Dr. Yoav Fromer

Dr. Yoav Fromer is the head of the Center for the Study of the United States at Tel Aviv University and a fellow in the School of Government and Diplomacy. He was also a Visiting Lecturer at Yeshiva University in New York.

He is a graduate of Columbia University (Magna Cum Laude) and holds a PH.D in Politics and History from The New School for Social Research in New York (with Honors). He is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society.

An intellectual historian and political theorist, Dr. Fromer's research explores the relationship between politics and culture and focuses primarily on modern American Liberalism, Conservatism, and Foreign Policy. Instilled with a strong interdisciplinary bent, both his research and teaching transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries and incorporate a variety of methods and perspectives from the social sciences and the humanities. Accordingly, he teaches in the social science and humanities departments an array of courses about American foreign policy, history, politics and literature, as well as broader introductory courses in the Liberal Arts about the history of western political thought and literature.

Dr. Fromer's academic research has been published, among other places, in leading journals like  Review of Politics, Modern Intellectual History, American Jewish History and Journal of American Studies. His latest book, The Moderate Imagination: The Political Thought of John Updike and the Decline of New Deal Liberalism (2020) was published by the University Press of Kansas. 

In addition to his academic work, Dr. Fromer is a senior editor and commentator for the Israeli Daily Newspaper Yediot Aharonot. He also writes regularly for the Washington Post and Tablet Magazine about American politics, international relations, and the Middle East.

Books

• The Moderate Imagination: The Political Thought of John Updike and the Decline of New Deal Liberalism
• The Americanization of the Israeli Right (Tel Aviv: CSUS Press, Forthcoming). Co-Editor with Ilan Peleg.

Academic Journals

• "Daniel Patrick Moynihan and the Politics of Tragedy"

        Review of Politics  

• The Saddest Man I ever Knew": Ralph de Toledano and the Jewish Roots of American Conservatism 

​         American Jewish History 

• The Liberal Origins of John Updike's Literary Imagination    

        ​Modern Intellectual History 

• "A New Deal, a New Updike: The Decline of New Deal Liberalismin John Updike's "The Poorhouse Fair"                                                                                        The Journal of American Studies 

• "The Inside-Outsider: John Updike as a New York Intellectual from Shillington, Pennsylvania.”     ​

         John Updike Review

Book Chapters

• "Israel's 'Obama Problem - and Ours': Importing American Neoconservatism to Israel, Duty Free." In The Obama Administration: Perceptions and Encounters Beyond America (London: Bloomsbury Academic, Forthcoming).
• "‘Mail Chauvinism’: John Updike’s Fascination with the USPS and the Unrealizable Vision of American Community.” In Updike and Politics: New Considerations (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020).

1. Washington Post:

• The Middle East doesn't lack democracy. It has too much.
• Why the American left gave up on political violence.
• Want to improve democracy? Abolish the secret ballot.
• Democrats Shouldn't Fear Sanders Talk of Revolution 

2. Tablet

• Syria and the Failure of the Multicultural American Left

3. Yedioth Aharonoth

• אידיאולוגיה ביבוא ישיר מאמריקה
• מסיבת התה של בחריין
• ניקסון הישראלי 
• כסף זה לא הכל