Daniel Cil crusher
Daniel Cil Brecher (* 1951 in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli historian and publicist .
Life
Daniel Cil Brecher was born in Tel Aviv as the son of Austrian-Jewish Holocaust survivors. When he was two years old, the family moved to Düsseldorf . He studied history and philosophy and returned to Israel in 1976 , worked at Haifa University and at the Yad Vashem Memorial . In 1983 he became director of the Leo Baeck Institute in Jerusalem . In 1986 he returned to Europe “disappointed with Israel” and made a conscious decision to live in the diaspora. Today he lives in the Netherlands.
Publications
- (Collaboration) Joseph Walk (ed.): The special right for the Jews in the Nazi state: A collection of legal measures and guidelines - content and meaning. CF Müller, Heidelberg 1981, ISBN 3-8114-1081-4 .
- Strange in Zion. Notes from an unreliable man. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-421-05868-7 .
- The David: The West and its dream of Israel. PapyRossa, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-89438-468-5 .
feature
- 2010: Language lesson Null (How the Federal Republic learned to speak about Jews and Israel) - Director: Thomas Wolfertz ( Feature - DLF / WDR )
- 2014: Black and white in color (Feature - DLF)
- 2015: The unwanted nation - also directing (Feature - DLF)
Web links
- Literature by and about Daniel Cil Brecher in the catalog of the German National Library
- Daniel Cil Brecher on the website of the PEN Center for German-Speaking Authors Abroad
- haGalil on Cil Brecher's book "Fremd in Zion"
- Israel is a “very nationalistic country” , Daniel Cil Brecher in conversation with Christoph Heinemann , Deutschlandfunk , February 3, 2012
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Crusher, Daniel Cil |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli historian and publicist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1951 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Tel Aviv |