Ronit Lentin

{{Short description|Jewish Irish political sociologist and writer}} {{EngvarB|date=April 2016}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2020}} {{Infobox writer  | name = Ronit Lentin | image = File:Dublin Writers Festival 2007 (685409725).jpg | image_size = 200px | caption = Lentin at the Dublin Writers Festival, 2007 | pseudonym = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1944|10|25}} | birth_place = Haifa, Mandatory Palestine | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Political sociologist, writer | citizenship = Israeli<br>Irish | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | education = | influenced = | signature = | spouse = Louis Lentin | children = Alana Lentin, Miki Lentin | website = {{url|www.ronitlentin.net/}} | native_name = רונית זלצברגר | native_name_lang = he }} '''Ronit Lentin''' ({{langx|he|רונית לנטין}}; born 25 October 1944) is an Israeli{{endash}}Irish<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ronitlentin.net/about/|title=About|date=1 June 2009}}</ref> political sociologist, and a writer of fiction and non-fiction books.

==Life== Lentin was born in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine, in 1944 as Ronit Salzberger and grew up in Israel. She was exempted from military service in the Israel Defense Forces for medical reasons and began studyig at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, though she did not complete a degree. According to Lentin, she became anti-Zionist shortly after the Six-Day War when she began following the socialist anti-Zionist group Matzpen. In 1968 she began working for Israel Television, where she met her husband Louis Lentin. She moved to Ireland in 1969 and has lived there ever since. A political sociologist, she was an associate professor of sociology at Trinity College, Dublin until her retirement in 2014. From 1997 until 2012 Lentin was the director of the MPhil in Race, Ethnicity, Conflict, Department of Sociology. She was head of the Department of Sociology and a founder member of the Trinity Immigration Initiative, Trinity College, Dublin.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcd.ie/cpcj/research/#ronitlentin|title=Trinity Centre for Post-Conflict Justice Research Fellows|publisher=Trinity College|location=Dublin}}</ref> Lentin has published extensively on Palestine and Israel, racism and immigration in Ireland, and on gender and genocide and the Holocaust.

Lentin has advocated an open-door immigration policy for Ireland and opposes all deportations.<ref> Ireland: A Racist State? Interview with Ronit Lentin, Live Register TV, 2013 ( from 17 mins. in)</ref>

Lentin is an activist for Palestinian liberation and for the Palestinian right of return. She supports a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; "one democratic state in historic Palestine where Palestinians, Jews and migrants live in full equality".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/the-occupied-territories-bill-1.4059303|title=The Occupied Territories Bill|newspaper=The Irish Times }}</ref>

==Research== Lentin has researched on racism and immigration in Ireland, on race in Israel and Palestine, and on gender violence and feminism.

==Books and publications== *''Interviews: Conversations with Palestinian Women'' (Jerusalem: Mifras 1982) *''Tea with Mrs. Klein'' in Triad: Modern Irish Fiction (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1986) *''Night Train to Mother'' (Dublin: Attic Press 1989) {{ISBN|0-946211-72-8}} *''Songs on the Death of Children'' (Dublin: Poolbeg Press 1996) *[http://worldcat.org/oclc/44720589?tab=details ''Israel and the Daughters of the Shoah: Reoccupying the Territories of Silence''] (Oxford and NY: Berghahn Books 2000) {{ISBN|1-57181-774-3}} *[http://worldcat.org/oclc/38284413?tab=details ''Gender and Catastrophe''](London: Zed Books 1997)Editor {{ISBN|1-85649-445-4}} *''(Re)searching Women: Feminist Research Methodologies in the Social Sciences in Ireland'' (Dublin: IPA 2000) co-editor, with Anne Byrne. *[http://worldcat.org/oclc/50667890?tab=details ''Racism and Anti-racism in Ireland''] (Belfast: Beyond the Pale 2002) co-editor, with Robbie McVeigh, {{ISBN|1-900960-16-8}} *''Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation'' (Oxford and NY: Berghahn Books 2002) co-editor, with Nahla Abdo. {{ISBN|1-57181-498-1}} *[http://www/tcd/ie/Sociology/mphil/dwnl.PDF ''Women’s Movement: Migrant Women Transforming Ireland''](2003) co-editor, with Eithne Luibhéid. *[http://worldcat.org/oclc/52631399?tab=details ''Re-presenting the Shoah for the 21st Century''](Oxford and NY: Berghahn Books. 2004), editor.{{ISBN|1-57181-802-2}} *''After Optimism? Ireland, Racism and Globalisation'' (Dublin: Metroeireann Publications. 2006) with Robbie McVeigh. {{ISBN|0-9553385-0-6}} *''Race and State'' (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press. 2006) co-editor, with Alana Lentin. {{ISBN|1-84718-001-9}} *''Performing Global Networks'' (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2007) co-editor, with Karen Fricker *''Thinking Palestine'' (London: Zed Books, 2008) editor *''Co-memory and Melancholia: Israelis Memorialising the Palestinian Nakba'' (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010, paperback 2014 *''Migrant Activism and Integration from Below in Ireland'' ( Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013) co-editor, with Elena Moreo * ''Traces of Racial Exception: Racializing Israeli Settler Colonialism'' (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018) * 'Enforcing Silence: Academic Freedom, Palestine and the Criticism of Israel (Zed Books, 2020), co-editor with David Landy and Conor McCarthy * 'Disavowing Asylum: Documenting Ireland's Asylum Industrial Complex (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021), with Vukasin Nedljkovic * 'Racial Regimes and White European Jewish Supremacy as Property', ''Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies'', 23 (2024), 221-237

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==External links== *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UbIehthCEo Ireland: A Racist State? Interview with Ronit Lentin]

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