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Alberto Spektorowski

Alberto Spektorowski is an Israeli political scientist who taught at Tel Aviv University and Reichman University and studies the populist right in Argentina and Europe.

born 1952Research on the European New RightStudy of fascism in ArgentinaThe recognition-exclusion syndrome concept

Occupation: political scientist
Education: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Alberto Spektorowski was born in 1952 in Montevideo

Spektorowski was born in 1952 in Montevideo, Uruguay. His mother Shoshana was born in Uruguay and his father Elazar was born in Poland. As a youth he belonged to the Maccabi club of Uruguay, and in 1970 he spent a year at a training institute in Jerusalem before returning home.

He immigrated to Israel in 1973. He earned all three of his degrees at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His master's thesis on Georg Lukács was supervised by Yaron Ezrahi, and his doctorate on Argentine nationalist political culture was supervised by Zeev Sternhell.

After postdoctoral work at Yale University, he joined Tel Aviv University in 1996 and later became an associate professor. He was a visiting professor at Notre Dame and Columbia. After retiring he kept teaching at Reichman University.

His research covers comparative politics and political thought, including fascism in Argentina, the European New Right, eugenics and Islam in Europe. He coined the term recognition-exclusion syndrome. He lives in Herzliya with his partner, the painter Liliana Livne.