Research Fields
- Zionist ideology and practice
- Palestinian society and politics
- Palestinian collaborators and Israel's intelligence agencies
- Mizrahi Jews
- Palestinian refugees
- Jerusalem
- holy places
- al-Aqsa
- Religion and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- Islam and Judaism - Jews and Muslims
- Palestine under the British mandate
- Land issues
About
Prof. Hillel Cohen was born in 1961 in Jerusalem. Cohen studies the dynamics between the Zionist movement (and later the state of Israel) and the Palestinian Arabs, as well as the history of Jewish-Muslims relations prior to Zionism, and the history of Mizrahi (aka Oriental) Jews before and after 1948.
Selected Publications
Army of Shadows: Palestinian Collaborators in the Service of Zionism 1917-1948 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008).
Good Arabs: The Israeli Intelligence and the Israeli Arabs (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010).
The Rise and Fall of Arab Jerusalem: Politics and the City 1967-2007 (London: Routledge, 2011).
Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: 1929 (Brandeis University Press, 2015).
Selected Awards
Ben Zvi Prize for the best book on Israel history for Year Zero of the Israeli-Arab Conflict: 1929.
Azrieli Institute Prize for Best Book in Israel Studies, Concordia University; for Year Zero of the Israeli-Arab Conflict: 1929
Teaching
Bachelor's degree courses
The Palestinians: Political and Social History (B.A. seminar)
Zionism and the Arabs
Jerusalem - al-Quds
Jewish-Muslim relations from Muhammad to present: selected topics
Master's degree courses
1948: The real story (MA seminar)
Sephardi and Oriental Jews: History and Identity (MA seminar)
Research Fields
Zionist ideology and practice
Palestinian society and politics
Palestinian collaborators and Israel's intelligence agencies
Mizrahi Jews
Palestinian refugees
Jerusalem
holy places
al-Aqsa
Religion and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Islam and Judaism - Jews and Muslims
Palestine under the British mandate
Land issues
About
Prof. Hillel Cohen was born in 1961 in Jerusalem. Cohen studies the dynamics between the Zionist movement (and later the state of Israel) and the Palestinian Arabs, as well as the history of Jewish-Muslims relations prior to Zionism, and the history of Mizrahi (aka Oriental) Jews before and after 1948.
Selected Publications
Army of Shadows: Palestinian Collaborators in the Service of Zionism 1917-1948 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008).
Good Arabs: The Israeli Intelligence and the Israeli Arabs (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010).
The Rise and Fall of Arab Jerusalem: Politics and the City 1967-2007 (London: Routledge, 2011).
Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: 1929 (Brandeis University Press, 2015).
Selected Awards
Ben Zvi Prize for the best book on Israel history for Year Zero of the Israeli-Arab Conflict: 1929.
Azrieli Institute Prize for Best Book in Israel Studies, Concordia University; for Year Zero of the Israeli-Arab Conflict: 1929
Teaching
Bachelor's degree courses
The Palestinians: Political and Social History (B.A. seminar)
Zionism and the Arabs
Jerusalem - al-Quds
Jewish-Muslim relations from Muhammad to present: selected topics
Master's degree courses
1948: The real story (MA seminar)
Sephardi and Oriental Jews: History and Identity (MA seminar)