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Throughout his career. Dr. Friling has fulfilled major administrative duties wile pursuing his academic studies and research. In 1991, while serving as the director of the Ben-Gurion Archives, he completed his Ph.D. at the Institute of Contemporary Jewry (Hebrew University of Jerusalem). From 1993 to 2001, Dr. Friling was the director of the Ben-Gurion Heritage Institute and Ben-Gurion Research Center and Archives. Even when he became Israel's "State Archivist" in October 2001– a challenging position that he held three years – he continued lecturing at Ben-Gurion University. During this period he initiated a master plan for upgrading Israel's archives system and updating the 1955 Archives Law.
During 2006- 2007 Tuvia Friling was a David and Fela Shapell fellow at The Center of Holocaust Advanced Studies, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC; and from June 2007 he his a Visiting Scholar, at the Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies University of Maryland, USA.
Recent Publications
Books
- Arrow in the Dark: David Ben-Gurion, the Yishuv Leadership and Rescue Attempts during the Holocaust, Ben-Gurion Resesarch Center,
Ben-Gurion University & the Institute for Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1998, 1136 pp. Second Edition, 2001.
- (editor), An Answer to a Post-Zionist Colleague,
Yediot Acharonot Publication-Hemed Books, 2003, 587 pp.
- Tuvia Friling (ed.), 2004, Critique du post-sionisme, Reponse aux”nouveaux historiens” Israeliens,
Editions in Press, France 586 pp.
· Tuvia Friling and Hanna Yablonka (eds.), 2004, Israel and the Holocaust,
Israel Studies, a Series Subject, vol. 8, no. 3,
Indiana University Press, USA, 217 pp.
· Tuvia Friling, Radu Ioanid and Mihail Ionescu (eds.), 2005, The International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania Final Report,
Polirom Publications, 416 pp.
· Tuvia Friling, Radu Ioanid and Mihail Ionescu (eds.), 2005, Comisia Internationala de Studiu al Holocaustului in Romania – Raport Final,
Editura Polirom, 425 pp. (Romanian).
· Tuvia Friling, 2005, Arrows in the Dark: David Ben-Gurion, the Yishuv Leadership and Rescue Attempts during the Holocaust, the University of Wisconsin Press, USA, 2 Volumes, 684 pp.
· Co-edited with A .Bareli, and D.Gutwein, "Society and Economy in Israel: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, "Iyunim Bitkumat Israel (thematic series), 2005.
Forthcoming books:
- Tuvia Friling (ed.), 2008, The Israelies and the Holocaust, Israel Studies,
a Series Subject, Indiana University Press. (English).
- Tuvia Friling and Paula Kabalo (eds.),2008, David Ben Gurion - VISION Y LEGADO, DISCOURSOS, ARTICULOS Y CORESPONDENCIA (Spanish),
Iberoamericana University Press, Mexico (Spanish).
- Tuvia Friling , 2008, “Who are you Leon Berger? A story of a head of a block in Birkenau”, History, Memory and Politics, ( Hebrew, French).
Other Academic Activities
§ In 2003-2004 Dr. Friling served as vice chairman of the International Commission of the Holocaust in Romania headed by Prof. Elie Wiesel. The Commission delivered its final report to Mr. lon lliescu, President of Romania, on October 11, 2004.
§ From 2003 Dr. Friling together with Prof. Richard Breitman, of the American University in Washington have been consultants to the Steering Committee of the International Shoah Archivists Working Forum – a planning forum of the claims Conference, NY, for improving cooperation and coordination with Holocaust – related archives.
§ From 2003 to 2005 Dr. Friling was a senior fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem and served as their academic organizer and chair of the annual history seminar
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