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About the Author: Emma Ashford
Colin Shindler is emeritus professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He became the first professor of Israel Studies in the UK in 2008 and was the founding chairman of the European Association of Israeli Studies (EAIS) in 2009.
He is the author of numerous books including his History Of Modern Israel (Cambridge University Press 2008, 2013).
The History of Modern Israel has been translated into Italian, Polish and Estonian.
His main interests lie in the evolution of the Israeli Right, the changes in the approach of the British and European Left towards Israel since 1948 and the emigration movement of Soviet Jews between 1917 and 1991.
He worked for the British campaign for Soviet Jewry between 1968 and 1977 – and edited the weekly Jews in the USSR between 1972 and 1975. His first book, published in 1978, was Exit Visa which detailed the struggle of the Jewish emigration movement in the USSR.
He was the co-chairman of the Universities Committee for Soviet Jewry between 1970 and 1971 and political secretary of the World Union of Jewish Students between 1970 and 1971. He edited the Jewish Quarterly between 1985 and 1994. He edited Judaism Today between 1995 and 1998.
He lectures and broadcasts nationally and internationally. He has written for and reviewed for The Times, Guardian, New York Times, Plus61j, Jewish Independent, Jewish News, Jewish Chronicle, Jerusalem Post, Ha’aretz, History Today, Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman and many other journals. The author of over 800 articles and reviews since 1969 on Israel and Jewish political history – all of which can be located on this website.
He is currently honorary president of the EAIS.
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