Dr. Avi Shilon

Zionism, right-wing Zionism, Israeli politics

Last year I've concluded my research about  the creation of Israeli cultures from a Creolization perspective. In this research - which was done with sociologist Johannes Becke we analyzed the formation of Israeli society in comparison to the societies of the Caribbean. Our article "Caribbean Zion? A Creolization Perspective on Jewish-Israeli Culture" was published by "The British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies". I'm currently working on the Biography of Natan Yalin-Mor, Head of Lehi, and on Ben-Gurion's approach to the Far East

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1. Shilon, A., Becke, J.,The British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, September 2022, 1-20.

society  from

2023 (Spring Semester) Columbia University, The Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, Graduate class

                                         Course: “Modern Israel"                                    

                                        2023 - Tel Hai Academic College

Books:

1. 1. Shilon, A., Begin, 1913-1992, Am Oved: Tel Aviv, (Heb.), 2008
   2. Shilon, A., Menachem Begin: A Life, Yale University Press: New Haven, 2012. (Identical translation). Cited by 43 items.
   3. Shilon, A., Ben-Gurion, Epilogue, Am Oved: Tel Aviv (Heb.), 2013.
   4. Shilon, A., Ben-Gurion: His Later Years in the Political Wilderness, Rowman and Littlefield: London-New York, 2016. (Identical translation). Cited by 5 items.
   5. Shilon, A., The Left-Wing’s Sorrow: Yossi Beilin and the Decline of the Peace Camp, Dvir: Tel Aviv, 2017 (Heb.)
   6. Shilon, A., The decline of the Left-Wing in Israel: Yossi Beilin and the Politics of the Peace Process, I.B.Tauris: London, 2020. (Identical translation).

Articles in peer reviewed journals:

1. Shilon, A., Toward the Eastern Frontier: Ben-Gurion’s Approach to India and Buddhism. Theory and Criticism, 44, 2015, pp 151-127 (Heb.)
2. Shilon, A., David Ben-Gurion on the issue of borders. Zion, 2015, Volume LXXX, 3, pp 407-434 (Heb.)
3. Shilon. A., Menachem Begin's attitude toward the Jewish Religion. The Middle East Journal, Spring 2016, Volume 70, Number 2, pp 275-249.
4. Shilon, A., I’m Responsible, You Decide: Menachem Begin's Leadership pattern in the Irgun, Iyunim Bitkumat Israel, 26, 2016, pp 280-249 (Heb.)
5. Fisher, N., Shilon, A., Integrating non-Jewish Immigrants and the Formation of Israel's Ethnic-Civic Nationhood:  from Ben Gurion to the Present.  Middle Eastern Studies, 2017, pp 166-182.

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6. Shilon, A., The impact of the Six Day War on the revitalization of the Canaanite ideas in the Israeli Society, 1967-1977, Iyunim Bitkumat Israel, 2017 (Vol.11) pp 102-130 (Heb.)
7. Shilon, A., 1977: The Mahapakh: its causes and implications for contemporary Israeli politics, Jewish Quarterly Review Vol. 108, No. 4, Fall 2018, 545–550.

8. Shilon, A., A (Bit Disappointing) Portrait of Israeli Leaders in the Twenty-First Century, Israel Studies Review, 34:2, Autumn 2019, pp 143-134.

9. Shilon, A., More than Poetry and Music: How and why the secular Jabotinsky adopted religiosity as a solution to the crisis of the liberal.  Jewish Studies Quarterly Volume 27, No.3, 2020, 288-297.

10. Shilon, A., Becke, J., Caribbean Zion? A Creolization Perspective on Jewish-Israeli Culture. The British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, September 2022, 1-20.

11.  Shilon, A. When Left Wing Becomes Neoliberal, APSA MENA Politics newsletter, 6(2), Fall 2023, pp 89-95

Articles or chapters in peer-reviewed books:

1. From Maximalism to flexible compromise: Understanding Ben Gurion's view on the issue of borders, in: Stop – No Border, (Ed: Hani Zubida & Ranan Lifshitz), Yedioth Ahronoth-Miskal, 2017, pp 87-111 (Heb.)
2. David Ben Gurion as a Leader, International Palgrave Handbook on Israel, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, ,2022

3. A Leader Under Neo-Liberal Logic: On the Leadership pattern of Benjamin Netanyahu in: The 2019-2020 Elections, (Ed: Michal Shamir and Gideon Rahat), The Israel Democracy Institute and Routledge, pp 99-119, November, 2022