Yosef Gorny (

Hebrew Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...

: יוסף גורני) (born 1933), is Professor of Study of

Zionism Zionism ( he, צִיּוֹנוּת ''Tsiyyonut'' after ''Zion'') is a Nationalism, nationalist movement that espouses the establishment of, and support for a homeland for the Jewish people centered in the area roughly corresponding to what is ...

and head of the Zionist Research Institute 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 is a former head of the

Weizmann Institute The Weizmann Institute of Science ( he, מכון ויצמן למדע ''Machon Vaitzman LeMada'') is a public research university in Rehovot, Israel, established in 1934, 14 years before the State of Israel. It differs from other Israeli univ ...

for the Study of Zionism, at the same university.

Published works

(Selective and incomplete) *''Zionism and the Arabs, 1882-1948: a study of Ideology'',

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, 1987, *''State of Israel in Jewish Public Thought: The Quest for Collective Identity'' 1994, *''Between Auschwitz and Jerusalem: Jewish Collective Identity in Crisis'', 2003, *

Awards

* In 2006, Gorny was a co-recipient (with

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) of the

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for Jewish thought.

References

External links

"Yosef Gorny: Zionism and the Arabs", ''Dave's Middle East Study Group''
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