Chaim Schatzker

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Chaim Schatzker (born December 5, 1928 in Lwow , Poland ) is an Israeli historian and researcher in political education. In 1939 he emigrated from Austria to Palestine via Yugoslavia . From 1984 until his retirement he was Professor of Modern Jewish History at Haifa University .

Life

Karl Schatzker was born in Lemberg (Lwow) in Poland in 1928 . In 1931 his mother moved with him to Vienna . After Austria's annexation in 1938, the mother managed to join an illegal transport with her son in November 1939, which was supposed to take them to freedom on ships across the Danube . But the ships got stuck in the ice in Yugoslavia in winter . A few days before the German troops invaded Yugoslavia, the 200 children were given permission to travel overland to Palestine via Greece, Turkey, Syria and Lebanon. The thousand adults who remained in Kladovo were murdered by the advancing Germans.

The orphan Chaim Schatzker found shelter in a children's village in Palestine . After school and military service he studied history and education at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and finally completed these studies with a doctorate in 1969. At first he was a teacher and university professor in Haifa and Jerusalem. In 1984 he was appointed full professor for modern Jewish history at the University of Haifa and was director of the Strochlitz Chair for Holocaust Studies there. From 1989 until his retirement in 1997 he was Head of the Department for Jewish History at Haifa University. Guest invitations took him to the universities of Duisburg, Heidelberg, and Dresden. In 2003 he took up the Franz Rosenzweig guest professorship at the University of Kassel .

Act

Even while he was a senior lecturer at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Chaim Schatzker concentrated his research on Holocaust studies and on the issue of teaching the Holocaust in schools . In 1981 he was appointed to the Israeli delegation of the German-Israeli Textbook Commission, and since then he has also been an Israeli member of the advisory boards of various German Holocaust memorials . His main research interests can be clearly seen in his main works, most of which have been published in German: (1) the educational and social history of Jews in Germany, (2) the Holocaust as an object of political and historical education, (3) the picture of Jews in German history books, (4) the image of Germany in Israeli history books, and (5) the treatment of the Holocaust in Israeli history lessons.

Fonts (in selection)

  • with Saul B. Robinsohn : Jewish history in German history textbooks (= series of publications of the International Textbook Institute . 7, ZDB -ID 986851-3 ). Limbach, Braunschweig 1963.
  • The image of Germany in Israeli school history books (= studies on international textbook research. 25). Orphanage printing and publishing house, Braunschweig 1979, ISBN 3-88304-225-0 .
  • The Jews in the German history books. Textbook analysis to portray the Jews, Judaism and the State of Israel (= series of publications of the Federal Agency for Political Education. 173). Federal Agency for Political Education, Bonn 1981, ISBN 3-921352-78-9 .
  • with Yisrael Gutman: The Holocaust and its Significance. Revised english version. The Zalman Shazar Center, Jerusalem 1984, ISBN 965-227-022-9 .
  • Jewish youth in the second empire. Socialization and education processes of the Jewish youth in Germany. 1870–1917 (= studies on educational science. 24). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1988, ISBN 3-8204-1512-2 .
  • The 'Deutscher Historikerstreit' or the Discussion of German Historians with their History. In: Dapim lecheker tekufat Haschoah. University of Haifa - Beit lochame Hagettaot, Haifa 1990, pp. 185-214.
  • The significance of the Holocaust for the self-image of Israeli society. In: From politics and contemporary history , supplement to the weekly newspaper Das Parlament . B 15/90, 1990, pp. 19-23.
  • What has changed, what has remained? Analysis of history textbooks for secondary level I and II that have been published in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1985 with regard to their presentation of Jewish history. In: German-Israeli school book recommendations. For the representation of Jewish history as well as the history and geography of Israel in school books of the Federal Republic of Germany. For the representation of German history and the geography of the Federal Republic of Germany in Israeli textbooks (= studies on international textbook research. 44). 2nd, expanded edition. Diesterweg, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-88304-244-7 , pp. 42-71.
  • The German youth movement in a historical perspective, In: Schmuel Behagon (Hrsg.): Law and truth bring peace. Festschrift from Israel for Niels Hansen. Bleicher, Gerlingen, 1994, ISBN 3-88350-611-7 , pp. 223-233.
  • Jews, Judaism and the State of Israel in the history books of the GDR. Federal Agency for Political Education, Bonn 1994, ISBN 3-89331-197-1 .
  • The Holocaust in Israeli History Class. In: Kurt Beutler , Ulrich Wiegmann (Red.): Auschwitz and pedagogy (= yearbook for pedagogy. 1995). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1995, ISBN 3-631-49310-X , pp. 159-166.
  • Noʿar Yehudi be-Germanyah ben Yahadut le-Germaniyut, 1870–1945. Darko shel noʿar Yehudi mi-Yahadut le-Germaniyut ṿa-ḥazarah le-Yahadut, le-Tsiyonut ule-hagshamah ḥalutsit. Merkaz Zalman Shazar le-Toldot Yiʹsraʾel, Jerusalem 1998, ISBN 965-227-120-9 (In Hebrew script and language. Jewish youth in Germany between Judaism and Germanness, 1870-1945. ).
  • with Dieter Schmidt-Sinns : Judaism and Israel in political education. On the work of the Federal Center for Political Education 1952 to 1998. Federal Center for Political Education, Bonn 2000, ISBN 3-89331-409-1 .
  • Thinking and Remembrance - Observations in Germany and Israel. In: Traces of National Socialism. Memorial work in Bavaria. Bavarian State Center for Political Education, Munich 2000, pp. 21–27.
  • Autobiography. In: Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik (Ed.): Confrontations with the destroyed Jewish heritage. Franz Rosenzweig guest lectures (1999–2005) (= Kassel Semester Books. Studia Cassellana. 13). Kassel University Press, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89958-044-3 , pp. 147-153, ( online (PDF; 7.47 MB) ).
  • The 'comrades'. History of a Jewish Jewish Movement in Germany. In: Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik (Ed.): Confrontations with the destroyed Jewish heritage. Franz Rosenzweig guest lectures (1999–2005) (= Kassel Semester Books. Studia Cassellana. 13). Kassel University Press, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89958-044-3 , pp. 154-165, ( online (PDF; 7.47 MB) ).

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personal data
SURNAME Sweetheart, Chaim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli historian and researcher in political education
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Lwow