Yaacov Shavit
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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.
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- 1987, The New Hebrew Nation: A Study in Israeli Heresy and Fantasy.
- 1988, Jabotinsky and the Revisionist Movement, 1925-1948: 1925-1948, Routledge, ISBN 9780714633251.
- 1997, Athens in Jerusalem: Classical Antiquity and Hellenism in the Making of the Modern Secular Jew, Oxford (Paperback edition, 1999).
- 2001, History in Black: African Americans in Search of an Ancient Past, London.[1]
- 2006, with Jehuda Reinharz, Glorious, Accursed Europe: An Essay on the Jews, Europe and Western Culture.
- 2007, The Hebrew Bible Reborn: From Holy Scripture to the Book of Books, Berlin.
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