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Helen Diller Institute Visiting Professor (Fall 2023); Richard and Rhoda Goldman Professor in Israel Studies, Department of Jewish Studies, San Francisco State University
Dr. Eran Kaplan is the Rhoda and Richard Goldman Professor in Israel Studies at San Francisco State University, where he teaches courses on Modern Israel, the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Israeli Cinema, Modern Hebrew Culture and on the History of Jerusalem. He has a B.A. from Tel Aviv University and a PhD in Modern Jewish History from Brandeis University. Dr. Kaplan is the author of The Jewish Radical Right: Revisionist Zionism and its Ideological Legacy, Beyond Post-Zionism, Projecting the Nation: History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen and with Derek Penslar The Origins of Israel, 1882-1948: A Documentary History. His current research project focuses on the evolving nature of the Israeli Left over the past century.
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