Jehuda Reinharz

Jehuda Reinharz ( born 1944 in Haifa ) is a historian of Judaism and held office since 1994 as president of Brandeis University in Massachusetts.

Life

Jehuda Reinharz received his education in Germany and immigrated in 1961 as an adolescent in the United States.

There he earned bachelor degrees at Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary ( both New York ) and a master 's degree in medieval Jewish history at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a Ph. D. of modern Jewish history at Brandeis University ( also Massachusetts).

He became the first Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, 1982, he was Professor of Jewish History at Brandeis University, where he set up various institutions to life or initiated. In 1994 he became the 7th President of Brandeis University. In 1998 he was appointed by U.S. President Bill Clinton as Chairman of the Commission, which advises the government on historical and political questions about the Holocaust.

Jehuda Reinharz has honorary doctorates from the Hebrew Union College, the JTS, Fairfield University in Connecticut, the Ben Gurion University and the Weizmann Institute in Israel.

He is married to Shulamit Reinharz, a professor of sociology at Brandeis University, and has given me her daughters Naomi and Yael.

Writings

  • Fatherland or Promised Land. The Dilemma of the German Jew, 1893-1914, Ann Arbor 1975
  • Documents the history of German Zionism 1882-1933, Tübingen 1981, ISBN 3-16-743272-1
  • As Editor: The Jewish Response to German Culture, Hanover NH 1985
  • Chaim Weizmann, The Making of a Zionist Leader, New York 1985
  • As Eds.: Living with Antisemitism - Modern Jewish Responses, 1987
  • Chaim Weizmann: the Making of a Statesman, Oxford University Press 1993
  • With Monika Schwarz - miliary: The language of anti-Semitism in the 21st century. de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston, 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-027768-5.
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