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Dvora Hacohen (Hebrew: דבורה הכהן; born 7 November 1936)[1] is an Israeli historian and professor in the Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. Her research interests are in the development of Israeli society.
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Dvora Hacohen | |
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| Born | 7 November 1937 |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Employer | Bar-Ilan University |
| Spouse | Menachem Hacohen |
Born Dvora Klirs,[2] she received a B.Ed. from Efrata College of Education in Jerusalem[citation needed] and a B.A. in history and literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, then an M.A. magna cum laude in Jewish history from Tel Aviv University. She earned her Ph.D. in sociology and anthropology at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan with a dissertation titled "The great immigration and absorption in Israel in 1948-1953", and pursued post-doctoral studies at Oxford University.[3]
Hacohen is a professor of modern history at Bar-Ilan University. Her central research interest has been transformations in social and cultural history, about which relatively little has been written, compared to the emphasis placed on the political aspects of history. She has written about leaders and their role in the process of social transformations. Her research encompasses the history of the Jewish people and of Palestine in the twentieth century, focusing on the history of Zionism; historical biography; Jewish immigration in the twentieth century; and history of the Yishuv (Jewish community in Mandatory Palestine) and the state of Israel.
Known for her studies on immigration and acculturation, she was called upon by the Minister of Education in Israel to be the academic adviser of the Ministry regarding absorption of the children of immigrants in the great wave of immigration of the 1990s, when nearly one million people immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union. Immigration has been one of the most influential elements in the building of the Jewish community in pre-state Palestine, and a major factor in the social and economic development of the State of Israel.
From 1975 to 1992, she was the Scientific Advisor of Educational Television for History and Jewish Studies. From 1986 to 1989, she served as a research fellow at the Ben-Gurion Institute for the Study of Zionism and the State of Israel in Sde Boker, and lecturer in the Department of Jewish History at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She also worked as a researcher at Oxford University, Harvard University, and at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, and in 2012 taught as a visiting professor at Rutgers University in New Brunswick.[4]
She is married to rabbi and former Knesset member Menachem Hacohen; Aviad Hacohen, a professor of law,[1] and Miron HaCohen, who serves in the Ministry of Economy, are their sons.[5]
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