Israel Studies[acute accent] Debut on U.S. Campuses.

Israel Faxx, March, 2004

By IsraelNationalNews.com

Brandeis University is the latest college to open a department for Israel Studies in the United States. Many hail the development as a sign of the growing interest in the study of Israel on American campuses.

Professor Ilan Troen, originally a professor at Ben Gurion University in Be' er Sheva, was recently appointed to the new Karl, Harry and Helen Stoll Chair in Israel Studies at Brandeis University. Brandeis now joins the Taub center for modern Israel studies at New York University, and departments at universities such as Emory University in Atlanta, University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Toronto.

The Brandeis chair, the first-ever endowed chair in Israel Studies, was created "to develop an...

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