Michael Berkowitz
Michael Berkowitz is a UK-based American historian, and Professor of Modern Jewish History at University College London.[1]
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Alma mater | Hobart College, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
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Institutions | University College London |
Early life
Berkowitz was born in Rochester, New York. He earned a bachelor's degree from Hobart College in Geneva, New York, and a master's degree and PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[2][3]
Career
Since 2012, Berkowitz has been editor of Jewish Historical Studies: Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England.[2][4] Berkowitz has a particular interest in the history of the Jewish involvement in photography.[5]
Publications
- Jews and Photography in Britain (University of Texas Press, 2015)[4]
- The Crime of My Very Existence: Nazism and the Myth of Jewish Criminality (University of California Press, 2007)[4]
- The Jewish Self-Image: American and British Perspectives, 1881-1939 (Reaktion Press, 2000) [US edition: The Jewish Self Image in the West (New York University Press, 2000)[4]
- Western Jewry and the Zionist Project, 1914-1933 (Cambridge University Press, 1997, 2002)[4]
- Zionist Culture and West European Jewry before the First World War (Cambridge University Press, 1993 and University of North Carolina Press, 1996).[4]
References
- University, Harvard (16 August 2018). "Michael Berkowitz - Center for European Studies at Harvard University". Center for European Studies at Harvard University. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
- "Iris View Profile". iris.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
- Staff (ndg). "Fellow Dr. Michael Berkowitz". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
- UCL. "Prof Michael Berkowitz". UCL Hebrew & Jewish Studies. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
- "How Jews shot their way into Britain's photographic memory". timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
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