bakon (Eds.), The democratic way (pp. 324-363). Sde Boker: Ben Gurion Research Institute.

4 17. Goldstein, A. (2014). From a pressure group to a political party: The civilian and General Zionist groups in the transition from the yishuv to the state. In Bar-On, M. & M. Hazan (Eds.). Politics in the War of Independence. Yad Ben-Zvi, Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel at Tel-Aviv University and the Association for Research of the Defense Force from its Foundation by Israel Galili. Jerusalem. 18. Goldstein, A. 'The Kibbutz and the town, the case of Kiryat Shmona', Essays in Honor of zeev tzahor, edited by Anita Shapira and Dvora Hacohen, Am Oved and Sapir Academic College 2017. 274 - 314.

6. Book reviews and Introductions 1. Goldstein, A. (2009). The ancient sin against the periphery. Review of Z. Zameret, A. Halamish, & E. Meir-Galitsenstein (Eds.), Development towns, New Directions, A Periodical on Matters of Zionism, Judaism, Policy, Society and Culture, 21, 256-260. 2. Goldstein, A. (2016). The Revisionist movement between the Holocaust and the state. A review of E. Stein Ashkenazy, Sworn to erase the Diaspora: The Revisionist movement from the end of the Second World War to the establishment of the state, Cathedra 159, 200-204. 3. Goldstein, A and Arye Naor. (2017). Make your history with your own hands: The young Jabotinsky's view on the state of the Jewish nation: (Introduction), Ze'ev Jabotinsky's articles, 1, 9-56. 4. Goldstein, A and Arye Naor. (2017). Jabotinsky's view of Jewish nation until World War I. Ze'ev Jabotinsky's articles, 2, 9 – 41.

7. Editing: 1. Naor A. (editor) & Goldstein, A. (deputy editor) (2017). Jabotinsky's Articles, the state of the nation, 1, Jabotinsky Institute. 2. Naor A. (editor) & Goldstein, A. (deputy editor) (2017). Jabotinsky's Articles, the state of the nation, 2, Jabotinsky Institute.

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3. Non-refereed articles 1. Goldstein, A. (2006). When Ehud Olmert, 21, called for Menachem Begin’s resignation. Ha’uma, 165, 130-139. 2. Goldstein, A. (2008). To live in the periphery and feel in the center. Panim, 42, 56-62. 3. Goldstein, A. (2010). Menachem Begin, the Herut movement, and the Mizrahi protest: The Wadi Salib riots and their lessons http://in.bgu.ac.il/bgi/past_events/amir_goldstein.pdf 4. Goldstein, A. (2013). Abba Ahimeir and the creation of the legend of maximalist heroism. In Y. Ahimeir (Ed.) Aba Ahimeir and revolutionary Zionism (pp. 47-59). Tel-Aviv: Jabotinsky Institute. 5. Goldstein, A. (2013). Literature, politics and memory: Jubilee of the appearance of Bakolar Ehad. Ha’uma, 189, 50-59. 6. Goldstein, A (2013). "Jewish nation" - Zionist document. Ha’uma, 192, 7-16 7. Goldstein, A. (2014). Trumpeldor myth Betar during the thirties of the twentieth century. Ha’uma, 195, 78-87. 8. Goldstein, A. (2015). Jabotinsky's positive attitude towards the Gentiles as a cornerstone in the Revisionist outlook', Ha’uma, 198, 31- 38. 9. Goldstein, A. (2015). The upheaval that preceded the upheaval: The Reburial of The assassins of Lord Moyn, Ha’uma, 200, 130-144. 10. Goldstein, A. (2016), Ze'ev Jabotinsky Between Utopia and realism, Ha’uma, 202, 47-56. 11. Goldstein, A. (2017), Between history and politics: the book that caused a government crisis, Ha’uma, 202, 60-67.

Active Participation in Scholarly Conferences (last years) o August 2009. The World Congress for Judaism Studies, The World Union of Jewish Sciences, Hebrew University Jerusalem: Menachem Begin between ideology and politics: His way from Etsel commander to prime minister.

