Cohen, Michael J. 1940-

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COHEN, Michael J. 1940-

(Michael Joseph Cohen)

PERSONAL: Born April 29, 1940, in London, England; U.S. citizen; son of Simon (a tailor) and Kate (Nadel) Cohen; divorced; children: Ilan, Natalie. Education: University of London, B.A. (honors), 1969; London School of Economics and Political Science, London, Ph.D., 1971. Politics: Liberal. Religion: Jewish.

ADDRESSES: Office—Department of General History, Bar Ilan University, 52100 Ramat Gan, Israel; fax: 03-5351233. E-mail—mcohen@mail.biu.ac.il.

CAREER: Writer. Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel, lecturer, 1972–77, senior lecturer, 1977–81, associate professor, 1981–86, professor, 1986–, Lazarus Philips Professor of History, beginning 1990. University of Maryland at College Park, Meyerhoff Visiting Professor of Israel Studies, 1992; San Diego State University, Lipinsky Visiting Professor of Judaic Studies, 1999; visiting professor at Stanford University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Duke University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Institute of Contemporary Jewry, and University of British Columbia, 1985–86; conference presenter. American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, OH, Bernard and Audre Rapaport fellow, 1988–89; Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, member, 1998; University of London, London School of Economics and Political Science, visiting fellow at Centre for International Studies, 2002–03.

WRITINGS:

Palestine: Retreat from the Mandate; The Making of British Policy, 1936–1945, Holmes & Meier (New York, NY), 1978.

(Editor) The Weizmann Letters, Volume 20: 1936–1943, Volume 21: 1943–1945, Rutgers University Press (New Brunswick, NJ), 1979.

Palestine and the Great Powers, 1945–1948, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 1982.

Churchill and the Jews, 1900–1948, Frank Cass (Portland, OR), 1984, revised edition, 2003.

The Origins of the Arab-Zionist Conflict, 1914–1948, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1987.

Palestine to Israel: From Mandate to Independence, Frank Cass (Portland, OR), 1988.

(Editor) The History of the Founding of Israel, Part 3: The Struggle for the State of Israel, 1939–1948, twelve volumes, Garland Publishing (New York, NY), 1988.

Truman and Israel, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1990.

(Editor and contributor) Bar-Ilan Studies in Modern History, Bar-Ilan University Press (Ramat Gan, Israel), 1991.

(Editor, with Martin Kolinsky, and contributor) British Security Problems in the Middle East during the 1930s: The Conquest of Abyssinia to World War II, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1992.

Fighting World War Three from the Middle East: Allied Contingency Plans, 1945–1954, Frank Cass (Portland, OR), 1997.

(Editor, with Martin Kolinsky) The Demise of Empire: Britain's Responses to Nationalist Movements in the Middle East, 1943–1955, Frank Cass (Portland, OR), 1997.

Defending the Northern Tier: Strategy and Politics in the Middle East, 1954–1960, Routledge (New York, NY), 2004.

Contributor to books, including The End of the Palestine Mandate, edited by William Roger Louis and Robert W. Stookey, University of Texas Press (Austin, TX), 1986; and The Great Powers and the Middle East, 1919–1939, Holmes & Meier (New York, NY), 1987. Contributor to English-and Hebrew-language periodicals, including International History Review, Middle Eastern Studies, Modern Judaism, Jerusalem Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary History, Journal of Strategic Studies, Israel Studies Forum, Middle East Quarterly, and American Jewish Archives.