A talk based on Professor Ilan Troen’s most recent book by the same title, it will examine “Israel/Palestine” positions and positionalities within the great monotheistic traditions.

Ilan Troen is Emeritus of the Stoll Family Chair in Israel Studies (Brandeis, 2017) and the Lopin Chair of Modern History (Ben-Gurion University, 2007). He is former president of the Association for Israel Studies, dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and director of the Ben-Gurion Research Institute and Archives in Sede Boker, Israel. He is also the founding editor of "Israel Studies" (Indiana University Press), and has authored, co-authored, and edited a dozen books on American, Jewish and Israeli history.