PUBLICATIONS
1. Pioneers or Lost Souls? – The Issue of Suicide in the Second and the Third Aliya, Yahadut Zmanenu [Contemporary Jewry] (13), (1999), pp. 209-241. [in Hebrew].
2. The Composition of the Second Aliya Immigrants. Israel: History, Society, Culture, No. 2, (2002), pp. 33-55. [in Hebrew].
3. Aliya to Early Twentieth Century Palestine as an Immigrant Experience, Jewish Social Studies, Vol. 9.2, (2002), pp. 28-64.
4. 'Roslan' – Was it the First Swallow that heralded the beginning of the Third Aliya? Cathedra - for the History of Eretz Israel and its Yishuv, April (2003) (107), pp. 63-80. [in Hebrew]
5. Bureaucracy, Agents and Swindlers: Hardships Faced by Russian Jewish Emigrants in the Early Twentieth Century. Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Vol. 19, (2003), pp. 214-231.
6. The Artisans' Labor Battalion: The Story of a Failed Ethos. Iyunim Bitkumat Israel, (13) (2003). pp. 255-275 [in Hebrew].
7. The Jewish Emigration from Palestine in the Early Twentieth Century, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies. Vol. 2 (2003). Pp. 112-131.
8. Feminine Pioneers who were not Laborers: Female Immigration to Palestine at the Beginning of the 20th Century. Cathedra, (2006), pp. 67-88 [in Hebrew].
9. People to Land and not Land to People: The Jewish Territorialism Organization (ITO), and the Jewish Emigration at the Beginning of the 20th Century. Iyunim Bitkumat Israel, Vol 14, (2004). pp. 537-564. [in Hebrew].
10. Where has the Ha-Shomer's Member Michael Av-Ner Shpal Gone? Iyunim Bitkumat Israel, 14 (2004), pp. 625-642. [in Hebrew].
11. Looking for a Homeland: The Movement of the League for a Free Country (Freiland Ligue), the Yishuv, and the State of Israel, 1934-1956 Iyunim Bitkumat Israel, 15 (2005), pp. 413-434. [in Hebrew].
12. Exiles in Their Own Homeland: The Case of the Jews of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo who were Expelled to the Lower Galilee, 1917-1918, Cathedra - for the History of Eretz Israel and its Yishuv, June (2006) (120) pp. 135-160. [in Hebrew].
13. And I remained Alone in a Vast Land: Women in the Great Jewish Migration from Eastern Europe, Jewish Social Studies, Vol 12, no 3 (Spring/Summer 2006), pp. 39-72
14. Galveston and Palestine: Immigration and Ideology in the Early Twentieth Century, American Jewish Archives, Vol LVI 2004, pp. 129-150.
15. Demographers in the Service of the Nation: Liebman Hersch, Jacob Lestschinsky, and the Start of Jewish Migration Research, Jewish History, vol 20, Number 3-4 (2006), pp. 265-282.
16. Patterns of Jewish Migration from the Russian Empire in the Early 20th Century. Jews in Russian and Eastern, Winter 2 (57) 2006, pp. 24-51.
17. Women’s Trade in the Jewish Society in the Early Twentieth Century and in Mendele Mokher Sefarim's Emek Habakha (Vale of Tears): A Literary-Historical Analysis, Criticism and Interpretation, Vol 40 (2008), pp. 59-37. [in Hebrew]
18. Out of the shtetl. In the Footsteps of Eastern European Jewish emigrants to America, 1900-1914, Leidschrift, Jaargang 21 Number 1 (2006), pp. 92-122.
19. Aliya to America? A Comparative Look at Jewish Mass Migration, 1882-1914, Modern Judaism, Volume 28, Number 2 (2008), pp. 109-133.
19a. Aliya to America? A Comparative Look at Jewish Mass Migration, 1882-1914, The Jewish People Today, Ingathering and Dipersion (Eds. Eliezer Ben Rafael, Avi Bareli, Meir Chazan, Ofer Schiff), Tel Aviv, 2009, pp.393-374. [Hebrew]
20. Journey to New Palestine: the Zionist Expedition to East Africa and the aftermath of the Uganda Debate, Jewish Culture and History, Vol 10, No. 1 (Summer 2008) pp. 23-58.
