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He worked as president and senior fellow in the [[Department of Philosophy, Political Theory, and Religion]] until becoming provost and director of its project in Jewish philosophical theology.<ref>[http://www.shalem.org.il/Biography/Yoram-Hazony.html Yoram Hazony biography], Shalem Center, accessed June 18 2012</ref> | He worked as president and senior fellow in the [[Department of Philosophy, Political Theory, and Religion]] until becoming provost and director of its project in Jewish philosophical theology.<ref>[http://www.shalem.org.il/Biography/Yoram-Hazony.html Yoram Hazony biography], Shalem Center, accessed June 18 2012</ref> | ||
| − | According to an article in Haaretz, Hazony is a former confidant of Benjamin Netanyahu and moved with his wife Yael, chief editor of Shalem Press at teh [[Shalem Center]], to the settlement of Eli in the northern West Bank in the late 1980s.<ref>Na'ama Lanski, Daphna Berman, [http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/storm-in-a-neo-con-teapot-1.234226 Storm in a Neo-con teapot,] Haaretz, accessed 18 June 2012</ref> | + | According to an article in Haaretz, Hazony is a former confidant of Benjamin Netanyahu and moved with his wife Yael, chief editor of Shalem Press at teh [[Shalem Center]], to the settlement of Eli in the northern West Bank in the late 1980s.<ref>Na'ama Lanski, Daphna Berman, [http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/storm-in-a-neo-con-teapot-1.234226 Storm in a Neo-con teapot,] Haaretz, accessed 18 June 2012</ref> it also claims that an encounter with the ultranationalist Rabbi Meir Kahane in 1984, while a student at Princeton, influenced him greatly. In a 1990 obituary of Kahane, whose racist party had been barred from running for the Knesset in the 1988 elections, Hazony wrote: "[We express] gratitude to someone who changed our lives, thrilled and entertained us, helped us grow up into strong, Jewish men and women." However he also adds "Many of us found other ways of doing what he asked", distancing himself from Kahane's violent tendencies. |
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Revision as of 16:32, 18 June 2012
Yoram Hazony is Provost and co-founder of the Shalem Center and the author of several books on Israel.
He received his B.A from Princeton University where he met Daniel Polisar and Joshua Weinstein with whom he went on to found the Shalem Center in 1994. He received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University.
He worked as president and senior fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Political Theory, and Religion until becoming provost and director of its project in Jewish philosophical theology.[1]
According to an article in Haaretz, Hazony is a former confidant of Benjamin Netanyahu and moved with his wife Yael, chief editor of Shalem Press at teh Shalem Center, to the settlement of Eli in the northern West Bank in the late 1980s.[2] it also claims that an encounter with the ultranationalist Rabbi Meir Kahane in 1984, while a student at Princeton, influenced him greatly. In a 1990 obituary of Kahane, whose racist party had been barred from running for the Knesset in the 1988 elections, Hazony wrote: "[We express] gratitude to someone who changed our lives, thrilled and entertained us, helped us grow up into strong, Jewish men and women." However he also adds "Many of us found other ways of doing what he asked", distancing himself from Kahane's violent tendencies.
Affiliations
Publications
- The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture: An Introduction (New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)
- L’Etat Juif: Sionisme, Post-Sionisme et Destins d’Israel, trans. Claire Darmon (Paris: Lyber-Eclat, 2007)
- The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel’s Soul (New York: Basic Books and The New Republic, 2000)
- The Dawn: Political Teachings of the Book of Esther (Jerusalem: Shalem Press, 2000)
- David Hazony, Yoram Hazony, and Michael Oren, eds., New Essays on Zionism (Jerusalem: Shalem Press, 2006)
Notes
- ↑ Yoram Hazony biography, Shalem Center, accessed June 18 2012
- ↑ Na'ama Lanski, Daphna Berman, Storm in a Neo-con teapot, Haaretz, accessed 18 June 2012
