Avi Shlaim | |
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| אבי שליים أفي شلايم | |
 Shlaim in 2015 | |
| Born | 31 October 1945 |
| Citizenship |
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| Spouse |
Gwyneth Daniel (m. 1973) |
| Children | 1 |
| Awards | British Academy Medal (2017) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | |
| Thesis | The United States and the Berlin Blockade, 1948–1949: A Study in Crisis Decision Making (1980) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Historian |
| School or tradition | Israel's "New Historians" |
| Institutions | |
Avi Shlaim FBA (born 31 October 1945) is an Israeli and British historian of Iraqi Jewish descent. He is one of Israel's "New Historians", a group of Israeli scholars who put forward critical interpretations of the history of Zionism and Israel.[1][2][3]
- ^ a b "Shlaim, Prof. Avi". Who's Who. A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U164293. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Ethan Bronner (14 November 1999). "Israel: The Revised Edition: Two historians offer re-examinations of the Zionist–Arab conflict". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 March 2014. Review of The Iron Wall by Avi Shlaim and Righteous Victims by Benny Morris, with links to the first chapters of each.
- ^ Morris, Benny. "The New Historiography" in Morris, Benny. (ed) Making Israel. 1987, pp. 11–28.