Erik H Cohen December 2010
BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: Erik Henri COHEN
Address: 38 Bethlehem Rd., Jerusalem 93504
Telephones: 02-6722881; 0505-459794
Fax: 02-6723817
E-Mail:
Date & Place of Birth: 6 January 1951, Oujda, Morocco
Family status: Married with three children
Citizenship: French and Israeli - I.D. 013814959
Higher Education
Year Degree Institution
1972 B.A. in Philosophy and Sociology University of Lyon, France
1973 M.A. in Philosophy and Psycho-Sociology University of Lyon, France
1974 DEA in Socio-linguistics The Sorbonne, Paris, France
1983-86 Jerusalem Fellow, Israel
1986 PhD in Sociology University of Nanterre, France
MA Thesis:
The concept of separation in Judaism: Exile and Retreat. Mention Très bien (Summa Cum Laude).
Supervisor:
Prof. Henri Maldiney
PhD Thesis:
Jewish Volunteers from France to Israel during the Yom Kippur War: A Contribution to the Study of the Israel-Diaspora Relationship, 3 volumes. Mention Très bien (Summa Cum Laude).
Supervisor:
Prof. Annie Kriegel
Bar Ilan University Appointments
1994-2005 Teacher at the School of Education
2005-to date Senior Lecturer at the School of Education
2009-to date Associate Professor at the School of Education
Other University Teaching activities
1996-2000 Alperin Regional College of the Jordan Valley, Bar-Ilan University
1999-2003 Efrata Academic College for Education, Jerusalem
2002-2004 Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2003-2004 Ashkelon Academic College, Bar-Ilan University
2007-to date The Charedi College, Jerusalem
Research Appointment
1995-2000 Fellow Research at the Jerusalem Institute for the Study of Israel, Jerusalem
Scientific Committees
1991-cont. Academic Committee, Midreshet Bait Ham, Training Institute for Social-Educational Youth Workers, Jerusalem
1992-1996 Scientific Consultant Committee of the Joint Authority for Jewish Zionist Education, Jerusalem
1998-2001 Scientific Committee, the Van Leer Institute Divided Cities Project and the Memories of Morocco, Jerusalem
2001-2005 Scientific Committee, the Van Leer Institute Intellectual Integration of the CIS Immigrants
2007-cont. Chair of the Research Committee, The Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein Center for Jewish Education in the Diaspora, University of Bar Ilan
Consulting and Advisory Editorships
1981-1986 Sillages (Editorial Board)
2001-cont. Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education (Advisory Editorial Board)
2007-cont. FTA News Letter (Co-Editor)
2008-cont. South Asian Journal of Tourism & Heritage (Editorial Board)
2009-cont. International Journal of Jewish Education Research (IJJER) (Co-Editor)
Professional Affiliations
1. The Israel Network for Research in Jewish Education
2. Facet Theory Association
3. RTf 20 Méthodes (An international group of 57 methodologists)
4. World Union of Jewish Studies
MAIN RESEARCH GRANTS
1986-1989 / American Joint Distribution Committee, New York, and the Jewish Education Committee of the Jewish Agency, Jerusalem / Investigation of Jewish Education and Life in France
1989-1992 / Y&H Dept. and the L.A. Pincus Jewish Education Fund for the Diaspora / International Research on Informal Jewish Education Staff & Settings (Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France, Great Britain, South Africa, Uruguay)
1990-1991 / NCJW Research Institute for Innovation in Education, and the CRB Foundation / Adolescent Immigrants from the USSR
1991-1992 / Institute for the Study of Educational Systems (ISES) / Education & Socio-Economic Achievements
1992-1993 / Melton Center for Jewish Education in the Diaspora, with a special grant of the CRB and the Mandel Foundations / Summer Israel Experience Educational Programs
1993-1996 / Institute for the Study of Educational Systems (ISES) / Gray Education in Israel
1993-1997 / Joint Authority for Jewish Zionist Education / Systemic and Policy Analysis of Educational Shlichut in the World
1994-1995 / NCJW Research Institute for Innovation in Education / Evaluation of the Beit Shemesh, Netivot and Yeruham Educational Holistic Project
