Ytzhak Conforti

Biography: about me: Dr. Yitzhak Conforti is a senior lecturer at the Israel and Golda Koschitzky department of Jewish History at Bar Ilan University. He is the author of: Past Tense – Zionist Historiography and the Shaping of the Zionist Memory (Jerusalem: Yad Itzhak Ben-Zvi 2006) won the Ish-Shalom prize 2006, and the Hecht prize 2007. He has published extensively on modern Jewish historiography, Jewish Nationalism and Zionism. He was a visiting scholar in the Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Oxford University, the Taub Center for Israel Studies in New York University, the Center for Jewish History in New York, and a fellow at the Katz center for Advances Judaic studies at U-Penn. His last book: Shaping A Nation – The Cultural Origins of Zionism, 1882-1948 (Jerusalem: Yad Itzhak Ben Zvi, 2019). He is a member in the Board of the Association for Israel Studies.