Norton Mezvinski PhD. #2 - Air date 08-08-06

Dr. Norton Mezvinsky, Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University, and a distinguished scholar and teacher, was today awarded the title of Connecticut State University Professor by the CSU Board of Trustees.......To attain the designation of CSU Professor, a faculty member must be nominated through a committee procedure which is advisory to the University President, receive the recommendations of the University President and CSU Chancellor, and receive approval of the Board of Trustees. ......Mezvinsky is the fifth CCSU professor to receive this honor ....Mezvinsky, a native of Ames, Iowa, earned his B.A. at the University of Iowa and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. Following post-doctoral studies at Harvard University, Dr. Mezvinsky began his academic career at the University of Michigan. Dr. Mezvinsky is widely published and his most recent work -- Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel co-authored with the late Israel Shahak -- appears in English, Arabic and Turkish editions. Czech and Hebrew editions are planned, as well as an updated English-language second edition.

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[Anndoheb]

How do I know this? He was my History Professor in 1980. He left me with at least two impressions. I would NEVER forget his name, and that there are two sides to every situation. We don't seem to want to face that reality here anymore and it's killing us.

If you are really interested in the Middle East, I would highly recommend Mezvinsky, for a perspective you will not find elsewhere, but please skip jessicaramer's review or should I say the review of his nameless (sociology?) professor.

[Anndoheb]

I have to comment on jessicaramer's posting of his late professor's opinion. Not only do you not have an opinion of your own, you post an opinion of a professor who you obviously think so little of that you do not mention his name (can we check his publication record?). A quick google would have found that in fact Mezvinsky is a highly honored Professor at CCSU. He is not only well published, he has worked for this country as a diplomat in the mid east.

[jessicaramer]

In the previous comment, "Kimmerling" is Baruch Kimmerling. May I recommend two of his books. This first is Politicide:Ariel Sharon's War Against the Palestinians. The second is Clash of Identities. It will be published by the Columbia University Press shortly.

[jessicaramer]

I once asked the late professor of sociology at the Hebrew University, what he thought of Norton Mezvinsky. He had never heard of him but after checking his publication record, Kimmerling commented that Mezvinsky's publication record was VERY POOR and that Mezvinsky could maybe be a TA at his university.

If you are really interested in the Middle East, read the writings of Kimmerling, a serious scholar with an impressive vita. Skip Mezvinsky altogether.