Meir Litvak
Israeli historian
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Meir Litvak (Hebrew: מאיר ליטבק; born 1958)[1] is the Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University.[2]
Meir Litvak is a scholar of modern Shia Islam and Islamist antisemitism, with numerous publications in both fields.[3]
In September 2023 Litvak said that Netanyahu's 2023 Israeli judicial reform and related actions had "already weakened the country".[4]
Works
- Litvak, Meir (1994). "A Palestinian Past: National Construction and Reconstruction". History and Memory. 6 (2): 24–56. doi:10.2979/HIS.1994.6.2.24 (inactive 1 July 2025).
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 2025 (link) - Litvak, Meir (1998). Shi'i scholars of nineteenth-century Iraq : the ʻulamaʼ of Najaf and Karbalaʼ. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521892964.
- Litvak, Meir (1998). "The Islamization of the Palestinian–Israeli Conflict: The Case of Hamas". Middle Eastern Studies. 34 (1): 148–163. doi:10.1080/00263209808701210.
- Litvak, Meir (2000). "A Failed Manipulation: The British, the Oudh Bequest and the Shi'i ʿUlamaʾ of Najaf and Karbala". British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 27 (1): 69–89. doi:10.1080/13530190008705600 (inactive 1 July 2025).
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 2025 (link) - Litvak, Meir (2002). Shi'i Scholars of Nineteenth-Century Iraq: The 'Ulama' of Najaf and Karbala'. Vol. 10. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521892964.
- Litvak, Meir (2005). "The Anti-Semitism of Hamas". Palestine-Israel Journal of Politics, Economics & Culture. 12. Retrieved 2025-06-16.
- Litvak, Meir; Webman, Esther (2009). From Empathy to Denial: Arab Responses to the Holocaust. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-70074-0.[5][6][7][8]
- Litvak, Meir (2010). ""Martyrdom is Life": Jihad and Martyrdom in the Ideology of Hamas". Studies in Conflict & Terrorism. 33 (8): 716–734. doi:10.1080/1057610X.2010.499491 (inactive 1 July 2025). Retrieved 2025-06-16.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 2025 (link) - Litvak, Meir (2017). "Iranian Antisemitism and the Holocaust". In McElligott, Anthony; Herf, Jeffrey (eds.). Antisemitism Before and Since the Holocaust: Altered Contexts and Recent Perspectives. Cham: Springer International Publishing. p. 219. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-48866-0_9. ISBN 978-3-319-48866-0.
- Litvak, Meir (2020). ""God's Favored Nation": The New Religious Nationalism in Iran". Religions. 11 (10): 541. doi:10.3390/rel11100541.
- Litvak, Meir (2021). Know Thy Enemy: Evolving Attitudes towards "Others" in Modern Shii Thought and Practice. Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia Series. Vol. 126. Brill. ISBN 9789004439207.
