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Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Ofira Gruweis-Kovalsky
Contact: Personal details:
Kefar Tabor P.O.B 256 Israel 15241 Citizenship: Israeli
Home Tel: 972- 4- 6765634. Languages: Hebrew and English
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Academic rank Senior Lecturer, Zefat Academic College, Israel (2017- present) Associate researcher Herzl Institute University of Haifa, Israel (2009-present) Associate researcher at the HBI Brandeis University, USA (2015-present) Adjunct lecturer, MA and BA programs in Israel Studies, University of Haifa, Israel (2010–present). Lecturer, Zefat Academic College, Israel (2014-2017) Education 2009-2010: Post Doc. Department of Geography and Environment, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, "The History of Jerusalem as Israel Capital City". 2009: PhD, Summa cum Laude. 'Land of Israel Studies' Dept., University of Haifa. "The Vindicated and the Persecuted": Myth, Ritual, and Propaganda in the Herut Movement 1948-1965. 2006: MA, Magna cum Laude. 'Jewish History' Dept., University of Haifa. 'The Myth of the Altalena Affair and the Herut Movement'. 1980: BA, Jewish History Dept. and Land of Israel History Dept., Tel Aviv University. Israel.
Certificates Mediator, Emek Yizrael Academic College, Israel (1999). Archive manager, Tel Hai Academic College and the Israel National Archives (1994). 2
Scholarly Positions:
Head of the general studies division, Multidisciplinary Department, Zefat Academic College, Israel (2018-present) Senior Lecturer, Multidisciplinary Department, Zefat Academic College, Israel (2017-present) Lecturer, Multidisciplinary Department, Zefat Academic College, Israel (2014 -2017) Adjunct lecturer, Land of Israel Studies Dept., Jewish History Dept., University of Haifa. MA and BA programs (2010–present). Assistant editor, Ze’ev Jabotinsky's Ideological Writings. Vol. 1: Liberal Nationalism. (2010–2012). Post-doctorate, Department of Geography, Chair for the Study of the History and Activities of the Jewish National Fund (KKL). Bar-Ilan University (2009–2010). Research topic: "Jerusalem, Liminal Condition as a Constant Situation (1948 – 1955)". Lecturer, pre-academic program, Zefat College (2007–2008). Pedagogic manager of Amal Shimshon High School (2005–2006). Pedagogic manager of Beit Hameiri, the Zefat Jewish History Museum (2002– 2005). Advisor and teacher-guide in Jewish history education, Israeli Association of Community Centers (2002–2005). Advisor and teacher of Jewish history, pre-academic program, Emek Yizrael Academic College (1998–2002). Pedagogic coordinator, The Society for Preservation of Heritage Sites in Israel (northern Israel) (1998 – 2002). Jewish history teacher, pre-academic program, Emek Hayarden College (1993–1997). Jewish history teacher, Ort Afula High School (1988–1992). Pedagogic guide and advisor, Center for Educational Technology, Tel Aviv (1986–1987). Captain, IDF, Education and History department (1980 -1984). 3
Scholarships, Grants & Awards 2015- The Hadassah–Brandeis Institute- Helen Gartner Harmmer Scholar in Residence Grant 2014 The Hadassah–Brandeis Institute Grant for my research project "Secular Conservative Women in the Right-Wing Parties in the State of Israel during the 1950s and 1960s". 2014 KKL Jerusalem Funds, grant for publishing a book. 2013: Herzl Institute, University of Haifa, grant for publishing a book. 2013: Land of Israel Studies Dept., University of Haifa, grant for publishing a book. 2011 Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, Travel Grant for AJS Conference. 2010 Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation Travel Grant for AJS Conference. 2010 Jabotinsky Institute in Israel, research awards. 2010 Menachem Begin Center, research awards. 2009, 2010 Bar Ilan University & Planning and Research Committee of Higher Education Council, Post-doctoral scholarship. 2009 Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem, PhD grant. 2008 KKL Fellows, University of Haifa, PhD grant. 2008 KKL Jerusalem Funds, PhD grant. 2006-2008 University of Haifa, PhD scholarship for excellence. 2005 University of Haifa, MA grant for excellence. 2005 Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, grant for excellence. 1977–1980 Tel Aviv Municipality, BA scholarship for excellence students.
