Israel Early Years: Collectivism and Individualism - Can They Co-Exist?

Our guest in this new episode is Israel historian Prof. Orit Rozin, from the Faculty of Humanities, Dept. of Jewish History. Her areas of research are vast: Social, cultural, and legal history of Israel; Relations between citizens and state; Jewish immigration;

Law and national identity; Women’s History; Civil and social rights; History of emotions; Food history; The Arab-Israeli Conflict; Terror and civil society. In her unique approach she is bringing into consideration the emotional aspects of history, looking at immigrant groups, for example, from a unique perspective.

Prof. Rozin is the author of three books: Her first book, The Hard Duty of Love, Individual and Collective in Israel in the Fifties (2008), won the Jonathan Shapira Prize from the Association for Israel Studies in 2009. Her second book, A Home for All Jews: Citizenship, Rights and National Identity in the New Israeli State, won second place in the Jordan Schnitzer Prize from the Association for Jewish Studies. Her third book, Emotions of Conflict, Israel 1949-1967, won the Chaikin Institute for Geostrategy Prize in 2025, the Best Book Award from the European Association for Israel Studies, and a Commendation from the Association for Israel Studies. In this episode we discussed her first two books.

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