Yair Auron
Emeritus Professor
Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication
The Open University of Israel
Israel
Biography
1972 BA, Jewish History, Sociology, Tel Aviv University 1973 Teaching Diploma, Tel Aviv University 1976 MA, Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University 1980 PhD, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris Dissertation: "Les Mouvements de Jeunesse Juifs en France, le Judaïsme Contemporaine a Travers le Miroire de sa Jeunesse" [The Jewish Youth Movement in France - Contemporary Judaism through the Prism of its Youth] Supervisor: Prof. Doris Bensimon
Research Interest
Genocide Studies, Contemporary, Jewry Identities, Racism
Publications
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The Banality of Indifference: Zionism and the Armenian Genocide, Transaction, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 2000, 405 pp. (translation of the Hebrew edition, with revisions and adaptations) [2nd ed., 2001; 3rd ed., 2003].
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We are all German Jews: Jewish Radicals in France During the Sixties and Seventies, Am Oved (with Tel Aviv University and Ben-Gurion University), Tel Aviv, 1999, 288 pp. (Hebrew, translation of the French edition, with revisions).
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The Banality of Indifference: The Attitude of the Yishuv and the Zionist Movement to the Armenian Genocide, Dvir (with Kibbutzim College of Education), Tel Aviv, 1995, 395 pp. (Hebrew).
