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1 Prof. Yechiam Weitz January 2021 CURRICULUM VITAE 1. PERSONAL DETAILS Name: Yechiam Weitz Place and Date of Birth: Jerusalem, Jan. 20, 1951 Marital Status: Married + 3 children Citizenship and Identity Card Number: Israel 5032246 Home Address: He-Halutz St, 16 Jerusalem 9692113 Home Telephone number: 04-8110889 Office Address and Phone: Dept. of Eretz Yisrael Studies, Haifa University No. Tel. 04-8240476 Telefax Number: 04 – 8240959 2. HIGHER EDUCATION Period of Study Name of Institution Degree Date of Degree and Department 1972 – 1977 General History and B.A. 1977 General Philosophy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Degree 1977 – 1981 History and Contemporary awarded cum 1981 Jewry, The Hebrew laude M.A University of Jerusalem 1982 – 1987 The Institute of Ph.D. Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem . 2 3. ACADEMIC RANKS AND TENURE IN INSTITUTIONS OF HIG HER EDUCATION לחיצה על כפתור Tab – תוסיף שורות לטבלה. Dates Name of Institution and Rank/Position Department 1991 Eretz - Israel Studies Dept. , lecturer University of Haifa 1997 Eretz - Israel Studies senior lecturer Dept., University of Haifa tenure 2002 Eretz- Israel Studies Dept., Associate Professor University of Haifa 2010 University Haifa Full Professor 4. OFFICES IN UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATION The Chair of the Department of Eretz - Israel studies, University of Haifa. (2005 – 2007) Member of the Editorial Board, Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (1999 - 2005 ) M. A. Advisor, Department of Eretz - Israel Studies (1999 - 2002 ) The Chair of Eretz-Israel's Studies Center, Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi and University of Haifa (1997-2001) B.A. Advisor, Department of Eretz Yisrael Studies (1991 - 1997) 5 . SCHOLARLY POSITIONS AND ACTIVITIES OUTSIDE THE UNIVERSITY 1984-1986 Research Fellow, The Shaul Avigur Inter-University Project for the Study of Illegal Immigration 1988 - 1989 Herzl Fellow, The Institute for the Study of Zionism and the Yishuv, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 1991 - Research Fellow at the Seminar on Israeli Society During the 1950's, The Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies. 3 1982 - 1991 Assistant Editor, Yahadut Zemanenu - A Research Annual, The Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 1992 – 2001 Chief Editor, Yahadut Zemanenu - A Research Annual, The Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Herzl Institute, Haifa University 1996 - Research Fellow, The Ben-Gurion Research Center, Sde-Boker 1997 Research Fellow, The Center for Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. 1999 - 2005 Member of the Editorial Board, Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi) 2003 Research Follow, Dunov Institution, Leipzig, Germany .6. Participation in Scholarly Conferences Date Name of Conference Place of Conference Subject of Lecture/Discussion/Comments 1. 2010 The Leadership in Ben-Gurion The Leadership of Ben-Gurion Israel in the 50th Institute , Sde- And Begin in the 50th 1.2009 Ben-Gurion- New Look Boker The Attitude of Ben-Gurion Ben-Gurion towards the Revisionist Institute, Sde- Movement Boker 9.2008 History and Law The Place of Hausner in Yad Ben-Zvi Eichmann Trial 7.2008 The Third Decadence Yad Ben-Zvi Golda Meir as the 4th Prime of Israel Minister of Israel 2.2008 History and Law University of “Ha-Olam Ha-Ze” and Haifa Eichmann Trial 1.2008 1948 Generation The Hebrew The Political Dimension University Of the Generation 1.2008 The History of “Yair”’ University of Between Menachem Begin and Haifa “Yair” (Abraham Stern) 4.2007 The World of Ben- Bar-Ilan Ben-Gurion and Eichmann Trial Gurion University 3.2007 15 years to Begin’s University of Begin’s Disappear in 1951 Death Haifa 4 5.2006 The Civil Society in Yad Ben-Zvi The Political Arena in 1948 1948 8.2005 Fifty Years to The World Kastner Trial in History Kastner’s Murder Congress of Perceptive Jewish Studies 3.2005 100 years to Enzo The Hebrew Sereny as a Political Figure Sereny’s Death University 3.2005 Forty Years to Adenauer Adenauer in Ben-Gurion’s eyes Diplomat Connotation Institute between Germany and Israel 11.2004 “Lavon Affair” University of “Lavon Affair”- New Sight Haifa 5.2004 “The Jeckes” Adenauer The Place of the “Jeckes” in Institute the Reparation’s Process 5.2005 60th years after the Paris Kastner Trial" and the Israeli Holocaust in Hungary society 3.2004 60th to the IZL’s Revolt University of From IZL to “Herut Movement” Haifa 3.2002 Ten Years to Begin’s University of The Attitude of Begin towards Death Haifa the Holocaust 6.2000 120 to Jabotinsky’s Ben-Gurion The Struggle on Jabotinsky’s Death University Heritage in the Revisionist Movement 12.1999 University of Sharett and the Reparation Moshe Sharett’s Haifa from Germany Heritage 11.1998 The Historian and the The Hebrew The Involvement of the Society University Intellectuals