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Yaacov Shavit's Degrees

PhD History Tel Aviv University
Masters History Tel Aviv University
Bachelors History Tel Aviv University

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According to Wikipedia, Yaacov Shavit is an emeritus 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. Shavit has also written about the Afrocentrism movement in the African American community. He is married to Zohar Shavit.

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Yaacov Shavit's Published Works

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Jabotinsky and the Revisionist Movement 1925-1948 (1988) (30)
History in Black: African-Americans in Search of an Ancient Past (2001) (28)
The Hebrew Bible Reborn: From Holy Scripture to the Book of Books: A History of Biblical Culture and the Battles over the Bible in Modern Judaism (2007) (22)
The mediterranean world and ‘Mediterraneanism’: The origins, meaning, and application of a geo‐cultural notion in Israel (1988) (13)
Athens in Jerusalem: Classical Antiquity and Hellenism in the Making of the Modern Secular Jew (1997) (10)
Staging and Stagers in Modern Jewish Palestine (2004) (7)
The “Qumran Library” in the Light of the Attitude towards Books and Libraries in the Second Temple Period (1994) (5)
The Invention of the Jewish People (trans. Yael Lotan) by Shlomo Sand (2010) (5)
Mediterranean History and the History of the Mediterranean: Further Reflections (2018) (5)
Staging and Stagers in Modern Jewish Palestine: The Creation of Festive Lore in a New Culture, 1882-1948 (2004) (4)
Glorious, Accursed Europe (2010) (3)
HIGH STATUS IMMIGRATION GROUP AND CULTURE RETENTION: GERMAN JEWISH IM- MIGRANTS IN BRITISH-RULED PALESTINE (2011) (2)
The Road to September 1939: Polish Jews, Zionists, and the Yishuv on the Eve of World War II (2018) (2)
Babel und Bibel - The Controversy as a Jewish Event (2003) (1)
Chapter 14. Orthodox Bible Criticism in Eretz Israel (2007) (0)
Chapter 1. “Back to the Bible”: The Biblical Revolution in the Nineteenth Century (2007) (0)
1. Israeli Culture Today: How Jewish? How Israeli? (2016) (0)
Chapter 15. The Bible as History and Biblical Archaeology: “Can Two Walk Together?” (Amos 3:3) (2007) (0)
Modern Epoch (0)
Chapter 13. “Extra-academic” Bible Study and Bible Criticism (2007) (0)
Chapter 10. From Noah to the Sabbath (2007) (0)
Chapter 5. Friedrich Delitzsch and a Second ‘Tower of Babel’ (2007) (0)
Chapter 7. The Controversy in the German Arena: Theology vs. Science (2007) (0)
Reviews of Books:Brothers and Strangers: Black Zion, Black Slavery, 1914-1940 Ibrahim Sundiata (2005) (0)
From Political Zionism to Revolutionary Armed Zionism (2013) (0)
An Imaginary Trio (2020) (0)
From Admission Ticket to Contribution:: Remarks on the History of an Apologetic Argument (2007) (0)
Babel and Bible (2017) (0)
Chapter 11. After Delitzsch: The Bible and Jewish Bible Study in Germany between the Two World Wars (2007) (0)
Chapter 2. Wellhausen and his School: The Jewish Response to Higher Criticism (2007) (0)
Chapter 12. Bible Criticism Arrives in Eretz Israel: Struggle and Reception (2007) (0)
Chapter 8. At War – Within and Without (2007) (0)
Herod: From Monster to nearly a National Hero? (2016) (0)
Chapter 16. The National Bible vs. the Cultural Bible (2007) (0)
Chapter 18. From “Golden Age” to Decline? (2007) (0)
Chapter 6. Delitzsch’s Three Lectures on Babel and Bibel (2007) (0)
Chapter 9. Contra Delitzsch: Revelation, Originality and Ethics (2007) (0)
Chapter 4. The Babel-Bibel Controversy as a Typological Event (2007) (0)
MEDIA AND WAR , A LOVE STORY ? CONTRADICTIONS , DILEMMAS , AND SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT / (2015) (0)
Chapter 17. The Golden Age of Biblical Culture (2007) (0)
Chapter 3. “Truth Shall Spring out of the Earth”: The Initial Jewish Reaction to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (2007) (0)
Thomas Carlyle versus Henry Thomas Buckle:: “Great Man” versus “Historical Laws” (2015) (0)
Brothers and Strangers: Black Zion, Black Slavery, 1914-1940 (2005) (0)

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