1. Tuvia Friling is an Emeritus professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.
11 Facts About Tuvia Friling
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Tuvia Friling was born in Beer Sheba in 1953, two years after his family's arrival in Israel.
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Tuvia Friling continued to do reserve duty, eventually rising to the rank of major.
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Tuvia Friling did his graduate studies at the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, where he completed his Master's degree with honors in 1984 and received his Ph.
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Tuvia Friling began his academic career at Ben-Gurion University in 1977 as an instructor and research assistant, and has been teaching at the university ever since.
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Tuvia Friling has been on the editorial boards of several academic journals: Iyunim Bitkumat Israel - Studies in Zionism, the Yishuv and the State of Israel, published by the Ben-Gurion Research Institute; Israel Studies, published by the Ben-Gurion Research Institute and Brandeis University; and Shvut, published by the Diaspora Research Center of Tel Aviv University and the Ben-Gurion Research Institute.
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Tuvia Friling dealt with post-Zionism and the roots of the controversy between so-called new historians and critical sociologists and "establishment" historians and sociologists.
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Tuvia Friling dealt with the historical and ideological roots of the debate about Israel's social and economic policy in recent years, and with Daniel Gutwein and Avi Bareli edited a two-volume publication Society and Economy in Israel: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives.
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Tuvia Friling was among Israel's pioneers in the development of computerized full-text databases of historical documentation based on modern retrieval systems.
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Tuvia Friling developed teaching methods for teaching history in a research environment and by means of computerized online settings.
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Tuvia Friling is at present engaged in researching the activities of the Yishuv's right-wing circles during the Holocaust in illegal immigration, aid and rescue, as well as their clandestine cooperation with American, British and other intelligence services, and their post World War II involvement in illegal immigration and the building of an armed force.