CURRICULUM VITAE

1981 Senior Lecturer (with tenure), Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Fall 1982/83 Research Fellow, Department of Geography, University College, London, England.
Fall 1986/87 Visiting Scholar, Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
1988 Associate Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Fall 1991/92 Visiting Scholar, Department of Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, N.C.
July 1992 Invited Senior Fellow, Oxford University
1993–1997 Adjunct Senior Teaching Fellow, The Technion, Haifa, Israel
Spring 1996 Recipient of the Brownstone Lecturer Fund Award, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H.
1996 Full Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Ph.D. Dissertation
Kark, R. The Development of the Cities Jerusalem and Jaffa from 1840 up to the First World War (A Study in Historical Geography). Jerusalem: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1977.

Books
1. Kark, R. Frontier Jewish Settlement in the Negev, 1880–1948. Tel Aviv: Ha-Kibbutz Ha-Muchad Publishers, 1974. 204 pp. (in Hebrew).
2. Kark, R. Neighborhoods in Jerusalem—Building in New Jerusalem and Neighborhoods By-Laws. Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Publications, 1978. 88 pp. (in Hebrew).
3.  a). Kark, R. Jaffa—A City in Evolution, 1799–1917. Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, 1984. 300 pp. (in Hebrew).
 b) English edition, with revisions. Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, 1990. 328 pp.
4. Kark, R. Jerusalem Neighborhoods, Planning and By-Laws (1855–1930). Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1991. 195 pp.
5. a) Glass J. B. and Kark, R. Sephardi Entrepreneurs in Eretz Israel—The Amzalak Family, 1816–1918. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1991. 202 pp.
 b) Kark, R. and Glass, J. B. Updated Hebrew edition of the above. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1993. 214 pp.
6. Kark, R. American Consuls in the Holy Land 1832–1914. Detroit: Wayne State University Press; Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1994. 395 pp.
7. Kark, R. and Oren, Nordheim M. Jerusalem and Its Environs—Quarters, Neighborhoods and Villages 1800–1948. Jerusalem: Academon Publishing House, 1995. 528 pp. (in Hebrew).
8. Amit, I. and Kark, R. Yehoshua Hankin. Tel Aviv: Milo, 1996. 334 pp. (in Hebrew).
9. Dudman, H. and Kark, R. The American Colony, Scenes from a Jerusalem Saga. Jerusalem: Carta, 1998, 303 pp.
Edited Books and Journals
10. Ben-Arieh, Y. and Kark, R., eds. Israel Studies in Historical Geography. A Book Series. Jerusalem: Magnes Press (five volumes, 1989–1997; four of the volumes in press).
11. a) Kark, R., ed. The Land that Became Israel. Studies in Historical Geography. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1989. 362 pp.
 b) Co-production of above, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.
12. Kark, R., ed. Redemption of the Land of Eretz-Israel: Ideology and Practice. Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Publications, 1990. 320 pp. (in Hebrew).
13. Kark, R., The Pennsylvania Geographer 29 (Summer 1991), Guest Editor, Special Issue on Israel, 74 pp.
14. Reichman, S. and Kark, R. eds. Studies in the Geography of Israel. 13 (1992), 208 + xv pp. (in Hebrew with English Abstract).
15. Kark, R. and Solomon, I., eds. Studies in the Geography of Israel. 14 (1993), 324 + xx pp. (in Hebrew with English Abstract).
16. Kark, R., ed. Land and Settlement in Eretz Israel 1830–1990. Selected Papers by Prof. Ruth Kark. Jerusalem: The Land-Use Research Institute, 1995. 200 pp. (in Hebrew and English).

Papers in Referreed Journals and Refereed Chapters in Books
17. Kark, R. “The Traditional Middle Eastern City, The Caes of Jerusalem and Jaffa During the Nineteenth Century.”
 a) Studies in the Geography of Israel 10 (1978): 75–95 (in Hebrew).
 b) Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 97 (1981): 93–108 (in English).
