Shlomo Fischer ,

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1 Shlomo Fischer Higher Education 2007 Ph.D., Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem Dissertation: "Self-Expression and Democracy in Radical Religious Zionist Ideology" 1997 M.A., Touro College, Jerusalem-New York. Thesis: "The 'Give and Take' of the Babylonian Talmud: Discourse and the Spirit of Carnival" 1976 B.A., Columbia University, New York Rabbinical Studies, Yeshivat Kerem B Yavne and Yeshivat Itri, Israel Career Lecturer, Overseas Studies Program and Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University 2010 Fellow, Jewish People Policy Institute, Jerusalem, Israel. Project Head, Annual Assessment Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Lecturer, Department of Teacher Training, School of Education, Hebrew University, Jerusalem Lecturer, Department of Sociology of Education, School of Education, Hebrew University, Jerusalem Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Program in Religious Studies, Tel Aviv University Horowitz Post-Doctoral Fellow, Faculty of Social Science, Tel Aviv University Research Fellow, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Jerusalem. Head of Working Goup on Religion and Class in Israel Fellow, The Institute for Advanced Jewish Studies, Shalom Hartman Institute 2000, Lecturer, Efrata Teacher Training College, Jerusalem Lecturer in Sociology, Beit Morasha, Jerusalem Teacher Training Coordinator, The Melton Center for Jewish Education, Hebrew University, Jerusalem ,

2 Lecturer in Israeli Studies, Rothberg International School, Hebrew University, Jerusalem Fellow, The Research Group on Social Theory and Criticism, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute Fellow, Shalom Hartman Institute for Advanced Jewish Studies Awards and Fellowships 2008 The Shimon Ben-Shemesh Memorial Award for the outstanding doctoral dissertation concerning "social, political and intellectual processes in Israel since the founding of the State." Awarded by the Keren Kayemet Research Institute (Judges panel: Prof. Shlomo Avineri, Prof. Yechiel Limor, Prof. Aryeh Naor) The Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University, Doctoral Support 2004 Gilo Fellowship The Gilo Center for Citizenship, Democracy and Civic Education, Hebrew University. Support for doctoral research The Germany-Israel Foundation, Project on Collective Identity, Democracy, Protest and Social Movements. Support for doctoral research 2002 The Minerva Foundation for Human Rights, The Hebrew University. Support for doctoral research 1997 The Reverend Samuel Pinsky and Dr. Leonard Levisohn Memorial Award for Oustanding Accomplishment in Jewish Studies, Touro College Graduate School of Jewish Studies Courses Taught Introduction to the Sociology of Religion Sociology of Education Literacy in the Social Sciences Sociology Didactic Seminar Sociological Theories and Education Sociology of Religion / Sociology of Secularization

3 Academic Conferences and Presentations 2011 Workshop on "Religion, Violence and War," Institute for Theological Inquiry, Princeton Theological Seminary 2011 "Bridging, Bonding, or Dividing: The Role of Religious and Ethical Education in Mediating Deeply Divided Societies," Center for Religion and World Affairs, Boston University 2010 "The Place of Religion in Israel," Conference on "Israel as a Jewish State," Gildenhorn Institute for Jewish Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 2010 "The Political Theology of Radical Religious Zionism," Conference on "Political and Legal Theology in Comparative Perspective," Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization, Cardozo Law School, New York, NY 2008 "The Political Ideas of Radical Religious Zionism: The General Will and the Divine State", The 13 th Annual Soref Workshop A Different Approach to Debates on Political Islam: Micro-Level Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba 2008 "Can New Individualist Spiritualism also Coexist with Violence and Collective Commitments?: New Spritual Developments Among the Religious Zionist Community in Israel," Research Workshop on Kabbalah and Contemporary Spiritual Renewal: Historical, Sociological and Cultural Perspectives, Ben- Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba 2008 "The General Will, Charisma, Prophecy and the Politics of the Avant-garde: Yehuda Etzion and the Theology of the Jewish Settlers Underground," International Conference: The Wrathful God: Religious Extremism in Comparative Perspective, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 2007 "Sociology in the Post-Secular Context," Semi-Plenary Panel on "Sociology and its Public Face(s)" (Marking Forty Years of Sociology), "Self-Expression, Individuality, Sexuality and Aggression Among the West Bank Settlers and the Radical Religious Zionist Community in Israel-Palestine," European Sociological Association Conference, Glasgow 2007 "Anthropological Knowledge and Jewish Studies," Anthropology and the History of Anthropology: An International Workshop in Honor of the Retirement of Prof. Harvey Goldberg, Libyan Jewry Heritage House, Or Yehudah, Israel and Hebrew University, Jerusalem 2006 "Fundamentalism, Modernism and Post-Modernism," International Conference on Unity and Plurality in Europe: Religion and Public Life, International Forum Bosnia, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzogovina

