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