Ilan Troen

Sep 30, 2024 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Cecile E. Kuznitz |Akiva Schick |Dara Horn |Ilan Troen

The October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre left Israeli society reeling in ways with which it has yet to come to grips. The Israeli television sketch comedy Ha-Yehudim Ba’im (The Jews Are Coming) recently featured a heartrending skit in which characters from Tisha b’Av 70 CE through the 1903 Kishinev pogrom to Simchat Torah 2023 described the violent attacks they endured, one character’s account blending into the next.

Jul 9, 2024 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Allan Arkush |Akiva Schick |Ilan Troen

Palgrave Macmillan 267 pp., $37.99 “Israel’s legitimacy is a topic of dispute in the public square,” Ilan Troen notes, toward the conclusion of his new book, “and is likely to remain so.” In his own mind, however, this matter is certainly not up in the air. An American-born veteran Israeli, and one of the pioneers of Israel Studies, Troen has no personal need of a convincing justification for the existence of a Jewish state in the promised land.

Oct 13, 2023 | cnnespanol.cnn.com | Ilan Troen

Nota del editor: S. Ilan Troen es catedrático emérito Lopin de Historia Moderna en la Universidad Ben-Gurion de Israel y catedrático emérito de la Familia Stoll de Estudios sobre Israel en la Universidad Brandeis. Su próximo libro, "Israel/Palestine in World Religions; Whose Promised Land?", saldrá a la venta en febrero. Las opiniones expresadas en este comentario son suyas. Lee más opiniones en CNN. (CNN) -- "¡Nunca más!". Nunca debería haber ocurrido. Pero ha ocurrido, y está ocurriendo.