4 2006 "Was the Disengagement from Gaza a Watershed in the Relations of the Jewish Settlers and the Israeli State?" The Boniuk Center for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance at Rice University, Houston, TX 2006 "Tolerance, Peacemaking and the Third Element," Workshop on Encountering the Other: Religious Arguments for Tolerance and Hospitality, University of Notre Dame 2005 "The Resistance to the Disengagement from Gaza A Basis for Liberalism in the Religious Zionist Community?", Citizenship Education in Conflicted Societies, University of Haifa and the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute 2004 "The Contribution of Religious Commitment to Dialogue," Regional Summit on "The Development of Inter-Ethnic and Inter-Religious Dialogue Important Factor for the Stability and Progress of South-East Europe," UNESCO, Tirana, Albania 2004 "Fundamentalist or Romantic Nationalist? Israeli Modern Orthodoxy," Dynamic Belonging: Shifting Jewish Identities and Collective Involvements in Comparative Perspective, Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 2003 "Orthodox Jewish Movements in Israel: Shas and Radical Religious Zionism," Project Workshop: Collective Identity, Democracy and Religious Protest Movements, Max Weber Kolleg, University of Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany 2002 "If Everything Is So Good, Why Is Everything So Bad?: Thoughts on Nationalism, Religion and Religious Zionism," Judaism, Western and Eastern Christianity and Islam: Human Rights, Rule of Law and Democracy, The Third International Workshop, International Forum Bosnia, Sarejevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina 2002 "Contrasting Approaches to Religion and Nationalism Among Religious- Political Movements in Israel: Radical Religious Zionism and Shas," Europe between Hospitality and Globalization, Fourth International Philosophical Colloquium, University of Verona and the Center for the Study of European Political Forms, Reggio Emilia, Italy 2002 "The Dignity of Man, The Image of God and the Honor of the Fellow- Creature," Conference on Sources of Human Rights: Religion s Role in Defining Human Dignity, The Interreligious Center on Public Life, The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and the Toleration Project at Boston University, Newton, Mass "The Culture of Israeli Religious Zionism," The Joint International Conference of the Israeli Association for Research in Jewish Education and the North American Network for Research in Jewish Education, Haifa University

5 2002 "Religious Zionism between Nationalism, Religion and Modernity," Workshop on "A Theology of Pluralism under Conditions of National and Religious Conflict: What is Possible?" Institute for the Study of Economic Culture, Boston University and the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute 2001 "Morality, Liberalism and the Possibility of a Viable Jewish Political Culture," Workshop on Judaism, Western and Eastern Christianity and Islam: Human Rights, Rule of Law and Democracy, International Forum Bosnia, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina 2001 "Towards a Critique of the Premises of Research on Religion and Secularism in Israel" (with Yehuda Goodman), Thirteenth Congress of the World Union of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem 2001 "Intolerance and Tolerance in the Jewish Tradition and Contemporary Israel," Workshop on Tolerance from within Religious Traditions, Institute for the Study of Economic Culture, Boston University and the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Jerusalem 2000 "Religion, Heterodoxy and Collective Identity in Israel," Workshop on Collective Identities and Multiple Modernities, European University Institute and Israel Academy of Arts and Sciences, Badia Fiesolana, Italy 2000 "Collective Identity, Boundaries and Citizenship in Israel," Workshop on Collective Identity, the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and European University Institute 1999 "Intolerance and Tolerance in the Jewish Tradition and Contemporary Israel," Workshop on Toleration, Boston University, Institute for Economic Culture Institut fur die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna, Austria 1997 "Education for Democracy in the Religious Zionist Sector A Sociology of Knowledge Approach," Twelfth Congress of the World Union of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem 1996 "Teaching the Holocaust Preliminary Survey Results" (joint presentation with Elly Dlin), International Conference on Holocaust and Education, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem 1996 "Towards an Existential-Hermeneutic Poetics of Jewish Education," Workshop of Research in Jewish Education, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 1994 "Israeli Elites, Particularism and Social Struggle in Post-Mahapach Israel," International Conference on "Knowledge, Power and Society; Scholarship and Modes of Interpretation," Tel Aviv University 1993 "Torah, Eros and Women's Participation," International Conference on "Israeliness and Womanhood: Feminist Scholarship and National Discourse," the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Jerusalem