1994-1997 / Council for Higher Education in Israel, Y&H Dept., the Joint Authority for Jewish Zionist / Visiting Students in Israel
1995-1996 / Center for Excellence and Quality, Prime Minister's Office / The ISO 9000 Process in Israeli Schools
1996 / Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit / Formative Evaluation of the "Miracle Mission for Teens
1996-1997 / Council for the Child Advancement and the Sacta-Rashi Foundation / Master Plan Project for the Boyar School
1996-1997 / Student Department of the WZO and WUJS / International Survey on Jewish Student Activists
1998 / Authority for the War against Drugs, Jerusalem / Impact Survey of the 1998 Anti-Drugs Campaign
1997-1999 / Department for Jewish Zionist Education, and the CRB Foundation / Research and Educational Project on the Modules of the Israel Experience Programs
1999-2003 / Efshar / Israeli Socio-Educational Counselors Status and Training Evaluation
1999-2004 / Avi-Chai Foundation / Assessment of the Hartman Community Program for Jewish Studies Teachers in State School
2001-2003 / FSJU (Paris) & Pincus Jewish Education Fund for the Diaspora / Investigation of Jewish Education and Life in France
2001-2004 / Yesodot / Evaluation of the Yesodot Program on Democracy and Judaism in Religious State Schools
2001-2004 / Avi-Chai Foundation / The World of Students in Ninth-Eleventh Grade Students in General State Schools in Israel: a Sociological Survey
2002-2003 / Birthright Taglit Israel / Evaluation of the Birthright Israel Programs - France, Brazil, Argentina and Australia
2003-2004 / FSJU (Paris) & Ministry of Education (France) / Survey of the World of Staff in Informal Educational Organizations in France
2003-2004 / Josef Burg Chair in Education for Human Values, Tolerance and Peace / The Peace as perceived by Jewish visiting students in Israel
2004 / Bnei Akiva / Kiruv Levavot: International evaluation of a project
2004-2005 / AMI Foundation, Paris / Les touristes Juifs de France en Israël
2004-2005 / Ministry of Education / Religious State Schools: Towards an Evaluation of the Educational Initiatives in Jewish Issues
2004-2005 / Avi-Chai Foundation / Assessment of the Hartman Community Program for Jewish Studies Teachers in State School
2004-2005 / Sacta-Rashi Foundation / High school, Colleges, Yeshivot and University French Students in Israel: A Sociological and Educational Profile
2005-2006 / International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem / Evaluation of a Pilot Project on Teaching and Networking of Holocaust Studies Educational Agents in Europe
2004-2006 / Yesodot / Evaluation of the Yesodot Program on Democracy and Judaism in Religious State Schools
2006-2009 / Shalom Hartman Institute / Assessment of the Beeri Program for Jewish Studies in State School
2007-
2009 / Claims Conference, USA
Yad Hanadiv, Israel / The Process and Outcomes of Shoah Education in Israeli High Schools
2008 / Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein Center for Jewish Education in the Diaspora / Towards a new scale in Jewish identity: A pilot research in US Jewish summer camps
2009 / Yad Vashem, Israel and ADL, USA / Assessment of the Echoes and Reflections Project in USA High Schools
2009 / Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein Center for Jewish Education in the Diaspora / A special grant for the publication of The Educational Shaliah: 1939-2009. Elements for a History of a Unique Project
2009-2010 / Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein Center for Jewish Education in the Diaspora / A special grant for the publication of The Educational Shaliah: 1939-2009. Elements for a History of a Unique Project
2009-2010 / Shalom Hartman Institute / Assessment of the Beeri Program for Jewish Studies in State School
2009-2010 / The Jim Joseph Foundation and the Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein Center for Jewish Education in the Diaspora / Mapping the Jewish USA Communities of Practice (CoP)
2010 / Claims Conference, USA / Evaluation of Shoah Teaching at Teacher Training Programs (TTP) in the Haredi Sector in Israel
Courses taught / Teaching experience
Undergraduate / B.A.
