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Avraham "Avi" Shlaim FBA (born 31 October 1945) is an Iraqi-born British/Israeli historian. He is emeritus professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and a fellow of the British Academy. Shlaim is considered one of Israel's New Historians,〔 Review of ''The Iron Wall'' by Avi Shlaim and ''Righteous Victims'' by Benny Morris, with links to the first chapters of each.〕 a group of Israeli scholars who put forward critical interpretations of the history of Zionism and Israel.〔Morris, Benny. "(The New Historiography )" in Morris, Benny. (ed) ''Making Israel''. 1987, pp. 11–28.〕 ==Biography== Shlaim was born to wealthy Jewish parents in Baghdad, Iraq. The family lived in a mansion with ten servants. His father was an importer of building materials with ties to the Iraqi leadership, including then-prime minister Nuri al-Said. The Iraqi Jews situation became problematic with Israel's War of Independence in 1948. In 1951 Shlaim's father was one of 100,000 Jews who registered to leave the country and surrender their citizenship. A subsequent law ruled that all those who left forfeited all rights, including property rights. The Shlaim family lost all their assets. His father crossed the border illegally on a mule, while Shlaim, his mother and sisters flew to Cyprus, reuniting in Israel.〔 Shlaim left Israel for England at the age of 16 to study at a Jewish school.〔 He returned to Israel in the mid-1960s to serve in the Israel Defense Forces, then moved back to England in 1966 to read history at Jesus College, Cambridge. He obtained his MA and married the great-granddaughter of David Lloyd George, who was the British prime minister at the time of the Balfour Declaration. He has lived in England ever since, and holds dual British and Israeli nationality.〔Avi Shlaim: "And for the last forty years, I have lived in Britain, and I teach at Oxford," in ("It Takes an Enormous Amount of Courage to Speak the Truth When No One Else is Out There" — World-Renowned Holocaust, Israel Scholars Defend DePaul Professor Norman Finkelstein as He Fights for Tenur ). Shlaim's interview; democracynow.org, 9 May 2007, accessed 23 March 2014.〕 He obtained an MSc (Econ.) in International Relations in 1970 from the London School of Economics, and his PhD from the University of Reading.〔(Governing Body Fellows )〕 He was a lecturer, then reader, in politics at the University of Reading from 1970 to 1987.〔(Professor Avi Shlaim ), University of Oxford.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Avi Shlaim」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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