Israeli Identities ─ Jews and Arabs Facing the Self and the Other

Yair (genocide and contemporary Judaism, Open University of Israel and the Kibbutzim College of Education) has spent a couple of decades studying genocide and investigating the complexities of Jewish identity in Israel and Europe, and he has written extensively on the subject. In this presentation he explores the realities of Israeli politics, education, and demographics, and the conflicts and dilemmas of Jewish identity in connection with Israel, Zionism, history, the Holocaust, religion, and "the other"--that is, the Arab world. In his epilogue he offers a summary of his perspectives and proposals for an acceptance of multiple expressions of Jewish-Israeli identity. Annotation Ac2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Yair Auron is a professor of genocide and contemporary Judaism at the Open University of Israel and the Kibbutzim College of Education. He has published numerous books and essays, mainly on genocide and on Jewish identity in Israel and Europe, including most recently, The Banality of Indifference: Zionism and the Armenian Genocide (2000), The Banality of Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide (2003), Genocide Reflections on the Inconceivable: Theoretical Aspects in Genocide Studied (2007), A Perfect Injustice: Genocide and the Armenian Theft (2009, with Hrayr S. Karagueuzian) and Genocide So That I Wouldn't Be Among the Silent (2011).