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Union and the Maghreb: Political Tensions Offset by Common Interests; Israel
and the Mediterranean: Sixty years of Fluctuating Coexistence; and two books
on French Jewry: The Jews of France, 1945–1995: A Portrait of a Western
European Community and Clouds of Danger: French Jewry in the First Two
Decades of the Twenty-first Century.
Yaacov Lev (PhD, University of Manchester) is tenured full professor of
Islamic medieval history at Bar-Ilan University. He is the author of Char-
ity, Endowments, and Charitable Institutions in Medieval Islam (2005). He
and Dr. Miriam Frenkel led a research group on “Charity and Piety in
the Middle East in the Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Continuity
and Transformation” at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem, in
2006–2007. Currently he chairs the Department of Middle Eastern Studies
at Bar-Ilan University.
Avigdor Levy (PhD, Harvard University) is professor of Near Eastern
and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. He has published five books
and numerous articles on Ottoman history, the Jews in the Ottoman Em-
pire, Syrian politics, and the Arab-Israeli conflict. His books include The
Sephardim in the Ottoman Empire (1992), The Jews of the Ottoman Empire
(1994), and Jews, Turks, Ottomans: A Shared History (2002). He is an editor
of the five-volume Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World (2010).
Rachel Maissy-Noy holds a PhD degree in Middle Eastern history from
Bar-Ilan University. Her dissertation is entitled Aspects of Jewish History
as Narrated by Egyptian Historiography. In addition to having earned an
MA degree from the University of Haifa for the thesis “Palestinian His-
toriography and Its Relation to the Territory of Palestine,” she received a
teaching certificate in computer science from the Haifa-based Technion.
Dr. Noy is well versed in Arabic language and literature. Her most recent
publication is “Palestinian Historiography in Relation to the Territory of
Palestine,” Middle Eastern Studies 42 (November 2006).
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Ben Mollov (PhD, Bar-Ilan University) is on the faculty of the Interdis-
ciplinary Department of Social Sciences and the Graduate Program in
Conflict Management. He directs the Project for the Study of Religion,
Culture, and Peace at Bar-Ilan University. He specializes in conflict man-
agement from an intercultural perspective and on aspects of the Jewish
political tradition. He is the author of Power and Transcendence: Hans J.
Morgenthau and the Jewish Experience (2002). He is co-author of “Culture,
Dialogue, and Perception Change in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” as
well as “Federalism and Multiculturalism as a Vehicle for Perception
Change in Israeli-Jewish Society”—both of which appeared in the In-
ternational Journal of Conflict Management. He organized several interna-
tional conferences at Bar-Ilan University in cooperation with the Konrad
Adenauer Stiftung and has twice participated in international confer-
ences in Malaysia.
Yehudit Ronen (PhD, Tel-Aviv University) is associate professor and se-
nior researcher in the Political Science Department at Bar-Ilan University
and at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies
at Tel-Aviv University. Her numerous publications include the following
books: Sudan in a Civil War: Between Africanism, Arabism, and Islam (1995),
The Maghrib: Politics, Society, and Economy (1998), and Qaddafi’s Libya in
World Politics (2008). Her other scholarly works deal with Muslim immi-
gration to Europe, the Maghrib in the post–cold war period, the identity
struggles in Sudanese society, the impact of political change in Libya, and
other issues. She has also published a novel, Carob Whiskey (1999).
Suzanne D. Rutland (PhD, University of Sydney, OAM) is professor in
the Department of Hebrew, Biblical, and Jewish Studies at the Univer-
sity of Sydney. She has published widely on Australian Jewish history,
edits the Sydney edition of the AJHS Journal, and writes on issues relat-
ing to the Shoah and Israel. Her latest books are The Jews in Australia
(2005) and Triumph of the Jewish Spirit: Forty Years of the Jewish Communal
Appeal (2007). In 2004 she received a major government grant with the
late Professor Sol Encel to study “The Political Sociology of Australian
Jewry,” and in 2008–2009 she was awarded a government grant from the
Australian Prime Minister’s Centre for research on the role of Malcolm
Fraser and Bob Hawke, two Australian prime ministers, in the campaign
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for Soviet Jewry. She is writing a book with Sam Lipski, entitled Let My
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