S. Ilan Troen

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Ilan Troen is an Israeli scholar. He is the Karl, Harry and Helen Stoll Professor of Israel Studies at Brandeis University.

Biography[edit]

Selwyn Ilan Troen grew up in the Boston, Massachusetts area. He is a graduate of Brandeis, with an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.[citation needed]

Academic career[edit]

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]

Troen is a founder of the journal Israel Studies.[3]

Personal life[edit]

Troen's grandmother was killed in a pogrom on March 14, 1919 in her village, Derazhne, then part of the Second Polish Republic.[4] His daughter Deborah Matias and her husband were killed in their home during the Holit massacre on 7 October 2023.[5][6]

Published works[edit]

  • 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: Rowman 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. and D.D. Moore. 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.

References[edit]

  1. ^ http://www.dailynewstribune.com/news/local_regional/walt_troen04222003.htm[dead link]
  2. ^ “How Secular or Democratic Can a Jewish State Be?” Archived 2006-10-29 at the Wayback Machine, Tufts-Fletcher-News, Tufts University, October 2002.
  3. ^ Belasco, Daniel. "A Seat At The Table: With new chair at Brandeis, Israel studies taking its place in academia", The Jewish Week, 14 December 2001.
  4. ^ Troen, S. Ilan (2023-10-12). "Opinion: My grandmother was killed in a pogrom. Then my daughter was, too". CNN. Retrieved 2023-10-21.
  5. ^ Lissauer, Talia; Stoico, Nick. "'Tragedy and trauma': Brandeis professor's daughter, son-in-law killed in Israel". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2023-10-21.
  6. ^ "Deborah and Shlomi Matias, 50 and 49: Died shielding their son". www.timesofisrael.com. 17 October 2023. Retrieved 2023-10-21.
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