Marilyn and Henry Taub Professor of Israel Studies; Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies; Director of the Taub Center for Israel Studies at New York University.
Ph.D. (Modern History), University of Cambridge, England.

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Research Interests:

History of British mandate, state of Israel and modern Jewish history.

Affiliations:

Member, Historical Advisory Panel to the National Archives in Washington, DC.

Fellowships/Honors:

1977-1978, Junior Fellow in Modern History at the Oxford University Center for Hebrew Studies; 1982, Visiting Fellow, Tauber Institute, Brandeis University; 1994, Visiting Archives Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge; 1999, Visiting Senior Scholar, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washing, DC; 2000, Research Fellowship, International Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.

Selected Works:

Britain and Palestine During the Second World War

German Reparations and the Jewish World: A History of the Claims Conference

Edited Books:

David Ben-Gurion: Politics and Leadership in Israel

Electronic Edition of the Palestine Post, 1932-1950

(with M. Raider and J. Sarna) Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver: A  Study in Zionist Leadership

(with Thomas Albrich)  Escape Through Austria: the Flight of Jewish Survivors from Eastern Europe, 1945-1948

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