Search:   Advanced Search   Gallery   About Us   Contact Us   עברית   Supreme Court Deputy-President Eliezer Rivlin (ret.) Joins Hebrew University Faculty of Law Not just our cars, but also living organisms need antifreeze to survive in the cold Nobel laureate Dr. Bruce Beutler to lecture, receive award at Lautenberg Center for Immunology and Cancer Research Learn in Israel, Heal the World: Public health leaders from 20 countries will spend nine days learning and exchanging ideas in Jerusalem Music on our Minds: international conference on music and the brain will mix science and concerts German foundation awards two €250,000 prizes to Hebrew University researchers in Humanities and Social Sciences Professor Yoram Bilu to receive Israel Prize in sociological and anthropological research How to cut down on crime? Focus police in concentrated ‘hot spots,’ says Hebrew University criminologist Healing the world: 70 graduates of International Master’s in Public Health program to attend 2nd alumni workshop, reunion in Jerusalem It's a bird, it's a plane, it's…. Hebrew U?   26 February, 2007 Hebrew U. Prof. Amnon Cohen awarded 2007 Israel Prize for Land of Israel Studies Prof. Amnon Cohen Prof. Amnon Cohen from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has been awarded the 2007 Israel Prize for Land of Israel Studies. The announcement was made by Minister of Education, Yuli Tamir, on February 19. ''Prof. Amnon Cohen from the Hebrew University is a great researcher who has made a unique contribution to the research of the land of Israel in modern times in general and in the Ottoman period in particular,'' explained a member of the panel of judges who selected Cohen for the prize. The judges added, ''His research in the archives of the Shaari'a courts in Jerusalem was a breakthrough in the historiography of the land of Israel and the Ottoman Empire. His presentation of research in this field has gained him exceptional recognition and respect in the international academic community. Prof. Cohen is a generous and devoted teacher who educated a generation of researchers and teachers.'' Prof. Cohen was born in Tel Aviv in 1936. He embarked on his higher education at the Hebrew University, where he dedicated most of his life to research and teaching. Over the years, he taught as a visiting professor of Oriental Studies at a number of universities overseas, including Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania. In 1990, he established the James Shasha Institute for International Seminars at the Hebrew University of which he was the director until 1997. In his last post at the Hebrew University, he served as the director of the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace (1998-2003). There he established new research units for Central Asia and the Caucasus, and the republics and autonomous provinces of the former Yugoslavia. He also developed the research and activities of the unit for contemporary Middle Eastern Studies, placing particular emphasis on joint research projects with Palestinians, Jordanians and Egyptians. After 1967, he published a book on political parties in the West Bank during Jordanian rule. His most important research, however, exposed for the first time to the public and academic world the sealed treasures of the archives of the Ottoman Muslim courts of Jerusalem during the Ottoman rule (1517-1918). Cohen also researches political and social developments in the post-Saddam era in Iraq and the impact of the country's ethnic and communal fault-lines. He currently holds the post of Eliahu Elath Professor Emeritus of the History of the Muslim Peoples in the Hebrew University's department of Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies. Downloadable File: AmnonCohen.doc
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