Yair Auron

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Yair Auron
BornApril 30, 1945.
Alma materTel-Aviv University.
OccupationHistorian

Yair Auron (

Holocaust and genocide studies, racism and contemporary Jewry. Since 2005, he has served as the head of the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication of The Open University of Israel
and an associate professor.

Biography

Yair Auron completed his bachelor's degree in history and sociology at the

Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle
in Paris (France).

Academic career

From 1974 to 1976, Auron worked as the director of the Education Department inside the

Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yezreel
.

Auron is an associate director of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide, Jerusalem. He is also a member of the academic board of directors at the Zoryan Institute (an NPO) in Cambridge, Massachusetts (US) and an advisory board member of The Genocide Education Project (also known as GenEd, an NPO) in San Francisco (US).

Published works

  • Jewish-Israeli Identity, Sifriat Poalim (with Kibutzim College of Education), Tel-Aviv, 1993, 204 pp. (Hebrew).
  • The Banality of Indifference: The Attitude of the Yishuv and the Zionist Movement to the Armenian Genocide, Dvir (with Kibutzim College of Education), Tel-Aviv, 1995, 395 pp. (Hebrew).
  • Les Juifs d’Extrême Gauche en Mai 68, Éditions Albin Michel, Paris, 1998, 335 pp.
  • 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).
  • 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). Second Edition, Transaction Publishers, 2001; Third Edition, 2003.
  • The Banality of Denial, Transaction, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 2003, 338 pp.[1][2][3]
  • Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide, Maba, Tel Aviv, 2005 (Hebrew edition, with revisions and adaptations).
  • The Pain of Knowledge - Holocaust and Genocide issues in Education, Transaction, New Brunswick, 2005. A German edition was published by Der Schmerz des Wissens, Verlag Edition AV [de], Lich/Hessen, 2005.

See also

References

  1. ^ The Banality of Indifference: Zionism and the Armenian Genocide/The Banality of Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide Krikorian, Robert O.The Middle East Journal; Washington Vol. 59, Iss. 3, (Summer 2005): 486-489.
  2. doi:10.1093/hgs/dcj005
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  3. S2CID 74498229
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