18. Kark, R. “The Jerusalem Municipality at the end of Ottoman Rule.”
 a) Cathedra 6 (1978): 74–94 (in Hebrew).
 b) Asian and African Studies 14 (1980): 117–141.
19. Kark, R. “Geographic Aspects in the Ideology of Yehoshua Hankin.” Studies in the Geography of Israel 11 (1980): 101–113 (in Hebrew with English Abstract).
20. Kark, R. “The Jewish Community in Jaffa at the end of the Late Ottoman Period.” Cathedra 16 (1980): 13–24 (in Hebrew).
21. Kark, R. and Landman, S. “The Establishment of Muslim Neighborhoods in Jerusalem Outside the Old City During the Late Ottoman Period.”
 a) Palestine Exploration Quarterly 112 (1980): 113–35.
 b) in E. Shaltiel, ed. Jerusalem in the Modern Period. Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi and Ministry of Defence Publications, 1991. pp. 174–212 (Expanded version in Hebrew).
22. Kark, R. “Notes on ‘Batei-Tura.’” Cathedra 18 (1981): 157–67 (in Hebrew).
23. Kark, R. “Jewish Frontier Settlement in the Negev, 1880–1948: Perception and Realisation.” Middle Eastern Studies 17 (1981): 334–56.
24. Kark, R. “The Rise of Jaffa as the Social and Cultural Center of the New Jewish Settlement in Palestine.”
 a) in The First Aliyah Book, ed. M. Eliav, vol. 1. Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi and Ministry of Defence Publications, 1981, 297–318 (in Hebrew).
 b) in The Jerusalem Cathedra, ed. I. L. Levine, 3 (1983): 212–35.
25. Kark, R. and Gerber, H., “Land Registry Maps in Palestine during the Ottoman Period.”
 a) Cathedra 22 (1982): 113–18 (in Hebrew).
 b) The Cartographic Journal 21 (1984): 30–32.
26. Kark, R. “Millenarian and Agricultural Settlement in the Holy Land in the Nineteenth Century.”
 a) Journal of Historical Geography 9 (1983): 1–17.
 b) Horizons, Studies in Geography 12 (1984): 128–44 (in Hebrew).
27. Kark, R. “Neighborhood Planning in 19th Century Jerusalem—The Takanot.” Planning History Bulletin 4 (1983): 29–31.
28. Kark, R. “Jaffa in Transition from Village to City—Change in the Urban Patterns.” In Between Yarkon and Ayalon. Ed. D. Grossman. Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University Press, 1983, 105–24 (in Hebrew).
29. Kark, R. “The Agricultural Character of Jewish Settlement in the Negev (1939–1947).” Jewish Social Studies 45 (1983): 157–74.
30. Kark, R. “Conceptual Models of Developing Pre-industrial Cities: An Examination of Their Applicability to 19th Century Palestine.” Geographical Research Forum 7 (1984): 18–27.
31. Kark, R. and Shilloni, T. “The Resettlement of Gezer.”
 a) In Zev Vilnay’s Jubilee Volume. Ed. E. Shiller. Jerusalem: Ariel, 1984, 331–42 (in Hebrew).
 b) “The Bergheim family and the farm in Abu Shusha.” In The Fertile Crescent 1800–1914, A Documentary Economic History Ed. C. Issawi. New York and Oxford, 1988, 332–36.
32. Kark, R. “Land Acquisition and New Agricultural Settlement in Palestine During the Tyomkin Period, 1890–1892.” Zionism 9 (1984): 179–93 (in Hebrew with English Abstract).
33. Kark, R. “Zionist Settlement Policy in the Negev Prior to the State of Israel.” In Eretz-Israel. Eds. D. Amiran, M. Brawer, A. Negev, and Y. Karmon, vol. 17. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1984, 101–108 (in Hebrew with English Abstract).
34. Kark, R. “Landownership and Spatial Change in Nineteenth Century Palestine: An Overview.” In Transition from Spontaneous to Regulated Spatial Organization. Ed. M. Roscizewsky. Warsaw 1984, 183–96.
