S. Ilan Troen

S. (Selwyn) Ilan Troen is Karl, Harry and Helen Stoll Professor of Israel Studies at Brandeis University. He is a graduate of Brandeis, with an M.A. and Ph.D.from the University of Chicago. Troen grew up in the Boston area, but moved to Israel as a young man.

When he joined the Brandeis faculty, the university announced that it was creating a chair in Israel Studies in order "to develop an accurate historical understanding of the origin and development of the state of Israel and its place in the world." [http://www.dailynewstribune.com/news/local_regional/walt_troen04222003.htm]

Troen believes that Israel’s secular culture "has drawn from two important traditions: the prophetic tradition within Judaism and universal values generated by an enlightenment society." [ [http://fletcher.tufts.edu/news/2002/10/troen.shtml Tufts-Fletcher-News: ] ]

Books and publications

* Troen, Selwyn K. and Jacob Lassner. "Jews and Muslims in the Arab World; Haunted by Pasts Real and Imagined". 2007 ed. Lanham and New York: Roman and Littlefield, 2007.
* Troen,Selwyn K.. "Israel Studies." "Israel Studies" "'12". 3 issues annually (2007): 600 pages.
* Troen, Selwyn K.. "Imagining Zion: Dreams, Designs, and Realities in a Century of Jewish Settlement". Yale University Press, 2003.
* Troen, Selwyn K., Moore, D.D.. "Divergent Jewish Cultures: America and Israel". Yale University Press, 2001.
* Troen, Selwyn K., ed. "Jewish Centers and Peripheries; Europe between America and Israel Fifty Years After World War II". Transaction: New Brunswick and London, 1999.
* Troen, Selwyn K. and Noah Lucas, ed. Israel: "The First Decade of Independence". Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995.
* Troen, S. Ilan and Klaus Bade, ed. "Zuwanderung und Eingliederung von Deutschen und Juden aus der fruheren Sowjetunion in Deutschland und Israel". Bonn: Bundeszentrale dur politische Bildung, 1993.
* Troen, Selwyn K. and Moshe Shemesh, ed. "The Suez-Sinai Crisis 1956; Retrospective and Reappraisal". London and New York: Frank Cass and Columbia University Press, 1990.
* Troen, Selwyn K. and Benjamin Pinkus, ed. "Organizing Rescue: National Jewish Solidarity in the Modern Period". London: Frank Cass, 1988.
* Troen, Selwyn K. and Glenn Holt, S. Thernstrom and T. Hareven. "St. Louis. New York: Franklin Watts - New Viewpoints", 1977.
* Troen, Selwyn K.. "The Public and the Schools: Shaping the Saint Louis System 1838-1920". University of Missouri Press, 1975.

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