Moshe Zimmermann

Moshe Zimmermann ( born December 25, 1943 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli historian. In Germany, he spent several years visiting professor.

Life

Zimmermann's parents, Hamburg Jews were in 1937 or in 1938 immigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine. He attended in Jerusalem school, high school and received his PhD in early 1977 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a supervised by Jacob Talmon work on the emancipation of the Jews in Hamburg between 1830 and 1865. Since 1986 he has been director of " Richard Koebner Center for German History " at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

His research focuses on the German social history from the 18th to the 20th century and the history of German Jews and anti-Semitism, film, history and sport in history.

2005 Zimmermann was of German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer in the Independent Historical Commission - appointed Foreign Office to investigate the history of the Office of National Socialism and dealing with the past after 1945.

Moshe Zimmermann taught as a visiting professor in Heidelberg, Mainz (Franz Rosenzweig visiting professor ), Princeton, Halle and Munich. He has published numerous essays in Germany on German -Jewish history, the German -Israeli relations, on memory work and the Holocaust, and on Europe. For his research Zimmermann received the Humboldt Prize ( 1993), Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Prize of the DAAD (1997), the Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize of the University of Tübingen (2002) and the Lessing Prize for Criticism (2006).

Politically Zimmermann politics of Prime Minister Netanyahu critical and criticized the " appropriation of the Holocaust " for the current Israeli policy.

Writings

• Hamburgischer patriotism and German nationalism. The emancipation of the Jews in Hamburg from 1830 to 1865. Christians, Hamburg 1979, ISBN 3-7672-0557-2.
• Turning point in Israel. Between nation and religion. Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-746-68501- X.
• The German Jews 1914-1945. Munich 1997, ISBN 3-486-55082-9.
• Goliath case. Israelis and Palestinians in a stranglehold. Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-7466-8101-4.
• German - Jewish past. Hostility toward Jews as a challenge. Paderborn 2005, ISBN 3-506-70120-7.
• German against German. The fate of the Jews 1938-1945. Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-351-02670-7.
• Fear of Peace: The Israeli dilemma. Berlin 2010, ISBN 3-351-02717-6.
• Eckart Conze, together with Norbert Frei and Peter Hayes ( Ed.): The Office and the Past. German diplomats in the Third Reich and the Federal Republic. Blessing Verlag, Munich 2010 ISBN 978-3-89667-430-2.