35. Kark, R. “Changing Patterns of Land Ownership in Nineteenth Century Palestine: The European Influence.” Journal of Historical Geography 10 (1984): 357–84.
36. Kark, R. “Agricultural Land and Plans for its Cultivation by Jews during Montefiore’s Second Visit, 1839.”
 a) Cathedra 33 (1984): 57–92 (in Hebrew).
 b) “Agricultural Land in Palestine: Letters to Sir Moses Montefiore, 1839,” Transactions, the Jewish Historical Society of England 29 (1988): 207–30.
37. Kark, R. “The Maghrabis—The First Residents of Jerusalem to Build a Neighborhood Outside the Walls.” Pe’amim 21 (1984): 21–31 (in Hebrew).
38. Kark, R. “Acquisition of Land in Emeq Hefer, 1800–1930.”
 a) Studies in the Geography of Israel 12 (1986): 31–51 (in Hebrew with English Abstract).
 b) In Book of the Sharon. Eds. D. Grossman and A. Dgani. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, 1990 (in Hebrew, expanded version).
39. Kark, R. “The Contribution of the Ottoman Regime to the Development of Jerusalem and Jaffa, 1840–1917.” In Palestine in the Late Ottoman Period. Ed. D. Kushnir. Leiden: E. J. Brill; Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, 1986, 46–58.
40. Kark, R. “Annual Reports of the United States Consuls in the Holy Land as a Source for the Study of Nineteenth Century Palestine.”
 a) In With Eyes Toward Zion. Vol. 2. Ed. M. Davis. New York: Praeger, 1986, 127–77.
 b) Cathedra 50 (1988): 111–39 (in Hebrew).
41. Kark, R. “Land Purchase by Montefiore in Palestine—Legal, Political and Economic Aspects.” In Historical-Geographical Studies in the Settlement of Eretz Israel. Eds. Y. Ben-Arieh, Y. Ben-Artzi, and H. Goren. Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, 1987, 34–44 (in Hebrew).
42. Kark, R. “Cartographic Sources for the Study of Jaffa from the Napoleonic Siege Until the British Conquest.”
 a) The Cartographic Journal 25 (1988): 37–49.
 b) Israel - Land and Country 5/6, Eretz-Israel Museum Annual (1989): 173–98 (in Hebrew).
43. Kark, R. “Historical Sites—Perception and Land Purchase, the Case of Modin, 1882–1931.”
 a) Studies in Zionism 9 (1988): 1–17.
 b) In Redemption of the Land of Eretz-Israel, Ideology and Practice. Ed. R. Kark. Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, 1990, 96–117 (in Hebrew).
44. Ben-Artzi, Y., Kark, R., and Aaronsohn, R. “Function of Jewish settlement sites in Palestine 1882–1914, before purchase—Khans or Estates?.” Zionism 13 (1988): 263–84 (in Hebrew).
45. Kark, R. “The Decline and Rise of the Coastal Towns in Palestine 1800–1914.”
 a) In Ottoman Palestine 1800–1914, Studies in Economic and Social History. Ed. G. G. Gilbar. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1990, 69–90.
 b) In Commerce in Palestine Through the Ages, Studies. Eds. B. Z. Kedar, T. Dothan, and S. Safrai. Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi and Israel Exploration Society, 1990, 324–37 (in Hebrew).
46. Kark, R. “Transportation in 19th Century Palestine: Reintroduction of the Wheel.” In The Land That Became Israel. Ed. R. Kark. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1989; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989;  57–76.
47. Kark, R. “Rabbi Tzuf Dvash and the Founding of Machaneh Yisrael, the Maghrabi Neighborhood  in Nineteenth Century New Jerusalem.” In Studies on North African Jewry Book. Ed. S. Shetreet. Tel Aviv: Am Oved Publishers, 1991, 66–83 (in Hebrew).
