Kulanu presents Navigating Israel Speaker Series – Defining Zionism: From Herzl to Mamdani
Thursday, October 15 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
The Kulanu Antisemitism Workgroup of Ohavi Zedek Synagogue presents:
Navigating Israel: A Social Justice Speaker Series.
Defining Zionism: From Herzl to Mamdani
Professor Adi Livny, Ph.D.
Adi Livny is a historian of knowledge institutions, focusing on Israel and Mandatory Palestine. Her book manuscript, Settlers, Natives, and Empire: The Making of the Hebrew University, offers a revised origin story for the Hebrew University, established in 1925 in British Mandatory Palestine, tracing its transformation from a Jewish into an Israeli university. Drawing on materials in German, Hebrew, and Arabic from over ten archives in Israel and the United Kingdom, the book examines how the Hebrew University was shaped during its formative years as a result of the dynamic interactions between its predominantly Jewish-European faculty, the land’s Arab-Palestinian majority, and the British Empire.
Livny’s new project, A Divide Apart: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict on American Campuses, examines how American academic spaces emerged as an external front in the Israel-Palestine conflict as early as the 1950s. Her research has been featured in peer-reviewed journals such as Studies in Contemporary Jewry and Armed Forces & Society, as well as in public platforms like Haaretz.
Livny earned her Ph.D. in Jewish History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she was a fellow at the Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. She currently teaches courses on Zionism, Contemporary Israel and the Israel-Palestine Conflict.
— Doors 5:00pm, Program 5:30-7:00pm.
