Ori Yehudai Curriculum vitae Department of History University of Toronto EDUCATION 2013 PhD, with distinction, University of Chicago, History 2007 MA, University of Chicago, History 2006 MA, Tel Aviv University, Modern European History, magna cum laude 2004 BA, Tel Aviv University, European History and Middle Eastern History ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2016- Assistant Professor (LTA), Department of History, University of Toronto 2015-16 Simon and Ethel Flegg Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Jewish Studies, McGill University 2014-15 Schusterman-Taub Postdoctoral Fellow, Taub Center for Israel Studies, New York University 2013-14 Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Jewish History, New York PUBLICATIONS Displaced in the National Home: Jewish Repatriation from Palestine to Europe, 1945-1948, Jewish Social Studies, 20/2 (winter 2014). Book review: Gur Alroey, An Unpromising Land: Jewish Migration to Palestine in the Early Twentieth Century (Stanford, 2014) Journal of Jewish Identities, 8/1 (2015). WORK IN PROGRESS Leaving Zion: Jewish Emigration from Palestine and Israel, 1945-1967, book manuscript in preparation. 1
Unwilling Haven: Remigrants from Israel in the Foehrenwald DP Camp, 1949-1957, article in preparation. Leaving the Land and the People: Emigration and Religious Conversion in Palestine/Israel, 1945-1960, article in preparation. AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS 2015-16 Simon and Ethel Flegg Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Jewish Studies, McGill University 2014-15 Schusterman-Taub Postdoctoral Fellowship, Taub Center for Israel Studies, New York University 2014 National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship 2014 The Fraenkel Prize for an Outstanding Work in Contemporary History (commendation), the Wiener Library, London 2013-14 Israel Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship 2013 Selected Participant, Third Junior Scholars Conference in German-Jewish History, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC 2012-13 Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2012-13 Samuel and Flora Weiss Research Fellowship, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research 2012 Selected Participant, Research Workshop on Jewish Refugees, Survivors, and Displaced Persons, Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, NYU and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies 2012 Goldreich Family Institute Scholarship for Yiddish Studies, Tel Aviv University 2011, 2012 Chicago Center for Jewish Studies, Research Grant 2010 Orin Williams Research Grant, University of Chicago Division of Social Sciences 2009, 2010 Kunstadter Research Grant, University of Chicago 2008 Provost Research Fellowship, University of Chicago 2
CONFERENCE ACTIVITY Conferences Organized 2015 American Jews and Israel: A Relationship in Transition, Taub Center for Israel Studies, NYU (co-organizer) 2014 Uprooted: New Perspectives on Jewish Postwar Refugees, Public Program, Center for Jewish History, New York Panels Organized 2012 Rethinking the Model Migrant: New Perspectives on Jewish Migration, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Chicago (co-organizer) 2012 Looking for Home: Survivors, Migrants and Zionism after World War II, Association for Israel Studies Annual Conference, University of Haifa (coorganizer) 2011 Reconsidering Jewish Migration and the Yishuv, Association for Israel Studies Annual Conference, Brandeis University (co-organizer) Papers Presented 2015 Renouncing Judaism? Convert-Emigrants from the Nascent Jewish State, Spiritual Homelands-Wahlheimat-Elective Exiles, University of Virginia 2015 Leaving Zion, Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference, Boston 2015 Unwilling Haven: Remigrants from Israel in the Foehrenwald DP Camp, Beyond Camps and Forced Labour Conference, Imperial War Museum, London 2014 We Are a Church, Not a Travel Agency : The Involvement of Christian Missionaries in Jewish Emigration from Israel in the 1950s, Association for Israel Studies Annual Conference, Ben-Gurion University 2013 Leaving the Land and the People: Emigration and Religious Conversion in Palestine/Israel, 1945-1960, Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference, Boston 2012 Tensions of Nation-Building: Israel as a Country of Jewish Emigration in the 1950s, Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference, Chicago 3
2012 Problems of Second Rehabilitation: Jewish Refugees from Israel in Europe in the 1950s, Association for Israel Studies Annual Conference, University of Haifa 2012 Refugees, Migrants, or Traitors? Israelis in Europe, 1949-1957, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Chicago 2011 Permanent Homeland or Temporary Shelter? Jewish Refugees in Palestine, 1945-1948, Association for Israel Studies Annual Conference, Brandeis University 2010 Jewish Repatriation from Palestine after WWII: UNRRA, the Jewish Agency, and the Meaning of Home, Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference, Boston 2010 Stranded between Israel and America: Jewish Transmigrants in Europe, 1949-1954, Association for Israel Studies Annual Conference, University of Toronto Panels Chaired 2014 Immigrant Experience and Identity, Association for Israel Studies Annual Conference, Ben-Gurion University 2012 Economy and Immigration in the Yishuv and the State of Israel, Association for Israel Studies Annual Conference, University of Haifa 2009 At Home in the World: Life in Middle Eastern Diasporas, Middle East History and Theory Conference, University of Chicago INVITED LECTURES AND WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS 2015 We Know Better Than You What is Good for You : Israel and Its Emigrants in the Early Years of the State, public lecture, Taub Center for Israel Studies, NYU 2014 A Different Exodus: Jewish Emigration from Palestine and Israel, 1945-1967, Center for Jewish History Fellows Workshop 2014 The Image of the Emigrant: Conflicting Voices from the Archives, Seminar on Archival and Historical Research, Center for Jewish History, New York 2014 Temporary Shelter: Jewish Refugees in the Fledgling State of Israel, Public Lecture, Center for Jewish History, New York 2013 Between Israel and America: Germany as a Transit Station for Israeli Emigrants, 1949-1957, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC 4
2013 Strained Relations: Israel and Its Emigrants in the 1950s, Samuel and Flora Weiss Lecture, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research 2012 Theoretical and Methodological Problems in the Study of Jewish Emigration from the Land of Israel, The Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C 2011 Displaced in the National Home: Jewish Emigration from British Mandate Palestine to Europe, New York University Taub Center for Israel Studies Graduate Workshop 2011 Should They Stay or Should They Go? Jewish Emigration from Palestine to Europe after WWII, Chicago Center for Jewish Studies Graduate Workshop TEACHING McGill University, Department of Jewish Studies History and Memory in Israel Modern Jewish Migration University of Toronto, Department of History History of the Jewish People, 300 CE-Present History of Israel History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict Jewish Migration and Displacement in the 20th Century PROFESIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Historical Association Association for Jewish Studies Association for Israel Studies 5