Gadi Taub, Ph.D.

Place of Birth: Jerusalem, Israel Date of Birth: April 19, 1965 Faculty member at the Depratment of Communications and the School for Public Policy at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Education 1997 Tel Aviv University BA in History and General and Interdisciplinary Studies. 1996 - 1998 Tel Aviv University Graduate studies in History. 1998 - 2003 Rutgers The State University of New Jersey Graduate Studies for a Ph.D. in American History (Fellowship). Publications: Books (non-fiction) A Dispirited Rebellion - Essays on Contemporary Israeli Culture, Tel Aviv, Hakibutz Hameuchad (Hebrew), 1997. (Best seller, reprinted 8 times.) (המרד השפוף: על תרבות צעירה בישראל) Publications: Articles (partial list) "The Amreican Sixties In Israel", Iyunim Bitkumat Israel, 13. (Hebrew) "The Results Are In, and Peace Lost", New York Times Op-Ed, (29.1.03). (English) "Raymond Carver's Humanism", Raritan - a Quarterly Review* (Winter 2002). (English) "A State of All it's Citizens?" Merkur - Deutsche Zeitschrift Fur europaisches Denken**, (November 2002) (German) "Post-Zionism: The French-American-Israeli Connection", in Tuvia Frilling (ed.), An Answer to a Post-Zionist Collegue, Yedioth Ahronoth, 2003, (Hebrew, French) "Israel, Palestine, and Territorial Partition", Dissent (Summer 2001). (English) "'Post-Zionist' Textbooks'", Correspondence*** No. 8, (Summer/Fall, 2001). (English). "The Thinning of Israeli Literature", Correspondence No. 5, (Spring/Summer 1999). (English). "Post-Zionism and the Myths of Memory", Correspondence No. 4, (Spring/Summer 1999). (English). "Theory as Intellectual Therapy", Studio No. 87, (October 1997), Tel Aviv, Havatzelet (Hebrew). "Between Facts and Narratives - Methodology in Post-Zionist Historiography", Haaretz (Hebrew, June 22, 1997). "The Return of The Mall - On Pop Music Lyrics", Rehov Literary Periodical No. 2 (August 1995) , Tel Aviv, University Publishing Projects (Hebrew). "On 'Thin Language' in Contemporary Hebrew Literature", Rehov Literary Periodical No. 1 (November 1994) , Tel Aviv, University Publishing Projects (Hebrew). Publications: Book Reviews (partial list) On Kathryn Harrison's The Binding Chair, The Wall Street Journal (English, May 12, 2000). On the Hebrew edition of Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, Azure, No. 8 (Autumn 1999). (Hebrew and English) "Alleged Relativism" (on John Gray's Isaiah Berlin), Haaretz Book Supplement (Hebrew, January 29, 1997). "Politically Challenged" (on James F. Garner's Politically Correct Bedtime Stories), Haaretz Book Supplement (Hebrew, December 12, 1995). "The World According to Owen Meany" (on John Irving's Version of the American Self-Made Man in A Prayer for Owen Meany) Haaretz Book Supplement (Hebrew, October 26, 1994). "Bare Feet on Gravel" (on the translations of Raymond Carver to Hebrew), Maariv Culture Supplement, (Hebrew, June 24, 1994). Publications: Books (fiction) What Might Have Happened Had We Forgotten Dov, Tel Aviv, Hakibutz Hameuchad (Hebrew, short stories), 1992. (Best seller, reprinted 14 times.) The Witch From 3 Melchet Street, Jerusalem, Keter (Hebrew, fiction for children), 2000. Things I Keep from Yael, Jerusalem, Keter (Hebrew, fiction for children), 1992. (Best seller, reprinted 6 times.) Things I Keep to Myself, Jerusalem, Keter (Hebrew, fiction for children), 1990. (Best seller, reprinted 9 times.) The Giraffe Who Liked to Feel Sorry for Itself, Jerusalem, Keter (Hebrew, fiction for children), 2003. The Deer Who Liked Everything Clean, Jerusalem, Keter (Hebrew, fiction for children), 2005. Conferences 2005, June 14-15, The End of Television?, Hebrew University and the University of Pennsylvania. Paper: The Present. 2004, December 23, The Meeting of Generations: Shaping Holocoust Memory in the 21 Century, Univesity of Haifa. Paper: Historiography: Between the Discovered and the Invented. 