21. The Servants of the Settlement or Vulgar Tyrants? A Hundred Years of the Ha-shomer Association: A Historical Perspective, Cathedra - for the History of Eretz Israel and its Yishuv, April (2009) (133), pp. 77-104. [in Hebrew]
21a. 'The Russian Terror in Palestine: Bar Giora and Ha-shomer Association', 1907-1920, in Uneasy inheritance: Russia/Israel, 1880-2010 (Ed. Brian Horowitz), Bloomington. IN: Slavica
22. 'The Overlooked Migration' - The Attitude of Israeli Historiography to the Large Jewish Migration from Eastern Europe, Zion, Vol LXXIV (2009), pp. 267-286. [in Hebrew]
23. Deserted Women in Palestine at the End of the Ottoman Period and the Beginning of the Mandate Period, Israel: History, Society, Culture, Vol 15 (2009), pp. 93-116 [in Hebrew]
24. Information, Decision, and Migration: Jewish Emigration from Eastern Europe in the Early Twentieth Century, Immigrants and Minorities, Vol. 29, No. 1, March 2011, pp. 33–63
25. Zionism without Zion? The Territorial Ideology and the Zionist Movement, 1882-1956, Jewish Social Studies, 18.1 Fall 2011, pp. 1-32.
26. Early Twentieth Century Jewish Migration to Palestine and the United States: A Socio-Demographic Analysis, Megamot, Volume 48, Number 3-4, (November 2012), pp. 459-485 [in Hebrew]
27. The Response of the Yishuv and the Zionist Movement to the Pogroms in Ukraine, 1918-1920, Iyunim Bitkumat Israel, 23 (2013), pp. 411-450. [in Hebrew].
28. Mesopotamia – 'The Promised Land': The Jewish Territorial Organization Project in the Bilād Al-Rāfidayn and the Question of Palestine', Middle East Studies, 50:6, 911-935.
29. Two Historiographies The Israeli Historiography and the Mass Jewish Migration to the United States, 1881-1914, Jewish Quarterly Review, 105.1 (Winter 2015), pp. 99-129.
30. 'Documenting the Pogroms in Ukraine, 1918-1920: Eliezer David Rozenthal's Megilat Hatevah' Galed, 24 (2014),63-102 [in English]
31. The Frayland League and the State of Israel, Iyunim Bitkumat Israel [30 pages] [in Hebrew]
32. The Territorial Ideology in Palestine, 1903-1914, Cathedra [30 pages] [in Hebrew]
33. Angolan Zion: The Jewish Territorial Organization and the Idea of the Jewish State in Western Africa, 1907-1913, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, vol 14, Number 2 (July 2015), pp, 179-198
34. The Hebrew Hero and the Jewish Victim: Pogroms in the Ukraine in the Years 1918-1920 and the Riots of 1920 and 1921in Palestine, Zion, vol 4 (2015), pp. 551-581. [in Hebrew]
35. Sexual Violence, Rape and Pogroms, 1903-1920, Jewish Culture and History, Vol 18 (2017), pp. 313-330.
36. State of the Field: Israeli Historiography on American Jewry, American Jewish History, Vol 101 (4) (2017), pp. 501-516.
37. Renewal of Jewish immigration to Israel during the military administration, 1918-1920, Cathedra, (164) July (2017), pp. 51-74. [in Hebrew]
38. The Zionist-Arab Incident of Zarnuqa 1913: A Chronicle and Several Methodological Remarks, Middle East Studies. Volume 52, 2016 - Issue 5, pp. 787-803.
39. Between the straits: Jewish immigration to the United States and Palestine, 1915–1925, East European Jewish Affairs, 47:2-3 (2018), pp. 150-168.
40. Challenging Contemporary Historiography in Shmuel Yosef Agnon's Only Yesterday, Israel Studies, Vol. 25, No. 3 (2020), pp. 106-129.
41. Immigration to the Land of Israel from Muslim countries in the 1920s, Iyunim Bitkumat Israel. [Forthcoming in Hebrew]
42. Immigrants over troubled water: Emigration experience to the Land of Israel in the 1920s, Jewish Social Studies . [Forthcoming]
Chapters in books
1. 'The Link between the Existence of a People and National Awareness', in Studies on Jewish People, Identity and Nationality, (Editors) Naftali Rothenberg and Eliezer Schweid, Jerusalem 2008, pp.56-69. [in Hebrew]
2. 'Women in the Yishuv: Demographic Aspects', One Law for Men and Women: Women, Rights and Law during the British Mandate, Ed. Eyal Katvan, Margalit Shilo and Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, Tel Aviv 2011, pp. 87-114 [in Hebrew]
3. 'Shtetl on the High Seas: The Jewish Emigration from Eastern Europe and the Cross-Oceanic Experience', in Michael Boyden, Hans Krabbendam and Liselotte Vandenbussche (Eds), Tales of Transit: Narrative Migrant Spaces in Atlantic Perspective, 1850-1950, Amsterdam University Press, 2013, pp. 81-99.
