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Yaacov Oved was born on February 14, 1929 in Haskovo, Khaskovo, Bulgaria, into the family of Ovadia and Bella Varsano. When he was eight years old, he immigrated to Israel with his parents and brother Eliyahu. The family resided in Tel Aviv.
Yaacov went to Echad Haam School and Gymnasia Herzliya High School. From 1959 to 1961 he studied in the two-year higher education course in the Hakibbutz Hameuchad Seminar at Efal. In 1969 he started to study at the Departments of History and Philosophy at Tel Aviv University and graduated with "Suma cum Laude". In 1971, he started his PhD at Oxford University. His dissertation was on Anarchism and the Workers’ Movement in Argentina in the Early Twentieth Century.
In 1941 - 1954 he was sent by Hakibbutz Hameuchad to Argentina to work as a representative of the kibbutz movement in the youth movement "Hanoar Hechalutz iBorochovy Hakibbutz Hameuchad." During 1954 - 1959 he worked in agriculture on the kibbutz. Later he began teaching at the high school in kibbutz Palmachim. In 1967 he set out on a brief mission to Argentina. In the 1950s he published several articles about Latin American affairs in Israeli journals.
After his thesis was approved in 1975 by the Senate of Tel Aviv University, Oved was appointed as a lecturer in the Tel Aviv University's Department of History. At the same time he joined Yad Tabenkin, the Institute for Study and Documentation of the Kibbutz Movement, as a teacher and research associate. It was in this institute that he began to study the history of communes around the world. In 1978, while on a research journey to investigate communes' archives in the United States, he participated in a conference of the American National Historic Communal Studies Association in Omaha Nebraska. At the end of the conference, the International Communal Studies Association was founded. Professor Oved was elected to serve as its Executive Director, a position which he continued to fill until 2004. Since its founding, the association has held 11 tri-annual international conferences in different universities and commune venues around the world. During that period, Yaacov Oved served as the acting chairman of the association.
In 1986, Yaacov Oved published his comprehensive book "Two Hundred Years of American Communes", and subsequently published additional books on contemporary communes. In addition to his books about communes, Professor Oved has published books and articles about anarchism, utopian anarcho-communist philosophy and anarchistic communes in the Spanish Civil War.
In 1994, Yaacov Oved was nominated full professor at Tel Aviv University, retiring in 1998. During the years that followed, he was dedicated to the Yad Tabenkin Communes Department. In this framework he cultivated relations with commune researchers from around the world and with many communes including the Bruderhof communes in the USA, Findhorn in Scotland, Damanur in Italy, Zegg in Germany, Riverside in New Zealand, Twin Oaks in the USA and others.
In 1951, he married Tehila Kiriaty and the couple made their home in Palmachim, where their son and three daughters were born and educated.
