Jacob Katz

Jacob Katz ( also Jacob Katz, Hebrew יעקב כ"ץ Ya'aqov Kas; * November 15, 1904 in Magyargencs, † 20 May 1998 in Jerusalem) was a native of Hungary Israeli social historian whose main focus was the social history of European Jewry.

Katz was born in an orthodox family in a small village in western Hungary. After training as a rabbi, he studied at the University of Frankfurt sociology initially with Karl Mannheim and Norbert Elias, who emigrated to the power in 1933 to the UK. Katz joined then in 1934 his studies with the social historian Georg Küntzel with a thesis on the assimilation of German Jewry from.

After finishing his studies, Katz also emigrated and came after a year in the UK to Palestine in 1935 and became a teacher. After the establishment of Israel in 1948, he received a position at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he remained until his retirement in 1974 and professor from 1969 to 1972 rector. 1962/63 he was at Harvard University in the United States as a visiting professor and 1976 /77 those of the Institute for Jewish-Christian Studies ( IJCF ) in Lucerne.

Katz's publishing activities is determined by two central themes: the relations between Jews and non-Jews as well as the confrontation between orthodox and liberal and assimilationist tendencies within Judaism. His major work, From Prejudice to Destruction: Anti- Semitism, 1700-1933 ( From prejudice to destruction ) illuminates the cultural and historical development of European anti-Semitism from the mainly Christian anti-Judaism over anti-Jewish facets of the Enlightenment up to the racist anti-Semitism of the 20th century, where it parallels shows and differences in their respective eras.

Writings (selection )

• Jews and Freemasons in Europe 1723-1939. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1970, ISBN 0-674-47480-5.
• For assimilation and emancipation of the Jews. Selected writings WBG, Darmstadt 1982, ISBN 3-534-08428-4
• Ka.s, Yaaqov ( di Jacob Katz): Richard Wagner, harbinger of anti-Semitism ed. Leo Baeck Institute. Jewish Publisher Atheneum, Königstein / Ts. 1985, ISBN 3-7610-8374-2 (French: Wagner et la question Juive ) Übers Pierre Rusch. Hachette, Paris, 1986, Series: La force des idées ISBN 2-01-011653-4 --- Engl. The darker side of genius, Richard Wagner 's antisemitism Brandeis University Press by University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 1986 series. : The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series, Vol 5 with index. ISBN 0-87451-368-5
• From the ghetto in bourgeois society. Jewish emancipation from 1770-1870 Übers Wolfgang Lotz. Jewish publisher at Atheneum, 1986 ISBN 3-7610-0394-3 floor home Athenaeum TB 1988: ISBN 3-610-04713-5
• From prejudice to destruction. Anti-Semitism 1700-1933 Übers Ulrike Berger. Beck, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-406-33555-1 Union, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-372-00379-9
• Between Messianism and Zionism. On the Jewish social history of Jewish publishing house, Frankfurt 1993 ISBN 3-633-54075- X
• Hg, with Karl H. Rengstorf: encounter between Germans and Jews in the intellectual history of the 18th century, Niemeyer, Tübingen 1994 ISBN 3-484-17510-9
• The Hep - Hep persecutions of 1819 Metropol, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-926893-17-6
• With My Own Eyes. The Autobiography of an Historian Brandeis University Press, ISBN 0-87451-639-0 Hanover
• Tradition and crisis. The path of Jewish society in the Modern Beck, Munich 2002 ISBN 3-406-49518-4 (Hebrew first 1958) release of the Department of Jewish History and Culture at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich. Translator's Christian Wiese. Foreword by Michael Brenner (Series: Beck Cultural Studies )
• Ka.s, Yaaqov: haq - Qera sel - lô mit'a h ¯ a: . Perîsat h ¯ a - ôrtôdôqsîm mik - kelal haq - qehîllôt be -Hungary û ¯ a ¯ a -ve -Germany (The unhealed breach ) Publisher Merkaz Zalman S ¯ az ¯ ar le- Toledot Yi'sr ¯ a '¯ el, Yerûs ¯ alayim 1995 ( in Hebrew Scripture ) -. About orthodoxy and Zionism in Hungary, ISBN 965-227-094-6