Education
He graduated from Tel Aviv University and obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in political science from City University of New New York
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The Chosen: The History of an Idea, the Anatomy of an Obsession
(The Chosen explores Judaism s key defining concept and in...)
The Chosen explores Judaism s key defining concept and inquires why it remains the central unspoken and explosive psychological, historical, and theological problem at the heart of Jewish-Gentile relations. Crisscrossing the twin cultural and theological divides between Judaism, Christendom, and Islam, The Chosen explains how the Jews, of all people, have come to represent at once the epitome of both the good and the odious. Beker covers not only the great stories of how the Jews came to be chosen and the Christian, Muslim, and Nazi efforts to appropriate the title, but also the key role "chosenness" plays in contemporary anti-Semitism and in the current Middle East conflict over the Land of Israel and the chosen city of Jerusalem.
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The Chosen: The History of an Idea, and the Anatomy of an Obsession Hardcover May 13, 2008
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Avi Beker
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Career
Beker served as secretary-general of the from 2001 to 2003. Born in Tel Aviv in 1951, Avi Beker served in the Israel Defense Forces and rose to the rank of captain. Beker served as secretary-general of the from 2001 to 2003, following stints as the organization"s international relations director (from 1998 to 2001) and as executive director of the WJC Israel office (from 1985 to 2001).
He worked with several governments on ownership of property confiscated during the Nazi period.
He served on the Claims Conference of Material Claims against Germany, the Norwegian Foundation for Jewish Heritage, the Dutch Jewish Fund, the Government Foundation for Restitution in the Czechoslovakian Republic, and the Slovak Fund on Jewish Property. After retiring from the WJC in 2003, Beker headed the Jewish Public Policy Project and the United Nations–Israel Institute at the Hartog School of Government and Policy.
He also taught courses on diplomacy and international law at Tel Aviv University and at Georgetown University. He also served as regular columnist for the Israeli newspapers Haaretz and Times of Israel.
He died on 3 June 2015 of cancer.
Works
book
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The Chosen: The History of an Idea, the Anatomy of an Obsession
(The Chosen explores Judaism s key defining concept and in...)
- The Chosen: The History of an Idea, and the Anatomy of an Obsession Hardcover May 13, 2008
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The Chosen: The History of an Idea, the Anatomy of an Obsession
Membership
He was a member of the Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations (1977–1982) and a delegate to five United Nations General Assemblies and two special sessions of the General Assembly on disarmament, in 1978 and 1982 respectively. Beker also was a member of the Board of Directors of the Jewish Diaspora Museum Beit Hatfutsnot in Tel Aviv, of Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, of the Board of Trustees of Bar-Ilan University, of the WIZO College of Design and Management, and of the Africa Israel Hotels Corporation.
