# Yair Auron

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**Yair Auron** (Hebrew: יאיר אורון, *Ya'ir Oron*; born April 30, 1945) is an [Israeli](/source/Israelis) historian, scholar and expert specializing in [Holocaust](/source/Holocaust) and [genocide](/source/Genocide) studies, [racism](/source/Racism) and contemporary [Jewry](/source/Jews). Since 2005, he has served as the head of the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication of the [Open University of Israel](/source/Open_University_of_Israel) and an associate professor.

## Biography

Yair Auron completed his bachelor's degree in history and sociology at the [Tel-Aviv University](/source/Tel-Aviv_University). He earned a master's degree from [The Hebrew University](/source/The_Hebrew_University), and a Ph.D. from the [Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle](/source/University_of_Paris_III:_Sorbonne_Nouvelle) in Paris (France).

## Academic career

From 1974 to 1976, Auron worked as the director of the Education Department inside the [Yad Vashem](/source/Yad_Vashem) (the Holocaust Memorial in [Jerusalem](/source/Jerusalem)). In the 1980s, he worked as a researcher at the Melton Center for Jewish Education of the Hebrew University and also as an academic director of European Section at the Israel-Diaspora Institute, an external institute of Tel-Aviv University. From 1996 to 1999 he was a senior lecturer and head of the Division of Cultural Studies at the [Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yezreel](/source/Max_Stern_Academic_College_of_Emek_Yezreel).

Auron is an associate director of the [Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide](/source/Institute_on_the_Holocaust_and_Genocide), [Jerusalem](/source/Jerusalem). He is also a member of the academic board of directors at the [Zoryan Institute](/source/Zoryan_Institute) (an [NPO](/source/Nonprofit_organization)) in [Cambridge, Massachusetts](/source/Cambridge,_Massachusetts) (US) and an advisory board member of The Genocide Education Project (also known as GenEd, an NPO) in [San Francisco](/source/San_Francisco) (US).

## Published works

- *Jewish-Israeli Identity*, Sifriat Poalim (with Kibutzim College of Education), Tel-Aviv, 1993, 204 pp. (Hebrew).
- *The Banality of Indifference: The Attitude of the Yishuv and the Zionist Movement to the Armenian Genocide*, Dvir (with Kibutzim College of Education), Tel-Aviv, 1995, 395 pp. (Hebrew).
- *Les Juifs d’Extrême Gauche en Mai 68*, [Éditions Albin Michel](/source/%C3%89ditions_Albin_Michel), Paris, 1998, 335 pp.
- *We are all German Jews: Jewish Radicals in France During the Sixties and Seventies*, [Am Oved](/source/Am_Oved) (with Tel-Aviv University and Ben-Gurion University ), Tel-Aviv, 1999, 288 pp. (Hebrew, translation of the French edition, with revisions).
- *The Banality of Indifference: Zionism and the Armenian Genocide*, Transaction, [Rutgers University Press](/source/Rutgers_University_Press), New Brunswick, 2000, 405 pp. (translation of the Hebrew edition, with revisions and adaptations). Second Edition, Transaction Publishers, 2001; Third Edition, 2003.
- *The Banality of Denial, Transaction*, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 2003, 338 pp.[1][2][3]
- *Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide*, Maba, Tel Aviv, 2005 (Hebrew edition, with revisions and adaptations).
- *The Pain of Knowledge - Holocaust and Genocide issues in Education*, Transaction, New Brunswick, 2005. A German edition was published by *Der Schmerz des Wissens*, [Verlag Edition AV](/source/Verlag_Edition_AV), Lich/Hessen, 2005.

## See also

- [Armenia–Israel relations](/source/Armenia%E2%80%93Israel_relations)
- [Genocide studies](/source/Genocide_studies)
- [Holocaust studies](/source/Holocaust_studies)

## References

1. The Banality of Indifference: Zionism and the Armenian Genocide/The Banality of Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide Krikorian, Robert O.The Middle East Journal; Washington Vol. 59, Iss. 3, (Summer 2005): 486-489.

1. Melson, R. (2006). "Responses to the Armenian Genocide: America, the Yishuv, Israel * The Banality of Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide, Yair Auron (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2005), ix + 338 pp., cloth $39.95, pbk. $29.95. * The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response, Peter Balakian (New York: HarperCollins, 2003), xiii + 475 pp., cloth $26.95, pbk. $14.95. * The Armenian Massacres, 1894-1896: U.S. Media Testimony, Arman J. Kirakossian, ed. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2004), 317 pp., pbk. $27.95. * Against the Gates of Hell: The Life & Times of Henry Perry, a Christian Missionary in a Moslem World, Gordon and Diana Severance (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2003), xxiii + 447 pp., pbk. $46.50. * America and the Armenian Genocide of 1915, Jay Winter, ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), xii + 317 pp., $45.00.". *Holocaust and Genocide Studies*. **20** (1): 103–111. [doi:10.1093/hgs/dcj005](https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/dcj005)

1. "Book reviews". *Journal of Genocide Research*. **6** (2): 269–304. June 2004. [doi:10.1080/1462352042000226001](https://doi.org/10.1080/1462352042000226001). [S2CID 74498229](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:74498229)

## External links

- [Official website](http://www.openu.ac.il/Personal_sites/yair-auronE.html)
- [Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel Armenian Studies Program](http://micro5.mscc.huji.ac.il/~armenia/pdf/2003%20HUJI%20Armenian%20Genocide%20Commemoration.pdf) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20060513121715/http://micro5.mscc.huji.ac.il/~armenia/pdf/2003%20HUJI%20Armenian%20Genocide%20Commemoration.pdf) 2006-05-13 at the Wayback Machine

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