Faculty Guide

Title

Karl, Harry and Helen Stoll Professor of Israel Studies, and Director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies

Near Eastern and Judaic Studies

Expertise

Israel studies. A founding editor of the journal Israel Studies
transnational history, long-term member of the editorial board of the Journal of American History with interests in transit of ideas and comparative history

Profile

Continue to develop courses in Israel Studies from undergraduate to graduate level; introduced new USEM entitled "Divergent Jewish Centers; America and Israel" within context of comparative history indicated above; continue to expand teaching of faculty across country and from abroad through the Brandeis University Summer Institute for Israel Studies that now conducts workshops outside the "summer"; with publication of "Jews and Muslims in the Arab World; Haunted by Pasts Real and Imagined,
" I am engaged in new research on how different peoples claim land, a study that focuses on Israel but in a comparative perspective

Courses Taught

NEJS	145a	History of the State of Israel
NEJS	185a	Topics in Israeli Social and Political History
NEJS	192a	War and Peace in Israeli Thought and Praxis
NEJS	285b	Conflict and Controversies in Israeli History
USEM	2a	Divergent Jewish Cultures: Israel and America

Scholarship

Troen, Selwyn K. and Jacob Lassner (co-authors). Jews and Muslims in the Arab World; Haunted by Pasts Real and Imagined. Lanham and New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007.

Troen, Selwyn K.. "De-Judaizing the Homeland: Academic politics in rewriting the history of Palestine." Israel Affairs 13. 4 (2007): 872-884.

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 Aemrica and Israel Fifthy 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.