Bios of Conference Participants

Uri Ben-Eliezer is a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology, University of Haifa. His main fields of interest are: state-society relations, army and society, military politics, Israeli democracy, social movements and civil society. Among his publications in English are: The Origins of Israeli Militarism (Indiana University Press, 1998), and publications in various academic journals, such as: Comparative Politics, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Theory and Society, Journal of Historical Sociology, and International Journal of Middle East Studies.

Sergio DellaPergola, born in Italy (1942), in Israel since 1966. Ph.D. Hebrew University (Jerusalem), 1973. Presently Professor, Hebrew University, at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, and Institute Chairman: 1991, 1994-1998, and 2000-2002. He is an internationally known specialist on the demography of Jewish communities worldwide: Western and Eastern Europe, North and Latin America, South Africa, and Israel. He has worked on Jewish historical demography, the Jewish family, Jewish migration and absorption in Israel and Western countries, Jewish population projections, and quantitative aspects of Jewish education. On these topics he has published numerous books and monographs and over one hundred papers. He has lectured at over 40 universities and research centers worldwide. He is a senior consultant to several national and international organizations. In 1999 he won the Marshall Sklare Award for distinguished achievement from the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry.

Zvi Gitelman is Professor of Political Science, Preston Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies and Director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. A summa cum laude graduate of Columbia College, he also received his Masters and Doctoral degrees at Columbia University. Gitelman is the author or editor of nine books and over 90 articles in scholarly journals. He has been a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University; a Skirball Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (Oxford, England); and a Fellow of the Rabin Center for Israel Studies. Gitelman is presently
collecting and editing oral histories from Soviet Jewish veterans of World War II and is engaged in a large-scale empirical study of Jewish identities in post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine. A second, revised and expanded edition of his A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union since 1881 was published in March 2001. Gitelman was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the Association for Jewish Studies and as a Fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research.

Calvin Goldsheider is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Sociology, the Ungerleider Professor of Judaic Studies at Brown University, where he received his Ph.D., and is Faculty Associate with the Population Studies and Training Center. He taught previously at Hebrew University and was Chair of their Department of Demography. Also taught at the University of Southern California, University of California, Berkeley, and Brandeis University. He has been a Senior Fulbright Research Scholar at Stockholm University. His research focuses on the sociology and demography of ethnic populations, historically and comparatively, with a particular emphasis on family and immigration. He has edited eight collections of original scholarly research in demography, including Population and Social Change in Israel and Population, Ethnicity, and Nation Building. His principal authored and co-authored books include: The Population of Israel; The Ethnic Factor in Family Structure and Mobility; The Transformation of the Jews; Jewish Continuity and Change; Israel's Changing Society: Population, Ethnicity and Development; and Transition to Adulthood. His most recent book is Cultures in Conflict - the Arab-Israeli Conflict and is currently completing a book on Studying the Jewish Future: Israel, the United States and Europe.

Adriana Kemp is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel-
Aviv University, where she received her Ph.D.. She has also taught at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Her fields of research are: labor migration, citizenship and national identity; the sociology of global cities. She is currently writing a book on the politics of labor migration in Israel during the 1990s and has published several articles on the subject.

Alan M. Kraut is Professor of History at American University in Washington, D.C. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1975. He is a specialist in U.S. immigration and ethnic history, the history of medicine in the United States, and nineteenth century U.S. social history. He is the author of four books and over a hundred articles and book reviews. His books include, The Huddled Masses: The Immigrant in American Society, 1880-1921 (1982; rev. 2001), an edited volume, Crusaders and Compromisers: Essays on the Relationship of the Antislavery Struggle to the Antebellum Party System(1983), American Refugee Policy and European Jewry, 1933-1945 (co-authored), and Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the "Immigrant Menace" (1994). The latter volume won several national awards, including the Theodore Saloutos Award from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society and the Phi Alpha Theta Award for the Best Book in History by an established author. Active in bringing history to a broader, non-academic audience, he has served as a member of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island History Committee, a consultant to the National Park Service, and an adviser to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, as well as an historical consultant to documentaries broadcast on the Public Broadcasting System and the History Channel. In 2000, he was elected President of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. He also sits on the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society.