2004, June 16-17, Discourse/s: Media, Message, Meaning, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Paper: Truth, Pragmatism, and the Linguistic Turn. 2002, April 19-20, Democracy and Popular Culture, University of Chicago. Paper: Popular Culture as Surrogate Ethos. 1999, January 23-25, 1999: Rethinking the Left, International Conference, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Tel-Aviv University, University of Haifa, member of the organising committee. Paper: Postmodernism: A Right-Wing Moral Instinct. 1998, November 16-17, Language, Lineage and Locus In Hebrew and Yiddish Literature, Harvard University, Centre for Jewish Studies, Paper: From Thick to Thin: Literary Language and the Waning of Zionist Ideology. 1997, November 13, Modernism and Postmodernism: on Gadi Taub's Book "A Dispirited Rebellion", (see above under "Publications - Books.") The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. 1997, July 1-3, - Script - Literacy and Text Processing, Ben-Gurion University, Department of Education, Member of the Concluding Panel. 1996 November 3, Zionism - Current State and Future Trends, The World Zionist Organisation, the Zionist Council in Israel. 1996, November 12, Opening of the Academic Year, Ben-Gurion University, Department of Education, Paper: Is There a Distinct "Young" Cultural Sphere in Israel? 1996, November 18, Reconciliation between the Religious and the Secular? Avichai Foundation, Paper: Within Zionism: The Religious Popular View of the Secular and the Secular Popular View of the Religious. 1996, March 12-13, Journey to the End of the Millennium, Mishkenot Sha'ananim and the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. Paper: The Concept of History in Contemporary Israeli Fiction. 1998, May 10-12, 50 Years of Israeli Literature, Tel Aviv University, the Rosenberg School for Jewish Studies. 1998, May 5-7, Israel: From One Half-Century to the Next, University of Hiafa, Paper: Relativism and Tolerance. 1998, January 19, Zionism - An Ongoing Debate, Ben-Gurion University. Work experience 2004 - Present Op-ed contributor to Die Welt. 2002 - Present Contributor to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Israeli culture and politics. 1997 - Present Co-Editor, Mikarov, Periodical of Culture and Society, Hakibutz Hameuchad. 1997- Present Op-Ed columnist for Maariv 1996 - Present Contributing political and cultural commentator for IBA Channel 1 late night news. 1993 - 1998 Host of weekly two-hour live talk show on Israel Defence Forces (IDF) Radio. 1989 - 1998 Host of various TV shows for children on the Israeli Broadcasting Authority (IBA) Channel 1, including the daily live programs "Ping Pong" and "Zap". Editor and host of "Mi Sofer", a literary program for children (60 episodes broadcasted). 1989 - 1998 Script writer for the IBA Children's Department. 1994 - 1996 Co-Editor, Rehov Literary Periodical, University Publishing Projects. 1992 - 1993 Reporter for Tel Aviv Magazine. 1986 - 1989 Writer and director of radio plays for the Israeli Radio children's department. Host of various children's radio shows. Literary Prizes 2000 - Israel's Ministry of Education Ze'ev Prize for children's literature, for The Witch From 3 Melchet Street. 1997 - "Joining Sea" international short fiction competition Regione Liguaria, Italy. 1995 - Ministry For Science and Arts, Best Loved Children's Book Award, for Things I Keep from Yael. Community Service 1995 - 1997 Since the Rabin assassination, volunteer lecturer to youth movements throughout the country on mutual toleration between the secular and the religious (2-3 lectures a month). 1995 - 1996 Volunteer at the Oranim shelter for girls directing a creative writing workshop and helping with school homework.