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Prof. Alexander Yakobson | Mandel Scholion Research Center

Prof. Alexander Yakobson

Prof. Alexander Yakobson
Prof.
Alexander
Yakobson
Department of History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mandel Building, room 243, Mt. Scopus campus

 

Prof. Alexander Yakobson, PhD in Ancient History, Hebrew University 1995; PhD dissertation: "Elections and canvassing in the late Roman Republic."; 2011 – associate professor, Ancient History, Hebrew University. 2012 – Research Fellow, Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.

Research

Ancient History:

Main field of research in Ancient History is: elections, popular politics, public opinion and political culture in the Roman Republic. Working now on early Imperial themes – Augustus and Tiberius, including questions of historical memory.

Other:

Democracy, national identity, nation-state and the rights of national minorities, religion and state - in Israel and in Western democracies.

Books:

Elections and Electioneering in Rome: A Study in the Political System of the Late Republic, Historia Einzelschriften, Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1999.

 

Alexander Yakobson and Amnon Rubinstein, Israel and the Family of Nations: Jewish Nation-State and Human Rights, 2003 (in Hebrew). French Version: Paris 2006; English Version: London and New York 2009.

Azar Gat with Alexander Yakobson, Nations: The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2013.