The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute is an academic institute in Jerusalem established in 1959 by the Van Leer

Lia van Leer

Lia van Leer is a pioneer in the field of art film programming and film archiving in Israel. She is the founder of the Haifa Cinematheque, the Jerusalem Cinematheque, the Israel Film Archive and the Jerusalem Film Festival.-Biography:...

 family of the Netherlands

Netherlands

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The Van Leer Institute is a center for the interdisciplinary study and discussion of issues related to philosophy, society, culture and education. The goals of the institute are to enhance ethnic and cultural understanding, ease social tensions and promote democratic values through academic research, public policy analysis, advocacy and civil society projects. The institute organizes domestic and international conferences, symposia and workshops, and publishes books and periodicals.

Van Leer organizes domestic and international conferences, symposia and workshops, publishes periodicals, books and monographs, and promotes pluralistic public dialogue. It houses a 27,000-volume library devoted to philosophy, philosophy of science, historical sociology and political theory.

The Institute is located in Jerusalem's Talbiya

Talbiya

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 neighborhood, next door to the official residence of the President of Israel

President of Israel

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Notable scholars and fellows

• Azmi Bishara
  Azmi Bishara
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• Martin Bunzl
  Martin Bunzl
  Martin Bunzl is the director of the at the Eagleton Institute of Politics. He edited, with Anthony Appiah, Buying Freedom: The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption. His other books include Real History , and The Context of Explanation .Martin Bunzl received his PhD from the University of...
  
  
• S. N. Eisenstadt
• Rachel Elior
  Rachel Elior
  Rachel Elior is an Israeli professor of Jewish philosophy and mysticism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Jerusalem, Israel.-Academic career:...
  
  
• Itzhak Galnoor
• Ruth Gavison
  Ruth Gavison
  Ruth Gavison is an Israeli Law professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She is also a Senior Fellow Emeritus at the Israel Democracy Institute...
  
  
• Hanna Herzog
  Hanna Herzog
  Hanna Herzog is a professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociologyand Anthropology at Tel Aviv University and aSenior Research Fellow and the Academic Directorof the Civil Society forums at Van Leer Jerusalem Institute in...
  
  
• Hannan Hever
• Paul Mendes-Flohr
• Adi Ophir
  Adi Ophir
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• Naftali Rothenberg
• Gabriel Sheffer
• Aviad HaCohen

Selected journals and publications

• Science in Context Cambridge University Press in cooperation with Tel Aviv University
  Tel Aviv University
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• The Politics of Humanitarianism in the Occupied Palestinian Territories Conference Proceedings (CD)(2005)

• Men and Women: Gender, Judaism and Democracy edited by Rachel Elior (2004)

• Collective Identities, Public Spheres and Political Order in Modern and Contemporary Scenes Tal Kohavi, Julia Lerner, Ronna Brayer-Garb (2003)

• Women in Conflict Zones: Struggling With Ethno-National and Racial Conflicts Maya Kahanoff (2003)

• Policy Paper Uri Saguy and Gilead Sher (2002)

• Jewish Identity in Modern Israel: Proceedings on Secular Judaism and Democracy edited by Naftali Rothenberg and Eliezer Schweid (2002)

• The Public Sphere in Muslim Societies edited by Miriam Hoexter, Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, Nehemia Levtzion (2002)

• Lire Albert Memmi: Déracinement, Exil, Identité (2002)