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Liora R. Halperin
University of Washington, Seattle
Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Jackson School of International Studies
400 Thomson Hall, Box 353650
Seattle WA 98195
United States
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Historiography
Identity/Representation
Israel Studies
Judaic Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Nationalism
Palestinian Studies
Zionism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Israel
Palestine
Europe
Specialties
Collective Memory
History Of Israel/Palestine
Jewish History
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
German (intermediate)
Hebrew (fluent)
Russian (elementary)
Spanish (intermediate)
Yiddish (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2011 | History | UCLA
MA | 2007 | Hist | UCLA
BA | 2005 | Hist, NELC | Harvard U
Abstracts
Hebrew Man, Speak Arabic!: The Symbolisms of Arabic in the Zionist Movement before 1948 Zionist Discourses on English Language Instruction in Mandatory Palestine Resituating the Yishuv in its Arabic Speaking Context A Microhistory of Jewish-Arab Conflict in Late Ottoman Palestine Capitalist "Coexistence" and the Politics of Apoliticism: Zionist Memories of Arab Labor after 1948 “Hierarchical Coexistence”: Relational History on the Zionist Center-Right Native Sons, Native Settlers: The 'Union of the Sons of the Yishuv,' 1939-1965