In 2023, Troen's daughter, Deborah Mathias, was murdered in theHolit Attack, along with his son-in-law, Shlomi.[1][2] His grandson, Rotem was wounded but survived the attack.[1]
When he joined the Brandeis faculty, the university announced that it was creating a chair in Israel Studies in order "to develop an accurate historical understanding of the origin and development of theState of Israel and its place in the world."[3]
Troen believes thatIsrael's secular culture "has drawn from two important traditions: the prophetic tradition withinJudaism and universal values generated by an enlightenment society."[4]
Troen, S. Ilan,Israel/Palestine in World Religions; Whose Promised Land?. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
Troen, S. Ilan and Rachel Fish, eds.,Essential Israel; Essays for the 21st Century. Indiana University Press, 2017.
Troen, S. Ilan and Jacob Lassner.Jews and Muslims in the Arab World; Haunted by Pasts Real and Imagined. 2007 ed. Lanham and New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007.
Troen, S. Ilan.Imagining Zion: Dreams, Designs, and Realities in a Century of Jewish Settlement. Yale University Press, 2003.
Troen, S. Ilan and D.D. Moore.Divergent Jewish Cultures: America and Israel. Yale University Press, 2001.
Troen, S. Ilan, ed.Jewish Centers and Peripheries; Europe between America and Israel Fifty Years After World War II. Transaction: New Brunswick and London, 1999.
Troen, S. Ilan. and Noah Lucas, ed.Israel: The First Decade of Independence. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995.
Troen, S. Ilan and Klaus Bade, ed.Zuwanderung und Eingliederung von Deutschen und Juden aus der fruheren Sowjetunion in Deutschland und Israel. Bonn: Bundeszentrale dur politische Bildung, 1993.
Troen, S. Ilan and Moshe Shemesh, ed.The Suez-Sinai Crisis 1956; Retrospective and Reappraisal. London and New York: Frank Cass and Columbia University Press, 1990.
Troen, S. Ilan and Benjamin Pinkus, ed.Organizing Rescue: National Jewish Solidarity in the Modern Period. London: Frank Cass, 1988.
Troen, Selwyn and Glenn Holt, S. Thernstrom and T. Hareven.St. Louis. New York: Franklin Watts - New Viewpoints, 1977.
Troen, SelwynThe Public and the Schools: Shaping the Saint Louis System 1838-1920. University of Missouri Press, 1975.
