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Curriculum Vitae

2000: Graduation from GaliliHigh School, Kfar-Saba, Israel (Science Class)

 

2000-2003: Military service at the Israeli Defence Forces (Intelligence Corps)

 

2006- BA (summa cum laude), Tel Aviv University, departments of general history and East Asian studies.

 

April 2007-April 2009: research student at the department of area studies, University of Tokyo (Japanese government Monbusho scholarship)

 

September 2009 – PhD Candidate at the history department, Harvard University

 

Publications:

 

Books

 

  1. Valkyrie – Ha-Hitnagdut ha-Germanit le-Hitler (Valkyrie: German Resistance to Hitler, Tel Aviv: Yedioth Ahronot Press, 2009)

 

Articles and Radio Broadcasts:

 

  1. (With Mark Solonin), "Calculated Indifference: The Soviet Union and the Plan to Bomb Auschwitz", Holocaust and Genocide Studies 27 (2013)
  2. "Black Flag in a Crossroads: the Political Trial of Kafr-Qasim (1956-8): Dynamics and Consequences", International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 45 (2013)
  3. "Tyrannicide in Radical Islam: Sayyid Qutb and Abd A-Salam Faraj", Middle Eastern Studies (November 2012)
  4. "Imperialism through the Mirror: Japan in the Eyes of the SS and the German Conservative Resistance", in Sven Saaler. ed., Mutual Perceptions in German-Japanese Relations: Images, Imaginings and Stereotypes (forthcoming)
  5. "A Japanese Prophet - Eschatology and Epistemology in the Thought of Kita Ikki, Japan Forum 23:3, 2011.
  6. “The Anti-Nazi Coups that Failed, 1938 and 1944: Did They Have a Chance?”, Military History Series, Boston University, 3 March 2011. Broadcasted in WBUR, Boston’s NPR: http://worldofideas.wbur.org/2011/03/20/anti-nazi-coups
  7. "Criticism Reconsidered: The German Resistance to Hitler in Critical German Scholarship", Journal of Military History 75:2 (April, 2011)
  8. “Japan through SS Eyes: Cultural Dialogue and Instrumentalization of a Wartime Ally”, European Studies Vol. 7 (March, 2008)
  9. “Japan mit der Augen der SS gesehen” (Vorwort and Deutsche Übersetzung von Harald Kleinschmidt) [Japan seen with the Eyes of the SS: Foreword and German translation by Harald Kleinschmidt], OAG Notizen (May, 2008).
  10. “Hidat Hacoah Hademoni – Tadmiyot Yapaniyot Baraich Hashlishi – Dialog Tarbuti ve Instrumentalizatsia” [The Riddle of Demonic Power: Japanese Images in the Third Reich: Cultural Dialogue and Instrumentalization], Historia – Journal of the Israeli Historical Society, vol.22 (Autumn 2008)
  11. “Mitsvat Lo Tirzah Be-mered Ha-Taiping: Teologia ve-Yisuma Halacha Le-Ma’ase” [‘Thou Shalt not Kill’ in the Taiping Rebellion: Theology and Practice], Zmanim, vol.104 (Autumn 2008)
  12. “Ha-Zamir ve-ha-Lotus – Jalal A-Din A-Rumi ve-ha-Buddhism” [The Nightingale and the Lotus – Jalal Al-Din Al-Rumi and Chinese Buddhist Thought]. Jamaa 16, 2007.
  13. “Fata Morgana o Re’i Akum: Historionim ve-ha-Hitnagdut ha-Germanit le-Hitler” [Fata Morgana or a Crooked Mirror: ‘Critical’ German Historians and the German Resistance to Hitler], Zmanim (Summer 2005)
  14. “The Israeli Translation Controversy – what about and where to” (with contributions by Yuval Wellis and Yuval Kfir), in Thomas Honneger, ed., Tolkien in Translation: Text and Film (Zürich-Berne: Walking Tree Publishers, 2004)

 

 

Current Projects

 

  1. Dissertation Project: "Culture of Disobedience: Resistance and Defiance in the Japanese Army, 1858-1930"

 

Research done for institutions

 

"General Hans Oster, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, Dr. Hans von Dohnanyi and their efforts to save Jewish lives during the Second World War": A research for the Righteous among the Nations Committee, Yad Vashem Holocaust Research institute, Jeruslaem. This research led to the endowment of the title "righteous among the nations" to Dr. Hans von Dohnanyi

 

Papers in conferences

 

 

  1. "Networks of Fencing: Anatomy of Conspiratorial Networks in Bakumatsu Japan (1853-1868)", Israeli graduate students conference in East Asian Studies, Tel Aviv, 4.6.2012
  2. "Dead Faces: J.R.R. Tolkien and the Experience of Total War", Mythopia, the annual conference of the Israeli Tolkien Society, Mod'in, Israel, 19 August 2011
  3. "Colonialism through the Mirror: Japan in the Eyes of the SS and the National Conservative German Resistance", ICAS Conference, Macau, June 2013, OAG International Symposium: Mutual Perceptions in Japanese-German Relations: Images, Imaginings and Stereotypes", OAG House, Tokyo, 10 December 2010.
  4. "The God that Failed: Nietzschean Romantic Heroes in Modern Fantasy and Myth", Mythopia, the annual conference of the Israeli Tolkien Society, Modi'in, Israel, 19 August 2010.
  5. "The German Resistance Movement and the Holocaust: A Reassessment", Yad Vashem Guest Research Seminar, Jerusalem, Israel, 26 November 2009. 
  6. "The German Resistance to Hitler" in the seminar of the desk for European History, Department of Area Studies, Tokyo University, Japan, April 2008.
  7. "The Reception of the German Resistance in Israel: Hans von Dohnanyi as a Case Study", in the panel, "Aspects of the German Resistance", German Studies Association Annual Conference, Washington DC, 9 October, 2004.
  8. "The Israeli Translation Controversy", in the annual conference of the German Tolkien Society, Bonn, August 2003

 

Fellowships:

 

  1. Japan Foundation Research Fellowship, September 2012 – September 2013
  2. Graduate Student Associate, Davis Center for Russian and European Studies, Harvard University
  3. External Fellow, International History Institute, Boston University

 

 

Prizes and Awards

 

2012 (spring semester) – Harvard University, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning: Certificate of Distinction in Teaching

2006- Yaavetz's Award for outstanding students, the department of General History. Wolf Foundation Award for outstanding students. Japanese Education Ministry (Monbusho) scholarship for research students.

2005- Rector's Award for academic excellence, TelAvivUniversity

2004- Bosh Foundation Scholarship for Jewish studies

1999- First prize in the "Competition for Young Scientists" of the Science Museum in Jerusalem.

 

Translations

 

During my undergraduate years, I have worked as translator from both English and German into Hebrew. Thus, I have translated more than ten books from both languages. Most prominent among my English translations is The Pity of it All - A History of Jews in Germany by Amos Elon (Kinnerret-Zmora publishers). From German I have translated a series of ten children books (Die Wilden Fussball Kerle - The Wild Football Bunch), as well as numerous legal documents for the Israeli Police and Ministry of Justice.