Moshe Zimmermann
Encyclopedia
Moshe Zimmermann is an Israeli historian
and publicist
. Since 1986 he is director of the “Richard-Koebner-Center for German History“ at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
. In 1993 he was honored with the Humboldt-Prize, in 1997 with the Jacob-and Wilhelm Grimm Prize of the German Academinc Exchange Service, in 2002 with the Dr.Leopold-Lucas-Prize of the university of Tuebingen and in 2006 the Lessing-Prize for critique. His focus of research are the social history of the 18th and 20th century of Germany as well as of the German Jews and Anti-Semitism.
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
and publicist
Publicist
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. Since 1986 he is director of the “Richard-Koebner-Center for German History“ at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ; ; abbreviated HUJI) is Israel's second-oldest university, after the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. The Hebrew University has three campuses in Jerusalem and one in Rehovot. The world's largest Jewish studies library is located on its Edmond J...
. In 1993 he was honored with the Humboldt-Prize, in 1997 with the Jacob-and Wilhelm Grimm Prize of the German Academinc Exchange Service, in 2002 with the Dr.Leopold-Lucas-Prize of the university of Tuebingen and in 2006 the Lessing-Prize for critique. His focus of research are the social history of the 18th and 20th century of Germany as well as of the German Jews and Anti-Semitism.
Works
- German Past - Israeli Memory. Tel Aviv 2002.
- Wilhelm Marr - The Patriarch of Antisemitism, New York, Oxford UP, 1986.
- Wilhelm Marr - der Patriarch des Anitsemitismus, Jerusalem, Shazar, 1982. (Hebr.)
- Deutsch-jüdische Vergangenheit: Der Judenhass als Herausforderung. Paderborn 2005.
- Goliaths Falle. Israelis und Palästinenser im Würgegriff 2004
- Wende in Israel. Zwischen Nation und Religion. 1996, ISBN 374668501X
- Die deutschen Juden 1914-1945. 1997, ISBN 3486550829
- Hamburgischer Patriotismus und deutscher Nationalismus. Die Emanzipation der Juden in Hamburg 1830-1865, Hamburg, Hans Christians, 1979.
- Deutsche gegen Deutsche. Das Schicksal der Juden 1938-1945. Berlin 2008.
- Die Angst vor dem Frieden. Das israelische Dilemma. Berlin 2010.