Charles Krauthammer, winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary, writes a nationally syndicated editorial page column for the Washington Post Writers Group. Krauthammer, also winner of the 1984 National Magazine Award for essays, began writing the weekly column for the Washington Post in January 1985. It now appears in more than 100 newspapers. The late Meg Greenfield, editorial page editor of the Washington Post, called Krauthammer's column "independent and hard to peg politically. It's a very tough column. There's no 'trendy' in it. You never know what is going to happen next." He is widely known as a conservative, but he is unorthodox to the core. His motto, he once wrote, is "If the United States Senate votes 98 0 on anything, it must be wrong.'' A column, says Krauthammer, is not just politics. "My beat is ideas, everything from the ethics of cloning to strategy in Afghanistan. I also do public service, like reading Stephen Hawking's books and assuring my readers that 'It is not you, they are entirely incomprehensible'.'' Perhaps Krauthammer's most important mission as a columnist is to challenge conventional wisdom. Krauthammer was born in New York City and raised in Montreal. He was educated at McGill University, majoring in political science and economics, Oxford University (Commonwealth Scholar in Politics) and Harvard (M.D. in 1975). He practiced medicine for three years as a resident and then chief resident in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1978, he quit medical practice, came to Washington to direct planning in psychiatric research for the Carter administration, and began contributing articles to The New Republic. During the presidential campaign of 1980, he served as a speech writer to Vice President Walter Mondale. He joined The New Republic as a writer and editor in 1981. He writes regular essays for Time magazine, and contributes to several others including The Weekly Standard, The New Republic and The National Interest.

Doris Meissner, former Commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), joined the Carnegie Endowment's Global Policy Program on February 26, 2001 as a Senior Associate. She will develop and direct a new research project that explores the issues and challenges facing nations in implementing global policies. Ms. Meissner served as INS Commissioner at the U.S. Department of Justice from October 1993 to November 2000. Her accomplishments include reforming the nation's asylum system; creating new strategies to manage U.S. borders in the context of open trade; improving services for immigrants; managing migration and humanitarian crises firmly and compassionately; and strengthening cooperation and joint initiatives with Mexico, Canada, and other countries. Previously she served as Deputy Associate Attorney General, acting INS Commissioner (1981) and then as Executive Associate Commissioner until 1986 when she left government service to join the Carnegie Endowment. In 1989, Ms. Meissner founded the Endowment's International Migration Policy Program, now the Migration Policy Institute. Ms. Meissner is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, where she earned both her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees.

Jeffrey S. Passel is Principal Research Associate at the Urban Institute where his research has focused on the impacts and integration of immigrants into American society, and the demography of immigration, particularly the measurement of illegal immigration. Most recently, Dr. Passel and his colleagues have been investigating integration of immigrants and the second generation, welfare use by immigrants, the fiscal impacts of immigrants, including taxes paid and social services used, and size of the undocumented population. His interests also include measuring and defining racial/ethnic groups in the United States. Selected publications include: Immigration and Immigrants: Setting the Record Straight (with Michael Fix); Immigration and Ethnicity: The Integration of America's Newest Immigrants (edited with Barry Edmonston); Immigrants in New York: Their Legal Status, Incomes and Tax Payments (with Rebecca L. Clark); Immigration, Fertility, and the Future American Work Force (with Joan Kahn); and articles on Mexican migration, illegal immigration, and population projections. Prior to joining the Urban Institute in 1989, Dr. Passel directed the Census Bureau's program of population estimates and projections and its research on demographic methods for measuring census undercount. He has recently served as a member of the Population Association of America's Professional Advisory Committee to the Bureau of the Census, the National Academy of Sciences's Panel on Estimates of Poverty for Small Geographic Areas, and the Population Association of America's Committee on Population Statistics. Dr. Passel has a Ph.D. in Social Relations from The Johns Hopkins University, an M.A. in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin, and a B.S. in mathematics from M.I.T.

