Jacob M. Landau

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Jacob M. Landau (born March 20, 1924 in Chisinau , Bessarabia ) is an Israeli orientalist and Middle East expert. He is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a member of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs .

biography

Jacob Landau, son of a Zionist lawyer, emigrated to what was then Palestine with his parents in 1935 . He graduated from the Herzlia-Gymnasium in Tel Aviv in 1942 and then studied history and Arabic studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem until 1946 . He wrote his doctorate on parliaments and political parties in Egypt at the School of Oriental Studies in London under the supervision of Bernard Lewis . In 1949 he returned to Israel and taught history and Arabic at a grammar school in Jerusalem until 1958, interrupted by postdoctoral research from 1955-1956 with HAR Gibb at Harvard University . In 1958 he joined the faculty for political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which he left in 1993 as professor emeritus. At the same time he held a part-time professorship at the Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan and often went abroad as a visiting professor.

Landau's main research topics include Ottoman and Middle Eastern ideologies and national movements, political radicalism, minorities, Pan-Islam, Pan-Turkism, politics and language in Central Asia. The broad spectrum of his topics also includes contributions to Arabic shadow play , theater and cinema. He is the author of 24 books, editor of 12 compilations. He wrote numerous essays, book reviews, and encyclopedia articles. His books and essays have been published in 10 different languages: Hebrew, Arabic, Turkish, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Russian and Chinese (see his Bibliography of Published Works, 2015).

His awards include the silver medals from the Bosporus University in Istanbul and the Turkish Historical Society in Ankara, as well as the Israel Prize for Middle East Research (2005).

Works

  • Shadow plays in the Near East. Palestine Institute of Folklore and Ethnology, Jerusalem 1948
  • Parliaments and Parties in Egypt, Jerusalem: The Israel Oriental Society 1953. 2nd edition New York: Praeger 1954; Arabic: Cairo - Beirut 1975. Reprint 2016.
  • Studies in the Arab Theater and Cinema , University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 1958; French: Paris 1965; Arabic: Cairo 1972. Reprint 2016.
  • A Word Count of Modern Arabic Prose. New York: American Council of Learned Societies 1959.
  • The Israeli Communist Party and the Election for the Fifth Knesset 1961, Stanford, CA: The Hoover Institution 1965 (in collaboration with MM Czudnowski).
  • Jews in nineteenth-century Egypt. New York: New York University Press and London: London University Press 1969. (Extended edition of the Hebrew version, Jerusalem 1967).
  • (together with Hamilton AR Gibb ): Arabic literary history . Zurich and Stuttgart: Artemis 1968. Hebrew: Tel Aviv 1970; Turkish: Ankara 1994, 2nd edition 2002.
  • The Arabs in Israel: A Political Study. London: Oxford University Press 1969, reprint 1970. Hebrew: Tel Aviv 1971, reprint 2016.
  • The Hejaz Railway and the Muslim Pilgrimage: A Case of Ottoman Political Propaganda. Detroit, WI: Wayne State University Press 1971; Reprint 2016.
  • Middle Eastern Themes: Papers in History and Politics. London: Frank Cass 1973; Reprint 2016.
  • Radical Politics in Modern Turkey. Leiden: Brill 1974. Turkish: Ankara 1978. Reprint 2016.
  • Politics and Islam: The National Salvation Party in Turkey. Salt Lake City, Utah: The University of Utah 1976.
  • Abdul-Hamid's Palestine. London: André Deutsch 1979; Hebrew: Jerusalem 1979.
  • Pan-Turkism in Turkey: A Study in Irredentism. London: Hurst 1981, 2nd ext. 1995 edition. Greek: Athens 1985; Chinese: Urumqi 1992; Turkish: Ankara 1999.
  • Tekinalp, Turkish Patriot 1883-1961. Istanbul - Leiden: Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologische Instituut 1984. Turkish: Istanbul 1996.
  • The Arab Minority in Israel, 1967-1991. Political Aspects . Oxford: Oxford University Press 1993; Hebrew: Tel Aviv 1993.
  • Jews, Arabs, Turks . Jerusalem: Magnes Press 1993.
  • Arab folk theater in Cairo in 1909: Ahmad Ilfar and his taunts. Beirut - Stuttgart: Steiner (= Bibliotheca Islamica 38), (with Manfred Woidich).
  • The Politics of Pan-Islam. Ideology and Organization . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990; 2nd edition 1994. Turkish: Istanbul 1993. Reprint 2016.
  • Hebrew-Arabic proverbs. Jerusalem - Tel Aviv: Schocken 1998, 2nd edition 2002 (with David Sagiv).
  • Politics of Language in the Ex-Soviet Muslim States: Azerbayjan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan. London: Hurst - Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2001 (with Barbara Kellner-Heinkele). Russian: Moscow 2004.
  • Exploring Ottoman and Turkish History . London: Hurst 2004.
  • Language Politics in Contemporary Central Asia. London: IB Tauris 2012 (with Barbara Kellner-Heinkele). Russian: Moscow 2015.

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personal data
SURNAME Landau, Jacob M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Landau, Yaʿaqov M .; Landʾaw, Yaʿăqōv M .; Landau, Yaʿaqôv M .; Landau, Jaʿaqōv M .; Landau, Jacob; Landau, Jakob M .; Landaw, Yaqub M .; Landau, Yaakov; Landau, Jaaqōḇ M .; Landau, Jaqūb M .; Landau, Jaqub M .; Landau, Ǧākūb M .; Landau, Ya'akov; Landaw, Ya'qub M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli orientalist and Middle East expert
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Chisinau , Bessarabia