48. Kark, R. “Land-God-Man: Concepts of Land Ownership in Traditional Cultures and in Eretz Israel.”
 a) Horizons in Geography 28–29 (1989/90): 45–64 (in Hebrew); and Karka 31 (1989): 23–35 (in Hebrew).
 b) In Ideology and Landscape in Historical Perspective. Eds. A. Baker and G. Biger. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, 63–82.
49. Kark, R. “Land Purchase and Registration by German-American Templers in Nineteenth Century Haifa.” International Journal of Turkish Studies 5 (1990–91): 71–82.
50. Kark, R. “The Finn Family in Jerusalem, Agriculture, Jews and Millenarism.” Cathedra 66 (1992): 175–83 (in Hebrew with English Abstract).
51. Gavish, D. and Kark, R. “The Cadastral Mapping of Palestine 1858–1928.”
           a)  The Geographical Journal 159 (1993): 70–80.
           b)  Karka 37 (1993): 31-43.
52. Kark, R. “Ottoman Policy and U.S. Attitudes Regarding Land Purchase and Settlement of American Jews in Palestine.” Studies in Zionism 14 (1993): 211–18.
53. Kark, R. “The Contribution of Nineteenth Century Protestant Missionary Societies to Historical Cartography.” Imago Mundi 45 (1993): 112–19.
54. Kark, R. “U.S. Consuls in Jerusalem, 1844–1917: Motivation, Training and the Character of Appointments.” Cathedra 70 (1994): 161–69 (in Hebrew with English Abstract).
55. Kark, R. and Glass, J. B. “Biographies of U.S. Consuls in Jerusalem 1844–1917.” Cathedra 70 (1994): 170–92 (in Hebrew with English Abstract).
56. Kark, R. “Planning, Housing and Land Policy 1948–1952: The Formation of Concepts and Governmental Frameworks.”
 a) In Israel, The First Decade of Independence. Eds. I. Troen, and N. Lucas. New York: SUNY, 1995, 461–94.
 b) State, Government and International Relations 39 (1994): 61–101 (in Hebrew).
57. Kark, R. “The Introduction of Modern Technology into the Holy Land, 1800–1914.” In The Archaeology of Society in the Holy Land. Ed. T. E. Levi. London: Leicester University Press, 1995, 524–41.
58. Kark, R. “Post–Civil War American Communes: A Millenarian Utopian Commune Linking Chicago and Nås, Sweden to Jerusalem.” Communal Societies 15 (1995): 75–114.
59. Kark, R. “Sweden and the Holy Land: Pietistic and Communal Settlement.” Journal of Historical Geography 22 (1996): 46–67.
60. Kark, R. “Historical-Geographic Study of Land and Settlement in Palestine.” In The Mosaic of Israeli Geography at the Close of the Twentieth Century. Eds. Y. Gradus and G. Lipshitz. Beer Sheva: Ben Gurion University of the Negev Press, 1996, 475–81.
61. Ariel, Y. and Kark, R. “Messianism, Holiness, and Community: A Protestant American-Swedish Sect in Jerusalem, 1881–1933.” Church History 65 (1996): 641–57.
62. Kark, R. and Oren-Nordheim, M. “Colonial Cities in Palestine? Jerusalem Under the British Mandate.” Israel Affairs 3 (1996): 50–94.
63. N. Lipschitz, G. Biger, and R. Kark. “Botanical Methods in The Historical Geography of Palestine: North American Wood in an Arab Village Oil Press.” In Olive Oil in Antiquity.. Eds. D. Eitam and M. Helzer. Padova: Sargon, 1996, 15-22.
64. Kark, R. “Mamluk and Ottoman Cadastral Surveys and Early Mapping of Landed Properties in Palestine.” Agicultural History 71 (1997): 46–70.
65. Kark, R. and Ben Yaacov, M. “Jewish Entrepreneurship in Building Urban Neighborhoods in Palestine at the End of the Ottoman Period: The Case of Jerusalem.” In Studies in Jewish Economic Entrepreneurship in the Modern Era. Eds. R. Aaronsohn and S. Stampfer. Forthcoming. 39 pp.