Invited Talks The Women Historians Forum, Haifa, June 2018, The women of the right- wing. Begin Center, Jerusalem, 7 March 2018, The women of the right-wing. Aronson Museum Zichron Yaakov, 8 Feb. 2018, The myth of Sara Aronson. Doctoral Seminar, Tel-Aviv University 12 Dec. 2017, The Israeli Right-Wing, Myth and Symbols. Yad Ben-Zvi Institute Jerusalem, the Upheaval 1977, The Myths and the Collective Memory of the Israeli Right Wing. May 2017. Yad Ben-Zvi Institute Jerusalem, Levi Eshkol and Jabotinsky's reburial at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. July 2016. The Central Zionist Archives, B'anei Brith in the Land of Israel - Between Social Activities to Nationalism, April 2016. Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research, Tel Aviv University: "The Jabotinsky's Iron Wall", Nov. 2015. 4
Brandeis University-HBI. Aug. 2015, Gender Discourse in the Israeli Secular Right Wing Parties during the 1950th. Yad Ben-Zvi Institute Jerusalem and the Galili Center for Defense Studies, seminar: Jerusalem – Studies in the Struggle for Jerusalem in the War of Independence. The Attitude of the Revisionist Right Wing to Jerusalem during the War of Independence. Jerusalem, February 2014. Yad Tabenkin Research Institute and the Palmach Museum, seminar: The Contribution of Women to the Yishuv's Security. 'Cut off Your Braid…' Women in the Underground, IZL and LHI. January 2014. Seminar: Citizen at War, Tel Aviv University, Herut Movement 1947-1949. June 2013. Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research, Tel Aviv University: Jabotinsky – Between Menachem Begin and Israel Eldad. June 2012. Seminar, Herut Movement 1948–1988, Tel Aviv University. The Herut Movement's Map Symbol. March 14, 2012. Seminar: Jerusalem 1948–1987. Schechter Institute for Jewish Studies: “The Jerusalem Municipality: Between Local and High Politics”. May 2011. Cherrick Forum Discussion 2010-2011, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. "Jerusalem 1948–1955- Liminal Condition as a Constant Situation". December 2010. Seminar: Cartography Discourse in the Israel-Palestine Conflict. Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research, Tel Aviv University. Maps as a Tool in a Political Conflict: The Revisionist Movement and the PLO as a Case Study' (with Dr. Oded Potchter, Tel Aviv University). June 2010. Seminar: Israeli Leadership, Ben-Gurion University at Sede Boker. The Right- Wing Radicals' View of Menachem Begin's Leadership. January 2010. Department of Geography, Bar Ilan University, Maps as a Tool in a Political Conflict: The Revisionist Movement. January 2010.
