Red Kowner

Professor Rotem Kowner

Rotem Kowner (born July 11, 1960 in Mikhmoret ) is an Israeli historian and psychologist who specializes in the history of Japan during the Meiji period and the Russo-Japanese War . He is a professor at the University of Haifa in the field of Asian studies .

Life

Rotem Kowner was born on July 11, 1960 in Kibbutz Mikhmoret and spent his first years there. His family moved to Haifa , where he grew up and went to school. He then went to the Israeli Navy and served on a missile speedboat .

After graduating in East Asian Studies and Psychology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , he received a scholarship from the Japanese Ministry of Education and studied in Japan for six years . After completing his Ph.D. from Tsukuba University , he continued his studies at the Center for East Asian Studies at Stanford University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1998 he began teaching as a Senior Lecturer at Haifa University and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2004.

In 2004, Kowner co-organized the international conference The Russo-Japanese War and the 20th Century: An Assessment from a Centennial Perspective (German: The Russo-Japanese War and the 20th Century: Insights 100 Years Later), which took place in Israel . He has published several books and articles on these subjects.

In 2013, Kowner received a professorship . He is visiting professor at Waseda University in Tokyo and at the University of Geneva . Kowner is a member of several international journals. He is currently Head of the Liberal Arts Program at Haifa University and a member of the University Senate, Board of Governors and Executive Committee.

Kowner is married and has three daughters and one son.

Works (selection)

• On ignorance, respect, and suspicion: current Japanese attitudes towards Jews . Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, 1997.
• The Forgotten War between Russia and Japan - and its heritage . 2005.
• Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War . Scarecrow Press, 2006, ISBN 0-8108-4927-5 .
• The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War . Routledge, UK 2007, ISBN 978-0-415-36824-7 .
• Rethinking the Russo-Japanese War 1904/05 . Brill / Global Oriental, 2007, ISBN 978-1-905246-03-8 .
• Globally Speaking: Motives for Adopting English Vocabulary in Other Languages ​​(Multilingual Matters) . Multilingual Matters, 2008, ISBN 978-1-84769-051-7 .
• The A to Z of the Russo-Japanese War . Scarecrow Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8108-6841-0 .
• Race and Racism in Modern East Asia: Western and Eastern Constructions . Brill, 2012, ISBN 978-90-04-23729-2 .
• From White to Yellow: The Japanese in European Racial Thought, 1300-1735 (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion) . Mcgill Queens Univ. Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-7735-4455-0 .

Article (selection)

• Nicholas II and the Japanese Body: Images and Decision Making on the Eve of the Russo-Japanese War. In: Psychohistory Review. 1998.
• Lighter than yellow, but not enough: Western discourse on the Japanese 'race', 1854-1904. In: The Historical Journal. 43, 2000, pp. 103-131.
• Japan's Enlighted War: Military Conduct and Attitudes to the Enemy during the Russo-Japanese War. In: Bert Edström: The Japanese and Europe: Images and Perceptions. 2000, ISBN 1-873410-86-7 , pp. 134-151.
• Becoming an Honorary Civilized Nation: The Russo-Japanese War and Western Perceptions of Japan. In: Historian. 2001.
• The skin as a metaphor: Early European racial perspectives on Japan, 1548-1853. In: Ethnohistory. 51, 2004, pp. 751-778.
• An Obscure History - Jews in Indonesia . In: Inside Indonesia. 2011.

literature

• Rotem Kowner: The A to Z of the Russo-Japanese War. Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2009, ISBN 978-0-8108-6841-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Israeli Association for Japanese Studies ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Kowner, p. 567.
3. ↑ The Department of Asian Studies, Staff ( Memento of the original dated July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Israeli Association for Japanese Studies ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Israeli Association for Japanese Studies ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.