Background
Shlomo Avineri was born on August 20, 1933, in Bielsko, Poland. Son of Michael and Erna (Groner) Avineri.
2014
Shlomo Avineri at the Halifax International Security Forum
(This book's provocative treatment is a welcome contributi...)
This book's provocative treatment is a welcome contribution to an understanding of the origins of socialist and Zionist thought. This is a compact, lucid study of a notable thinker of the nineteenth century whose insight reached into the twentieth.
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(For eighteen centuries pious Jews had prayed for the retu...)
For eighteen centuries pious Jews had prayed for the return to Jerusalem, but only in the revolutionary atmosphere of nineteenth-century Europe was this yearning transformed into an active political philosophy advocating the creation of the Jewish state in Palestine. In this exciting new history of the Zionist idea, the author rejects the common propaganda view - Zionist as well as anti-Zionist - which regards Zionism as solely a reaction to anti-Semitism and persecution. Rather, he sees it as another part of the universal quest for self-determination. In eighteen sharply etched intellectual profiles of Zionism's major thinkers from Moses Hess to Theodore Herzl and from Vladimir Jabotinsky to David Ben Gurion, he traces the evolution of this quest from its intellectual origins in the early nineteenth century to the establishment of the State of Israel.
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Shlomo Avineri was born on August 20, 1933, in Bielsko, Poland. Son of Michael and Erna (Groner) Avineri.
Shlomo Avineri served as Director of Eshkol Research Institute (1971-1974); Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences (1974-1976); Director-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1976-1977); and Director of the Institute for European Studies at the Hebrew University (1997-2002).
Shlomo Avineri has had numerous visiting appointments including Yale University, Wesleyan University, Australian National University, Cornell University, University of California, The Queen's College, Oxford, Northwestern University, Cardozo School of Law, and Oxford and, the University of Toronto. He has been a visiting scholar at the Wilson Center, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, and at the Institute of World Economics and International Relations in Moscow.
Shlomo Avineri is currently a Recurring Visiting Professor at the Central European University, in Budapest.
(For eighteen centuries pious Jews had prayed for the retu...)
(This book's provocative treatment is a welcome contributi...)
Shlomo Avineri has written extensively in the history of political philosophy, especially on the political thought of Karl Marx, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and on the early Zionist political theories of Moses Hess and Theodor Herzl. He has also written numerous books and articles on Middle Eastern affairs and international affairs.
Shlomo Avineri contributed to revising Hegel's political thought and showing Hegel's pluralism.
Shlomo 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, which pushed the Soviet revolution towards its repressive development.