Avishai Margalit
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Avishai Margalit is an Israeli author and scholar.
Born in Palestine in 1939 he was raised and educated in Jerusalem. He received a Ph.D., summa cum laude, in 1970 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Margalit traveled abroad teaching and lecturing, acting as a British Council Scholar at Oxford University and a visiting scholar at Harvard University. He occasionally contributes to the New York Review of Books.
He is married to Edna Ullman-Margalit, a professor of philosophy at the Hebrew University. Both Margalit and his wife are members of the Center for the Study of Rationality in Jerusalem.
[edit] Publications
The Ethics of Memory : (2004)
The Decent Society : (1998) co-authored with Naomi Goldblum
Isaiah Berlin: A Celebration : (1991) co-authored with Edna Ullman-Margalit
Occidentalism : The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies : (2004) co-authored with Ian Buruma
Idolatry : (1998) co-authored with Moshe Halbertal and Naomi Goldblum
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