Israel Bartal

Israel Bartal is Avraham Harman Professor Emeritus of Jewish History and the former dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2006–2010). He served as the chair of the Historical Society of Israel (2007–2015). Professor Bartal taught at Harvard, McGill, Johns Hopkins, University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers, and Moscow State University. He was on the faculty of the Open University of Tel Aviv (1982–1993) and developed several courses in modern Jewish history. Bartal is one of the founders of Cathedra, a leading scholarly journal on the history of the land of Israel, and served as its coeditor for over twenty years. Since 1998, he has been the editor of Vestnik, a scholarly Russian-language journal of Jewish studies. Among his numerous publications are Poles and Jews: A Failed Brotherhood (with Magdalena Opalski, 1992); The Jews of Eastern Europe: 1772–1881 (2005, 2006; also published in Hebrew, Russian, and German); Cossack and Bedouin: Land and People in Jewish Nationalism (2007) [Hebrew]; The History of Jerusalem: The Late Ottoman Period (1800–1917), coedited with Haim Goren (2010); To Redeem a People: Enlightenment and Nationalism in Eastern Europe (2013) [Hebrew]; and Tangled Roots: The Emergence of Israeli Culture (2020). He has been a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences since 2016. He is the coeditor, with Kenneth B. Moss, of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 7: National Renaissance and International Horizons, 1880–1918.