Yoram Hazony

Yoram Hazony is the founder and provost of the Shalem Center, where he is presently a Director of the Institute for Philosophy, Political Theory and Religion (PPR) and a Senior Fellow. Hazony is author of The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel's Soul (Basic Books and the New Republic, 2000) and The Dawn: Political Teachings of the Book of Esther (Shalem Press, 2000), and has written numerous Articles for newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, The New Republic, Commentary, and Ha'aretz. Previous to establishing the Center in 1994, he was a member of the Jerusalem Post editorial staff, and served as a member of the Israeli delegation to the Madrid Peace Conference. Hazony received his B.A. from Princeton University in East Asian Studies, and his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in Political Philosophy. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife Yael and nine children. 
 

Bibliography
 

Books

The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel's Soul (New York: Basic Books and The New Republic, 2000)

The Dawn: Political Teachings of the Book of Esther (Jerusalem: Shalem Press, 1995)

 
Edited Books

Introduction to Aaron Wildavsky, Moses as Political Leader (Jerusalem: Shalem Press, 2005).

David Hazony, Yoram Hazony, and Michael Oren, eds., New Essays on Zionism (Jerusalem: Shalem Press, 2006).

 
Articles

"Jerusalem and Carthage", Hebraic Political Studies (Summer 2008).

"О национальном государстве: Страж еврейского народа", Еврейское государство в начале XXI века (2008)

“La Bible Hebraique est-elle Porteuse d’un Enseignement Politique?”, Pardes  40-41 (2006)

“La Naissance de l’Etat Moderne: la Contribution Meconnue du Judaisme”, Controverses  2 (June 2006)

"Does the Bible Have a Political Teaching?", Hebraic Political Studies, (Winter 2006)

"Judaism and the Modern State," Azure 21 (Summer 2005)

"On the National State, Part 3: Character," Azure 14 (Winter 2003)

"On the National State, Part 2: The Guardian of the Jews," Azure 13 (Summer 2003)

"On the National State, Part 1: Empire and Anarchy," Azure 12 (Winter 2002)

"Did Herzl Want a 'Jewish' State?" Azure 9 (Spring 2000)

"Antisocial Texts: Who Removed Zionism from Israel's Textbooks?" The New Republic, (April 17, 2000)

"The Jewish Origins of the Western Disobedience Tradition," Azure 4 (Summer 1998)

"The Jewish State at 100," Azure 2 (Summer 1997)

"The End of Zionism?," Azure 1 (Summer 1996)

"The Zionist State and its Enemies," Commentary (May 1996)

Research Papers

With Michael B. Oren and Daniel Polisar, The Quiet Revolution in the Teaching of Zionist History: A Comparative Study of Education Ministry Textbooks on the 20th Century (Jerusalem: Shalem Center, 2000)

Courses Taught at Shalem

Metaphysics of the Bible

On Human Nature