# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yair-auron
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:07:58.273Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yair-auron"
name: "Yair Auron"
slug: "yair-auron"
description: "Yair Auron is an Israeli historian, scholar and expert specializing in Holocaust and genocide studies, racism and contemporary Jewry. Since 2005, he has served as the head of the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication of the Open University of Israel and an associate professor."
tagline: "Israeli historian"
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country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1945-04-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump