Mendilow, Jonathan 1950-

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Mendilow, Jonathan 1950-

PERSONAL:

Born November 25, 1950, in London, England; son of Adam (a professor) and Myriam (a teacher) Mendilow; married, 1969; wife's name Shlomit (a teacher); children: Guy, Daniel. Ethnicity:"White." Education: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, B.A. (with distinction), 1973, M.A. (with distinction), 1976, Ph.D. (with distinction), 1980.

ADDRESSES:

Home—40 Fairfield Ave., Lawrenceville, NJ 08648. Office—277 Fine Arts, Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648.E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Writer. City of Jerusalem, Israel, manager of Office of Public Relations, 1974-77; Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, instructor, 1978-80, assistant professor, 1980-85, chair of Division of Social Sciences and Liberal Arts at Joseph Saltiel College, 1981-85; University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, senior lecturer, 1985-86; University of Southern California, Los Angeles, visiting professor, 1986-87; Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ, associate professor, 1987-93, professor, 1993—. Yale University, visiting scholar, 1980; University of Tel Aviv, assistant professor, 1979-85; conference presenter.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Fulbright scholar, 1980; British Academy Award for best short piece of the year in the field of political science, 1983.

WRITINGS:


(Editor) From the French Revolution to the Rise of Fascism: Readings in the History of Political Thought, Dyonon (Tel Aviv, Israel), 1982.

The Romantic Tradition in British Political Thought,Barnes & Noble (New York, NY), 1986.

Ideology, Party Change, and Electoral Campaigns in Israel, 1965-2001, State University of New YorkPress (Albany, NY), 2003.

Contributor to books, including The Elections in Israel,edited by Asher Arian, Ramot (Tel Aviv, Israel), 1984;Handbook of Global Political Policy, edited by Stuart Nagal, Marcel Dekker (New York, NY), 2000; Cyberimperialism,edited by Bosah Ebo, Praeger Publishers (Westport, CT), 2001; The Elections in Israel, 1999,edited by Asher Arian and Michal Shamir, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY), 2002; andDemocracy and Political Party Finance, edited by Guy Lachapelle, Frank Cass (London, England). Contributor to periodicals, including American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Journal of Political Ideologies, Party Politics, Political Theory, Political Research Quarterly, International Journal ofMiddle East Studies, Journal of the History of European Ideas, Polity, Libertarian Studies, and Israeli Studies Forum.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:


PERIODICALS


Middle East Journal, summer, 2003, Reuven Y. Hazan, review of Ideology, Party Change, and Electoral Campaigns in Israel, 1965-2001, p. 510.

Political Science Quarterly, winter, 2003, Abraham Diskin, review of Ideology, Party Change, and Electoral Campaigns in Israel, 1965-2001, p. 718.

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