66. Kark, R. “Land Purchase and Mapping in a Mid-nineteenth Century Palestinian Village.” The Palestine Exploration Quarterly 130 (1997): 150-161.
67. Kark, R. and Glass, J.B.  “Sephardi and Oriental Jews in Eretz-Israel (Palestine).” In The history of the Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times. Eds. R.S. Simon, M.M. Laskier and S. Reuger. New York: Columbia University Press. Forthcoming. 35pp.
68. Glass, J. B. and Kark, R. “Haim Amzalek, H.B. M Vice Consul at Jaffa, 1872–1903.” In Britain and the Holy Land. Ed. A. Newman. Leicester: Leicester University Press. In Press, 38 pp.
69. Kark, R. and Glass, J. B. “The Jews in Eretz-Israel/Palestine, From Traditional Peripherality to Modern Centrality.” Israel Affairs. In Press.
70. Kark, R. “Hollywood in Ashkelon - A Plan to Build a Film And Tourist Town in Barnea.” In Ashkelon Book. Eds. Z. Safrai, A. Sasson and               .  In Press.

Book Reviews
1. Kark, R., on R. W. Bodly. The Soundless Sahara. London, 1968. 223 pp. In The New East 21 (1971): 95 (in Hebrew).
2. Kark, R., on T. Parfit. The Jews of Palestine 1800–1882. Exeter, 1987. In Middle Eastern Studies 26 (1990): 138–39.
3. Kark, R., on D. J. Penslar. Zionism and Technology: The Engineering of Jewish Settlement in Palestine, 1870–1918. Bloomington, Ind., 1991. 224 pp. In Shofar 12 (1993): 126–28.
4. Kark, R., on D. Kushner. A Governor in Jerusalem, The City and Province in the Eyes of Ali Ekrem Bey: 1906–1908. Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, 1995. 260 pp. In The New East 39 (1998): 301-303 (in Hebrew) and MESA Bulletin  (1999):          (in English).
5. Kark, R., on M. Hudson and B. Levine. Eds. Privatization in the Ancient Near East and Classical World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology Bulletin 5, 1996. 308 pp. In: Karka 44 (1998): 106-108 (in Hebrew).

Other Publications

Articles in Hebrew and Teaching Materials
1. Kark, R. “The Suez Canal.” Nofim and Atarim. Tel Aviv, 1965, 4 pp.
2. Kark, R. “The Jordan—Irrigation Projects.” Nofim and Atarim. Tel Aviv, 1973, 139–40.
3. Kark, R. “Urban Development of Jerusalem and Jaffa at the end of the Ottoman Period.” Nofim 9–10 (1977): 106–14.
4. Kark, R. and Aaronsohn, R. Agricultural Settlement of Jews and Christians in 19th Century Palestine. Jerusalem: Academon, 1979. 78 pp.
5. Kark, R. “Jewish Settlement in the Negev during the British Mandate.” In The Land of the Negev, Man and Desert. Ed. A. Shmueli and Y. Grados. Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defence Publishing House, 1979, 323–32.
6. Kark, R. and Biger, G. Chapters in Historical Geography (Reader) 3. Jerusalem: Academon, 1980. 290 pp.
7. Kark. R. and Landman, S. “Qasr esh-Sheikh in Jerusalem.” Land and Nature 22 (1980): 196–99.
8. Kark, R. “Jewish Settlement in the Negev during the British Mandate Period.” In A Locked Refuge Country. Ed. N. Arbel. Tel Aviv, 1981, 139–46.
9. Kark, R. “The Jewish community in Jaffa at the end of the Late Ottoman Period.” Land and Nature 6 (1981): 152–56 (in English).
