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Shlomo Avineri

Shlomo Avineri teaches political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He is the former director-general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry in the Rabin government. He is the author of  The Making of Modern Zionism, which has recently been reissued with a new epilogue, focusing on post-1967 developments.

A Normal Israel?

Shlomo Avineri

Zionism has long based its claim to sovereignty on the universal right to national self-determination, and the phrase “like all other nations” has been incorporated into Israel’s Declaration of Independence, yet the goal of “normalization” has proven to be much more complicated than most early Zionists had thought.

Max, Moritz, and Marx

Shlomo Avineri

When the Soviet official asked me about the second book I was carrying, I said rather nonchalantly that this was my Hebrew translation of Karl Marx’s Early Writings, which I was going to give to my hosts.

Thinking About Revolution and Democracy in the Middle East: A Symposium

Thinking About Revolution and Democracy in the Middle East: A Symposium

Shlomo Avineri, Amr Bargisi, Eva Bellin, Daniel Kurtzer, Menahem Milson, Itamar Rabinovich, Michael Walzer

Since January of this year, revolution has spread across North Africa and the Middle East with such velocity that predicting exactly what will happen next is probably a fool's errand. In this issue, we have asked seven writers to return to their bookshelves and tell us what books, authors, and arguments they find helpful in thinking through the causes and implications of these surprising events.