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

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. His main fields of study are the history of modern

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movement in the

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community. He is married to Zohar Shavit, another academic of the same university's School for Cultural Studies.

Published works

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

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, . *1988, '' Jabotinsky 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, ''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

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Living people Historians of Jews and Judaism Historians of Israel Academic staff of Tel Aviv University 1944 births 20th-century historians 21st-century historians {{Israel-historian-stub