Frank Sharry is the Executive Director of the National Immigration Forum. Based in Washington D.C., it is one of the nation's premier immigration policy organizations, and has a membership of over 200 organizations nationwide. The Forum's mission is to embrace and uphold America's tradition as a nation of immigrants. Mr Sharry frequently appears in print and on television, ranging from the pages of the Washington Post to debates on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, the McLaughlin Group, and CNN's Crossfire. Prior to joining the Forum, Mr. Sharry was Executive Director of Centro Presente, a Boston-based agency that aids central American refugees, founded the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy, and led efforts to resettle refugees from Vietnam, Cuba, and elsewhere for the Immigration and Refugee Services of America. In 1994, Mr. Sharry took a leave of absence from the Forum to serve as Deputy Campaign Manager of Taxpayers Against Proposition 187, the effort opposing the California ballot initiative on immigration.

Yehouda Shenhav holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and teaches Sociology at Tel Aviv University. He is currently the editor of Theory & Criticism and among his books are: Manufacturing Reality (Oxford University Press, 1999); The Organization Machine (Schocken, 1995); The Arab-Jews: A Postcolonial Reading of Nationalism, Religion and Ethnicity (Am-Oved, forthcoming).

Judith T. Shuval received her MA and Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University. Since 1967 she has held a joint appointment as Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and in the School of Public Health of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1991 she was appointed to the Rose Chair of the Sociology of Health. Her research has been in the fields of immigration, diaspora, ethnic relations, and the sociology of health. She received the Israel Prize for the Social Sciences for her book Immigrants on the Threshold which presented a sociological analysis of the mass immigration of the 1950's. She has served as Chair of the Israel Sociological Association, as a member of the Executive Committee of the European Society for Medical Sociology, on the executive committee of the Research Committee on the Sociology of Health of the International Sociological Association, on the editorial board of Social Science and Medicine and Sociology of Health and Illness. During a series of sabbaticals she served as Visiting Professor and Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan, Brandeis University and Harvard University. Among her books are: Immigrants on the Threshold (1963); Social Functions of Medical Practice, (with the collaboration of Aaron Antonovsky and A.M. Davies 1970); Newcomers and Colleagues: Soviet Immigrant Physicians in Israel (1983); Social Dimensions of Health: the Israeli Experience (1992); Immigrant Physicians: Former Soviet Doctors in Israel, Canada and the United States (1997, with J.H. Bernstein); Immigration to Israel - Sociological Perspectives (1998 with E.Leshem). Her most recent book is Ha'Ikar Habriut; Mivne Chevrati U'Briut Be'Yisrael (2000 with O. Anson)

Rita Simon, University Professor in the School of Public Administration at American University (Washington, D.C.), has research interests and primary areas of concentration in academic work in law and society; the jury system; immigration policies and public opinion; trans racial adoption; women and the criminal justice system; and women's issues. Professor Simon recently published her thirtieth book in these fields. She is the recipient of Guggenheim and Ford Foundation Fellowships. Professor Simon is the former editor of American Sociological Review and Justice Quarterly. She is the current editor of Gender Issues. Her most recent books are: In Their Own Voices (Columbia University Press, with Rhonda Roorda); Women and the Military (edited, Transaction Books); and Immigrant Women: A Comparative Perspective on Major Social Problems (Lexington books).

Sammy Smooha is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Haifa. He completed his graduate studies at UCLA and taught at the University of Washington in Seattle, SUNY at Binghamton and Brown University. He served as a Research Fellow at Annenberg Research Institute (Philadelphia), Graduate Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (Oxford); Arnold Bergstraesser Institut (Frieburg), Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin fur Sozialforschung (Berlin), European Centre for Minority Issues (Flensburg, Germany), and Yitzhak Rabin Center for Israel Studies (Tel Aviv). Professor Smooha specializes in comparative ethnic relations and Israeli society. His most recent work focuses on the ethnic nature of Israeli democracy in a comparative perspective (Northern Ireland, Slovakia and Estonia) and on the implications of the peace process for Israeli society. He has widely published on the internal divisions in Israel. His books include Israel: Pluralism and Conflict (University of California Press, 1978); Social Research on Arabs in Israel, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 (The Jewish-Arab Center, 1978 and 1984); Social Research on Jewish Ethnicity in Israel (Haifa University Press, 1987); Arabs and Jews in Israel, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 (Westview Press, 1989 and 1992); and Autonomy for Arabs in Israel? (Institute for Israeli Arab Studies, 1999, Hebrew).

