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Leslie Stein

Leslie Stein, a senior research fellow at Macquarie University, is a graduate and postgraduate of the London School of Economics. He is the author of The Hope Fulfilled: The Rise of Modern Israel and co editor (with Sol Encel) of Continuity, Commitment and Survival: Jewish Communities in the Diaspora. Between 2003 and 2006 he served as the editor of the US based Praeger Press’s series on Israeli and Jewish Studies. His recent work The Making of Modern Israel, 1948–1949 (Polity Press Cambridge) has been widely acclaimed. Currently he is writing a sequel entitled Tears of Joy Tears of Sorrow: Israel Since the 1967 Six Day War.