6 o May 2011. David Raziel and the First Decade of Etsel, The Chaim Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel and the Jabotinsky Institute, Tel- Aviv University: Shlomo Ben-Yosef and shaping the gallows heroism in the Revisionist movement.

o March 2012. The Herut Movement 1948-1988, The Chaim Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel and the Menachem Begin Heritage Center, Tel-Aviv University: Begin on the way to the reversal: Ideology and politics.

o June 2012. Jabotinsky and His Students: The Land of Israel and the Arab Question, The Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research and the Jabotinsky Institute, Tel-Aviv University: Menachem Begin and the whole Land of Israel: The Revisionist principle and pragmatism in the Opposition days.

o March 2013. Yad Vashem and the Jabotinsky Institute, 70th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising – The Battle of the Jewish Military Organization and Beitar, Yad Vashem (Wolyn Branch, Givatayim): The place of anti-Semitism in the Zionist thinking of Zeev Jabotinsky in the Twenties.

o April 2013. Galilee Research Conference, Tel-Hai College: The development of reciprocal relations between the Kiryat Shemona immigrant transit camp and the Upper Galilee kibbutzim – Early years.

o June 2013. Politics During War: Civil Society During the War of Independence, Yad Ben Zvi Research Institute and the Chaim Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel, Tel-Aviv University: Who represents the middle class? “The general Zionists” in transition from the yishuv to the state.

o April 2014. Galilee Research Conference, Tel-Hai College: What brought an end to Eliezer Karol's mission in Kiryat Shemona? o June 2014. Zeev Jabotinsky and The Betar Movement, the Chaim Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel and the Jabotinsky Institute, Tel-Aviv University: The Trumpeldor myth and Betar movement. o June 2014. Association for Israel Studies Conference, Sede-Boqer Campus, June 23-25 2014: Menachem Begin, the Herut Movement, and the Black Panthers' Protest.

7 o September 2014, London, European Association for Israel Studies (EAIS), EAIS 3rd Annual Conference on Israel Studies, Menachem Begin's semi-establishment strategy during the Black Panthers' Protest. o April 2015. Galilee Research Conference, Tel-Hai College: A Microhistory of a Segmented market. o May 2015, Telhai, From Port Arthur to Tel-Hai: Joseph Trumpeldor and Japan, 'An Obsolete Hero: The radical Beitarists attitude to the myth of Trumpeldor'. o June 2015, Montreal, Association for Israel Studies Annual Conference, Concordia University, 'A surprising alliance in the 1960s: Haaretz newspaper, Menachem Begin and the ruling alternative'. o June 2015, Telhai, United Kingdom in the Upper Galilee - From local to Imperial, The Israeli Research Forum for the Study of Mandatory Palestine, The Zionist right ambivalence toward the myth of Trumpeldor. o September 2015, Cagliari, EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF ISRAEL STUDIES (EAIS), EAIS 4rd Annual Conference on Israel Studies, 'The surprising best man: Haaretz Newspaper and the establishment of Gahal'. o January 2016. Jabotinsky Institute. A book launch event: Zionism and Anti- Semitism in the thought and action of Ze’ev Jabotinksy. Utopia and realism in Ze'ev Jabotinsky's view of Antimetism. o April 2016. Galilee Research Conference, Tel-Hai College: What cause the protest in Kiryat Shmona in 1956: On absorption, employment, development and protests in the fifties. o April 2016. Lecture in the awards ceremony of The Goldhirsh Prize for Outstanding MA Thesis in Holocaust Studies, Sde Boker, Ben-Gurion University, Between prophecy of the destruction and the world's conscience: Ze'ev Jabotinsky view of Antisemitism during the thirties. o June 2016. The new face of Ze'ev Jabotinsky. Tel-Aviv University: Was Jabotinsky disciple of Ahad Haam? o June 2016, Jerusalem, Association for Israel Studies Annual Conference,

