Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

JACOB M. LANDAU, GERSTEN FAMILY PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

 

Status:    EMERITUS

 

Office Phone:        02-563-1357

Fax:                         E-Mail:   msiddole@mscc.huji.ac.il

U.R.L:     http://politics.huji.ac.il/faculty_one.asp?id=179

 

                Department                           Faculty

                POLITICAL SCIENCE         FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

 

Academic Degree                 Institution                             Year

Ph.D.                                      UNIV. OF LONDON            1949

 

Academic Positions             Year

EMERITUS                           1993

PROFESSOR                         1974

ASSOC. PROFESSOR         1968

SENIOR LECTURER            1962

TEACHING FELLOW         1957

 

External Academic Positions

Visiting Prof.: Brandeis Univ., 1955-56, 1994; UCLA, 1963-64

Wayne State Univ., Detroit, 1968-69; Columbia Univ., 1969

Ankara Univ., 1974; Univ. of Texas, 1975

Candido Mendes Univ., Rio de Janeiro, 1975

Univ. of Utah, 1979; NYU, 1988; Univ. of Freiburg, 1990

Univ. of Wis., Milwaukee, 1992; Univ. of Heidelberg, 1993

Princeton Univ., 1997-98

Fellow, Inst. of Advanced Studies, Netherlands, 1983-84

Sr. Research Fellow, St. Antony's College, Oxford, 1987

Memberships and Fellowships:

Isr. Oriental Soc.; Isr. Political Sci. Assn.; Int'l Assn. -

for Ottoman Research; Middle East Studies Assn. of N Amer.

Hon. Fellow, Turkish Acad. of Historical Sciences

 

Awards and Honors:

Ben-Zvi Prize;

Itzhak Gruenbaum Memorial Award

Bosphorus Univ. Medal;

Israel Prize for Middle Eastern Studies, 2005.

 

Research Interests

Politics of the contemporary Middle East; politics of contemporary Islam.

Politics and language.

 

Research Projects

                Politics of the Arab minority in Israel:

               

Selected Recent Publications

                Publication Name                                                                 Year

                Exploring Ottoman and Turkish History. London,         2004

                Bibliography of Published Works of Jacob Landau.     2004

                A History of Modern Arabic Literature. Ankara: Ministry           2002

                Panislamism. Istanbul, Anka, 543 pp.               2001

                Politics of Language in the Ex-Soviet Muslim States. Ann           2001

                Ataturk and the Modernization of Turkey. Istanbul,     1999

                Panturkism. Istanbul, Sarmal, 363 pp.               1999

                Arab and Turkish characteristics.     1997

                Tekinalp, Turkish Patriot. Istanbul, Iletisim Press,         1996

                Pan-Turkism: From Irredentism to Cooperation.             1995

                The Politics of Pan-Islam. Oxford, Oxford University    1994

                Arabic Popular Theater in Cairo, 1909:             1993

                Jews, Arabs, Turks. Jerusalem, Magnes Press,              1993

                The first Turkish language congress.               1993

                The Arab Minority in Israel, 1967-1991:           1993

                The Jews of Egypt.              1992

                Political Parties and Democracy in Turkey. London/New             1991

                The Politics of Pan-Islam: Ideology and Organization .                 1990

                Irredentism and minorities in the Middle East.                1990

                An early appeal by Russia's Muslims for international support.                 1990

                Comments on the Jewish press in Istanbul: The Hebrew weekly                1990

                The Arab Vote in Israel's Parliamentary Elections, 1988.               1989

                Language policy in Turkey and Israel: An attempt at a                 1988

                Muslim Turkish attitudes towards Jews, Zionism and Israel.       1988

                History of the Jews in Egypt in the Ottoman Period,     1988

                Turkey: Democratic framework and military control.      1988

                An insider's view of Istanbul: Ibrahim al-Muwailihi's Ma             1987

                The decline of the Jewish community in eighteenth century Cairo:            1987