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Rotem Kowner (Hebrew: רותם קובנר; born 11 July 1960) is an Israeli historian and psychologist specializing in the history of modern Japan, and a full professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Haifa.[1]

Early life

Rotem Kowner was born in Mikhmoret and lived his early years in the Kibbutz of Ma'ayan Tzvi. At the age of three, his family moved to Haifa, where he grew up and went to the Hebrew Reali School. Upon graduation, he entered the Israeli Navy and subsequently served as an officer on a missile boat.

Academic career

After majoring in East Asian Studies and psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he studied for a year at the Free University of Berlin and then for six years at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. Upon receiving his PhD, he continued in postdoctoral studies at the Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University, and at the Hebrew University. In 1998, he began teaching at the University of Haifa as a senior lecturer and was promoted to professor in 2004.[2] Kowner worked extensively to mark the centenary of the Russo-Japanese War and to stress its regional and global repercussions.[3] He was involved in organizing international conferences, initiated collaborative works, and published several books as well as many articles about this topic. Since 2010, his research focus has shifted to the examination of the development of race and racism in modern East Asia and in Japan in particular. Kowner maintains that the question of race, the distress over foreign racism, and the implementation of racist policies in its own colonies have been among the most critical and painful issues in the history of modern Japan and that they were also among the determinants of its national decision-making, at least until the end of World War II.

Kowner has been as a visiting professor at Tokyo's Waseda University, the University of Geneva, and LMU Munich, and serves on the editorial board of several academic journals. He is the co-founder of the biennial conferences of Asian Studies in Israel and the Israeli Association of Japanese Studies (IAJS). He has been member of the university's Senate, Board of Governors, and executive committee of his own university and currently serves as the director of its liberal arts program.[4] He sits on the executive committee of the Maritime Policy & Strategy Research Center (HMS).[5]

Works

Selected books

  • 1997 – On Ignorance, Respect, and Suspicion: current Japanese attitudes towards Jews. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism. ASIN B007HF0B82.
  • 2005 – The Forgotten War between Russia and Japan and Its Legacy. Ma'arachot. 539 pp.
  • 2006 – Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-4927-5. 640 pp.
  • 2007 – The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War. Routledge, UK. ISBN 978-0-415-36824-7. 369 pp.
  • 2007 – Rethinking the Russo-Japanese War 1904/05. Brill/Global Oriental. ISBN 978-1-905246-03-8. 539 pp.
  • 2008 – Globally Speaking: Motives for Adopting English Vocabulary in Other Languages. Multilingual Matters. ISBN 978-1-84769-051-7. 349 pp.
  • 2009 – The A to Z of the Russo-Japanese War. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6841-0. 640 pp.
  • 2013 – (with Walter Demel) Race and Racism in Modern East Asia: Western and Eastern Constructions. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-23729-2. 618 pp.
  • 2014 – From White to Yellow: The Japanese in European Racial Thought, 1300–1735. McGill Queen's University Press. ISBN 978-0-7735-4455-0. 706 pp.
  • 2015 – (with Walter Demel) Race and Racism in Modern East Asia (Vol. II): Interactions, Nationalism, Gender and Lineage. Brill. ISBN 978-9-0042-3741-4. 674 pp.
  • 2017 – Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War, 2nd rev. and expanded edition. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1442281837. 898 pp.
  • 2019 – (with Guy Bar-Oz, Michal Biran, Meir Shahar, Gideon Shelach). Animals and Human Society in Asia: Historical, Cultural and Ethical Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3030243654. 466 pp
  • 2022 – Tsushima . Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198831075. 336 páginas.
  • 2022 – (con Iris Rachamimov) Fuera de lugar, fuera de lugar: una historia global y local de los internamientos en la Primera Guerra Mundial . Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1501765421. 333 págs.
  • 2023 – Comunidades judías en la Asia moderna: su auge, declive y resurgimiento . Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1009162586. 446 páginas.
  • 2023 (con Yoram Evron) Relaciones entre Israel y Asia en el siglo XXI: La búsqueda de socios en un mundo cambiante . Routledge. ISBN 978-1032328805. 330 págs.
  • 2024 – (con Yoram Evron y PR Kumaraswamy) Relaciones entre Asia Oriental y Occidental en el siglo XXI: De las relaciones bilaterales a las interregionales. Routledge. ISBN 978-1003326595. 270 págs.

Artículos seleccionados

  • 1998 – "Nicolás II y el cuerpo japonés: imágenes y toma de decisiones en vísperas de la guerra ruso-japonesa". The Psychohistory Review 26, 211–52.
  • 2000 – "Más claro que el amarillo, pero no lo suficiente: el discurso occidental sobre la 'raza' japonesa, 1854-1904." The Historical Journal 43, 103-31. [ 6 ]
  • 2000 – "La guerra ilustrada de Japón: conducta militar y actitudes hacia el enemigo durante la guerra ruso-japonesa". En Los japoneses y Europa: imágenes y percepciones , editado por Bert Edström, 134-151. Biblioteca de Japón.
  • 2001 – "Convertirse en una nación civilizada honoraria: la guerra ruso-japonesa y las percepciones occidentales de Japón ". The Historian 64, 19–38.
  • 2004 – "La piel como metáfora: Perspectivas raciales europeas tempranas sobre Japón, 1548–1853." Etnohistoria 51, 751–78. [ 7 ]
  • 2011 – Una historia oscura – Los judíos en Indonesia . Dentro de Indonesia 104.
  • 2017 – "Cuando la estrategia, la economía y la ideología racial se encuentran: conexiones entre ejes en el Océano Índico en tiempos de guerra". Journal of Global History 12, 228–50.
  • 2017 – "Raza y racismo (en el Japón moderno)". En Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese History , editado por Sven Saaler y Christopher Szpilman, 92–102. Routledge.
  • 2022 – «Tiempo de recordar, tiempo de olvidar: La batalla de Tsushima en la memoria colectiva japonesa desde 1905». The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus 20, número 12, n.º 3, artículo 5716.
  • 2022 – "La experiencia del Holocausto en la Yeshivá Mir: perspectivas ultraortodoxas sobre las actitudes japonesas en tiempos de guerra hacia los refugiados judíos". Holocaust and Genocide Studies 36, n.º 3, 295–314.
  • 2023 – “El ascenso a la fama de un ejemplo de virtud durante el Holocausto: la conmemoración transnacional del diplomático japonés Sugihara Chiune y sus divergentes motivaciones nacionales”. American Historical Review 128, n.º 1, 31–63.

Notas

  1. ↑ Asociación Israelí de Estudios Japoneses
  2. ↑ Kowner, pág. 567
  3. ↑ David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye , Revista de estudios militares eslavos 20 (2007), p. 775
  4. ↑ Departamento de Estudios Asiáticos, Personal. Archivado el 14 de julio de 2014 en Wayback Machine.
  5. ↑ "Comité ejecutivo del Centro de Investigación de Política y Estrategia Marítima" .
  6. ↑ Asociación Israelí de Estudios Japoneses
  7. ↑ Asociación Israelí de Estudios Japoneses

Referencias

  • Kowner, Rotem (2006). Diccionario histórico de la guerra ruso-japonesa . The Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-4927-5.