Shlomo Avineri

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Shlomo Avineri
שלמה אבינרי
Avineri in 2014
Born
Jerzy Wiener[1]

(1933-08-30)30 August 1933
Bielsko, Poland
Died1 December 2023(2023-12-01) (aged 90)
Israel

Shlomo Avineri (

Hebrew University of Jerusalem and member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.[2] He also served as a recurring visiting professor at the Central European University in Budapest[3] and a fellow at Munich-based academic think tank Centrum für angewandte Politikforschung, offering advice to politicians. Avineri died on 1 December 2023 at the age of 90.[4]

Ideas

Avineri wrote extensively on the history of

Zionist political theories of Moses Hess and Theodor Herzl
. He has also written numerous books and articles on Middle Eastern affairs and international affairs.

Avineri contributed in revising Hegel's political thought and showing Hegel's pluralism.[citation needed]

Avineri was also involved in the debate over the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He argued that it was the pre-capitalist structure of 1917 Russia, as well as the strong authoritarian traditions of the Russian state and its weak civil society, that pushed the Soviet revolution towards its repressive development.

His intellectual biography of Herzl shows how developments in his native

Dreyfus Affair in France, convinced Herzl of the failure of Jewish emancipation in Europe and of the need to find a political solution for the Jews, based on national self-determination
, outside of Europe.

His work appeared in Dissent,[5] Foreign Affairs,[6] and The New York Review of Books.[7] He frequently contributed op-eds to Haaretz. He was a member of the editorial board of the Jewish Review of Books.

Positions held

Avineri served as director of the Eshkol Research Institute (1971–1974), dean of Faculty of Social Sciences (1974–1976),[where?] director-general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1976–1977), and director of the Institute for European Studies at the Hebrew University (1997–2002).[8]

Avineri had numerous visiting appointments including

Wilson Center, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,[10] Brookings Institution
in Washington, DC, and at the Institute of World Economics and International Relations in Moscow. He was a recurring visiting professor at the Central European University, in Budapest.

Avineri served as Director-General of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1975–77.

Oslo accords
between Israel and the PLO.

Honors and awards

Avineri was the recipient of many honors and awards including:

Selected publications

  • The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx (1968)
  • Karl Marx on Colonialism and Modernization (1968)
  • Israel and the Palestinians (1971)
  • Hegel's Theory of the Modern State (1972)
  • Marx's Socialism (1973)
  • Varieties of Marxism (1977)
  • The Making of Modern Zionism, New York: Basic Books 1981 - Expanded edition: New York: Basic Books 2017
  • Moses Hess: Prophet of Communism and Zionism (1985)
  • Arlosoroff: A Political Biography (1989)
  • Communitarianism and Individualism (co-editor with Avner de Shalit) (1992)
  • Europe's Century of Discontent (co-editor with Zeev Sternhell) (2003)
  • Moses Hess: The Holy History of Mankind & Other Writings (2004)
  • Herzl - Theodor Herzl and the Foundation of the Jewish State (2013)
  • Karl Marx: Philosophy and Revolution (2019)

Hebrew and English editions of his books have been translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Russian and Japanese.[citation needed]

Editor and translator

  • Historical introduction to the Hebrew edition of Theodore Herzl's Diaries
  • Translated Karl Marx's early writings into Hebrew.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b https://www.wina-magazin.at/das-hufeisen-meines-grossvaters/
  2. ^ "The Department of Political Science, The Hebrew Univers of Jerusalem". Politics.huji.ac.il. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  3. ^ "Jewish Studies Program, Central European University: About". Web.ceu.hu. Archived from the original on 11 May 2021. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  4. ^ "חתן פרס ישראל שלמה אבינרי הלך לעולמו בגיל 90". www.maariv.co.il (in Hebrew). 1 December 2023. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
  5. ^ "Online Features - Two Decades After the Fall: Between Utopian Hopes and the Burdens of History". Dissent Magazine. 29 September 2009. Archived from the original on 28 October 2010. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  6. ^ "Shlomo Avineri". Foreignaffairs.com. 28 January 2009. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  7. ^ "Shlomo Avineri | The New York Review of Books". Nybooks.com. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  8. ^ "Untitled Document". Library of Congress. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
  9. ^ "Dr. Shlomo Avineri". Civiceducationproject.org. Archived from the original on 25 July 2011. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  10. ^ "Mr. Shlomo Avineri - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace". Carnegieendowment.org. 14 November 2001. Archived from the original on 11 October 2010. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  11. ^ "Shlomo Avineri". Project-syndicate.org. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  12. ^ "Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1996 (in Hebrew)". Cms.education.gov.il.

External links

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