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Bartal, Israel (emeritus)

Personal:
Born 1946, Tel Aviv; Ph.D. 1981, Hebrew Univ.; Lect. 1982; Sen. Lect. 1985; Assoc. Prof. 1989; Prof. 1995.

Research Interests:

Jewish Orthodoxy. Eastern European Jewish history in the modern period. The Haskala movement. The pre-Zionist Jewish community in Palestine. The emergence of modern Jewish nationalism.

Research Projects:

1. History of the Hebrew University (with Profs. Michael Heyd, Israel Kollat et al.). Funding: Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture (1994-1996).

2. History of the Jews in Poland in 3 volumes (with Prof. Israel Gutman). Funding: Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture; The Zalman Shazar Center.

Abstracts of Current Research:

The many faces of Haskala:

A study is being made of the Haskala narrative, covering the language of symbols and images used in the Jewish Enlightenment (1780-1880).

Mifal Ha-Kinus:

A critical study is underway of the idea and the realization of the Zionist ingathering project: How Diaspora Jewish culture found its way back to the Land of Israel (1900-1948).

Recent Publications:

Bartal, I. (1990) Mordechai Aaron Guenzburg: A Lithuanian Maskil faces modernity. In: From East and West, Jews in a Changing Europe, 1750-1850, eds. F. Malino and D. Sorkin, Oxford, Blackwell, pp.126-147.

Opalski, M. and Bartal, I. (1992) Poles and Jews, A Failed Brotherhood. Hanover/London, Brandeis University Press, University Press of New England, 191 pp.

Bartal, I. (1993) From traditional bilingualism to modern monolingualism. In: Hebrew in Ashkenaz, A Language in Exile, ed. L. Glinert, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp.141-150.

Bartal, I., Mendelsohn, E. and Turniansky, Ch., eds. (1993) Studies in Jewish Culture in Honour of Chone Shmeruk. Jerusalem, The Zalman Shazar Center, 118* + 428 pp. (Hebrew, English and Yiddish).

Bartal, I. (1994) True knowledge and wisdom: On orthodox historiography. In: Studies in Contemporary Jewry, vol. 10, Jerusalem, The Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University, pp.178-192.

Bartal, I., Elior, R. and Shmeruk, Ch., eds. (1994) Hasidism in Poland. Jerusalem, The Bialik Institute and the Center for Research on the History and Culture of Polish Jews, Hebrew University, 397 pp. (Hebrew).

Bartal, I. (1995) Exile in the Land of Israel. Jerusalem, The Zionist Library and The Bialik Institute, 350 pp. (Hebrew).


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