Jacob M. Landau
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Jacob M. Landau | |
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| Born | 1924 |
| Died | 2020 |
| Occupation | Professor and Author |
Jacob M. Landau was the professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science (in the field of Middle Eastern Studies) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Jacob M. Landau was born on 20 March 1924 in Chișinău, Bessarabia (modern Moldova). He left in 1935, moving to Palestine with his parents, Miriam and Michael Landau, settled in Tel Aviv.
He died in 12 November 2020.
Academic Career
- Full professor emeritus at Hebrew University in the Department of Political Science in 1993
- Served as a part-time professor of political science at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel, and Hebrew University.
- Served as visiting professor at foreign universities in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Turkey.
- One of the founders of the Israel Oriental Society in 1949 , served as its first secretary.
- Member of the Israel Association of Political Science and its president in 1993–1998
- Member of the Centre International des Etudes Pré-Ottomanes et Ottomanes (Paris)
- Honorary member of the Turkish Historical Society (Ankara)
- Member of the editorial board of several journals and of the central editorial committee of the Encyclopedia Judaica, 2nd edition.
Publications
- Parliaments and Parties in Egypt, Routledge, 1953
- Studies in the Arab Theater, Routledge, 1953
- A Word Count of Modern Arabic Proseو Literary Licensing, LLC , 2011
- The Israeli Communist Party and the Elections for the Fifth Knesset, Hoover Institution,1965
- Jews in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Routledge, 1969
- The Arabs in Israel: A Political Study, Routledge, 1969
- The Hejaz Railway and the Muslim Pilgrimage: A Case of Ottoman Political Propaganda, Routledge, 1969
- Tekinalp, Turkish Patriot 1883–1961, Peeters Publishers, 1984
- The Arab Minority in Israel, 1967–1991: Political Aspects, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1993
- Jews, Arabs, Turks, Magnes Press, 1993
- Jacob m. Landau &Barbara Kellner-Heinkele, The Politics of Language in the Ex-Soviet Muslim States , Hurst & Co Ltd, 2001
- Jacob m. Landau &Barbara Kellner-Heinkele, Language Politics in Contemporary Central Asia, I.B. Tauris, 2011