Yaacov Shavit

Yaacov Shavit is a professor at the Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University. His main fields of study are the history of modern Israel and modern Jewish intellectual and cultural history.^[1] Shavit has also written about the Afrocentrism movement in the African American community.

Published works

• 1987, The New Hebrew Nation: A Study in Israeli Heresy and Fantasy, Routledge, ISBN 978-0714633022.
• 1988, Jabotinsky and the Revisionist Movement, 1925-1948, Routledge, ISBN 978-0-7146-3325-1.
• 1997, with Chaya Naor, Niki Werner, Athens in Jerusalem: Classical Antiquity and Hellenism in the Making of the Modern Secular Jew, Oxford (Paperback edition, 1999, Taylor & Francis, ISBN 978-1874774365).
• 2001, History in Black: African Americans in Search of an Ancient Past, London., Routledge, ISBN 978-0714682167.
• 2006, with Jehuda Reinharz, Glorious, Accursed Europe: An Essay on the Jews, Europe and Western Culture, ISBN 978-1584658436.
• 2007, with Chaya Naor and Mordechai Eran, The Hebrew Bible Reborn: From Holy Scripture to the Book of Books, Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, ISBN 978-3110191417.

References

1. Yaacov Shavit bio

External links

• Yaacov Shavit (Jan 25, 2007). "Philistine facts on the ground". Haaretz. Retrieved November 27, 2012.