10. Aaronsohn, R. and Kark, R. “Shoshanat Ha-Yarden.” Land and Nature 24 (1982): 55–57.
11. Kark, R. “One Hundred Years of Settlement—Another Look.” Land and Nature 24 (1982): 225–27.
12. Kark, R. “The New Map of Egypt.” In Studies in the Geography of Egypt. Ed. A. Shachar. Jerusalem, 1982, 29–44 (Hebrew).
13. Kark, R., Aaronsohn, R. and Shillony, Z. Landownership and Settlement in Palestine, 1800–1948. Jerusalem: Academon, 1984. 312 pp.
14. Reichman, S. and Kark, R. Interview with H. Danin. Tel Aviv: The Open University, 1985–86. Videocassette.
 a) Agrarian Regime in Mandatory Palestine. (30 min.)
 b) Political Considerations in Jewish Land Purchase 1918–1948. (30 min.)
15. Kark, R., ed. Abstracts of the Israel Geographic Society Annual Meeting. Jerusalem, December 1985.
16. Kark, R. “Settlement Activity in the Negev in the Decade before Statehood.” Idan 6 (1986): 65–73 (Hebrew).
17. Kark, R. “Jerusalem in New England.”
 a) Land and Nature 29 (1987): 20–22.
 b) Ariel 69 (1987): 52–61 (in English).
18. Kark, R. “Mahane Yisrael a Pioneering Neighborhood.” Land and Nature 29 (1987): 29–31.
19. Kark, R.  “Comments on Moses Montefiore’s Activity in Eretz-Israel.” In The Age of Moses Montefiore. Ed. I. Bartal. Jerusalem: Misgav Yerushalayim, 1987, 41-43 (in Hebrew and English).
20. Kark, R. “The By-Laws of Nahalat Shiv‘a Neighborhood.” In 120 to Nahalat Shiv‘a. Ed. E. Shiller. Jerusalem: Jerusalem Municipality, 1989, 32–38.
21. “Land and Settlement in Eretz Israel.” Bauniversita. Newsletter of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. No. 3 (1989): 30–31.
22. Kark, R., Academic Advisor. “To Brave a Dream, The Story of the American Colony in Jaffa.” Film by Yael Katzir. Boston and Tel Aviv, 1992.
23.      Kark, R.  “Pioneers in Jerusalem.”  ‘Etmol 17. No. 4 (1992): 7-9.
24. Kark, R. “The Journey of W. H. Rudy from Chicago to the Swedish-American Colony in Jerusalem.” Ariel 100 (1994): 40–51.
25.   Kark, R., Glass, J. and Even-Or, S.  “The First Railway in Palestine - History and Entrepreneurship.”  Ariel 100 (1994): 47-56.
26. Kark, R. and Ben Yaacov, M. “The Role of Sephardi and Oriental Jews in the Building of New Neighborhoods in Jerusalem.” In Neighborhoods in Jerusalem, The Contribution of Oriental Jews to the City’s Development. Ed. H. Sa’adon. Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 1996, 7–25 (Hebrew).
27. Glass, J. B. and Kark, R. Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship of Sephardi and Oriental Jews in Jerusalem and Jaffa at the End of the Ottoman Period. Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 1996. 56 pp.
28. Eilam, Y. and Kark, R. “Altneuland–One Hundred Years of Zionism.” Television course in the Ascola Series. Tel Aviv: Israeli Educational Television, 1996–97.
29.      Kark, R. “Clock Towers in Palestine.”  ‘Etmol 22. No. 5 (1997): 17-18.
30. Kark, R. “To Whom the Land Belongs?” Mishkafayim 31 (1997): 16-19.
31. Kark, R. “The Keiser in Jerusalem” ‘Etmol 23 (1998): 3-6.

Presentations and Active Participation in Conferences

1. Kark, R. “The Muslim City as an Historic-Cultural Phenomenon.” The Israel Geographic Society Annual Meeting, Haifa, December 1974.
2. Kark, R. “Urban Development in Palestine at the end of the Ottoman Period—An Indicator of Political and Cultural Change.” Middle East Studies Association Meeting, Louisville, Ky., November 1975.