4. 'The Jewish Migration from Antwerp and Other European ports, 1900-1939', Res Star Line, 1873-1934. Davidsfonds Uitgeverij, 2013, pp. 148-163
5. 'Prostitution and White Slave trade in Early Twentieth Century Palestine', Esther Hertzog and Erella Shadmi (eds), Blood Money: Prostitution, Trafficking in Women and Pornography in Israel, Tel Aviv 2013, pp. 88-73 [in Hebrew]
5a. Prostitution and the white-slave trade in Palestine at the beginning of the twentieth century, in Prostitution, Pornography and Trafficking in Women
Israel's Blood Money (Eds. Esther Hertzog, Erella Shadmi), New York 2019.
6. 'Olim, Immigrants and Refugees: Semantic Transformations of the term Aliyah in the Zionist Thought', in, Avnei Derekh: Shai le'Zvi Yekutieli, (Eds. David Assaf, Immanuel Etkes and Yosef Kaplan), Jerusalem 2014.
7. 'For A Quiet, Satisfying life': The Jewish Immigration from Eastern Europe at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century and Its Reflection in Immigrants' Letters to the Information Bureaus, in From the Records of My Deepest Memory…” Personal Sources for the Study of Human Mobility, 18th-20th centuries (Ed. Oscar Alvarez Gila), University of the Basque Country Press, 2014.
8. Jewish Immigration to Palestine and the United States, 1905-1925: A Socio-Demographic Analysis, in Research in Jewish Demography and Identity (Ed. Eli Lederhendler & Uzi Rebhun) Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2015.
11. 'The historical background of the novel 'the Rise of David Levinsky', in The Rise of David Levinsky by Abraham Cahan, Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism, University of Haifa, 2016. [in Hebrew]
12. 'Irving Howe and the World of his fathers', in World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made by Irving Howe, Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism, University of Haifa, 2020.
13. 'From the Pale to the Lower East Side: Early Hardships of Russian Immigrant Jews', in New York Jews Anthology (Ed. Daniel Soyer). (Forthcoming)
14.'The Territorial Ideology, 1903-1957', Handbook of the Jewish Diaspora (Ed. Hasia Diner), Oxford University Press, (Forthcoming)
Entries in Encyclopedias
The Jewish Migration to Overseas Countries. Bartal. I., (Ed.), Jewish Culture in a Secular Age (5,000 words). [in Hebrew]
Economic Changes in the Jews’ Lives in Recent Two Hundred Years. Bartal. I., (Ed.), Jewish Culture in a Secular Age (5,000 words). [in Hebrew]
Aliyah, Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur (Ed.) Dan Diner (5,000 words)
Jewish migration, 19th century to present, Immanuel Ness (ed), Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration. (5,000 words)
1. Immigrants: The Jewish Immigration to Palestine in the Early Twentieth Century, Jerusalem, Yad Ben Zvi, 2004 (253 pages). [in Hebrew] (2nd edition 2004).
1a. An Unpromising Land: Jewish Immigration to Palestine in the Early Twentieth Century, Stanford University Press 2014 (285 pages).
2. The Quiet Revolution: The Jewish Emigration from the Russian Empire in the Early Twentieth Century, Jerusalem, Merkaz Shazar, Jerusalem 2008 (273 pages). [in Hebrew]
3."Bread to Eat and Clothes to Wear": Letters from Jewish Migrants in the Early Twentieth Century Wayne State University Press, Detroit 2011 (223 pages).
4. 'Seeking a Homeland': The Jewish Territorial Organisation (JTO) and Its Conflict with the Zionist Organization, 1905-1925, The Ben Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel & Zionism, 2011 (312 pages) [in Hebrew]
4a. Zionism without Zion: The Jewish Territorialial Organization (JTO) and Its Conflict with the Zionist Organization, Wayne State University Press, 2016
5. Land of Refuge - The Jewish Emigration in Palestine, 1919-1927 (forthcoming in Hebrew 2021)
Others
1. Rafi Weichert and Gur Alroey, My arrival was the place: songs about immigration to Israel, Sifrei Iton 77, 2019 (308 pages). [in Hebrew]
2. A.P. Subotin, In the Jews' Pale of Settlement, Tel Aviv 2020 [Brought to print and Introduction]