After many years in public and political activity, Tzvia Greenfield has recently completed her doctoral dissertation in political philosophy, at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Her thesis analyzing the phenomenology of traditional social and political systems versus the phenomenology of modern (and post-modern) democratic thought is about to be published soon. Another more popular version of the same ideas is expected to appear in publication in the summer of 2006.

Beyond her interest in philosophical theorization, Dr. Greenfield is interested in actual political processes. As the director of Mifne' Institute for Democracy and Cultural Identity, an educational think tank concentrating on issues of Jewish identity and civic culture, Dr. Greenfield has developed research and communicational tools for the analysis of active processes in cultural and civic identification. Following more than 15 publications and text books dealing with questions of cultural identity as manifested through various disciplines, she has published in 2001 her first broad cultural and political analysis, dealing with the rise of the religious political right in Israel. Plans for its publication in the US are now in progress.

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