Jonathan Steinberg

Jonathan Steinberg ( born March 8, 1934 in New York City ) is an American historian of modern times. He holds the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Modern European History at the University of Pennsylvania.

Life

Steinberg studied history at Harvard University and a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, where he was for 33 years as Lecturer and Reader for European History. He is a Fellow of Trinity Hall. He then served as a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. His main scientific activity is the European history since the beginning of the French Revolution, with particular attention to the history of the Axis Powers Germany, Austria and Italy, and the fate of the Jewish population in these countries on their way to the Holocaust. The German bank asked him to work up their gold transactions during the Second World War. His 2011 published biography of Bismarck Bismarck - A Life was reviewed by Henry Kissinger in The New York Times Book Review.

" " Bismarck: A Life " is the best study of its subject in the English language"

Writings

  • Tirpitz and the birth of the German battle fleet: Yesterday's deterrent. Macdonald, London 1968
  • German, Italians and Jews: the Italian resistance to the Holocaust. Steidl, Göttingen 1997
  • The German Bank and its Gold Transactions during the Second World War. Historical Commission, co-editor Avraham Barkai, inter alia, Translator Karl Heinz Sieber. Beck Verlag, Munich, 1999. ISBN 3406 44551 9 (also online)
  • Bismarck, anti - semitism and the tragedy of German Jewry. Leo Baeck Institute, New York / Berlin 2011
  • Bismarck: Magician of power. Propylaea, 2012 ( Original title: Bismarck: a life, translated by Klaus -Dieter Schmidt) ( Limited preview at Google Books; review, review on hsozkult ).
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