YAACOV SHAVIT, B.A.,M.A.,Ph.D

Address:

Office:Dept. of the History of the Jewish People
Tel-Aviv University
Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
Home: Hazzaz 25, Tel Aviv, 69407
Tel and fax: 03-6493060
Tel: 03-6472873
E-Mail: yshavit@post.tau.ac.il
Website: http://www.tau.ac.il/~yshavit

CURRICULUM VITA

 Born in Haifa, Israel, 24.10.1944
Married + three children
Military Service: 1962-1965

STUDIES, TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY

1971 B.A. Degree General History and Political sciences
1972 M.A. Degree Dept. of General History (Summa Cum Laude)
1977 Ph.D degree Dept. of General History

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY

1969-1977 Assistant and Instructor at Tel Aviv University, Labor Studies.
1980 Senior Lecturer, Tel Aviv University, Dept. of the History of the Jewish People.
1986 Associate Professor, Tel Aviv University, Dept. of the History of the Jewish People
1991 Full Professor, Tel Aviv University, Dept. of the History of the Jewish People
1991-1994 Academic Director of the IDF Military Academy.
1996- Head of the Department of Jewish History.

OTHER ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS

1976 Established Cathedra for the History of
Eretz-Israel, the main academic periodical for the
study of the history of Palestine
1976-1984 Editor of Cathedra
1976-1984 Member of the editorial Board of Yad ben Zvi Institute
1980-1985 Editor in Chief of the History of Eretz-Israel from
Pre-History until 1948 (in ten volumes), with 40 co-writers.
1984- Member of the Scientific Committee of the Institute for Research on Zionism
1982- Teaching in the Military Academy of IDF
1985- Member of the Editorial Board of Mediterranean Historical Review
1988- Member of the Editorial Board of the History of the
Yishuv, The Israeli Academy of Sciences
1989-1995 Member of the Editorial Board of the Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History
1991 Visiting Professor at the History Department, University of Chicago
1992-1996 Member of the Board of the Israeli Historical Society
1994 - Member of the Board of Keren Landauv (Mif'al ha-payis).

GUEST LECTURES AT THE FOLLOWING UNIVERSITIES
(since 1986)

University of Erlangen, Freie Universität, Berlin,
University of Copenhagen, Leuevn University, Belgium,
Brandeis Univesity, Yale University, Chicago
University, The Catholic University of America, Georgetown University, Center for Hellenic Studies,
Washington D.C., The Israeli Academic Center, Cairo.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

1969-1973 Parliamentary Secretary in the Knesset
1980-1983 Editor in Chief, Keter Publishing House, Jerusalem

Since 1965 Published various works of literature,
among themthree Novels for adults and seven books for children

1978-1991 Member of the General Israeli Council for Culture and Arts
1984-1990 Member of the Israeli Army editorial Board of the Periodical Monthly Survey

CURRENT RESERACH PROJECTS

1 . Synchronization of Traditions and the
Reconstruction of a New Universal History: The African-
American Case
A three Years Research project sponsored by the Israeli
Academy of Science

2. The History of Tel-Aviv (in four volumes), A Project
of Tel-Aviv University.

PAPERS PRESENTED AT ACADEMIC CONFERENCES (selected list)

1. "On the Character of an Anti-Socialist Trade
Union." The world Congress for Jewish Studies, August
1978, Jerusalem.

2. "Hebrew Culture and Culture in Hebrew." Scholars
Forum of Yad Ben-Zvi, January 1979, Jerusalem.

3. "Between Jabotinsky and his Movement." A Hundred
Years to Jabotinsky Birthday, February 1980, Tel-Aviv
University.

4. "Establishment of Geographical Borders; The
Formation of relations between Center and Periphery."
Scholars Forum of Yad Ben-Zvi, June 1981, Jerusalem.

5. "National Culture and Hebrew National Culture -
Two Perspectives." Hundred Years of Zionism, October
1981, Tel Aviv University.

6. "Travelers Books as a Literary Genre." European
Influence in Eastern Countries, February 1982,
Jerusalem.

