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New book presentation by Yehouda Shenhav: Tuesday, April 22nd, 12:30-1:45 pm, NYU TRANSLATING THE NAKBA
Reading and Writing Elias Khouri in Hebrew: Yehouda Shenhav with novelist Elias Khouri and others. Monday, April 21st, 5-7 pm, Panel Discussion, NYU
Review of the Columbia Debate
The Israeli-Palestinian Quagmire: Is There A Way Out? A Conversation With PETER BEINART & YEHOUDA SHENHAV at Columbia University [...]
A Conversation With PETER BEINART & YEHOUDA SHENHAV at Columbia University Yehouda Shenhav (Ph.D Stanford University 1985) is a Professor of Sociology at Tel-Aviv University. His main areas are social theory, sociology of knowledge, management and bureaucracies, ethnicity, race and the political sociology of sovereignty.
Editor of Theory & Criticism (2000-2010), an academic and intellectual journal which leads critical theory in Israel.
Head of Advanced Studies at the Vanleer Jerusalem Institute (2005-2010).
Senior editor for Organization Studies (2004-2010).
Editor of Theory & Criticism in Context [Hebrew] which publishes original critical views on culture, society and knowledge in Israel (2003-to current).
Head of Horowitz Institute for Social Research (2003-2005).
Chair of Sociology and Anthropology department at Tel Aviv University (1995-1998).
Visiting Professor at: Stanford, Princeton, Columbia, Iowa, and Madison-Wisconsin.
– His main work in the area of history of management was published in Manufacturing Rationality: The Engineering Foundations of the Managerial Revolution (Oxford University Press, 1999).
– His main work in the area of nationalism, ethnicity and religion was published in The Arab Jews: A Postcolonial Reading of Nationalism, Ethnicity and Religion (Stanford University Press, 2006).
– His views on the Israeli-Palestinian war are published in Beyond the Two States Solution: A Jewish Political Essay (Polity Press, 2012).
Social theory, society in Israel, postcolonial theory, historical and intellectual origins of the social sciences, sociology of organizations, Sociology of knowledge; critical theory.
Translates novels from Arabic to Hebrew. Among them: Elias Khouri (White Faces; The Journey of Little Ghandi), Salman Natour (She, Me and the Autoumn; The Life and death of the Wrinkled Face’s Sheikh), Abd Elrahman Munif, and others.
Shenhav is a Jew of Arab origin (parents were born in Baghdad) and one of the founders of Ha’Keshet Ha’Demokratit Ha’Mizrahit (Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Coalition, 1996), a social and political movement founded by second generation Israeli Jews from Arab countries.
He is also one of the founders of “Eretz Yoshveha” (A Country of its Inhabitants, 2010), an ex-parliamentary movement which calls for full citizenship and collective rights for all Jews and Palestinians in one shared space including redistribution of wealth.
Latest Article – Beyond ‘instrumental rationality’: Lord Cromer and the imperial roots of Eichmann’s bureaucracy The article explores the similarities between the Nazi model and the imperial model of bureaucracy in Arendt’s writings, focusing on the analogies she drew between Lord Cromer and Adolf Eichmann.
The analysis reveals that her ‘banality of evil’ argument is deeply anchored in the history of race and imperialism, and that she was not oblivious to the affinity between imperial bureaucratic repertoires and bureaucracies of genocide.
Beyond ‘instrumental rationality’: Lord Cromer and the imperial roots of Eichmann's bureaucracy Latest Book – Beyond the Two States Solution: A Jewish Political Essay יהודה שנהב يهودا شنهاف The Faculty of Social Sciences