Gideon Greif - Main Positions

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Between 1976 and 1982 Gideon Greif was lecturer for Jewish History and member of the Course Development TeamOpen at the University of Ramat Aviv, where he lectured the following themes: The First Temple Period, The Second Temple Period, The Mishna and Talmud Times, The History of the Zionist Idea and The History of the Holocaust. He was Educational Director of the Academic Programs in Jewish History. From 1982 until 1983 he was Director of Publications and Editor in Chief of the Israeli Parliament publications of the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) in Jerusalem. From 1983–2009 he worked as Publications Editor, Historian, Educator, Lecturer and Senior Researcher at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem and Givatayim. Between August and December 2001 he was a visiting professor for Holocaust Studies at "The Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies" for the fall Semester and an advisor to the Holocaust Memorial Center at the Miami Beach University of Miami in Florida. In 2002 and 2003 he worked as a lecturer for Jewish History at the Faculty of Jewish History at the University of Haifa. Between 2005–2006 he was the head of the Polish Desk of the European Department at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. As of the 2011-2012 academic year, Dr. Greif has worked at the University of Texas at Austin teaching Holocaust Studies and Modern Israeli Presidential Politics.