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David Ohana completd his Ph.D at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1989. That same year he received a Fulbright Fellowship and spent his post doctorate studies at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University.
From 1990-2000 he was a senior fellow at the Jerusalem
Van-Leer Institute, where he founded the and directed
the Forum for Mediterranean Cultures.
Since 2000 he has been a fellow at the Ben-Gurion Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism and teaches at
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. In 2005, Prof.Ohana founded the "Inter-disciplinary Seminar for Post-doctorates from all Israeli Universities", and server as its academic director.
Recent Publications
Books
· Neither Canaanites Nor Crusaders - The Origins
of the Israeli Mythology, Tel-Aviv, 2006 (Hebrew).
· Israël et le monde méditerranéen, Paris, 2006.
· The Rage of the Intellectuals: Political Radicalism and Social Criticism in Europe and Israel, Tel-Aviv, 2005.
[in Hebrew].
· Messianism and Mamlachtiut - Ben-Gurion and the Intellectuals - Between Political Vision and Political Theology, Sede-Boker, 2003. [in Hebrew].
· The Promethean Passion: The Intellectual Origins of the Twentieth Century from Rousseau to Foucault, Jerusalem, 2000, [in Hebrew].
· A Humanist in the Sun: Camus and the Mediterranean Inspiration, Jerusalem, 2000 (Hebrew).
· The Last Israelis, Tel-Aviv, 1998 (Hebrew).
· The Order of the Nihilists: The Birth of a Political Culture in Europe 1870-1930
Jerusalem, 1993 (Hebrew).
· (editor) Between Two Worlds by Jacqueline Kahanoff, Jerusalem 2005 (Hebrew).
· (editor) History and Metahistory by Yehoshua Arieli, Jerusalem 2003 (Hebrew).
· (editor) Lire Albert Memmi: Déracinement, Exile, Identité, Paris 2002
· (editor) The Riddle of the Present and the Cunning of History, by J.L Talmon,
Jerusalem, 2000 (Hebrew).
· (editor) Albert Camus: Parcours Méditerranéens, Jerusalem 1998
· (editor) The Shaping of Israeli Identity, London, 1995.
Articles
· La Politique méditerranée d'Israël", ed. Paul Balta et al., La méditerranée de Juifs, L'Harmattan, Paris 2003, pp.
· "Fascism as a Political Community of Experience: Following Walter Benjamin's Political Phenomenology", Democtraic Culture, vol. 9, pp. (in Hebrew)
· "Mediterranean Humanism", Medietrranean Historical Review, Vol. 18, No. 1, 17 pp.
Research Interests
Intellectual and Cultural History of Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries: History of Political Philosophy; Comparative National Myths; Mediterranean Studies; Israeli Identity. |