3. Kark, R. “Development Processes of Jerusalem and Jaffa in the Twilight of the Ottoman Period. The Israel Oriental Society Annual Meeting, Jerusalem, May 1977.
4. Kark, R. “The Jewish Community of Jaffa in the Late Ottoman Period.” The Seventh World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, August 1977.
5. Kark, R. “Land Purchase in Emek Hefer prior to Jewish Settlement.” The Israel Geographic Society Annual Meeting, December 1978.
6. Kark, R. “The Contribution of the Ottoman Regime to the Development of Jerusalem and Jaffa, 1840–1917.” An International Conference on the Legacy of Ottoman Palestine, University of Haifa, December 1979.
7. Kark, R. “Transportation in 19th Century Palestine.” An International Conference on the Economic History of the Middle East, 1800–1914, A Comparative Approach. Invited paper. University of Haifa, December 1980.
8. Kark, R. “The Decline and Rise of the Coastal Towns in Palestine, 1800–1914.” Fifth Mediterranean conference, Tel Aviv, August 1980.
9. Kark, R. “Millenarism and Agricultural Settlement in the Holy Land in the 19th Century.” CUKANZUS ‘81 An International Conference for Historical Geographers, Toronto, Canada, August 1981.
10. Kark, R. “Land Acquisition and New Agricultural Settlements in Palestine during the ‘Tyomkin Period,’ 1882–1982.” One Hundred Years of Zionism, 1882–1982, International Conference, Tel Aviv, December 1981. English Abstract in Studies in Zionism 4 (1981): 339.
11. Kark, R. “The Introduction of Technological Innovations from the West into 19th Century Palestine.” Symposium on Historical Changes in Spatial Organisation and its Experience in the Mediterranean World, International Geographical Union Working Group, Rome, Italy, September 1982.
12. Kark, R. “Land Ownership and Spatial Changes in Nineteenth Century Palestine.” Seminar on Historical Types of Spatial Organization—the Transition from Spontaneous to Regulated Spatial Organization, Warsaw, Poland, April 1983.
13. “Changing Patterns of Land Ownership in Nineteenth Century Palestine: The European Influence.” CUKANZUS ‘83 International Conference of Historical Geographers, Oxford, England, July 1983.
14. Kark, R. “Annual Reports of the United States Consuls in the Holy Land as a Source for America–Holy Land Studies.” Invited paper for the Second International Scholars Colloquium on America–Holy Land Studies, Washington D.C., August 1983.
15. Kark, R. “Rabbi Tzuf Dvash and the Maghrebi Neighborhoods in Jerusalem.” Cinquième Colloque International Maghreb—Mashreq, Jerusalem, April 1984.
16. Kark, R. a). Transformation historiques de parcellaire et de l’habitat rural. Nancy, France, August 1984.
  b) 25th International Congress, Paris, August 1984.
  c) Corsica—Human and Physical Geography. Excursion of the International Geographical Union, September 1984.
17. Kark, R. “Sir Moses Montefiore and Eretz-Yisrael.” The Second International Congress for Research on the Sephardi and Oriental Jewish Heritage, Jerusalem, December 1984.
18. Kark, R. “Processes of Landownership in Palestine as background to Montefiore’s activities.” Montefiore Conference, Tel Aviv, May 1985.
19. Kark, R. “Nomads and Townsmen.” Invited discussant, A Colloquium on Palestine 1840–1948: Population and Immigration, Haifa, June 1986.
20. Kark, R. “Projects for Resettlement in the Holy Land in the 19th Cenury.” Invited paper, The Anglo Israel Archaeological Society, The Archaeological Institute, London, 1988. Abstract in Bulletin of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society, 1988.
21. Kark, R. Politics and Place: French Revolutionary Ideals and Historical Geography—A Colloquium, Cambridge, England, July 1988.
22. Kark, R. “From the Heralders of Zionism to Gush Emunim—Reflections on the Redemption of Land,” Israel Geographic Society Annual Meeting, Bar Ilan University, 1988.
