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Israel Shahak
Israeli professor, Holocaust survivor, and civil-rights activist (1933–2001)
Israel Shahak
Israel Shahak (Hebrew: ישראל שחק; born Israel Himmelstaub, 28 April 1933 – 2 July 2001) was a Polish-born Israeli organic chemist, public intellectual, and civil rights activist. Shahak, a Holocaust survivor whose family immigrated to Israel after World War II, spent much of his academic career as a professor of organic chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. As an advocate for the civil rights of Jews and non-Jews in Israel, he headed the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights from 1970 to 1990 and was a frequent critic of Israeli government policies. Shahak was an outspoken liberal and secularist; his writings on Judaism, especially the book Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years (1994) proved controversial.
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