Yair Auron (born April 30, 1945) is an Israeli historian, scholar and expert specializing on Holocaust and Genocide studies, racism and contemporary Jewry. Since 2005 he is the head of the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication, The Open University of Israel, Associate Professor.

[edit] Biography

Auron studied history and sociology at Tel-Aviv University, received his MA from The Hebrew University, and Ph.D. diploma from the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III, France.

From 1974 to 1976 Auron worked as the Director of the Education Department, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, in 1980's he was a researcher of the Center for Jewish Education, Hebrew University and Academic director of European Section, The Israel Diaspora Institute, Tel-Aviv University. In 1996-1999 he was a Senior Lecturer in College of Yezreel, Head of the Division of Cultural Studies.

Auron is a member of the Academic Board of Directors, Zoryan Institute, Cambridge; An Associate Director and Member of the Academic Board of Directors, The Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide, Jerusalem; and an Advisory Board member of The Genocide Education Project, San Francisco.

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• Jewish-Israeli Identity , Sifriat Poalim (with Kibutzim College of Education), Tel-Aviv, 1993, 204 pp. (Hebrew).
• The Banality of Indifference: The Attitude of the Yishuv and the Zionist Movement to the Armenian Genocide , Dvir (with Kibutzim College of Education), Tel-Aviv, 1995, 395 pp. (Hebrew).
• Les Juifs d’Extrême Gauche en Mai 68 , Albin Michel, Paris, 1998, 335 pp.
• We are all German Jews: Jewish Radicals in France During the Sixties and Seventies , Am Oved (with Tel-Aviv University and Ben-Gurion University ), Tel-Aviv, 1999, 288 pp. (Hebrew, translation of the French edition, with revisions).
• The Banality of Indifference: Zionism and the Armenian Genocide, Transaction, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 2000, 405 pp. (translation of the Hebrew edition, with revisions and adaptations). Second Edition, Transaction Publishers, 2001; Third Edition, 2003.
• The Banality of Denial , Transaction, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 2003, 338 pp.
• Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide, Maba, Tel Aviv, 2005 [Hebrew edition, with revisions and adaptations].
• The Pain of Knowledge - Holocaust and Genocide issues in Education , Transaction, New Brunswick , 2005. A German edition was published by Der Schmerz des Wissens, Verlag Edition AV, Lich/Hessen, 2005.

[edit] External links

• Prof. Yair Auron
• Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel Armenian Studies Program