Professor Anita Shapira received her B.A. and M.A., cum laude, and Ph.D., summa cum laude, in History and Jewish History from Tel Aviv University, where she then proceeded to fill many academic roles as teacher, instructor, lecturer, senior lecturer, associate professor and full professor in the department of Jewish History.
Over the past four decades, Professor Shapira has participated in many academic projects of national importance, including the Institute for Zionist Research, the Weizmann Archives, Beit Hatefutsot (The Diaspora Museum), the National Planning and Grants Committee, the National Council for Art and Culture, the Shazar Center, the Yitzchak Rabin Center for Israel Studies, the Weizmann Memorial Board of Governors and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, among others.
Professor Shapira has received numerous academic and professional awards and fellowships from Israeli and foreign universities, including Yale, Brandeis, City University of New York, University of Pennsylvania, Stanford, the Oxford Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, University of Toronto, Columbia and other universities and foundations throughout the world. She has also been very active in many eminent conferences and scientific meetings, and is 2008 Israel Prize for Jewish History laureate.
Professor Shapira has written extensively on Jewish History in the Twentieth Century, treating various aspects of Zionism and Israeli culture, including biographies, Jewish Education, Zionism and more. Among her books that have been translated to English are: Berl Katznelson, A Biography of a Socialist Zionist (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984); Land and Power, The Zionist Resort to Force, 1881-1948 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992; paperback edition, Stanford: Stanford UP, 1999); and Yigal Allon, Native Son (Pennsylvania University Press, Philadelphia, 2008).
email: ashapira@idi.org.il
*Read "The Jewish-People Deniers" by Prof. Anita Shapira, published in The Journal of Israeli History.