Evyatar Friesel

Evyatar Friesel (Hebrew: אביתר פריזל, born Siegfried Friesel in 1930 in Chemnitz) is a German-Israeli historian and professor emeritus at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem . He conducts research on anti-Semitism and Zionism and on general Jewish history.

Life

Friesel grew up as a child from Posen immigrant Jews in Saxony. In March 1939 the family was able to emigrate to Brazil. In 1953 he emigrated to Israel and became a member of Kibbutz Bror Chail. From 1956 Friesel studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where he received his doctorate in 1970.

From 1965 to 1977 he taught Jewish history at Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva, from 1972 to 1995 at the Hebrew University.

In the following years he was visiting professor at various universities: Universidade de São Paulo (1974); Ohio State University (1975/76); Center for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, Oxford (1984/85); University of Cape Town (1988); College for Jewish Studies, Heidelberg University (1989/90); University of Leipzig (1994/95); Humboldt University , Berlin (1995); University of Erfurt (2000); Friedrich Schiller University , Jena (2004–).

From 1992 to 2001 he was director of the Israel State Archives.

Friesel's research interests are ideological trends in modern Judaism, Jewish-American history, German-Jewish history, the history of Zionism, demographic developments, contemporary European history and current anti-Semitism.

Evyatar Friesel is married to the cognitive scientist Monika Schwarz-Friesel .

Publications

Research (selection)

• The Zionist Movement in the United States, 1987-1914. Tel Aviv, University of Tel Aviv - Kibbutz Hameuhad Publishing House, 1970, 320 p. (in Hebrew).
• Zionist Policy After the Balfour Declaration, 1917-1922. Tel Aviv, University of Tel Aviv, Kibbutz Hameuhad Publishing House, 1977, 485p. (in Hebrew)
• The Letters and Papers of Chaim Weizmann. vol. I (1885-1902), London, Oxford University Press, 1968, 447 pp. (member of the research and editing staff)
  • Idem, Hebrew edition, Jerusalem, Mossad Bialik, 1969.
• The Letters and Papers of Chaim Weizmann. vol. II (1902-1903), London, Oxford University Press, 1970, 500p (member of research and editing staff).
  • Idem, Hebrew edition, Jerusalem, Mossad Bialik, 1970.
• as editor: Julius Simon, Certain Days - Zionist Memoirs and Selected Papers. Jerusalem, Israel Universities Press, 1971, 385 p.
• as ed. with G. Yoguev and Sh. Kolat: The Letters and Papers of Chaim Weizmann. vol. VI (1913-1914). Jerusalem, Israel Universities Press, 1974, 450 p.
• as editor: The Hebrew edition of The Times Atlas of World History, by G. Barraclough, part III (modern period). Jerusalem, Carta Publications, 1979.
• Atlas of Modern Jewish History. New York-London, Oxford University Press, Jerusalem, Carta Publications, 1990.
  • Idem, Hebrew edition. Jerusalem, Carta Publishing House, 1983.
• The Evolution of the Jewish Civil-Rights Organizations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Cincinnati, American Jewish Archives, 1993.
• as ed. with Monika Schwarz-Friesel and Jehuda Reinharz: Current anti-Semitism in Germany - a phenomenon of the middle. New York / Berlin: deGruyter Verlag, 2010.

Autobiography

• Ballad of Outer Life . Memoirs. From the American by Dafna Mach. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 1997

Individual evidence

1. ^ Homepage of the Hebrew University Jerusalem , accessed on February 20, 2017
2. ↑ http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/news/.premium-1.576189 of February 25, 2014, accessed on February 22, 2017