Professor Emeritus, the Department of Jewish History; Senior Fellow, Ben-Gurion Research Institute; Founder and first Director, now Vice-Director, the Center for North American Jewry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Ph.D., Joint Degree, American Civilization and Modern Jewish History, with Distinction, Brandeis University, USA. A frequent lecturer in leading North American and British universities (Antioch, Brandeis, Brown, Harvard, McGill, NYU, Stanford, Tufts, Yale; LSE, Oxford Cenre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies, University College London, King's College); a recipient of prizes of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and in the USA of the National Endowments for the Humanities, and the Fulbright and Rockefeller foundations.
On the Editorial Board of Studies in Contemporary Jewry (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem); The Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Oriental Institute, University of Oxford); Advisory Board, Nations and Nationalism (ASEN, Blackwell); Academic Advisory Board, American Jewish History (American Jewish Historical Society, Johns Hopkins University Press); on the Advisory Council of, ASEN, London School of Economics; Advisory Council, Ben-Gurion Research Institute, Ben-Gurion University.
Academic Organizer and Chairman, international conference, The Call of the Homeland: Diaspora Nationalisms, Past and Present, 18th-20th June, 2007, London, sponsored by University College London, London University, and ASEN, London School of Economics.
Editor, among recent volumes:
Beyond Survival and Philanthropy: American Jewry and Israel ,with A. Gottschalk, Hebrew Union College Press, Cincinnati, 2000;
The Legal and Zionist Tradition of Louis D. Brandeis , The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem, 2005, in Hebrew;
World Regional Zionism: Geo-Cultural Dimensions, cosponsored by The Historical Society of Israel and Ben-Gurion Research Institute, Ben-Gurion University, 2 vls., Hebrew version by the Historical Society of Israel/Shazar Center for Jewish History and Ben-Gurion University Press, 2008;
The Call of the Homeland: Diaspora Nationalisms, Past and Present, with A. Leoussi (University of Reading) and A. D. Smith (LSE), to be published in 2008 by E. J. Brill;
The Historical Foundations of Israel's Democracy, with M. Lissak, a Hebrew version scheduled for 2008, editorial board: G. Bacon (Bar Ilan Univ.), A. Gal (Ben-Gurion Univ.), M. Lissak (Hebrew Univ.), P. Morag-Talmon (Hebrew Univ.).
Among recent articles:
'Zionism as a Lobby', Israel: Studies in Zionism and the State of Israel, Tel Aviv University, Spring 2003, in Hebrew;
'On Israel, the Diaspora and Zionist Democracy', Iyunim Bitkumat Israel: Studies in Zionism, the Yishuv and the State of Israel, 14 (2004), in Hebrew;
'Toward a Regional Zionist Historiography', in E. Tzur, ed., Old World – new People: Jewish Communities in the Age of Modernization, Ben-Gurion University Press, Sede Boqer Campus, 2005, in Hebrew;
'The Democratic Factor in Ben-Gurion’s Zionist Foreign Policy', in Israel in the International Arena , Frank Cass, 2004;
'The Zionist Vision of Henrietta Szold', in S. Reinharz and M. Raider, eds., American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise ,University Press of New England, Hanover and London, 2005;
'Israel and the Diaspora', in the Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish Culture, Routledge , London & New York, 2005;
'Historical Ethno-symbols in the Emergence of the State of Israel', in A. Leoussi and S. Grosby, eds., Nationalism and Ethno-symbolism , Edinburgh University Press, 2007;
'A Humanistic Research Institute in the Israeli Desert', in A. P. Hare and G. M. Kressel, eds., The Desert Experience in Israel; Communities, Arts, Science, and Education in the Negev, University Press of America, Lanham MD, 2007;
'The Disintegration of the British Empire and the Political Cultures of India and Israel: a Comparative Analysis', with I. Lubelsky, Israel Affairs, London, April 2008;
'American Jewry's "Social Zion": Changes through Time', in E. Ben-Rafael, ed., Transnational Diasporas in Comparative Perspective, E. J. Brill, 2008;
'National Restoration and Moral Renewal: the Dialectics of the Past in the Emergence of Modern Israel', in Nations and Their Pasts, ed. by F. Gemenne and S. Carvalho, Palgrave McMillan, 2008;
'The United States in Abba Hillel Silver's World View', in American Jewish Archives Journal, Cincinnati OH, special issue, 60th anniversary of AJA, edited by P. Nadell, J. D. Sarna and L. J. Sussman, 2008.