Qualitative Research Methods
Philosophy of Education / Sociology of Education
Informal Education: Theoretical and Methodological Issues
Graduate / M.A.
Youth Culture in Modern and Postmodern Society
Jewish Educational Tourism in the World
Qualitative Research Methods
How to study formal and informal education? Methodological and substantive aspects
PhD
Facet Theory and Data Analysis Methods
MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS
1. Youth culture and leisure
2. Jewish education
3. Educational evaluation
4. Educational tourism
5. Methodological development in multidimensional analysis
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
In 2006, I acted as Chair of the International French Jews Conference at Bar Ilan University.
PUBLIC ACTIVITIES
1986-1997 Public Advisory Committee, Melitz Institute for Jewish Zionist Education, Jerusalem
1992-1996 Committee for Cultural Integration of the Ministry of Absorption, Jerusalem / Tel Aviv
1998-2000 Board of Directors, Melitz Institute for Jewish Zionist Education, Jerusalem
1999-2008 Board of Advisors, Galilee Restoration Project, Safed
2001-2003 Secretary of the Facet Theory Association
2000-2004 Chair of Board of Directors, Melitz Institute for Jewish Zionist Education, Jerusalem
2004-2009 Board of Directors, Melitz Institute for Jewish Zionist Education, Jerusalem
2005-2009 Executive Board, Facet Theory Association (elected in July 2005)
2005-2006 Chair of Board of Directors, The Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein Center for Jewish Education in the Diaspora, University of Bar Ilan
2006 Interim Chair of Board of Directors, Melitz Institute for Jewish Zionist Education.
2007-cont. Chair of Research Committee, The Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein Center for Jewish Education in the Diaspora, University of Bar Ilan
2007-cont. Board of Directors, The Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein Center for Jewish Education in the Diaspora, University of Bar Ilan
2008-cont. Board of Directors of the Yehuda Amir Institute for the Advancement of Social Integration in the Schools, University of Bar Ilan
SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS
M.A. Students
In the past
Ayelet Daliot A Youth Delegation to the US: The Effect of the Stay in the US on Narratives and Perceptions with respect with Jewish Identity (2002)
Amit Treister Examination of the "Acculturation" Process, by Examining Three Different Aspects Amongst Long-Time Israeli Students and Students who Have Immigrated from the Commonwealth of Independent States [Former Soviet Union](2005)
Lilach Shatz Educational Leadership among Jewish Youth from Israel, US, UK and France: A Comparative Analysis (2005)
Shlomit Dudkewitch Parental Considerations in Choosing “Noam” as an Educational Framework for their Children (2006)
Dafna Malka The Postmodern Educator (2008)
Benzion Weiss Serving in IDF as "ben yored": the Jewish identity dimension (2008)
Zvi Ben-Noah The Ideal Community Center Director: A Facet Theory Approach (2009)
Nava Raphaeli Testing Reuven Kahane's theory in the processes of accepting, treating, and strengthening of disengaged youth in informal educational units-advancing youth units (2010)
Shelley Kedar Jewish Peoplehood Education: Towards a Typological Analysis (2010)
Rehimi Etty Educational tourism among Sefardi Ultra-Orthodox families (2010)
Nizar Awessat Analysis of a modern academic Islamic institution in Israel (2010)
Being supervised today
Ronit Levy Psychodrama as a Therapeutic Approach among Adolescents
Sigalit Dror-Elakabats "Kesem" School: Cultural Social Study: A Case Study
Lilach Evron Long-term Impact of Educational Trips to Poland
Sigal Nissim The Adaptation of adolescents upon returning to Israel with their families after a temporary residence abroad
Eran Evan-Tsur: The motivation to serve in IDF
Kefia Raslan: The informal counseling in the Arab sector
Sharon Steier: Mother-child interactions during oral storytelling
PhD Students
In the past
Ohayon, Shimon Students from North America in Israel: The Machon Gold One-Year Program compared to University Program (The Jewish Theological Seminary, 2004)
Being supervised today
Esther Khalfon The High Schools Students Councils: Socio-educative Analysis
Miri Goldratt The encounter between formal and informal education: The Hinuchai case study
Aharon Buzaglo Moral Education in the Israeli Colleges
Publications
Books (author)
