Yair Auron ( he, יאיר אורון, ''Ya'ir Oron''; born April 30, 1945) is an

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historian, scholar and expert specializing in

Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...

and

genocide Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people—usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group—in whole or in part. Raphael Lemkin coined the term in 1944, combining the Greek word (, "race, people") with the Latin ...

studies,

racism Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral traits corresponding to inherited attributes and can be divided based on the superiority of one race over another. It may also mean prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism ...

and contemporary Jewry. Since 2005, he has served as the head of the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication of The

Open University of Israel The Open University of Israel ( he, האוניברסיטה הפתוחה, ''Ha-Universita ha-Ptuha'') is a distance-education university in Israel. It is one of ten public universities in Israel recognized by the Council of Higher Education (CH ...

and an associate professor.

Biography

Yair Auron completed his bachelor's degree in history and sociology at the

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 ...

. He earned a master's degree from

The Hebrew University The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public university, public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein ...

, and a Ph.D. from the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris (France).

Academic career

From 1974 to 1976, Auron worked as the director of the Education Department inside the

Yad Vashem Yad Vashem ( he, יָד וַשֵׁם; literally, "a memorial and a name") is Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. It is dedicated to preserving the memory of the Jews who were murdered; honoring Jews who fought against th ...

(the Holocaust Memorial in

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

). In the 1980s, he worked as a researcher at the Melton Center for Jewish Education of the Hebrew University and also as an academic director of European Section at the Israel-Diaspora Institute, an external institute of Tel-Aviv University. From 1996 to 1999 he was a senior lecturer and head of the Division of Cultural Studies at the

Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yezreel The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College (Hebrew: המכללה האקדמית עמק יזרעאל ע״ש מקס שטרן) is an academic college located in the Jezreel Valley (Galilee region) of Israel, between the cities Afula and Nazareth, and next ...

. Auron is an associate director of the

Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide The institute on the Holocaust and Genocide was founded in Jerusalem, in 1979, by Israeli scholars Israel W. Charny, Shamai Davidson and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel. In 1982 the institute on the Holocaust and Genocide held an interdisciplinary, ...

. He is also a member of the academic board of directors at the

Zoryan Institute The Zoryan Institute is a non-profit organization and registered charity in the United States and Canada that promotes the study and recognition of the Armenian genocide as well as other genocides throughout history. Historian Dominik J. Schalle ...

(an NPO) in

Cambridge, Massachusetts Cambridge ( ) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. As part of the Boston metropolitan area, the cities population of the 2020 U.S. census was 118,403, making it the fourth most populous city in the state, behind Boston, ...

(US) and an advisory board member of The Genocide Education Project (also known as GenEd, an NPO) in

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...

(US).

Published works

*''Jewish-Israeli Identity'', Sifriat Poalim (with Kibutzim College of Education), Tel-Aviv, 1993, 204 pp. (Hebrew). *''The Banality of Indifference: The Attitude of the Yishuv and the Zionist Movement to the Armenian Genocide'', Dvir (with Kibutzim College of Education), Tel-Aviv, 1995, 395 pp. (Hebrew). *''Les Juifs d’Extrême Gauche en Mai 68'',

Éditions Albin Michel Éditions Albin Michel is a French publisher. In January 2022, the new director is Anna Pavlowitch, the daughter of Paul Pavlowitch, Romain Gary and Jean Seberg's nephew. History It was founded in 1900 by Albin Michel. They published, first, Ro ...

, Paris, 1998, 335 pp. *''We are all German Jews: Jewish Radicals in France During the Sixties and Seventies'',

Am Oved Am Oved ("A Working People") is an Israeli publishing house. History Am Oved was founded in 1942 by Berl Katznelson, who was its first Editor in Chief. It was created as an organ of the Histadrut, Israel's federation of Labor, with a goal of publi ...

(with Tel-Aviv University and Ben-Gurion University ), Tel-Aviv, 1999, 288 pp. (Hebrew, translation of the French edition, with revisions). *''The Banality of Indifference: Zionism and the Armenian Genocide'', Transaction,

Rutgers University Press Rutgers University Press (RUP) is a nonprofit academic publishing house, operating in New Brunswick, New Jersey under the auspices of Rutgers University. History Rutgers University Press, a nonprofit academic publishing house operating in New B ...

, New Brunswick, 20 00, 405 pp. (translation of the Hebrew edition, with revisions and adaptations). Second Edition, Transaction Publishers, 2001; Third Edition, 2003. *''The Banality of Denial, Transaction'', Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 2003, 338 pp. *''Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide'', Maba, Tel Aviv, 2005 (Hebrew edition, with revisions and adaptations). *''The Pain of Knowledge - Holocaust and Genocide issues in Education'', Transaction, New Brunswick, 2005. A German edition was published by ''Der Schmerz des Wissens'', , Lich/Hessen, 2005.

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Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel Armenian Studies Program
Israeli historians 1945 births Living people Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni Tel Aviv University alumni Historians of the Holocaust Genocide studies scholars Yad Vashem people {{Israel-historian-stub

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Academic career

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