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Yair Auron
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| Born | April 30, 1945 |
| Alma mater | Tel-Aviv University |
| Occupation | Historian, Scholar |
Yair Auron (born April 30, 1945) is an Israeli historian and scholar. He is an expert in studying the Holocaust and genocide, which are terrible events in history where many people were killed. He also studies racism and modern Jewish history. Since 2005, he has been a professor and leads a department at The Open University of Israel.
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About Yair Auron
Yair Auron studied history and sociology at Tel-Aviv University. He earned his master's degree from The Hebrew University. Later, he received his Ph.D. from the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, France.
Yair Auron's Early Career
From 1974 to 1976, Auron worked at Yad Vashem. This is a special memorial in Jerusalem that remembers the Holocaust. He was the director of the Education Department there. In the 1980s, he did research at the Melton Center for Jewish Education. He also directed the European Section at the Israel-Diaspora Institute. This institute is connected to Tel-Aviv University.
Later Academic Roles
From 1996 to 1999, Yair Auron was a senior lecturer. He also led the Cultural Studies Division at the Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yezreel. Today, he is an associate director at the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem. He is also part of the academic board at the Zoryan Institute. This is a non-profit organization (NPO) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He also advises The Genocide Education Project (GenEd), another NPO in San Francisco, USA.
Books by Yair Auron
Yair Auron has written several important books. These books often explore how people remember and understand difficult historical events.
- Jewish-Israeli Identity, published in Tel-Aviv in 1993. This book is about what it means to be Jewish and Israeli.
- The Banality of Indifference: The Attitude of the Yishuv and the Zionist Movement to the Armenian Genocide, published in Tel-Aviv in 1995. This book looks at how people reacted to the Armenian Genocide.
- The Banality of Indifference: Zionism and the Armenian Genocide, published in New Brunswick in 2000. This is an English version of his Hebrew book, with updates.
- The Banality of Denial, published in New Brunswick in 2003. This book discusses how some people deny that genocides happened.
- The Pain of Knowledge - Holocaust and Genocide issues in Education, published in New Brunswick in 2005. This book talks about how we learn about the Holocaust and genocide in schools.
Related Topics to Explore
- Armenia–Israel relations
- Genocide studies
- Holocaust studies
More Information Online
- Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel Armenian Studies Program