1. Cohen, E. H. (1991). L'étude et l'éducation juive en France, Paris: Editions du Cerf (290 pages).
2. Cohen, E. H. and Cohen, E. (2000). The Israel Experience Program: A Policy Analysis, Jerusalem: Jerusalem Institute for the Study of Israel (in Hebrew) (206 pages).
3. Cohen, E. H. & Ifergan, M. (2005). La jeunesse juive: Entre France et Israël. Paris: Observatoire du monde juif (186 pages).
4. Cohen, E. H. (2007). Heureux comme Juifs en France? Etude sociologique. Akadem – Elkana Editions: Paris-Jérusalem (405 pages).
5. Cohen, E. H. with the collaboration of Bar-On Cohen, E. and Ofanansky, A. (2008). Youth tourism to Israel: Educational experiences of the Diaspora. Clevedon, UK: Channel View Publications (229 pages).
6. Cohen, E. H. et al. (2008). Jewish identity, values and leisure of Israeli youth. Tel Aviv, Israel: The Kelman Center, School of Education, Tel Aviv University (226 pages in Hebrew, including 74 pages of six colleagues' reactions).
book (author) accepted for publication
1. Cohen, E. H. The Educational Shaliah: 1939-2009. Elements for a History of a Unique Project. To appear in the series: DOR LEDOR. Studies in the History of Jewish Education in Israel and in the Diaspora. Tel Aviv University.
Books presently in preparation
1. Cohen, E. H. and Avinoam Cohen (Editors). The Jews of France, Spiritual Life, Society and Education (following the International Conference held at Bar Ilan in 2006).
2. Cohen, E. H. Jewish Diaspora Youth: An International Comparative Approach
Chapters in Books
1. Cohen, E. H. (1989). Les volontaires Juifs de France pendant la guerre de Kippour, contribution à une phénoménologie du volontariat. In Les Juifs de France, le sionisme et l'Etat d'Israel, Actes du Colloque International, (D. Bensimon and B. Pinkus, ED.), INALCO, Paris. Appeared in Hebrew in French Jewry, Zionism and the State of Israel, (B. Pinkus, D. Bensimon, Ed.) (1992). Ben Gurion Research Center, Ben Gurion University, and INALCO, University of Paris, 237-250.
2. Cohen, E. H. (1992). Jewish Education in France and the State of Israel as Perceived by Leaders and Professionals. In French Jewry, Zionism and the State of Israel, (B. Pinkus and D. Bensimon, Ed.), Ben Gurion Research Center, Ben Gurion University, and INALCO, University of Paris, (in Hebrew) 271-298.
3. Cohen, E. H. (1995). Toward a Strategy of Excellence, A Systemic Analysis and Policy Research Based on External Variables in SSA. In Facet Theory Analysis and Design (J.J. Hox, G.J. Mellenbergh, and P.G. Swanborn, Eds.), University of Amsterdam, 55-62.
4. Cohen, E. H. (2000) The Shlihim Training Institute: A Contribution to the History and Analysis of Educational Shlihut. In D. Zisenwine and D. Schers (Eds.) New Trends In Research Education: Tel Aviv: School of Education, Studies in Jewish Culture, Identity and Community, Tel Aviv University, 39-60.
5. Cohen, E. H. (2001) Facet Analysis of Jewish Education, in D. Elizur (Ed.): Facet Theory: Integrating Theory Construction with Data Analysis, Karlovy University of Prague, 151-164.