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  • A Nation and Its Diaspora:A Re-examination of Israeli—Jewish Diaspora Relations
  • Gabriel Sheffer (bio)
Gabriel Sheffer
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Gabriel Sheffer

Gabriel "Gabi" Sheffer is a professor of political science at the Mount Scopus campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published several books in Hebrew and English on Israeli foreign policy and relations and on ethnonational diasporas, including the Jewish Diaspora. In 1986, he edited and contributed an essay to the pioneering volume Modern Diasporas in International Politics (St. Martin's Press). He is also the author of Moshe Sharett: Biography of a Political Moderate (Oxford University Press, 1996) and of Diaspora Politics: At Home Abroad (Cambridge University Press, 2003).

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