Dr. Dov Levitan
Email: dov.levitan@biu.ac.il
Phone: +972-54-6603415
Fax: +972-3-5355317
Office: +972- 3-5347700
Academic position: Senior lecturer
Field of expertise:
• Political History of Israel
• The Emigration and Absorption of Yemen Jewry in Israel
• Denmark and the Nordic countries during World War II
• Relations between Israel Denmark from 1947 to 1953
Researches in process:
The Case of the Missing Yemenite Children: Historical, Social and Political Aspects October 1943: The rescue of the Danish Jews – a Critical
Approach
Major Publications:
2011-Arthur Arnheim and Dov Levitan: Politics, Diplomacy and the Helping Hand, "Museum Tusculanum Press", the Academic Press of the University of Copenhagen. (Danish)
2010-"The Missing Yemenite children: Is it really were kidnapped and adopted children of immigrants from Yemen?" In Aaron Gimani,Razon Arusy and Shaul Regev (eds.), Sons of Yemen: Studies in Judaism Yemen and its Heritage, Dahan Center, Bar -Ilan University (Hebrew).
2007-"Voting Patterns of immigrants from to the Third, Fourth and Fifth Knesset from 1955 to 1961 ", Teima vol. 10, – A Time Study of Yemenite Jewry and its culture. (Hebrew)
2006- "The Rise of the Yemenite Jews and their absorption during World War II: Historical precedent for Mass-Immigration" in Araki Clurman (Editor), Yemen – History, Society, Culture: The Yemenite immigrants in Israel – A collection of Essays, Ben – Zvi Institute and the Open University (Hebrew).
2003-"Yemenite Jewish Immigration of to Israel: Realization of Dream or a Social Dilemma: The Case of the Missing Yemenite Children, In E. Don Yehiya (ed.), Between Tradition, Zionism and the State of Israel, in Memoriam of Yehoshuah Kaniel, Bar-Ilan University Press. (Hebrew).
1999- “The Immigration and Absorption of Yemenite Jewry”, The Great Aliya (1948-1956) of Oriental Jewry, Haim Saadon(ed), Ben Zvi Institute, Jerusalem. (Hebrew).
1996- “The Exodus of Yemenite Immigrants from Absorption Camps”. Teima Vol.5, Research Journal for Yemenite Jewry and Culture,1996. (Hebrew).
1994- “The Immigration and Absorption of Yemenite Jews in Israelduring World War II – an Historic Precedent of Mass Immigration and Absorption”. Teima Vol.4, Research Journal for Yemenite Jewry and Culture. (Hebrew).
1990- “The Uniqueness of the Yemenite Immigration to Israel”, The Inernational Congress of Research for Yemenite Jewry. Bar-Ilan University, Aug. 1990. (English). The article was Immigration to Israel, Studies in the Heritage of Yemenite Jewry and Culture", Y. Dachoah-Halevy (ed.), Mavoey Afikim,1995 (Hebrew).
