Raphael Vago

Raphael Vago (born 1946 in Cluj , Romania ) is an Israeli historian and anti-Semitism researcher.

Life

Raphael Vago's family emigrated from Romania to Israel in 1958 . There he studied political science at the University of Haifa and Eastern European history at the University of Tel Aviv . He received his doctorate in 1981 with a thesis on Romanian-Hungarian relations since the end of World War II.

Vago founded a research center on Eastern Europe at Tel Aviv University, which he headed from 1982 to 1986.

He works on the topics of European integration, minorities in Europe, the Holocaust and modern anti-Semitism.

Vago is editor of the English translation of a four-volume history of the Jews in Romania (2005).

Fonts (selection)

• The communization of Jewish political life in Romania, 1944–1949 . In: Slavic and Soviet series, Vol. 2 (1977), 1, pp. 49-67
• with Thomas Spira ; Leslie László: Minorities and minority affairs in Hungary, 1935–1980 . Hungarian Studies Review. Vol. 11. No 1. (Spring 1984).
• The grandchildren of Trianon: Hungary and the Hungarian minority in the communist states . Boulder: East European Monographs, 1989
• The East European radical right and European integration . Minneapolis: Institute of International Studies, College of Liberal Arts, 1991
• The traditions of antisemitism in Romania . Essay. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, 1992
• Anti-Semitism in Romania: 1989–1992 . Essay. Tel Aviv Univ., Fac. of Humanities, 1995
• The missing minority: the Jews in the western historiography of Transylvania . Cluj-Napoca: Gloria Publ. House, 1998 [special print]
• Anti-Semitism and Politics in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe . In: (Mhrsg.): Antisemitism at the end of the 20th century. Bratislava: SNM - Muzeum židovskej kultúry, 2002. pp. 14-22
• Pilgrim's progress through Holocaust negationism . In: East European Jewish affairs. ISSN 0038-545X. Vol. 33.2003, H. 1, pp. 133-135
• (Mhrsg.): The history of the Jews in Romania . Translation from Hebrew. 4 volumes. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University. The Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center, 2005ff.
• From the Periphery to the Center: The Holocaust in Hungary and Israeli Historiography . In: The Holocaust in Hungary. 2006, pp. 315-333
• (Mhrsg.): The Roma a minority in Europe: historical, political and social perspectives . Budapest: Central European University Press, 2007
• Review: Paul A. Hanebrink: In defense of Christian Hungary . Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press. 2006. In: The Slavonic and East European review. ISSN 0037-6795. Vol. 87.2009, H. 1, pp. 139-141
• Review: Andrei Oișteanu : Inventing the Jew . Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2009. In: Visualizing and exhibiting Jewish space and history. 2012, pp. 304-307
• The Holocaust: between collective amnesia and collective memory; the case of Hungary and Romania . In: The Holocaust (2014), pp. 48–58

Web links

• Literature by and about Raphael Vago in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Raphael Vago in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Raphael Vago , at Tel Aviv University (en)