Israel Shahak
Israel Shahak (born April 28, 1933 in Warsaw , † July 2, 2001 in Israel ) was Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem .
Life
As a survivor of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp , Israel Shahak was able to emigrate to Palestine as a youth before Israel was founded . After studying in Israel, Shahak also studied at Stanford and then did his military service in the army. Beyond his area of expertise, he became known as a temporary chairman of the International League for Human Rights in Israel and as a sharp critic of Zionism . Shahak's book “Jewish History, Jewish Religion. The influence of 3000 years ”was published in German by Lühe-Verlag with a foreword by the publisher Harm Menkens.
In Shahak's view, rabbinic Judaism is inherently discriminatory towards non-Jews, and he believes that this bigotry is a reason for anti-Semitism.
Works
- The Non-Jew in the Jewish State; a collection of Documents , Jerusalem, 1975
- Begin & Co as they really are , Glasgow 1977
- Israel Shahak and Noam Chomsky : Israel's Global Role: Weapons for Repression (Studies in Geophysical Optics and Remote Sensing) , Association of Arab-American University Graduates, Inc., April 1982, ISBN 0-937694-51-7
- Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years , Pluto Press, London, 1994
- Open Secrets: Israeli Foreign and Nuclear Policies , London 1997, Pluto Press Verlag
- Jewish history, Jewish religion: Israel - a utopia for the elect? , Neu-Isenburg: Melzer 2009, ISBN 978-3-9813189-1-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Israel Shahak in the catalog of the German National Library
- "The Jews are Bad!" (Critical review of Jewish History, Jewish Religion by Werner Cohn ), Israel Horizons , Vol. 42, No. 3 of 4, Fall 1994, pp. 28-29.
- Interview by Ludwig Watzal with Israel Shahak: Frankfurter Rundschau from May 29, 1998
Individual evidence
- ^ Israel Shahak: a voice of controversy . The Guardian, May 17, 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shahak, Israel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli biochemist, university professor and human rights activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 2, 2001 |
| Place of death | Israel |