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About Yaacov Shavit
- Yaacov Shavit (born 24 October 1944) is an emeritus professor at the Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University.
- His main fields of study are the history of modern Israel and modern Jewish intellectual and cultural history.
- Shavit has also written about the Afrocentrism movement in the African American community.
- He is married to Zohar Shavit.
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