7. "Three Faces of the Hebrew." Y. Ratosh: His World
and his Art, March 1982, Tel Aviv University.

8. "The Transformation of Schund Literature from
Yiddish into Hebrew." The second Conference for the
Study of Yiddish Literature and Language, June 1983,
Oxford.

9. "Ideology, Weltanschauung and National Policy. the
Case of the Likud Government." Leonard Davis
Institute`s International Annual Conference, January
1985, Jerusalem.

10. "The Status and reception of Uri Zvi Greenberg as
a Poet-Prophet." The Second Inter-University
Conference for the Study of Hebrew Literature, April
1985, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

11. "Nationalism as a Cultural System." International
conference on Zionism as Nationalism, April 1985,
Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

12. "The Attitude towards Historical Tradition during
the Mandatory Period." Tradition and Resistance,
March 1986, Bar-Ilan University.

13. "The Zionism and the Canaanite Challenge." The
International Conference on the Zionism and its
Enemies, December 1986, Jerusalem.

14. "Hellenismus versus Judaismus in Modern Jewish
Polemics." European Association for Jewish Studies,
Berlin, July 1987.

15. "On the Reception and Function of Grimm Brothers
and Greek Mythology in Modern Hebrew Culture". Tel-
Aviv University, December 1988.

16. "To `Pass through the Revolution': The French
Revolution and the Jewish Revolution - Two
Perspectives". Tel-Aviv University, November
1989

17. "The French Spirit and the Spirit of France".
International Conference France and the Holy Land,
The Hebrew University and Yad Ben-Zvi, March 1990.

18. "Intellectual Transformations in Haskala Writing-
Strategies of `Intellectual Assimilation". American
Association of Jewish Studies, Boston, December 1990.

19. "U.Z. Greenberg in the 30s. - Eschatology from
Apocalypse." The 8th conference on Jewish Literature,
Bar-Ilan University, April 1991.

20. "From Learned History to Popular History - The
African-American Experience in the U.S.A.", The
Annual Conference of the Israeli Historical Society:
Popular Culture and Official Culture, Jerusalem,
July, 1991.

21. "Alexandria - The Transformation and Function of
an Historical Image", Twenty-Third Annual Conference
of the Association for Jewish Studies, Boston,
December 15-17, 1991.

22. "The Strange Transformation of 'The Curse on
Ham', Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference of the AJS,
Boston, December 14-17, 1992.

23. "Qumran Library in the Light of the Attitude
towards Books and Libraries in the Second Temple
Period", Methods of Investigation of the Dead Sea
Scrolls and the Khirbet Qumran Site: Present
Realities and Future Prospects, The New York Academy
of Sciences, December 14-17, 1992.

24. "From Virtues to 'Character' and 'Patterns of
Behavior' - The Changing Role of Personality in
Political Biographies", Biography and Historiograhpy,
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, April 27-28
April, 1992.

25. "The Fable as a Fable: J.L.Gordon and the
Tradition of the Fable in the Haskalah", Tel-Aviv
University, April, 1992.

26. "The strange History of the Curse on Ham", AJS,
Boston, 14-12 December, 1992.

27. "The Battle of the Books: The Muslim-Jewish and
Black American Quarrel over the Bible in the United
States", Muslims and Jews in North America,
University of Denver, October 24-26, 1993.

28. "Archaeology, Political Culture and Culture in
Israel", The Archaeology of Israel: Constructing the
Past, Interpreting the Present, Lehigh University,
May 1994.

29. "The Theft of Wisdom: The Renewal of Jewish
Apologetical Historiography of the 19th century",
European Association for Jewish Studies, Copenhagen,
September, 1994.

30. "The Reception of Greek Mythology in Modern
Hebrew Culture", The Howard Gilman International
Conference: Hellenic and Jewish Arts, Delphi, 18-24
June, 1995.

31. "The Mediterranean: Model, Idea, Ideal". The
Israeli Forum for Mediterranean Culture, Van Leer
Institute, Jerusalem, 18 September 1996.

32. "Stolen Libraries, a Stolen Motif," European
Association for Jewish Studies, 6th Congress, Toledo,
19-23 July 1998.