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- The winner of the 2026 “Am Ve’Olam” Award for Outstanding Book is Dr. Moshe Yagur, and the Honorable Mention goes to Dr. Elia Atkin.
- Launch Event for Issue 54 of the Journal Historia
- The winner of the 2026 'Am Ve'Olam' awards for Outstanding Article is Prof. Uriel Gellman
- HSI is hosting the 24th International Congress of Historical Sciences
- Open Call: Study Day on the History of Emotions
- Call for Participation in a Research Group on the History of Emotions
The Historical Society of Israel
The Historical Society of Israel is an organization that brings together scholars of the past in the State of Israel. Its research community is vibrant and diverse, comprising generations of scholars across a wide range of fields, from the study of the ancient world to contemporary global history, all of whom contribute to the advancement of historical research.
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Journals
Zion
The journal Zion—published in Jerusalem since 1935—is considered the leading journal in Jewish history. Founded by Prof. Ben-Zion Dinur and Prof. Yitzhak Baer.
Historia
The academic journal Historia is a biannual publication, first published in 1998. Historia is intended as a platform for research in the field of global and world history written in Hebrew.
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Books
- History, Rhetoric, and Proof/ Carlo Ginzburg
- The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France/ Natalie Zemon Davis
- The Nation in History/ Anthony D. Smit
- Civil Society and Dictatorship in Modern German History/ Jürgen Kocka
- The Resistible Rise of Antisemitism/ Laura Engelstein
- Altered Pasts: Counterfactuals in History/ Richard J. Evans
- Early Modern European Civilization and Its Political and Cultural Dynamism/ Heinz Schilling
- In Pursuit of Civility/ Keith Thomas
- Three Ways to Be Alien/ Sanjay Subrahanyam
- Ethics through Literature/ Brian Stock
- The Roman Republic in Political Thought/ Fergus Millar
- Religion in China and Its Modern Fate/ Paul R. Katz
- Language and Power in the Early Middle Ages/ Patrick J. Geary
- Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire/ Peter Brown
- Empires in Collision in Late Antiquity/ Glen W. Bowersock
- Blood and Boundaries/ Stuart Schwartz
- Exiles and Expatriates in the History of Knowledge, 1500–2000/ Peter Burke
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Israeli Historians through the years
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