Shlomo Avineri

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Shlomo Avineri (2014)

Shlomo Avineri (* 1933 in Bielitz , Silesia , Poland ) is an Israeli political scientist and historian of Silesian origin. He is a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem .

Life

Avineri and his parents emigrated to Israel in 1939 shortly before the outbreak of World War II. The remaining members of his extended family, three of his grandparents, his mother's seven siblings and five of his cousins, stayed behind in Poland and were murdered by the Germans.

After two years of military service, he studied history and social sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1953. He also studied at the London School of Economics .

In 1973 he was appointed professor of political science at the Hebrew University. From 1975 to 1977 he was Director General of the Israeli Foreign Ministry. In 1979, as a member of the Egyptian-Israeli commission, he drafted the cultural agreement between the two countries. At Jerusalem University, he served as dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and director of the Institute for European Studies.

He was visiting professor at Yale , Cornell, University of California, Oxford, Central European University (Budapest) and in 2003 at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institut at LMU Munich . He is an external member of the Polish Academy of Learning in Cracow .

Awards

Fonts

  • The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx
  • Karl Marx on Colonialism and Modernization
  • Israel and the Palestinians
  • Hegel's Theory of the Modern State , Cambridge 1972.
    • Hegel's theory of the modern state . From the English by R. and R. Wiggershaus (Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Wissenschaft. Volume 146), Frankfurt am Main 1976.
  • Profiles of Zionism
  • Arlosorof - A Political Biography
  • Moses Hess. Prophet of Communism and Zionism
  • Europe's Century of Discontent , together with Zeev Sternhell
  • Theodor Herzl and the founding of the Jewish state . Jewish publishing house in Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-633-54275-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Shlomo Avineri: Quo Vadis, Poland? In: Haaretz from September 3, 2016, accessed on September 21, 2018 (English)
  2. ^ Terence Smith: Chief of Israeli Foreign Office. In: New York Times, April 13, 1976, accessed September 21, 2018.
  3. ^ Members of the Faculty of History and Philosophy. Polska Akademia Umiejętności, accessed June 8, 2017 (Polish).

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personal data
SURNAME Avineri, Shlomo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli political scientist, professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
DATE OF BIRTH 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielsko-Biała