Since 1948, voices of Palestinian civil society have mostly been absent from the media as have debates about how to resolve their grievances and overall situation of life under the constraints imposed by Israel. This dissertation was intended to provide a venue for those voices …
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In the latter part of the nineteenth century, it became very popular for Christians in premillennial and dispensational circles to discuss the current state and potential future for the Jewish people in the world, especially in New York City. Several factors contributed to the r…
The subject of the Displaced persons, the United States and creation of the State of Israel is one that has been examined multiple times to the point where there is a generally accepted paradigm in which American Zionist groups favoring the creation of Israel are placed in direc…
This study examines Soviet perceptions of Egyptian, Syrian, and Palestinian involvement in the Palestinian conflict and these Arab actors' perceptions of the Soviet involvement in this dispute. Four case studies are presented: (1) Soviet and Arab perceptions of the partition of …
This research traces the cultural, religious and organizational roots of the Zionist movement from the First Zionist Congress in 1897 through the Balfour Declaration in 1917. Using newspaper articles, diaries and journals of Zionist leaders, archives from the World Zionist Organ…
Focusing on the more than 6,000 posters now on view at the Palestine Poster Project Archives Website ("Website"), I will outline its evolution from a (failed) class project to online resource for viewing the poster art of the Palestinian-Zionist conflict (1897 - Present). I will…
This project explores the relationship between American biblical archaeologists in the mid-twentieth century and the most pressing political issue of the context in which they lived and worked, Zionism. It focuses on a set of American religious studies scholars who engaged the r…
Cultural Zionism was an ideological position that both predated and contended with traditional political Zionism. Operating from the assumption that a national sense of identity had to be established before a physical state could flourish, cultural Zionism was less reliant than …
This research represents an innovative examination of the role of university educators in protracted ethnic conflict. In this exploratory qualitative case study, Israeli professors from five universities were asked to share their experiences and opinions as educators. They were …
Music constitutes a key medium through which political actors in Jerusalem embody, perform, and negotiate competing paradigms of nationhood and their visions of the future of Jerusalem. Among the Jewish population, many occurrences of public protest involve the intersection of J…
This dissertation examines the themes of rape and domestic violence in Zionist literature on the “Arab Question” published in Hebrew from the last years of Ottoman rule in Palestine through to the 1929 riots that erupted during the British Mandate. By bringing to light the impor…
This Dissertation examines the early, pre-Marxist years of Hashomer Hatzair youth movement from a wider perspective of European intellectual and cultural history. The movement originated in the Habsburg province of eastern Galicia around 1911 and was founded in Vienna in 1916. D…
This dissertation presents a method toward the cultivation of peace called systemic narrative inquiry (SNI), which invites its practitioners to create shared meaning and connection with people who hold opposing or conflicting viewpoints. The author's involvement in the Israeli-P…
This qualitative study uses ethnographic methods to investigate the migration experiences of Americans who have chosen to live in Israel. I develop the concept of “emotional Zionism” to describe the varied ways these immigrants develop relationships to people and places in Israe…
Since the time of their arrival beginning around 2005, there remain approximately 46,000 African asylum seekers in Israel. The following paper reviews the foundations and implications of Israel's political discourse in reference to the presence of this community. I situate the t…
Christian Zionism, the belief by Christians in the right of Jews to return to their ancient homeland, played a significant role during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the establishment of the modern state of Israel. This thesis draws on primary and secondary sourc…
This study examines the road to statehood for the Zionist and Palestinian movements. There are three components which frame this investigation: 1. social movements and the practices in which they engage that are aimed at establishing statehood for a people; 2. distinctive config…
This dissertation examines the constellation of forces that precipitated the Zionist movement and Jewish colonization of Palestine. The primary goals are to identify and contrast the aspirations and final objectives of the Biluim and halutzim, the pioneers of the first and secon…
This dissertation studies the Israeli case law of land expropriation against the social characteristics, political realities and ideologies of Israel. The study grew out of an observation that a double standard exists in the judicial treatment of property and non-property rights…