Yitzhak ConfortiYitzhak Conforti is Associate Professor in the Koschitzky Department of Jewish History at Bar Ilan University. He is the author of: Past Tense - Zionist Historiography and the Shaping of the Zionist Memory (2006) and Shaping A Nation- The Cultural Origins of Zionism, 1882-1948 (2019). He was a research fellow in the Katz Center at U-Penn, a visiting scholar at NYU and the CJH, New York, and a visiting research scholar at the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University. He has published extensively on modern Jewish historiography, Zionist history and culture, Jewish nationalism and Zionism. Read More Read Less