Yaacov Shavit (born 24 October 1944) is an emeritus 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.Yaacov Shavit bio
/ref> Shavit has also written about the Afrocentrism movement in the African American community. He is married to

Zohar Shavit The ''Zohar'' ( he, , ''Zōhar'', lit. "Splendor" or "Radiance") is a foundational work in the literature of Jewish mystical thought known as Kabbalah. It is a group of books including commentary on the mystical aspects of the Torah (the five ...

Published works

*1987,
The New Hebrew Nation: A Study in Israeli Heresy and Fantasy
', Routledge, . *1988, '' Jabotinsky and the Revisionist Movement, 1925-1948'', Routledge, . *1997, with Chaya Naor, Niki Werner, ''Athens in Jerusalem: Classical Antiquity and Hellenism in the Making of the Modern Secular Jew'', Oxford (Paperback edition, 1999, Taylor & Francis, ). *2001,
''History in Black: African Americans in Search of an Ancient Past''
London., Routledge, . *2006, with Jehuda Reinharz, ''Glorious, Accursed Europe: An Essay on the Jews, Europe and Western Culture'', . *2007, with Chaya Naor and Mordechai Eran, ''The Hebrew Bible Reborn: From Holy Scripture to the Book of Books'', Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, .

References

External links

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From One God to Sun God, Yaacov Shavit

Haaretz ''Haaretz'' ( , originally ''Ḥadshot Haaretz'' – , ) is an Israeli newspaper. It was founded in 1918, making it the longest running newspaper currently in print in Israel, and is now published in both Hebrew and English in the Berliner f ...

Living people Historians of Jews and Judaism Historians of Israel Tel Aviv University faculty 1944 births {{Israel-historian-stub