Lilach Rosenberg-Friedman is a historian and a senior lecturer at the land of Israel studies and Archaeology department, in Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Rosenberg-Friedman specializes in the Social history of Mandatory Palestine and Israel, and particularly in the history of women, gender and family. Her writing include a book entitled Revolutionaries despite themselves: Women and Gender in Religious Zionism during the Yishuv Period (Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Zvi, 2005) [Hebrew] and various essays on Women and gender in Mandatory Palestine and the state of Israel, such as: feminine identity and leadership, the Hebrew family, marriage and motherhood and biographies of women in the era of national renaissance. Her new book: Birthrate Politics in Zion: Judaism, Zionism and Modernity in Mandate Palestine (1920-1948), was accepted for publication at the Indiana University Press.

Academic Interests:

• Israel in the modern period: The late Ottoman period, the pre-State population in Palestine,
• the Zionist movement during the Mandate period: society, governance and politics, the rural society
• The early years of independence
• Women and gender in the history of pre-State Israel and the State of Israel Religious Zionism;
• Women and gender in Religious Zionism