Zvi Yavetz

Zvi Yavetz, or SEVI Ya'avēṣ; Harry originally sugar ( born April 26, 1925 in Czernowitz, Romania; † 7 January 2013) Hebrew צבי יעבץ, was an Israeli historian.

Zvi Yavetz came from a family of textile manufacturers. After his mother had become victims of the Holocaust in 1941, succeeded Zvi Yavetz, flee to Palestine in 1942. There he witnessed the creation of Israel and studied history, classical philology and sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where in 1955 he became his doctorate with a dissertation on the plebs urbana to the doctor. The following year he received a first lecturer in the History Department of the University of Tel Aviv, where he remained connected in various capacities, from 1970 Chairman of the Graduate School of History. That Walter grave was found against some resistors in 1971 at the University of Tel Aviv, a Department of German history, not least the support of Zvi Yavetz owe.

From 1962 to 1964 he was the founding Dean of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Addis Ababa. He also participated in numerous visiting professorships in Europe and the United States, including in Munich (since 1982), Princeton, Oxford, Florence and Paris. Since 1989, he was also a professor at Queens College in New York.

In his scientific work, Yavetz continued not only with the outstanding figures of the Roman Empire as Augustus, Tiberius and Caligula apart, which he dedicated respectively monographs, but also dealt with the effect on their contemporary environment ( Caesar in public opinion ). He also earned high reputation with his studies on anti-Semitism in the ancient world ( The hostility towards Jews in ancient times ).

1990 Zvi Yavetz was awarded the Israel Prize, the highest honor to be awarded cultural Israel. In addition, he has received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Beer Sheba, Munich ( 1997) and Osnabrück ( 2001).

Writings

  • Caesar in public opinion ( " Caesar. The Limits of a Charisma "). Droste Verlag, Dusseldorf 1979, ISBN 3-7700-0530-9
  • Plebs and Princeps. Transaction Books, New Brunswick, 1988, ISBN 0-88738-154-5 ( Nachdr d ed Oxford 1969)
  • Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Rome. Neuaufl. Transaction Books, New Brunswick, NJ, 1991, ISBN 0-88738-128-6
  • Tiberius and Caligula. Tel Aviv 1995
  • Hostility towards Jews in antiquity. Munich lectures. Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-42022-2
  • Tiberius. The sad emperor. Biography. dtv, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-423-30833-8
  • Memories of Chernivtsi. Where people lived and books. 2nd revised edition, CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-55747-7
  • Emperor Augustus. A biography ( " Augustus "). Rowohlt, Reinbek 2010, ISBN 978-3-498-07365-7
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