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Halperin, Liora R.

Jackson School of International Studies; History
University of Washington, Seattle

DISCIPLINE
History
SUB AREAS
Hebrew   
Judaic Studies   
Arabic   
Middle East/Near East Studies   
Language Acquisition   
Gender/Women's Studies   
Zionism   
Nationalism   
AREAS OF INTEREST
Europe   
Israel   
Palestine   
SPECIALTIES
Late Ottoman and Mandate Palestine   
Jewish history, history of Zionism   
Collective memory   
LANGUAGES
Arabic (Advanced)   
German (Intermediate)   
Hebrew (Fluent)   
Russian (Elementary)   
Spanish (Intermediate)   
Yiddish (Intermediate)   
EDUCATION
PhD2011HistoryUCLA
MA2007HistUCLA
BA2005Hist, NELCHarvard U
ABSTRACTS ACCEPTED AT MESA MEETINGS SINCE 2009
Native Sons, Native Settlers: The 'Union of the Sons of the Yishuv,' 1939-1965 (2021)   
“Hierarchical Coexistence”: Relational History on the Zionist Center-Right (2020)   
Capitalist "Coexistence" and the Politics of Apoliticism: Zionist Memories of Arab Labor after 1948 (2019)   
A Microhistory of Jewish-Arab Conflict in Late Ottoman Palestine (2014)   
Resituating the Yishuv in its Arabic Speaking Context (2012)   
Zionist Discourses on English Language Instruction in Mandatory Palestine (2010)   
Hebrew Man, Speak Arabic!: The Symbolisms of Arabic in the Zionist Movement before 1948 (2009)   

Liora R. Halperin






Jackson School of International Studies
400 Thomson Hall, Box 353650
Seattle, WA
98195
United States
Phone:617-694-4950
lhalper@uw.edu