in the Lavon Affair 6.1998 Judging and Judgment Tel-Aviv The Law for Punishment of the in the Shadow of the University Nazis and their Collaborators Holocaust as an Expression of the Israeli Society's Attitude Toward the Holocaust in the 1950’s 4.1998 Fifty Years to the State Van Leer Ben-Gurion’s Final Resignation in 1963 2.1996 A Hundred Years to The Hebrew The Debate Concerning the 5 Hebrew Culture University Role of Culture in the State's First Years 7.1995 History and Law University of The Kastner Trial, the Haifa Eichmann Trial and the Israeli Society, 12.1994 A Hundred Years of University of Towards an Understanding of Historiography of Haifa the Term of the Beginning of Zionism , the State of Israel 3.1994 From Selective Aliya Bar-Ilan The Awareness Concerning the to Mass Aliya University Holocaust and the Dilemma of Selective Immigration 10.1993 Crisis and Reaction: Creighton Was Israel Kastner a Hero? The Hero in Jewish University History 6.1993 The World Congress of The Hebrew Mapai Faces the Election the Jewish Studies University Results to the Third Knesset 6.1993 The International Yad Vashem Shaping the Memory of the Scientific Conference Holocaust in Israeli Society of of Yad Vashem the 1950’s 3.1993 Fifty to Warsaw The Ghetto Regarding the Term Ghetto’s Rebellion Fighters House “Resistance” in the “Kastner Trial”, 6.1992 The History of the University of Kastner Trial and Herut Revisionist Movement Haifa Movement 5.1992 Cathedra Discussion Yad Ben-Zvi Changing Conceptions of the Holocaust: The Kastner Case 8.1991 The Israeli Society in Oxford Centre for Mapai and Kastner Trial the 50th Postgraduate Hebrew Studies 6.1991 The History of the University of New Approaches in the Study Revisionist Movement Haifa of the Revisionist Movement 6.1990 The History of the University of The Revisionist Movement and Revisionist Movement Haifa the 4th Aliya 8.1989 The World Congress of The Hebrew The Roots of the Mass Jewish Studies University Immigration 5.1989 Cathedra Discussion Yad Ben-Zvi The Jewish Refugees in the Zionist Policy during the 6 Holocaust, 1.1989 Mythos and History Van Leer Yishuv, Diaspora, and Holocaust - Myth and Reality 6.1987 The Youth Movements The Ghetto The Struggle for the Image of in the Holocaust Fighters House 'Hechalutz' in the Labor Movement in Palestine, 1943- 1945, 6.1986 Society and Culture in The Open The Yishuv's Self-Image and the Yishuv and the University the Reality of the Holocaust, State 10.1985 The International Yad Vashem Mapai's Programs Regarding Scientific Conference She'erit Hapletah of Yad Vashem 8. SCHOLARSHIPS, PRIZES , RESEARCH GRANTS PRIZES 2015 - Jabotinsky Prize 2007 Hilel Kook Prize 2005 - Prime Minister Menacham Begin Prize 2005 - Ben-Zvi Prize 1993 - Randolph Braham Prize, University of Haifa SCHOLARSHIPS 2000 - Research Fellowship, R. Hecte Foundation (2000). 1999 - Research Fellowship, Littauer Foundation, New- York 1998 - Research Scholarship, Konrad Adenauer Foundation 1997 - Research Scholarship, Littauer Founation, New-York 1996 - Research Scholarship, Baden - Wurtemberg Government The Memorial Foundation‘s Grants 1994 - 1995 (post-doctoral grant). 1993 - 1994 (post-doctoral grant). 1990 - 1991 (post-doctoral grant). 1987 - 1988 (special doctoral scholarship for outstanding students) 1986 - 1987 (doctoral scholarship). 1984 - 1985 (doctoral scholarship). 7 Yad Vashem’s Grants 1985 (Ph.D. award) 1980 (M.A. award) 9. Courses Taught in Recent Years Year Name of Course Type of Course Degree 2003/4 From Ze’ev Jabotinsky into Menchem Begin – Seminar B.A. the History of the Revisionist Movement (1925-1948) 2003/4 The Crucial Decisions in the First Decade in Seminar M.A. the Israel (The Mass Immigration; The Reparation of West Germany; Sinai War; Eichmann Trail) 2004/5 From the “Esek Ha-Bish” (The Scandal in Seminar B.A. Egypt) to “Lavon Affair” (1954-1961) 2004/5 The Seminar M.A. Period of Levi Eshkol – the Third Prime Minister (1963-1969) 2005/6 The Debate about the Partition Plans from Peel Seminar B.A. Committee to the UN’s Decision (1937-1947) 2006/7 The Leadership in the Zionist Movement and in Seminar M.A. Israel (Weizmann, Ben-Gurion, Sharett, Eshkol, Meir, Begin) 2007/8 The Zionist Left between Socialist and Seminar B.A. Nationally: from “Gdud Ha-Avoda” (The Workers Battalion) to “Prague Trail” 2008/9 The Poet Natan Alterman as Political Seminar M.A Figure 10. Supervision of Graduate Students 8 Name of Student Title of Thesis Degree Date of Details of Completion / Publication in Progress Tamar Gazit The Attitude of the Ha- M.A. 1999 Kibutz Ha-Memuhad toward Germany, 1945-1959 Tal Fried Official Israeli Institutions M.A 2002 in Pursuit of Nazi War Criminals, 1945-1960 Oren - Mencham Begin as Leader M.A 2002 Rosenberg of Opposition Party (Herut Movement -1949- 1952) Amir Goldstein The Growth of the Myth of M.A. 2003 Zion 72/1 the Gallows in the (2006), pp. 63-90 Revisionist Movement Merav Barzily Herut Movement in "Sulam"'s M.A.