What is Yair Auron?
'''Yair Auron''' ({{lang-he|יאיר אורון}}, ''Ya'ir Oron''; born April 30, 1945) is an [[Israel]]i historian, scholar and expert specializing on [[Holocaust]] and [[Genocide]] studies, [[racism]] and contemporary [[Jewry]]. Since 2005 he is the head of the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication, The [[Open University of Israel]], Associate Professor. ==Biography== From 1974 to 1976 Auron worked as the Director of the Education Department, [[Yad Vashem]], [[Jerusalem]], in the 1980s he was a researcher of the Center for Jewish Education, Hebrew University and Academic director of European Section, The Israel Diaspora Institute, Tel-Aviv University. In 1996-1999 he was a Senior Lecturer in College of Yezreel, Head of the Division of Cultural Studies. ==Books== * Jewish-Israeli Identity, Sifriat Poalim (with Kibutzim College of Education), Tel-Aviv, 1993, 204 pp. (Hebrew). * The Banality of Indifference: The Attitude of the Yishuv and the Zionist Movement to the Armenian Genocide, Dvir (with Kibutzim College of Education), Tel-Aviv, 1995, 395 pp. (Hebrew). * Les Juifs d’Extrême Gauche en Mai 68, Albin Michel, Paris, 1998, 335 pp. * We are all German Jews: Jewish Radicals in France During the Sixties and Seventies, Am Oved (with Tel-Aviv University and Ben-Gurion University ), Tel-Aviv, 1999, 288 pp. (Hebrew, translation of the French edition, with revisions). * The Banality of Indifference: Zionism and the Armenian Genocide, Transaction, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 2000, 405 pp. (translation of the Hebrew edition, with revisions and adaptations). Second Edition, Transaction Publishers, 2001; Third Edition, 2003. * The Banality of Denial, Transaction, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 2003, 338 pp. * Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide, Maba, Tel Aviv, 2005 [Hebrew edition, with revisions and adaptations]. * The Pain of Knowledge - Holocaust and Genocide issues in Education, Transaction, New Brunswick, 2005. A German edition was published by Der Schmerz des Wissens, V