6 1993 "Is a Non-Fundamentalist Jewish Religious Movement Possible in Israel Today? A Post-Modern Suggestion," International Conference on "Israel: From a Mobilized to a Civil Society?" The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Jerusalem List of Publications Refereed Edited Books 1. The Burden of Tolerance: Religious Traditions and the Challenge of Pluralism, with Adam Seligman, eds. (Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad and the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, 2007). [Hebrew] Articles 1. "Democracy and Education in Postsecular Society," with Yotam Hotam and Philip Wexler, Review of Research in Education 36 (1) (2012), pp "Moderated Discussion, Religion, Education and Secularism in International Agencies," with eight other participants, Comparative Education Review 55 (1) (2011), pp "Religious Zionism at the Threshold of the Third Millennium: Two Radical Religious Zionist Cultures," Akdamot 22 (2009). [Hebrew] 4. "The Fundamentalism Paradigm and Beyond: The Study of Radical Religious Zionism from from the 1970s to the End of the Century," Theory and Criticism 31 (2007). [Hebrew] 5. "Excursus: Concerning the Rulings of R. Ovadiah Yosef Pertaining to the Thanksgiving Prayer, the Settlement of the Land of Israel, and Middle East Peace," Cardozo Law Review 28 (1) (2006). 6. "Intolerance and Tolerance in the Jewish Tradition and Contemporary Israel," Journal of Human Rights, Special Issue Essays on the Religious Roots of Tolerance: Arguments from within Monotheism, vol. 2 (1) (2003). 7. "Those Who Peace Causes to Tremble [Haredim]," Theory and Criticism 9 (1996). [Hebrew] 8. "Two Patterns of Modernization: On the Analysis of the Ethnic Problem in Israel," Theory and Criticism 1 (1991). [Hebrew] 9. "Jewish Salvation Visions, Utopias and Attitudes to the Halacha," in Adam Seligman, ed., Order and Transcendence: The Role of Utopias and the Dynamics of Civilizations (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1989) (also appeared in International Journal of Comparative Sociology 29, 1-2 (1988).

7 10. "Hasidism: The Surprising Utopia," International Journal of Comparative Sociology 29 (1988). Book chapters 1. "Fundamentalist or Romantic Nationalist: Israeli Modern Orthodoxy," in Harvey Goldberg, Steven Cohen, and Ezra Kopelowitz, eds., Dynamic Jewish Belonging (Oxford: Berghahn, 2011). 2. "Radical Religious Zionism from the Collective to the Individual," in Boaz Huss, ed., Kabbalah and Contemporary Spiritual Revival (Ben-Gurion University Press, 2011). 3. "Nature, Authenticity and Violence in Radical Religious Zionist Thought," in Hannah Herzog, Tal Kochavi and Shimshon Zelniker, eds., Generations, Locations, Identities: Contemporary Perspectives on Society and Culture in Israel, Essays in Honor of Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt (Tel Aviv: The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2007). [Hebrew] 4. "'The Image of God' and 'Walk in His Ways': Liberal and Republican Conceptions of Human Dignity and Citizenship," in Yosef David, ed., A Question of Honor: Human Dignity as a Supreme Moral Principle in Modern Societies (Jerusalem: Israel Democracy Institute and Magnes Press, 2006). [Hebrew] 5. "Amulets and Political Liberalism: The Conceptual Organization of Reality and the Legitimation of the Israeli State According the Shas Movement," in Yossi Yonah and Yehuda Goodman, eds., In the Maelstrom of Identities: A Critical Look at Religion and Secularity in Israel (Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad and the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, 2004). [Hebrew] 6. "Understanding Religion and Secularity in Israel: The Secularization Thesis and Its Conceptual Alternatives," with Yehuda Goodman, in Yossi Yonah and Yehuda Goodman, eds., In the Maelstrom of Identities: A Critical Look at Religion and Secularity in Israel (Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad and the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, 2004). [Hebrew] 7. "Modernization and Oriental Jews: On the Representation of the History of the Jews of North Africa and the Middle East in History Textbooks in Israel," in Avner Ben Amos, ed., History, Identity and Memory: Images of the Past in Israeli Education (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University Press, 2002). [Hebrew] 8. "Shas: Church or Sect," with Zvi Bekerman, in Yoav Peled, ed., Shas: The Challenge of Israeliness (Tel Aviv: Yediot Aharonot, 2001). [Hebrew] 9. "The Jewish Exit from History and the Talmud," in S.N. Eisenstadt and Moshe Lissak, eds., Zionism and the Return to History: A Reevaluation (Jerusalem: Yad Yitzchak Ben Zvi, 1999). [Hebrew]