8 Association for Israel Studies Annual Conference, Yad Izhak Ben Zvi and the Menachem Begin Heritage Center Jerusalem, "Menachem Begin and Gahal during "the Waiting Period". o July 2016. Israeli Society for the History of Education Annual Conference, Gordon College of Education, Haifa, Educational mission and Social reproach: Aliza Levenberg in Kiryat-Shmona. o September 2016, London, European Association of Israel Studies (EAIS), EAIS 5th Annual Conference on Israel Studies, Menachem Begin and The establishment of the Likud party. o February 2017, Brno, International Conference under the auspices of Theodor Herzl Distinguished Chair at Masaryk University, Israel 1947-1967: Creating the Country, The liberal alternative's failure in the young State of Israel. o May 2017, Pears Institute, ZIONISM AND ANTISEMITISM: International Conference, Jabotinsky's interpretation of antisemitism between the two world wars. o July 2017, Telhai, The Israeli Israel past and present Research Forum, Researchers Workshop - Annual Seminar, What can we learn from the establishment of Kiryat-Shmona about the period of the great immigration? o August 2017. The World Congress for Judaism Studies, The World Union of Jewish Sciences, Hebrew University Jerusalem: The establishment of the Likud in 1973 and the Struggle for the identity of the Alternative Party in Israel. o September 2017, European Association of Israel Studies (EAIS), EAIS 6rd Annual Conference on Israel Studies: 'The Jewish Catastrophe and the British Conscience in Jabotinsky's Worldview During the Late 1930s', Wroclow. o November 2017, Balfour, Partition and the Six-Day War: Critical Turning Points, Taub Center for Israel Studies at NYU, 'Menachem Begin and the Re-birth of the Israeli Right, June 1967', NYU (Forthcoming, Invited lecturer).

Supervision of Graduate Students

9 1. Simcha Gueata, Department of Jewish Histoey, Tel Aviv University, with Prof. Yaron Tsur, ' "Hazor in the backyard" - Hazor between the years 1949- 1969: The establishment of a "development town" In between a "Moshava" to "regional council" ' – Phd Thesis. 2. Ofer Baharal, Department of Jewish Histoey, Tel Aviv University, with Prof. Motti Golani, 'The transformations of Michael Halperin's Legend in the Israeli collective memory' Ma - Thesis.

Research Grants 2015: Herzl Institute for Research and Study of Zionism and History, Haifa university. NIS 10,000. 2016: Tel-Hai College Research Authority. NIS 10,000. 2016: Center of the Study of Yemeni Jewry, Ben-Zvi Institute. NIS 10,000. 2017: Tel-Hai College Research Authority. NIS 20,000. 2017: Herzl Institute for Research and Study of Zionism and History, Haifa university. NIS 10,000. 2017: ISF Research grant no. 2083/17: The Likud 1973-1983: The Fashioning of a Ruling Party and the Arena for the Creation of an Alternative Israeli Identity.

Active Participation in Scholarly Conferences (last years) o August 2009. The World Congress for Judaism Studies, The World Union of Jewish Sciences, Hebrew University Jerusalem: 'Menachem Begin between ideology and politics: His way from Etsel commander to prime minister'.

o May 2011. David Raziel and the First Decade of Etsel, The Chaim Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel and the Jabotinsky Institute, Tel- Aviv University: 'Shlomo Ben-Yosef and shaping the gallows heroism in the Revisionist movement'. (Invited lecturer).

o March 2012. The Herut Movement 1948-1988, The Chaim Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel and the Menachem Begin Heritage Center, Tel-Aviv University: 'Begin on the way to the reversal: Ideology and politics'. (Invited lecturer).

10 o June 2012. Jabotinsky and His Students: The Land of Israel and the Arab Question, The Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research and the Jabotinsky Institute, Tel-Aviv University: 'Menachem Begin and the whole Land of Israel: The Revisionist principle and pragmatism in the Opposition days'. (Invited lecturer). o March 2013. Yad Vashem and the Jabotinsky Institute, 70th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising – The Battle of the Jewish Military Organization and Beitar, Yad Vashem (Wolyn Branch, Givatayim): 'The place of anti-Semitism in the Zionist thinking of Zeev Jabotinsky in the Twenties'. (Invited lecturer).

o April 2013. Galilee Research Conference, Tel-Hai College: 'The development of reciprocal relations between the Kiryat Shemona immigrant transit camp and the Upper Galilee kibbutzim – Early years'.

o June 2013. Politics During War: Civil Society During the War of Independence, Yad Ben Zvi Research Institute and the Chaim Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel, Tel-Aviv University: 'Who represents the middle class? “The general Zionists” in transition from the yishuv to the state'. (Invited lecturer).

o April 2014. Galilee Research Conference, Tel-Hai College: 'What brought an end to Eliezer Karol's mission in Kiryat Shemona?' o June 2014. Zeev Jabotinsky and The Betar Movement, the Chaim Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel and the Jabotinsky Institute, Tel-Aviv University: 'The Trumpeldor myth and Betar movement'. (Invited lecturer). o June 2014. Association for Israel Studies Conference, Sede-Boqer Campus, June 23-25 2014: 'Menachem Begin, the Herut Movement, and the Black Panthers' Protest'.

o September 2014, London, European Association for Israel Studies (EAIS), EAIS 3rd Annual Conference on Israel Studies, 'Menachem Begin's semi-establishment strategy during the Black Panthers' Protest'. o April 2015. Galilee Research Conference, Tel-Hai College: 'A Microhistory of a Segmented market'. o May 2015, Telhai, From Port Arthur to Tel-Hai: Joseph Trumpeldor and Japan, 'An Obsolete Hero: The radical Beitarists attitude to the myth of Trumpeldor'.

