Avi Shlaim | |
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אבי שליים أفي شلايم | |
![]() Shlaim in 2015 | |
Born | |
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]