Anita Shapira

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Anita Shapira (2006)

Anita Shapira (born March 25, 1940 in Warsaw ) is an Israeli historian.

Life

Anita Shapira was born in German-occupied Warsaw to Jewish parents. She survived the Holocaust . She emigrated to Palestine in 1947 and grew up in the Tel Aviv district of Yad Eliyahu .

Shapira studied history at Tel Aviv University and received her doctorate in 1974 under Daniel Carpi with a topic on the history of the Jewish labor movement. In addition to studies on the history of Zionism, she subsequently presented biographically oriented studies on the work of Berl Katznelson , S. Yizhar , Jigal Allon , David Ben-Gurion and Josef Chaim Brenner . In 1985 she was appointed professor at the university and from 2000 was director of the "Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism". She founded the “ Yitzhak Rabin Center for Israel Studies” and was its first director from 1996 to 1999. From 1990 to 1995 she was dean of the Philosophical Faculty and was a member of the planning committee of the Israel Education Council during this time.

Shapira is Vice President of the Israeli Historical Society and co-editor of the Jewish Review of Books. In 2008 she received the Israel Prize for History. After her retirement, she became a Senior Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute in Tel Aviv.

Shapira is married and has three children.

Fonts (selection of translations)

  • Yosef Haim Brenner : A Life , Stanford University Press, 2014
  • Ben-Gurion : Father of Modern Israel , Yale University Press, 2014
  • Israel: A History , Brandeis University Press, 2012 Partial online view
  • Yigal Allon , Native Son: A Biography . University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008
  • (Ed.): Israeli identity in transition . Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004
  • Anita Shapira, Derek Penslar (Eds.): Israeli Historical Revisionism: From Left to Right , Routledge Chapman & Hall, 2002
  • Hirbet Hizah: Between Remembrance and Forgetting in: Jewish Social Studies , 2000, pp. 1–62
  • Shmuel Almog, Jehuda Reinharz , Anita Shapira (Ed.): Zionism and religion . Hanover: Brandeis University Press, 1998.
  • Jehuda Reinharz , Anita Shapira (Ed.): Essential papers on Zionism . New York: New York University Press, 1996
  • Land and Power: The Zionist Resort to Force, 1881-1948 . Oxford University Press, 1992
  • Berl Katznelson : a socialist Zionist . From the Hebrew by Leo and Marianne Koppel. Foreword by Walter Hesselbach . Frankfurt am Main: Jew. Publ. At Athenaeum, 1988

Web links

Commons : Anita Shapira  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dominik Peters: Passionate Asket , review of the English translation, at Zenith - Zeitschrift für den Orient , January 8, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Shapira, Anita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw