S. Ilan Troen
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S. (Selwyn) Ilan Troen is Karl, Harry and Helen Stoll Professor of Israel Studies at Brandeis University. He is a graduate of Brandeis, with an M.A. and Ph.D.from the University of Chicago. Troen grew up in the Boston area, but moved to Israel as a young man.
When he joined the Brandeis faculty, the university announced that it was creating a chair in Israel Studies in order "to develop an accurate historical understanding of the origin and development of the state of Israel and its place in the world." [1]
Troen believes that Israel’s secular culture "has drawn from two important traditions: the prophetic tradition within Judaism and universal values generated by an enlightenment society." [2]
[edit] Books and publications
- Troen, Selwyn K. and Jacob Lassner. Jews and Muslims in the Arab World; Haunted by Pasts Real and Imagined. 2007 ed. Lanham and New York: Roman and Littlefield, 2007.
- Troen,Selwyn K.. "Israel Studies." Israel Studies '12. 3 issues annually (2007): 600 pages.
- Troen, Selwyn K.. Imagining Zion: Dreams, Designs, and Realities in a Century of Jewish Settlement. Yale University Press, 2003.
- Troen, Selwyn K., Moore, D.D.. Divergent Jewish Cultures: America and Israel. Yale University Press, 2001.
- Troen, Selwyn K., ed. Jewish Centers and Peripheries; Europe between America and Israel Fifty Years After World War II. Transaction: New Brunswick and London, 1999.
- Troen, Selwyn K. and Noah Lucas, ed. Israel: The First Decade of Independence. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995.
- Troen, S. Ilan and Klaus Bade, ed. Zuwanderung und Eingliederung von Deutschen und Juden aus der fruheren Sowjetunion in Deutschland und Israel. Bonn: Bundeszentrale dur politische Bildung, 1993.
- Troen, Selwyn K. and Moshe Shemesh, ed. The Suez-Sinai Crisis 1956; Retrospective and Reappraisal. London and New York: Frank Cass and Columbia University Press, 1990.
- Troen, Selwyn K. and Benjamin Pinkus, ed. Organizing Rescue: National Jewish Solidarity in the Modern Period. London: Frank Cass, 1988.
- Troen, Selwyn K. and Glenn Holt, S. Thernstrom and T. Hareven. St. Louis. New York: Franklin Watts - New Viewpoints, 1977.
- Troen, Selwyn K.. The Public and the Schools: Shaping the Saint Louis System 1838-1920. University of Missouri Press, 1975.
