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Dror Wahrman

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Indiana University

Dror is a professor in the Department of History at Indiana University. His research interests are the culture of modern Britain and 18th century British history.

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Haym Soloveitchik

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Yeshiva University

Haym is a professor in the Bernard Ravell Graduate School at Yeshiva University, New York. His research interests are medieval Jewish history and history of Jewish law.

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Doron Mendels

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Doron is a professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests are communication and history.

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Tamar Liebes-Plesner

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Tamar is a professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research interests are: political communication, media and collective memory; television audiences; new TV genres; the media and terror.

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Elihu Katz

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University of Pennsylvania

Elihu is a professor in the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests are: communication theory; the diffusion of innovation; media events; leisure and cultural policy.

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Shmuel Feiner

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Bar-Ilan University

Shmuel is a professor in the Department of Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University. His research interests are: modern Jewish History in the 18th and 19th centuries; the Jewish Enlightenment; cultural conflicts; secularization; orthodoxy, and modern nationalism.

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Yaron Eliav

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University of Michigan

Yaron is a professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan. His research interests are: Talmudic and early Christian literatures, classics and archaeology; encounter between Jews and Graeco-Roman culture.

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Menahem Blondheim

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Menahem is a professor in the Department of Communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests are: history of communication in America; Jewish and Jewish-American culture and communication; communication technology and social change.

One People, Scattered: The Role of Communication in Holding the Jewish Diaspora Together, 200-2000 AD

[RG #98] One People, Scattered: The Role of Communication in Holding the Jewish Diaspora Together, 200-2000 AD

September 1, 2004 - August 31, 2005

Organizer:

Menahem Blondheim (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

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Our group sets out to address an ancient problem from a new perspective. The problem, which has intrigued and been debated for centuries, is Jewish survival as a people in exile, dispersed over the four corners of the earth since antiquity. The proposition we set out to explore is that effective communication, over time and across space, was key to the survival of Jews as "one people, scattered" (Book of Esther, 3:8), forming what many consider "the mother of all diasporas".

Beyond approaching a major hisorical quantary in a new way, we are also developing a novel scholarly agenda. This agenda is the re-understanding of Jewish civilization from a communications perspective and, more generally, proposing that history and communications be studied jointly. History, after all, aspires to trace all aspects of human life and understand it in all its complexity. Communication is one significant, albeit neglected, aspect of human history; but in addition, it is a potential key to grasping and untangling historical complexity. For by its nature, communication is the story of linkages, of interconnections and interrelations. It may therefore serve as a central site, anchoring a multifaceted perspective on historical development in all its richness. At the same time history, which is the great warehouse of human experience, can serve as the ultimate database, and a giant multifunction laboratory for testing, fine-tuning and even generating ideas and theories about communication.

 

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Motty Perry

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Motty is a professor in the Department of Economics at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests are economic theory and game theory.
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Yishay Mansour

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Tel Aviv University
Yishay is a professor in the School of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University. His research interests are: computational learning theory and related issues from machine learning, reinforcement learning and game theory; theoretical aspects of computer science.
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Daniel Lehmann

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Daniel is a professor in the School of Engineering and Computer Sciences at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests are artificial intelligence: algorithmic mechanism design, optimization in economics, nonmonotonic reasoning and quantum logics.
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Ilan Kremer

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Stanford University
Ilan is a professor in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. His research interests are auction theory and financial economics.
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Frederic Koessler

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THEMA, URA CNRS
Frederic is a professor in the Department of Economics at THEMA, URA CNRS, Paris. His research interests are game theory, strategic information revelation, higher-order uncertainty, pari-mutuel betting, and experimental economics.
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Ron Holzman

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Technion
Ron is a professor in the Faculty of Mathematics at the Technion. His research interests are: combinatorics -- eternal graphy and hypergraph theory; combinatorial number theory, information theory and discrete geometry; game theory and cooperative games.