Dr Gadi Taub

Hebrew, English

Resume

Is a senior lecturer at the School of Public Policy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of a number of bestselling works of fiction, and several non-fiction books on Israeli culture and politics, such as What is Zionism (Hebrew) and The Settlers and The Struggle Over the Meaning of Zionism (also published in English by Yale University Press, 2010). He earned his Ph. D. in American History from Rutgers University. He is an op-ed (and more literally an opposition voice to the editorial line) at Haaretz. He has also contributed over the years to American and European papers (the New York Times, the New Republic, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, among others). He is known in Israel for his criticism of postmodernism and post-Zionism, ever since the publication of his bestselling A Dispirited Rebellion: Essays on Contemporary Israeli Culture (Hebrew, 1997).

Lectures

Zionism as a Democratic Worldview

Why is there no Peace?

What is a Jewish Democratic State?

Contrary to the way it is now portrayed in Western universities, Zionism actually rests on the universal foundation of human rights, human liberty, and the right to all peoples to self-determination. It was, in fact, a democratic movement long before it even had a state. How was the Zionist idea formulated, and why is it under such fierce fire now, on the world stage? The lecture will help you separate fact from fiction about the national liberation movement that changed the history of the Jewish people.