Joseph Heller (historian)

Joseph Heller, transcribed also as Yosef Heller (; born January 6, 1937), is an Israeli historian. He is Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He was born in Tel Aviv.

Published works

• The Birth of Israel, 1945–1949: Ben-Gurion and his critics, (2000), University of Florida Press,
• The Stern Gang: ideology, politics, and terror, 1940–1949 (1995)
• British Policy towards the Ottoman Empire, 1908–1914 (1983)
• The Struggle for the Jewish State: Zionist Politics, 1936—1948, The Zalman Shazar Center For The Furtherance Of The Study Of Jewish History, Jerusalem, 1984. (Be-maʼavaḳ la-medinah. Yerushalayim : Merkaz Zalman Shazar le-haÊ»amaḳat ha-todaÊ»ah ha-hisá¹­orit ha-Yehudit, 1984) 560 pages. A Collection of documents by various authors, in Hebrew. and
• The United States, the Soviet Union and the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1948–67 Superpower rivalry, Manchester University Press, 2016. 304 pages. The Cold War context, based on extensive analysis of rare documents.

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