Gadi Taub

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Gadi Taub (2009)

Gadi Taub (born April 19, 1965 in Jerusalem ) is an Israeli historian , writer and political columnist . He is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . Taub is also an internationally sought-after voice in the discourse on Zionism .

Life

Deaf's maternal grandparents came from Poland to the British Mandate of Palestine in 1920 to help create a Jewish state. After the German occupation of Czechoslovakia and the beginning of the Holocaust, his father fled to Palestine in 1939 , was injured in the Israeli War of Independence , then studied economics and rose to a leading position at the Bank of Israel .

Gadi Taub grew up in Jerusalem. After three years of military service, he worked as an author and presenter for Israeli children's television from 1986 to 1998. After studying history at Tel Aviv University , he was a fellow from 1998-2003 at Rutgers University , New Jersey , where he did his doctorate on Richard Rorty . Since 2003 he has been teaching as a lecturer and since 2010 as senior lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has been a regular commentator on Israeli radio since 1996, and a columnist for Maariw and Jedi'ot Acharonot since 2003 .

Positions

Taub sees himself as a Zionist. He differentiates between two types of Zionism: the original one, inspired by Theodor Herzl and David Ben-Gurion , which wants to realize freedom and self-determination of the peoples for the Jewish people in a Jewish nation-state , but also allows this to the Palestinians , and the Messianic religious Zionism of a minority, which emerged after the Six Day War, subordinates all other values ​​of Jewish tradition to the Jewish repopulation of biblical Israel and thereby effectively works towards an apartheid regime in a binational Palestine . Taub attributes himself to original Zionism - also in opposition to the post-Zionist left , which has made the concept of nation taboo - and judges the other as morally undermining.

Publications

Politics and Social Science

  • The Settlers and the Struggle over the Meaning of Zionism (2010, Hebrew, English)
  • A Dispirited Rebellion: Essays on Contemporary Israeli Culture (1997, Hebrew)

Fiction

  • Allenby Street (2009, novel, Hebrew)
  • What Might Have Happened Had We Forgotten Dov (1992, Short Stories, Hebrew)
  • The Witch from 3 Melchett Street (2000, young adult novel, Hebrew)
  • The Giraffe Who Liked to Feel Sorry for Himself (children's book, 2003 Hebrew, 2006 English)
  • The Deer Who Liked Everything Clean (2005, children's book, Hebrew)
  • Things I Keep to Myself (1990, children's book, Hebrew)
  • Things I Keep From Yael (1992, children's book, Hebrew)
  • The Lion Who Thought He was a Coward (2007, children's book, Hebrew)
  • Against Solitude: Impressions (2011, essays, Hebrew)

Contributions

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Tabular curriculum vitae
  2. ↑ University information
  3. ↑ a b Kraft, JTA ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jta.org
  4. ^ A House Divided: Two Zionisms

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personal data
SURNAME Deaf, Gadi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES גדי טאוב (Hebrew)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli historian, writer and columnist
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Jerusalem