11 o June 2015, Montreal, Association for Israel Studies Annual Conference, Concordia University, 'A surprising alliance in the 1960s: Haaretz newspaper, Menachem Begin and the ruling alternative'. o June 2015, Telhai, United Kingdom in the Upper Galilee - From local to Imperial, The Israeli Research Forum for the Study of Mandatory Palestine, 'The Zionist right ambivalence toward the myth of Trumpeldor'. o September 2015, Cagliari, EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF ISRAEL STUDIES (EAIS), EAIS 4rd Annual Conference on Israel Studies, 'The surprising best man: Haaretz Newspaper and the establishment of Gahal'. o April 2016. Galilee Research Conference, Tel-Hai College: 'What cause the protest in Kiryat Shmona in 1956: On absorption, employment, development and protests in the fifties'. o April 2016. Lecture in the awards ceremony of The Goldhirsh Prize for Outstanding MA Thesis in Holocaust Studies, Sde Boker, Ben-Gurion University, 'Between prophecy of the destruction and the world's conscience: Ze'ev Jabotinsky view of Antisemitism during the thirties'. (Invited lecturer). o June 2016. The new face of Ze'ev Jabotinsky. Tel-Aviv University: 'Was Jabotinsky disciple of Ahad Haam?' (Invited lecturer). o June 2016, Jerusalem, Association for Israel Studies Annual Conference, Association for Israel Studies Annual Conference, Yad Izhak Ben Zvi and the Menachem Begin Heritage Center Jerusalem, 'Menachem Begin and Gahal during "the Waiting Period"'. o July 2016. Israeli Society for the History of Education Annual Conference, Gordon College of Education, Haifa, Educational mission and Social reproach: 'Aliza Levenberg in Kiryat-Shmona'. o September 2016, London, European Association of Israel Studies (EAIS), EAIS 5th Annual Conference on Israel Studies, 'Menachem Begin and The establishment of the Likud party'. o February 2017, Brno, International Conference under the auspices of Theodor Herzl Distinguished Chair at Masaryk University, Israel 1947-1967: Creating the Country, 'The liberal alternative's failure in the young State of Israel'.

12 o May 2017, Pears Institute, ZIONISM AND ANTISEMITISM: International Conference, 'Jabotinsky's interpretation of antisemitism between the two world wars'. o July 2017, Telhai, The Israeli Israel past and present Research Forum, Researchers Workshop - Annual Seminar, 'What can we learn from the establishment of Kiryat-Shmona about the period of the great immigration?' o August 2017. The World Congress for Judaism Studies, The World Union of Jewish Sciences, Hebrew University Jerusalem: 'The establishment of the Likud in 1973 and the Struggle for the identity of the Alternative Party in Israel'. o September 2017, Wroclow , European Association of Israel Studies (EAIS), EAIS 6rd Annual Conference on Israel Studies: 'The Jewish Catastrophe and the British Conscience in Jabotinsky's Worldview During the Late 1930s'. o November 2017, Balfour, Partition and the Six-Day War: Critical Turning Points, Taub Center for Israel Studies at NYU, 'Menachem Begin and the Re-birth of the Israeli Right, June 1967', NYU (Invited lecturer). o

Honors Awards and Scholarships 2003-2005: PhD Excellence Fellowships: Advanced Studies scholarship for research students, the Graduate Studies Authority, Haifa university. 2003-2005: PhD Excellence Fellowships: Herzl Institute for Research and Study of Zionism and History, Haifa university 2003: Prize for MA Research: Jabotinsky Institute 2006: Prize for Doctoral Research: Jabotinsky Institute 2014-2016: Tel-hai academic college: excellence for teaching activity

Non-Academic Activity & Positions

2006-2012 Principal, Danciger High School, Kiryat Shemona.

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