Russell Stone is Professor of Sociology, American University (Washington, D.C.). He has been a visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Ben Gurion University of the Negev, and conducted research as a visiting associate of the Israel Institute of Applied Social Research. He is the author of Social Change in Israel: Attitudes and Events, edited and participated in writing four other books: Critical Essays on Israeli Social Issues and Scholarship; Political Elites in Arab North Africa; Change in Tunisia: Studies in the Social Sciences; and OPEC and the Middle East: The Impact of Oil on Societal Development and has contributed chapters to books on Egyptian economic development, political elites in North Africa, Israeli society, and exchange of expertise with Third World countries. His articles on social change have appeared in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, Studies in Family Planning, and Africa Report, among others. He is the Administrative Coordinator for the Association of Israel Studies, based at American University and edits a book series on Israel for SUNY Press.

Nina Toren is Professor of Sociology in the School of Business Administration, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of Social Work: The Case of a Semi-Profession; Science in Cultural Context: Soviet Scientists in Comparative Perspective; Hurdles in the Halls of Science: The Israeli Case; and articles on immigrant scientists, professionals in organizations and women in nontraditional occupations.

Sanford J. Ungar, President of Goucher College, most recently served as head of the international broadcasting organization, Voice of America, and is a well known print and broadcast journalist, having written for The Economist, Foreign Policy, the Washington Post, and the Atlantic. Many remember his radio voice from his days hosting "All Things Considered" and "NPR Dateline." From 1986 to 1999, he served as Dean of the School of Communication at American University. He has written or edited six books on a range of topics including the FBI, Africa, and an overview of American foreign policy. His most recent book is Fresh Blood: The New American Immigrants (1995). Among his previous books are: Africa: The People and Politics of an Emerging Continent (1985); Almost Revolution: France 1968 (1969 with Allan Priaulx); Estrangement: America and the World (1985); and FBI (1976). He is also a frequent lecturer and has traveled extensively internationally to promote free press and democratic elections. Ungar is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College with a degree in government. He received a Master of Science degree in international history from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Howard M. Wachtel is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Israel Studies at American University and a Fellow of the Transnational Institute (Amsterdam) since 1976. He is the author of four books and over 60 articles about various topics in the political economy of the United States, Europe, and countries in transition. His books include: The Money Mandarins: The Making of a New Supranational Economic Order (Pantheon Books, 1986); Labor and the Economy (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, third edition, 1992); and Workers' Management and Workers' Wages in Yugoslavia (Cornell University Press, 1973). He is presently working on Street of Dreams - Boulevard of Broken Hearts: Wall Street's First Century (Pluto Press, forthcoming 2003). On Israel and the region, he has written about the economics of water resources. As Director of the Center for Israel Studies since its founding in 1998, he has hosted nine In-Residence Israeli artists, writers and scholars who do short-term teaching at AU and present a public program, developed two study abroad programs in Israel, hosted four conferences, and eight lectures by Israeli scholars.

Yossi Yonah received his Ph.D. from the philosophy department, University of Pennsylvania. He teaches political philosophy and philosophy of education in the Department of Education, Ben Gurion University of the Negev. He was the head of the Teacher Training Program of the department. He publishes extensively on topics pertaining to moral and political philosophy and in philosophy of education. Currently working on a book about multi-culturalism in Israel.

Walter P. Zenner is Professor of Anthropology and Judaic Studies at the State University of New York at Albany. He is the author of Urban Life: Readings in Urban Anthropology (Waveland Press, 4th edition, 2001); Persistence & Flexibility: Perspectives on the American Jewish Experience (State University of New York Press, 1988); Minorities in the Middle: A Cross-Cultural Analysis (State University of New York Press, 1991); and Jews Among Muslims: Communities in the Pre-Colonial Middle East (New York University Press, 1996). His latest book is A Global Community: The Jews from Aleppo Syria (Wayne State University Press, 2000).