Active Participation in Scholarly Conferences: lecture Title Place & Date Conference The status of Jerusalem, Israeli policy University of London, 7th Annual Conference on European Israel and foreign consulates in Jerusalem SOAS- Sept. 2018 Studies in the 1950s Shababo v. the Jerusalem Berkeley University, 34th AIS Conference Consulate General of Belgium USA The status of Jerusalem, Israeli policy and foreign consulates in June 201824-27 Jerusalem in the 1950s The 1977 Upheaval and the Jerusalem, August 6- The17th World Israeli Cultural Space 10, 2017 Congress of Jewish 5
Chairperson: Israeli Politics: Studies Interpretation and Analysis The Jerusalem Municipality, Brandeis University, 33th Annual 1948-1955: Local Politics vs. Waltham, Ms. USA Conference on Israel National Politics June 2017 Studies 2017
Map as Symbol and the 'Greater University of London, 5th Annual Conference Israel' Ideology SOAS- Sept. 2016 on European Israel Studies 2016 'Rethinking Israel: Borders, Boundaries and Cultures' (London)
Gender Discourse in the Israeli Jerusalem, June 2016 32th AIS annual Secular Right Wing Parties during Conference the 1950th
Gender Discourse in the Israeli Brandeis University- Brandeis University- Secular Right Wing Parties during HBI. Aug. 2015 HBI, USA the 1950th
The Attitude of the Revisionists Right Maryland USA, 46th Annual Wing toward Jerusalem during 1948- December 2014 Conference of the 1951 Association for Jewish Studies Menachem Begin attitude toward Ben-Gurion 30th AIS Annual Jerusalem during the War of University of the Conference Independence Negev at Beer Sheba, June 2014 The Jerusalem Municipality: Between Hebrew University in 16th World Congress Local and High Politics of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, August 2013 Menachem Begin and the Jewish Hebrew University in 16th World Congress Diaspora of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, August 2013 1. Chair: Between Israel and the Hebrew University in 16th World Congress World of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, August 2. Chair: Leader and Leadership in Jewish History 2013 The Attitude of Menachem Begin to UCLA USA, June 29th AIS Annual the Jewish Diaspora. 2013. Conference, 6
An Ambivalent Relation: Israel Eldad University of Haifa, 28th AIS Annual and Menachem Begin. June 2012. Conference,
The Story that Symbolic Maps Tell London School of 22nd ASEN Annual Us: the Israeli Case. Economics and Conference Political Science, G.B London. March 27- 29, 2012 A Tale of Love and Darkness: The Washington, DC. 43rd Annual Radical Right Wing and the Herut Conference of the USA. December 18- Movement 1948 -1957 Association for 20, 2011 Jewish Studies The Myth of Jabotinsky and the Boston, Mass., USA. 42nd Annual Leadership of Menachem Begin. Conference of the December 19-21, Association for 2010. Jewish Studies Israel's Effort to Strengthen Tel Aviv, July 12-16, IGU Regional Jerusalem's International Status as Its Conference 2010. Capital City: The Conquest of the Desert Exhibition & Fair 1953 From Particular Myth to a National Hebrew University in 15th World Congress Founding Myth: The Shift in Jerusalem, August of Jewish Studies Jabotinsky's Place in the National Collective Memory in Israel's First 2009: Two Decades. Between Influence and Involvement: June 2009 Ben- 25th Annual AIS The Influence of the Jewish Diaspora Gurion University of Conference on the Process which Led the Herut Movement to Gain Political the Negev at Beer Legitimacy in the 1950s and 1960s. Sheba Active Participation in Scholarly Conferences, Israel Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research, Tel Aviv University, The Attitude of Jabotinsky to the Arab papulation, 1 Nov. 2018. Jabotinsky and Foreign relation of the Zionist Movement. Yad Ben-Zvi Institute Jerusalem, New Research on Jerusalem, 3-6 July 2018, The Jerusalem Municipality and the foreign consulates. Herzl Institute University of Haifa, Israel, New Research on Jerusalem, 27 Feb. 2018. The Jerusalem foreign consulates. The Israeli Association for Law and History annual conference, Jerusalem October 2017. The Trail of "Brit Kanaym" Members. 10th Conference of the Chair for the Study of the History and Activities of the Jewish National Fund (KKL), Bar-Ilan University, April 2017. The Jerusalem Municipality 1948 -1955. 7
