David Tal (historian)

David Tal is an Israeli historian and professor. Since 2009, he has been the Kahanoff Chair in Israeli Studies at the University of Calgary, Canada. He is an expert on Israel's security and diplomatic history, as well as U.S. disarmament policy.^[1][2]

Biography

Tal completed all his undergraduate and graduate study in history at Tel Aviv University, receiving his BA in 1986, his MA in 1990, and his PhD in 1995. He was an instructor in the department of history at Tel Aviv University from 1994–1996 and a lecturer in that department and in the Program of Security Studies from 1996–2005. He was a NATO research fellow from 2000–2002.^[3]

Since 2005, Tal has been a visiting professor at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia (2005–2006, 2008–2009), Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York (2006–2008), and the University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada (2009–present).^[3]

Selected bibliography

Books

• Tal, David (1993). Hezbollah, Palestinian Jihad Islamic and Hamas. Tel Aviv.  (with Anat Kurz and Maskit Burgin)
• Tal, David (1998) (in Hebrew). Israel's Day-to-Day Security Conception: Its origin and development, 1949–1956. Beersheba University Press. 
• Tal, David (13 July 2001). The 1956 War: Collusion and rivalry in the Middle East. London: Routledge. ISBN 071464840X. http://books.google.com/books?id=DJVK9RfMEJAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=david+tal&hl=en&ei=3seJTennGIXRsgafvO2kDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false. 
• Tal, David (15 March 2003). War in Palestine, 1948: Strategy and diplomacy. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780714652757. http://books.google.com/books?id=dL29_RBATv0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=david+tal&hl=en&ei=3seJTennGIXRsgafvO2kDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false. 
• Tal, David (31 October 2008). The American Nuclear Disarmament Dilemma, 1945-1963. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 0815631669. http://books.google.com/books?id=Yb3oly2wVsEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=david+tal&hl=en&ei=3seJTennGIXRsgafvO2kDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false. 

Articles

• Tal, David (1995). "The American-Israeli Security Treaty: Sequel or means to the relief of Israeli-Arab tension, 1954–1955". Middle Eastern Studies 31:4, pp. 828–848.
• Tal, David (February 1996). "Israel's Road to the 1956 War". International Journal of Middle East Studies, 67.
• Tal, David (1998). "Israel's Conception of Routine Security Measures". Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
• Tal, David (June 2000). "Symbol or Substance? Israel's campaign for U.S. Hawk missiles, 1960–1962". International History Review, 22:2.
• Tal, David (Spring/Summer 2000). "The Forgotten War: The Jewish-Palestinian strife in Palestine, December 1947–May 1948". Israel Affairs, 6:3–4.
• Tal, David (July 2004). "Between Intuition and Professionalism: Israeli Military Leadership during the 1948 Palestine War". The Journal of Military History 68 (3): 885–909. doi:10.1353/jmh.2004.0147. http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/journal_of_military_history/v068/68.3tal.html. 
• Tal, David (2004). "The Battle over Jerusalem: The Israeli-Jordanian War, 1948", in Alon Kadish (ed.), Israel's War of Independence Revisited (Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defense, 2004), pp. 307–339.
• Tal, David (Autumn 2005). "The 1948 War in Palestine Historiography: The missing dimension". Journal of Israeli History 24:2, pp. 183–202.
• Tal, David (Fall 2008). "From the Open Skies Proposal of 1955 to the Norstad Plan of 1960: A plan too far". Journal of Cold War Studies, 10:4, pp. 66–93.

References

1. ^ "David Tal, Department of History". University of Tel Aviv. http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/vip/tal-cv.htm. Retrieved 23 March 2011. 
2. ^ "David Tal, Research Fellow". University of Calgary. 2010. http://cmss.ucalgary.ca/profiles/david-tal. Retrieved 23 March 2011. 
3. ^ ^{a b} "Curriculum Vitae". University of Calgary. http://cmss.ucalgary.ca/sites/cmss.ucalgary.ca/files/CV/davidtal_cv_103.pdf. Retrieved 23 March 2011. 

External links

• David Tal curriculum vitae

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