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Ronit Lentin
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Lentin at the Dublin Writers Festival, 2007
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| Native name |
רונית לנטין
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| Born | 25 October 1944 Haifa, Mandatory Palestine |
| Occupation | Political sociologist, writer |
| Citizenship | Israeli Irish |
| Spouse | Louis Lentin |
| Children | Alana Lentin, Miki Lentin |
Ronit Lentin (Hebrew: רונית לנטין) is a well-known Israeli-Irish writer and expert in how societies work. She was born on October 25, 1944. She writes both fiction (made-up stories) and non-fiction (true stories and facts).
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About Ronit Lentin's Life
Ronit Lentin was born in Haifa, which was then called Mandatory Palestine, in 1944. She moved to Ireland in 1969 and has lived there ever since.
Her Work at Trinity College
Ronit Lentin is a political sociologist. This means she studies how power, government, and society are connected. She was a professor of sociology at Trinity College, Dublin, a famous university. She retired from this role in 2014.
From 1997 to 2012, Ronit Lentin led a special program called the MPhil in Race, Ethnicity, Conflict. This program helped students learn about different groups of people, their backgrounds, and how conflicts can happen. She also led the Department of Sociology and helped start the Trinity Immigration Initiative, which looked at how people move to and from Ireland.
Her Views and Activism
Ronit Lentin has written many books and articles. Her work often focuses on important topics like:
- The history and politics of Palestine and Israel.
- Issues of racism and how people from different countries are treated in Ireland.
- The roles of men and women (called gender) and terrible events like genocide and the Holocaust.
She believes that Ireland should have an "open-door" policy for people who want to move there. This means she thinks it should be easier for immigrants to come to Ireland. She also believes that people should not be forced to leave Ireland (she opposes deportations).
Ronit Lentin is also very active in supporting the freedom of Palestinians. She believes that Palestinians should have the right to return to their homes. She supports the idea of one democratic state in historic Palestine. In this state, Palestinians, Jewish people, and immigrants would all live together with equal rights.
What Ronit Lentin Researches
Ronit Lentin has spent a lot of time studying important social issues. Her research includes:
- How racism and immigration affect people in Ireland.
- The idea of "race" in Israel and Palestine.
- Violence related to gender and the ideas of feminism, which supports equal rights for women.
Books and Publications by Ronit Lentin
Ronit Lentin has written and edited many books. Here are some of them:
- Interviews: Conversations with Palestinian Women (1982)
- Tea with Mrs. Klein (1986)
- Night Train to Mother (1989)
- Songs on the Death of Children (1996)
- Gender and Catastrophe (1997)
- Israel and the Daughters of the Shoah: Reoccupying the Territories of Silence (2000)
- (Re)searching Women: Feminist Research Methodologies in the Social Sciences in Ireland (2000), co-edited with Anne Byrne.
- Racism and Anti-racism in Ireland (2002), co-edited with Robbie McVeigh.
- Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation (2002), co-edited with Nahla Abdo.
- Women’s Movement: Migrant Women Transforming Ireland (2003), co-edited with Eithne Luibhéid.
- Re-presenting the Shoah for the 21st Century (2004), editor.
- After Optimism? Ireland, Racism and Globalisation (2006), with Robbie McVeigh.
- Race and State (2006), co-edited with Alana Lentin.
- Performing Global Networks (2007), co-edited with Karen Fricker.
- Thinking Palestine (2008), editor.
- Co-memory and Melancholia: Israelis Memorialising the Palestinian Nakba (2010).
- Migrant Activism and Integration from Below in Ireland (2013), co-edited with Elena Moreo.
- Traces of Racial Exception: Racializing Israeli Settler Colonialism (2018).
- Enforcing Silence: Academic Freedom, Palestine and the Criticism of Israel (2020), co-edited with David Landy and Conor McCarthy.
- Disavowing Asylum: Documenting Ireland's Asylum Industrial Complex (2021), with Vukasin Nedljkovic.
- Racial Regimes and White European Jewish Supremacy as Property, Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies, 23 (2024), 221-237.
