David Cesarani

David Cesarani OBE (born November 13, 1956 in London ; † October 25, 2015 there ) was a British historian . He published mainly on Jewish history and the Holocaust .

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David Cesarani grew up as the only child of a hairdresser in London. He received a scholarship to the Latymer Upper School in West London. For a year in between, he worked in a kibbutz in Israel . From 1976 he attended the Queens' College of the University of Cambridge . He received a Masters from Columbia University . He was at St Antony's College of Oxford University doctorate.

Cesarani worked as a historian at the University of Leeds , Queen Mary University of London and the Wiener Library . From 2000 to 2004 he was Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Southampton . From 2004 until his death he was at the Royal Holloway College of the University of London busy. Cesarani was married and had two children.

As a member of the Holocaust Memorial Day Group of the UK Home Office ( Home Office was) Cesarani 2001 co-founder of the Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January. His work on Adolf Eichmann was also published in German in 2004. His book Final Solution , published only posthumously . The Fate of the Jews 1933–49 was intended to help close what he saw as the gaping gap between the popularized view of the Holocaust and the results of scientific research, which had soared since the 1990s.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Justice Delayed . Mandarin, London 1992, ISBN 0-7493-0618-1 . (How Britain became a refuge for Nazi war criminals)
• The Jewish Chronicle and Anglo-Jewry 1841-1991. Cambridge 1994, ISBN 0-521-43434-3 .
• Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind. Heinemann, London 1998, ISBN 0-434-11305-0 . (Biography Arthur Koestler )
• Citizenship, Nationality and Migration in Europe . Routledge, London 1996, ISBN 0-415-13101-4 .
• Adolf Eichmann: bureaucrat and mass murderer . Propylaea, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-549-07186-8 .
  • Adolf Eichmann - his life and crimes . Heinemann, London 2004, ISBN 0-434-01056-1 . (Biography of Adolf Eichmann )
• Final Solution. The Fate of the Jews 1933-49 . Macmillan, 2016, ISBN 978-1-250-00083-5 .
  • In German: The Final Solution. The fate of the Jews 1933–1948. [Translation: Schmidt, Klaus-Dieter] Propylaeen, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-549-07417-6 .

Editorships

• The Making of Modern Anglo-Jewry (1990)
• The Final Solution: Origins and Implementation (1994)
• Genocide and Rescue: The Holocaust in Hungary, 1944 (1997)
• Port Jews: Jewish Communities in Cosmopolitan Maritime Trading Centuries, 1550–1950 (2002)
• “Bystanders” to the Holocaust: A Re-evaluation (2002)

literature

• Michael Wildt : Manager of Genocide. The British historian David Cesarani demonizes Adolf Eichmann. In: The time . No. 4/2005, p. 46; review
• Rainer Liedtke : David Cesarani (1956–2015). In: Historical magazine . Vol. 304, 2017, pp. 683-685.

Web links

• Literature by and about David Cesarani in the catalog of the German National Library
• Professor David Cesarani History Department (English)
• David Cesarani obituary , Oct 26, 2015, The Guardian
• David Cesarani in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Remarks

1. ^ British Jewish history expert David Cesarani dies aged 58. In: timesofisrael.com. The Times of Israel , October 26, 2015, accessed October 28, 2015.
2. ^ ^{A b} Lawrence Goldman: David Cesarani obituary. In: The Guardian . October 26, 2015, accessed February 26, 2017 . 
3. ^ Rainer Liedtke: David Cesarani (1956–2015). In: Historical magazine. Vol. 304, 2017, pp. 683-685, here: p. 685.
4. ↑ Michael Marrus : The twisted road. Review. In: Financial Times . January 23, 2016, p. 8.