Yaacov Shavit (born 24 October 1944) is an emeritus professor at the Department of Jewish History,

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...

. His main fields of study are the history of modern

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

and modern

Jew Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""T ...

ish intellectual and cultural

history History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well ...

.Yaacov Shavit bio
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Afrocentrism Afrocentrism is an approach to the study of world history that focuses on the history of people of recent African descent. It is in some respects a response to Eurocentric attitudes about African people and their historical contributions. It ...

movement in the

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community. He is married to Zohar Shavit.

Published works

*1987,
The New Hebrew Nation: A Study in Israeli Heresy and Fantasy
',

Routledge Routledge () is a British multinational publisher. It was founded in 1836 by George Routledge, and specialises in providing academic books, journals and online resources in the fields of the humanities, behavioural science, education, law ...

, . *1988, ''

Jabotinsky Zhabotinsky or Jabotinsky (Ukrainian: Жаботинський) is a masculine Ukrainian toponymic surname referring to the village of Zhabotin. Its feminine counterpart is Zhabotinskaya, Jabotinskaya, Zhabotinska or Jabotinska. Notable people with ...

and the Revisionist Movement, 1925-1948'',

, . *1997, with Chaya Naor, Niki Werner, ''Athens in Jerusalem: Classical Antiquity and Hellenism in the Making of the Modern Secular Jew'', Oxford (Paperback edition, 1999,

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, ). *2001,
''History in Black: African Americans in Search of an Ancient Past''
London., Routledge, . *2006, with

Jehuda Reinharz Jehuda Reinharz (born August 1, 1944) served as President of Brandeis University from 1994–2010. He is currently the Richard Koret Professor of Modern Jewish History and Director of the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry at Brandei ...

, ''Glorious, Accursed Europe: An Essay on the Jews, Europe and Western Culture'', . *2007, with Chaya Naor and Mordechai Eran, ''The Hebrew Bible Reborn: From Holy Scripture to the Book of Books'', Berlin,

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, .

References

External links

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From One God to Sun God, Yaacov Shavit
Haaretz Living people Historians of Jews and Judaism Historians of Israel Tel Aviv University faculty 1944 births {{Israel-historian-stub