The Israeli Police in the First Decade, Tel-Aviv University and the Israeli Police, March 2017, The Israeli Police from the Bernadotte Murder to Brith Kanyim. Culture and Archeology, Zefat Academic College, March 2017, B'nai B'rith at Zefat Myths and History. The Annual Conference of the Ruderman Program for American Jewish Studies, "The Influence of the American Jewry on the Right Wing in Israel". University of Haifa. Feb. 2016. The Israeli Geographical Association Conference, Bar Ilan University, December 2013. Chair: Jerusalem in the 1948 War. Presentation title: The Attitude of the Revisionist Right Wing to the Jerusalem Issue during the War of Independence, 1947–1949. Summer Workshop of the Van Leer Institute for outstanding new researchers: Ritual and Symbols in Contemporary Jewish Cultures: Between Preservation and Change. Jerusalem 1-2 July 2013. Political Rites in Israel: The Internal Struggle over Symbolic Power in the Right Wing and Its Influence on Israeli society. The Israel Geographical Association Conference, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev at Beer Sheba, December 9, 2012. B'nai B'rith Activity in Zefat and the Galilee during the 19th Century. 14th Tel Hai College Convention, April-May 2012. B'nai B'rith Activity in Zefat and the Galilee during the 19th Century. 8th Conference of the Chair for the Study of the History and Activities of the Jewish National Fund (KKL), Bar-Ilan University, November 2011, The influence of KKL on Map Symbol in Zionist Organization. The Israel Geographical Association Conference, The Hebrew University Jerusalem, December 2010, The Delay in the transfer of the Israeli Foreign Ministry to Jerusalem. 7th Conference of the Chair for the Study of the History and Activities of the Jewish National Fund (KKL), Bar-Ilan University, June 2009. Feminist Terminology and the Herut Movement.
Session Organizer/ Academic Advisor Yad Ben-Zvi Institute Jerusalem, New Research on Jerusalem, 3-6 July 2018 34th AIS annual conference, Berkeley University, June 2018 10th Conference of the Chair for the Study of the History and Activities of the Jewish National Fund (KKL), Bar-Ilan University, April 2017 32th AIS annual Conference, session organizer 2016 9th Conference of the Chair for the Study of the History and Activities of the Jewish National Fund (KKL), Bar-Ilan University, 8
Academic Conference in Honor of Prof. Yossi Katz, Bar Ilan University, 23 May 2013. New Issues in Israel Studies Research: Tribute to Prof. Yoav Gelber, Herzl Institute, University of Haifa, November 2012. 43rd Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, Washington, DC, December 18-20, 2011, session on the Revisionist movement. Eighth Convention of the Chair for the Study of the History and Activities of the Jewish National Fund (KKL), Bar Ilan University, November 2011. Seventh Convention of the Chair for the Study of the History and Activities of the Jewish National Fund (KKL), Bar Ilan University, June 2009. The Herut Movement: Tribute to Prof. Yechiam Weitz, Herzl Institute, University of Haifa, November 2008. Professional Activities Associate Research Fellow. Research forum: The British Mandate. Tel Aviv University and University of Haifa. 2011 to the present. Academic Advisor to the Kefar Tabor History Museum. 2007 to the present.
Member of the Academic Committee of the Jabotinsky Institute. 2011–2012.
Academic's Advisor to the Natanya History Museum. 2009–2010.
Member of the Educational Committee of the Society for Preservation of Heritage Sites in Israel. 2006–2010.
Teaching Experience Thesis supervisor 2018 PhD Arnon Cohen, [with Prof. Yechiam Weitz]. University of Haifa 2018 MA student Baz Osatzky, [with Prof. Yechiam Weitz]. University of Haifa 2013, MA student Shelomo Nagar: The Jerusalem Police Force 1947–1949. Final score 90 [with Prof. Yechiam Weitz]. University of Haifa
Supervisor of Student that win Grant. 2015 the best MA seminar, student Ella Trachtenberg, The Israeli Law and Society Association. 9
June 2014 BA seminar student Arnon Cohen, Jabotinsky grant for excellent BA seminar. August 2013, MA student Esther Mantzur wins a grant from the Josef Sapir Institute for Researching Society and Economy. Seminar topic: Josef Tamir and the Liberal Party.
