Moshe Berent

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Moshe Berent
משה ברנט
Born	(1954-02-02) February 2, 1954 (age 72)
Citizenship	Israel
Education	Technion, Tel Aviv University, University of Cambridge
Known for	Israeli National Identity research, Ancient Greece research
Scientific career
Fields	Political Science, Sociology
Workplaces	Open University of Israel
Academic advisors	Ernest Gellner

Moshe Berent (Hebrew: משה ברנט; born February 2, 1954) is a former Lecturer (retired) in the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication at the Open University of Israel.

Education

Berent received a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from Technion in Haifa, Master's Degree in Philosophy under Prof. Joseph Agassi at Tel Aviv University, and a Ph.D. in Comparative Political History from the University of Cambridge. Berent's mentors include the sociologist and researcher of nationalism Ernest Gellner.

Berent's research interests include Ancient Greece and Israeli national identity.

Books

• Moshe Berent, Joseph Agassi, Judith Buber Agassi, Israeli National Consciousness, Pinchas Sapir Development Center, 1988.
• Moshe Berent, Joseph Agassi, Judith Buber Agassi, Who is an Israelite, Kivunim, 1991.
• Moshe Berent, A Nation Like All Nations: Towards the Establishment of an Israeli Republic, Israel Academic Press 2015 (translated from the 2009 Hebrew edition by Carmel Publishing House).
• Moshe Berent, The Jewish Cause: An Introduction to a Different Israeli History, Carmel Publishing, 2019.

Articles

• Moshe Berent, Conscription of Arabs in the Army as a National Interest, on the Open University website, 2012.
• Stateless Polis: A Response to Criticism Social Evolution and History, Volume 5, Number 1. March 2006, pp. 141–163
• Greece: a polis without a state, in The Early State: Its Alternatives and Analogues, edited by Leonid E. Grinin et al. (Volgograd, Russia, 2004) p. 364-387.
• Philosopher of the "State of God" or a communitarian? Review of "Philosophical Theory of the State" and related essays. Bernard Bosanquet, edited by Gerald F. Gaus and William Sweet (Chicago, 2001). European Heritage 9.4 (2004) 533-535
• Consensus Politics and the Modern State (with Keith Sutherland), in Keith Sutherland (Editor), Rape the Constitution? (Torverton, 2000)
• Anthropology and the Classics: War, Violence, and the Stateless Polis, Classical Quarterly 50.1 (2000), 257–289.
• Stasis, or the Greek Invention of Politics History of Political Thought, XIX, 3 (1998), pp. 331–362.
• Stateless polis, towards a new anthropological model of the ancient Greek community.

External links

• Elite Betrayal - First Time! Dr. Moshe Berent talks about the challenge facing Israel's intellectual elite, YouTube video
• Or Jezreeli, "The political scientist who blew up the network: "People wrote to me that they were crying "", on the Srugim website, January 5, 2022.
• Yuval Bloomberg, Dr. Moshe Berent: "Create an external, impartial body that will demand a commission of inquiry into the Netanyahu cases", on the Mida website, January 13, 2022 .
• Shlomo Piotrkowski, "What happened to the Israeli elite?", in Makor Rishon, January 10, 2022.
• Leli Deri, "Elites on you Israel", on Israel Today, January 5, 2022.
• Irit Linor, "Elite versus People's Power", on Israel Today, January 8, 2022.
• Yoni Rothenberg, "The New Elite", on the Channel 7 website, January 13, 2022.
• Eyal Levin, Book review: Moshe Berent, The Case of the Jews: An Introduction into a Different Israeli History" (pp. 101–109), on the Ariel University website, National Resilience, Politics, and Society, Issue 2, No. 1, Spring 2020.
• Moshe Berent - the Nation of Israel as Hillel Kook understood it on YouTubeDr. Moshe Berent, on the Open University website
• Moshe Berent, on Facebook
• Moshe Berent (1954-), National Library