8 10. "Zur Darstellung judischer Geschichte und judisch-kollectiver Identitat in israelischen Lehrbuchern," with Doron Niederland, in Th. Lange, ed., Judentum und judische Geschichte im Schulunterricht nach 1945 (Bohlau, 1994). Reprints 1. "Jewish Salvation Visions, Utopias and Attitudes to the Halacha," in Adam Seligman, ed., Order and Transcendence: The Role of Utopias and the Dynamics of Civilizations (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1989). 2. "Hasidism: The Surprising Utopia," in Adam Seligman, ed., Order and Transcendence: The Role of Utopias and the Dynamics of Civilizations (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1989). Other Publications Book Chapters 1. "Collective Identity, Democracy and Religious Protest Movements: Orthodox Jewish Protest Movements in Israel," in Gritt Klinkhammer, ed., Collective Identity, Democracy and Religious Protest Movements (Max-Weber-Kolleg der Universität Erfurt, 2005). 2. "The Dignity of Man, The Image of God and the Honor of the Fellow- Creature," in Adam Seligman, ed., Religion and Human Rights: Conflict or Convergence (Newton, MA: Interreligious Center on Public Life, 2004). 3. "Notes on Religion and Nationalism in Israeli Collective Identity," in S.N. Eisenstadt, Ronna Brayer-Garb and Tal Kochavi, eds., Collective Identities, Public Sphere and Political Order (Jerusalem: The Van Leer Forum for Public Discourse, 2002). [Hebrew] 4. "The Shas Movement," in Adi Ophir, ed., 50 to 48: Critical Moments in the History of Israel (Jerusalem: Hakibbutz Hameuchad and the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, 1999). [Hebrew] 5. "Empire, conscience, identitaire juive et relations internationales des Juifs a l'epoque du second Temple," in Shmuel Trigano, ed., La Société Juive à Travers L'Histoire, vol. III (Paris: Librarie Artheme Fayard, 1992). Articles 1. "The Moral Crises of Sprituality," Eretz Acheret 26 (2005). [Hebrew]

9 2. "He Who Does Not Learn from History is Destined to Repeat It," Eretz Acheret 24 (2004). [Hebrew] 3. "Very Modern: The Culture of Israeli Religious Zionism," Eretz Acheret 1 (10) (2002). [Hebrew] 4. "Intoleranz und Toleranz in der judischen Tradition und im Israel der Gegenwart," in Christof Schwobel und Dorothee von Tippelskirsch, eds., Die religiosen Wurzleln der Toleranz, Freiburg, Verlag Herder, "Intolerance and Tolerance in the Jewish Tradition and Contemporary Israel," in Adam B. Seligman and Rusmir Mahmutcehajic, eds., Tolerancija I Tradicija, Sarajevo, "Professionalism, Ethics and the Military Organization Sociological Aspects of Military Ethics," in Avihu Ronen, ed., Ethics and the Military Profession: Historical, Philosophical, Sociological and Juridical Aspects of Military Ethics, Israel Defense Forces, [Hebrew] 7. "Commons (Reshut Harabim), Public Sphere (Parhessia) and Marketplace: On the Art of Udi Aloni," Studio 37 (1992). [Hebrew] 8. "Who will Criticize the Critics?" Theory and Criticism 2 (1992). [Hebrew] Textbooks (Hebrew) 1. History of the Jews in Islamic Lands in the Modern Period, Part I: The Age of Colonialism to the end of the Second World War (Jerusalem: David Schoen Institute for Creative Jewish Education, 1990). 2. Collective Exile and Individual Redemption: Chapters in Modern Jewish History (Jerusalem, David Schoen Institute for Creative Jewish Education, 1988). 3. Jewish Society in the Second Temple Period (Jerusalem: David Schoen Institute for Creative Jewish Education, 1985). Book Reviews 1. Review of "Israel and Modernity: In Honor of Moshe Lissak," Israeli Sociology 10 (2) (2009). [Hebrew] Other Activities 2008 Founding Director, Yesodot The Center for Torah and Democracy, Jerusalem 2009 Book Review Editor, Israeli Sociology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv

10 Founder and Executive Director, Yesodot The Center for Torah and Democracy, Jerusalem Project Director "New Paradigms in Holocaust Curricula," Yad Vashem, Jerusalem Project Coordinator Center for Futurism in Education, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba 1992 Lecturer, Course for Immigrant Teachers from the Former Soviet Union, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Absorption Organization of Academic Conferences 2009 "Are Turkey and Israel Secular Nation-States? A Comparative Workshop," The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Jerusalem 2008 "International Conference: The Wrathful God: Religious Extremism in Comparative Perspective," Emory University, Atlanta, GA Languages Hebrew, English, and French.