Meron medzini biography

Meron Medzini, a native born Israeli, has served as director of the Israel Government Press Office and was Golda Meir’s spokesman in 1973–1974.

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BIOGRAPHY: Meron Medzini, Associate professor (Emeritus), department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, was born in Jerusalem in 1932.

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Prof. Meron (Emeritus) Medzini

Prof. Meron Medzini teaches modern Japanese history in the Department of Asian Studies of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also teaches Israeli foreign policy at the Rothberg International School of the Hebrew University. His Ph.D dissertation (Harvard East Asia Monograph no. 41, 1971) dealt with FrancoJapanese relations during the era of the end of the Tokugawa regime and early Meiji. His book Golda-A Political Biography (Tel Aviv, Yedioth Books) won the Prime Minister's Prize for 2010. He has published a book on Japanese Militarism (Tel Aviv, Ministry of Defense, 2005) and on Japan and the Jews During the Holocaust (Modan, 2008) in addition to fifty articles in scholarly publications in Israel and abroad dealing with Israel's foreign relations, Israeli Information and Communication Policies, Israel and the Asian nations and specifically Israel and China and Japan. His current research deals with Jewish communities in East and South East As

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Grapevine August 30, 2023: He knew her well

Advancing age is no longer a deterrent to career promotion or to demand as an entertainer or public speaker. Prof. Meron Medzini, an emeritus professor of Japanese history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s department of Asian studies, will celebrate his 91st birthday on September 2. But on August 31, which falls on Thursday of this week, he will be in Los Angeles for the screening of Golda at the Jewish Film Festival.

Medzini, whose mother was a childhood friend of Golda Meir, had a close relationship with Israel’s only woman prime minister, from the time he was a little boy until the time of her death in December 1978.

In 1973-74, Medzini served as Golda’s spokesman, and as director of the Government Press Office during the Yom Kippur War. His book Golda Meir – A Political Biography, published in 2017, won the Prime Minister’s Prize. Medzini is frequently invited to give talks on Meir, and Los An

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Books by Meron Medzini

Under the Shadow of the Rising Sun: Japan and the Jews during the Holocaust Era
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4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — 5 editions

Golda Meir: A Political Biography
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2.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions

טאיוואן: היסטוריה, חברה ופוליטיקה
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings

מפורט ארתור עד הירושימה: עלייתו ונפילתו של המיליטריזם היפני
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Israel's utländsk relations: selected documents, <1977-1982 >
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2015 — 16 editions

French Policy in Japan during the Closing Years of the Tokugawa Regime
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1971

Golda Meir: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works
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היהודיה הגאה: גולדה מאיר וחזון ישראל: ביוגרפיה פוליטית
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