Shlomo Aronson (; 27 November 1936 – 21 February 2020) was an Israeli historian and professor of political science at

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Biography

Shlomo Aronson was born in

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. He worked as a newspaper columnist for

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and

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, as well as a radio news editor. In 2007-2009 he was a visiting Professor in Israel Studies at The Arizona Center for Judaic Studies. Aronson died in

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Published works

Aronson's book ''Hitler, the Allies, and the Jews'' argued a thesis that he had advanced in many of his earlier publications—to "explain

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in terms of a multiple trap". According to Aronson, the

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devised this trap such that Jews' attempts to extricate themselves would only further the Nazis' genocidal ambitions. The book received mixed reviews. The book received the Israeli Political Science Association Award for an outstanding book in English and the Sybil Milton Prize of the German Studies Association for outstanding work on the Holocaust. * *''David Ben-Gurion and the Jewish Renaissance (1999) *’’Levi Eshkol: From Pioneering Operator to Tragic Hero—-A Doer (Vallentine Mitchell, 2022)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Aronson, Shlomo 1936 births 2020 deaths Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israeli historians Historians of the Holocaust Burials at Yarkon Cemetery Place of birth missing