Courses taught: Selected topics on the history of the Land of Israel during the 19th and the 20th century, BA lecture course. (Zefat Academic College) Political conflicts in Israel 1948 -1960. MA seminar. (University of Haifa). Ideological views: landscape and politics in Israel. BA seminar. (University of Haifa). Leaders and Leadership of the Right -Wing Movement in Israel. BA seminar. (University of Haifa). Jabotinsky and the Revisionist Party. BA seminar. (University of Haifa). Introduction to Israeli politics. BA lecture course. (Zefat Academic College) Introduction to the Ottoman period in the Land of Israel. BA lecture course. (Zefat Academic College) Introduction to the British Mandate period in the Land of Israel. BA lecture course. (Zefat Academic College) Jewish Settlements in the Galilee (from the 19th century to the 20th century). BA lecture course. (Zefat Academic College) Academic Writing for BA Humanities students. (University of Haifa). Professional Association Membership Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism. (2012–present) Association for Israel Studies. (2009–present)
International Geographical Union. (2009–present)
Israel Geography Association. (2009–present)
Association for Jewish Studies. (2010–present) 10
Publications
MA Thesis – The Myth of Altalena in the Herut Movement, (2005), University of Haifa. PhD Dissertation- Myths, Symbols and Rituals in the Herut Movement 1948 -1965, (2009), University of Haifa. Books 1. 'The Vindicated and the Persecuted'- The Struggle over the Symbolic Capital in the Herut Movement 1948 -1965, (June 2015), (in Hebrew). Ben- Gurion Research Center at Sede Boqer, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheba. Israel.
Edited Books A. After Promotion to Senior Lecturer Position: 1. Editor, Between Private and Public in the Jewish Settlement, Herzl Institute University of Haifa, (forthcoming 2019), (in Hebrew). B. Published before Promotion: 2. Editor, 110 years of Lower Galilee Settlements and 110 years of the Jewish National Fund (KKL), Bar-Ilan University, (June 2016), (in Hebrew). 3. Assistant editor & editorial board member, an academic edition of The Complete Works of Ze’ev Jabotinsky. Vol.1: Liberal Nationalism. Jabotinsky Institute & Yad Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem, (2013), (in Hebrew).
Peer Reviewed Journals A. Published after Promotion to Senior Lecturer Position: 1. The Israeli policy toward the foreign consulates in Jerusalem in the 1950s, Israel Studies, (forthcoming 2019) 2. Liminal Condition as Constant Situation, the Israeli Jerusalem Municipality, 1948-1955, Journal of Israeli History, (forthcoming 2019) 3. 'Hand with rifle or the two side of the Jordan River', the symbol of the IZL, Cathedra, 166, (January 2018). 119 -146, (in Hebrew). 4. "A Tale of Love and Darkness": The radical right wing and the Herut movement 1948–1957, Kesher, 50, (December 2017).89 -99, (in Hebrew). 5. Map as an Official Symbol and the 'Greater Israel' Ideology, Middle Eastern Studies. 53 (5), (2017), 782-801. 11
B. Published before Promotion: 6. 'Menachem Begin's Travels in the 1950s: A Road to Political Legitimacy', Israel Studies Review, 31 (2), (2016), 22 – 40. 7. Between Ideology and Reality: Menachem Begin and the Jerusalem Question, 1948-1949, Israel Studies 21 (3), (2016), 99-125. 8. The decisions that the Israeli government took over Jabotinsky's reburial at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, Cathedra 155, (April 2015), 161 -194, (in Hebrew) [First writer Yechiam Weitz]. 9. Relocation of the Israeli Foreign Ministry in 1953 and its impact on the Jerusalem question. In Journal of Historical Geography .46 (2014), 80-91. [Second writer Yossi Katz]. 10. The delay in the transfer of the Foreign Ministry to Jerusalem as a reflection of the city's status in the 1950s, Cathedra 140, (2011), 131–162, (in Hebrew) [second writer Yossi Katz]. 11. The attitude of the Revisionist right wing to the Jerusalem issue during the War of Independence, 1947–1949. Aley Zait Vacherev (Olive Leaves and Sword) 13, (September 2013), 140–172, (in Hebrew). 12. The Conquest of the Desert Exhibition & Fair 1953: Israel's effort to strengthen Jerusalem's international status as its capital city. Israel 20, (June 2012), 153–180, (in Hebrew) [second writer Yossi Katz]. 13. The time when Menachem Begin was silent. Aley Zait Vacherev (Olive Leaves and Sword) 10, (September 2010), 280–301, (in Hebrew).
