“A Day of Blood and Valor”: Terrorism and Social Tensions in 1970s Israel

Part of the Schusterman Seminars series, advanced seminars geared toward faculty and graduate students, and open to all, presenting the latest research in Israel Studies. Presented by the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University. See the full lineup and register for one or more: tiny.cc/SchustermanSeminars.

Speaker Ori Yehudai is the Saul and Sonia Schottenstein Chair in Israel Studies and Assistant Professor of History at The Ohio State University, where he teaches courses on the history of modern Israel, the Arab-Israeli conflict and modern Jewish history. He previously held positions at the University of Toronto, McGill University, NYU and the Center for Jewish History in New York. Prof. Yehudai’s work explores Jewish migration and displacement, the reconstruction of the Jewish world after World War II and relations between Jews and non-Jews after the Holocaust. He is the author of “Leaving Zion: Jewish Emigration from Palestine and Israel after World War II” (Cambridge, 2020), which was a finalist in the National Jewish Book Awards. His current research deals with Palestinian attacks in Israel in the 1970s.