23. Kark, R. “Plans for Settlement of Palestine during the Nineteenth Century.” Invited speaker, University College London Colloquium on Britain and the Holy Land, 1800–1914, London, February 1989.
24. Kark, R. “Land–God–Man: Concepts of Land Ownership in Traditional Cultures and in Eretz Yisrael.” The Seventh International Conference of Historical Geographers, Jerusalem, July 1989.
25. Kark, R. “The Redemption of the Land in the Land of Israel.” The Tenth International Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem 1989. Abstract in English, 10 pp.
26. Kark, R. and Glass, J. B. “Local Entrepreneurs in Nineteenth Century Palestine—The Amzalak Family—A Case Study, Comité International des études Préottomanes et Ottomanesm Ninth Symposium, Jerusalem, July 1990.
27. Gavish, D. and Kark, R. “The Introduction of Cadastral Mapping to Palestine, 1858–1928.” The Fourteenth International Conference on the History of Cartography, Uppsala and Stockholm, June 1991.
28. Kark, R. “Planning Housing and Land Policy—The First Years of the State of Israel.” Invited paper, The Rich Seminar, Oxford, July 1992.
29. Kark, R. “The Introduction of Modern Technology into the Holy Land in the Nineteenth Century.” The Eighth International Conference of Historical Geographers, Vancouver, August 1992.
30. Kark, R. “The Introduction of Modern Technology into the Holy Land (1800–Present).” Invited paper, New Approaches to the Past, An International Symposium, UCLA, San Diego, Calif., January 1993.
31. Kark, R. “Sources for the Study of Nineteenth Century Palestine and its People.” Invited paper, The Fourth International Seminar on Jewish Genealogy, Jerusalem, May 1994.
32. Colloquium on Place and Purpose: The Rule of Institutions in Historical Geographical Change, University of Cambridge, April 1995.
33. Kark, R. and Ben Yaacov, M. “Jewish Entrepreneurship in Building Urban Neighborhoods in Palestine at the End of the Ottoman Period: The Case of Jerusalem.” Meeting on Jewish Economic Entrepreneurship in the Modern Era, Jerusalem, June 1995.
34. Kark, R. “The American-Swedish Commune in Jerusalem (1876–1960s).” The Fifth International Conference of the International Communal Studies Association, Yad Tabenkin, May 1995.
35. Kark, R. “Infrastructure and Technology in Palestine at the End of the Ottoman Period.” Invited paper, Second Conference on the Syrian Land, Erlangen, Germany, July 1995.
36. Kark, R. Invited session chair, America and the Holy Land, Junior Scholars Colloquium, Jerusalem, June 1996.
37. Kark, R. “From Montefiore to Hankin: Effendis and Fluid Inventory of Land in Palestine.” Invited paper, Beit Sturman, October 1996.
38. ICOMOS meeting and seminar on the History of Cartography, London and Oxford, June 1998.
39. Tenth International Conference of Historical Geographers, Universities of Colraine, Queen’s and Maynooth, Northern Ireland and Ireland, Session Chair, July 1998.
40. Eighteenth General Conference of the International Council of Museums, Melbourne, Australia, October 1998.
41. Kark, R. “In search of the Millennium in Jerusalem: The American-Swedish Colony.” Invited paper. Colloque La France, l’Europe occidentale et la Palestine, 1799-1917, CNRS Centre de recherche Francais de Jerusalem, Jerusalem, November 1998.

Membership in Associations

1. The Israel Geographical Association (board member 1983–1989)
2. Historical Geography Research Group, U.K.
3. Planning History Group, U.K.
4. British Society for Middle Eastern Studies
5. International Communal Studies Association
6. The Society of Women Geographers, U.S.A. (Israel representative)
7. National Council for Conservation
8. Israel Association of University Women
9. Association for Jewish Studies, U.S.A.
10. Association for Israel Studies, U.S.A
11. ICOM - International Council of Museums