Peer- Reviewed Books Chapters A. Published after Promotion to Senior Lecturer Position: 1. Religious Radicalism, the Zionist Right and the Establishment of the State of Israel, J. Frank & S. Kunze, (Eds.), Jewish Radicalism in the 19th and 20th centuries- Historical Perspectives on a Phenomenon of Global Modernity. De Gruyter & EAJS, (Forthcoming 2019). 2. The Jerusalem Municipality 1948 – 1955, In A. Golan and M. Golani, (Eds.), Jerusalem, (in Hebrew). Yad Ben-Zvi, (forthcoming). B. Published before Promotion: 3. The influence of the KKL-JNF on the creation of symbols with maps in Zionist organizations. In O. Gruweis-Kovalsky (Ed.) (2016), 110 years of 12
Lower Galilee Settlements and 110 years of the Jewish National Fund (KKL), Bar Ilan University (in Hebrew). 47-66. 4. The Herut movement 1947-1949. In M. Bar-On & M. Chazan (Eds.), (2014), Citizens at War: Studies on civilian society during the Israeli War of Independence, 3 (in Hebrew). 344 -373. 5. Geographical space as political symbol: The Israel and the Palestine Case. In Y. Schnal and E. Lavie (Eds.) (2012), Cartography Discourse in the Israeli- Palestine Conflict. Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research, Tel Aviv University. (in Hebrew) [Second writer Oded Potchter]. 43–56 6. The Herut Movement's propaganda 1948–1961. In A. Diskin (Ed.) (2011), From Altalena to the present day: The history of a political movement from Herut to Likud. Jerusalem (in Hebrew). 92–115.
Book Review 1. Rinatya Robinson, A useful storm: The Revisionist movement 1925–1940 (2011) Yad Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem (in Hebrew). In Cathedra 145, (2012), 177–180. 2. Hillel Halkin, Jabotinsky, Yale University Press (2014), Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, (2015). To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23739770.2015.1057793
Other Publication after Promotion to Senior Lecturer Position: 1. The Women in the Right-wing Israeli Parties, Hauma (The Nation), 210, (June 2018), (in Hebrew).67 – 72. Other Publications before Promotion 2. New point of view on the Altalena affair. Pp.193–207 in Kivunim Hadashim (New Directions) 14, (June 2006), (in Hebrew). 193 -207. 3. Our father, Rosh Betar (the head of the Betar movement): The myth of Jabotinsky and the leadership of Menachem Begin, Hauma (The Nation), 179, (September 2010), (in Hebrew). 63 -71. 4. Kefar Tabor and the JCA 1901 -2012, The Kefar Tabor Museum, (2012), (in Hebrew). 5. Women in the underground and the Herut movement 1948, Hauma (The Nation), 194 (June 2014), (in Hebrew). 79 -86. 13
6. B'nai B'rith activity in Zefat and the Galilee during the 19th century. B'nai B'rith Israel Website, (2015), (in Hebrew).
Submitted for Publication- Peer Reviewed Journals The influence of the WIZO party on the Israeli Right-wing parties in the 1950s. 'Hamashkif'- A Revisionist Newspaper (in Hebrew).