Jacob Goldberg

Jacob Goldberg

Jacob Goldberg (born February 2, 1924 in Łódź , Poland , † November 15, 2011 in Jerusalem , Israel ) was an Israeli historian of Eastern European history. He survived the Buchenwald concentration camp , then studied history in Poland, emigrated to Israel in 1968, where he taught Eastern European history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem until his retirement .

Life

Jacob Goldberg was born in 1924 in Lodz, in the time of the German occupation of Poland , he was first in the ghetto in Lodz , then in a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp in terrible conditions for labor forced in a munitions factory. After liberation from the concentration camp, he returned to his hometown of Łódź. He was the only one in his family who had survived the Holocaust . He began studying history at the University of Łódź and, after completing his doctorate, was awarded a Dr. Ph. - university professor there. When anti-Semitism rose again in Poland, he emigrated to Israel, where he taught Eastern European history at the University of Jerusalem from 1968 until his retirement ; since 1989 he was also director of the local center for research into the history and culture of the Jews of Eastern Europe.

Act

Jacob Goldberg is indisputably one of the most respected researchers in the history of Eastern European Judaism. In his research he focused primarily on the economic and social history and the situation of the Jewish communities in Poland in the 17th and 18th centuries. In his numerous scientific publications, he works out the legal, economic, cultural and religious life situation of Eastern European Jewry and its enormous influence on Western European countries, which is still far too little known. He was honored with a prestigious prize for his work Jewish Privileges in the Polish Commonwealth , and in 1992 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Warsaw. He was visiting professor in the USA, England and Poland as well as in Cologne, Munich and Berlin. In 1993 he took up the Franz Rosenzweig visiting professorship at the University of Kassel.

Fonts (in selection)

Essays

• Poles and Jews in the 17th and 18th Centuries. Rejection or acceptance . In: Year books for the history of Eastern Europe , Vol. 22 (1974), pp. 248-282.
• Jews baptized in Poland-Lithuania from the 16th to the 18th centuries. Attempt at social integration . in: Bernd Martin and Ernst Schulin (eds.): The Jews as a minority in history , dtv history, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-423-01745-7 .
• Marriage among the Jews of Poland in the 18th century . In: Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas , Vol. 31 (1983), pp. 482-515.
• Friends and Strangers. An Outline of the History of Polish-Jewish Relations in the former Polish Commonwealth . In: Dialectics and Humanism , Vol. 16 (1989), Issue 1.
• The Jewish tenants in Poland-Lithuania and the farmers in the 17th and 18th centuries . In: Manfred Alexander (ed.): Small peoples in the history of Eastern Europe. Festschrift for Günther Stökl on his 75th birthday . Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-515-05473-1 .
• The Changes in the Attitude of the Polish Society toward the Jews in the 18th Century . In: Antony Polonsky (Ed.): From Shtetl to Socialism . Littman Library, London 1993, ISBN 1-874774-14-5 .
• The Jewish Sejm. Its origins and functions . In: Antony Polonsky (Ed.): The Jews in Old Poland 1000-1795 . Tauris Press, New York 1993, ISBN 1-85043-342-9 .
• Metropolises and centers of Jewry in Poland . In: Evamaria Engel u. a. (Ed.): Metropolis in Transition. Centrality in East Central Europe at the turn of the Middle Ages to the modern age . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-05-002816-5 .
• Majer Ba'aban. The leading historian of the Polish Jews . In: Judaica 1 (1995).
• Moses Schorr. Pioneer of research into the history of Polish Jews . In: Judaica 2 (1995).
• Poles - Jews - Germans in the 18th century . In: Robert Maier, G. Stöber (ed.): Between demarcation and assimilation - Germans, Poles and Jews. Scenes of their coexistence from the time of the Enlightenment to the beginning of the Second World War . Hahnscher Verlag, Hanover 1996, ISBN 3-88304-288-9 .
• Jewish urban population in early modern East Central Europe . In: Berlin Yearbook for Eastern European History , Vol. 3 (1996), Issue 1.
• My way of life . In: Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik (ed.): Visualizing the destroyed Jewish heritage. Franz Rosenzweig guest lectures 1987-1998 . Universitätsverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-7281-2518-0 .
• The first political movement among the Jews in ancient Poland. The Jewish plenipotentiaries in the years 1789-1792 . In: Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik (ed.): Visualizing the destroyed Jewish heritage. Franz Rosenzweig guest lectures 1987-1998 . Universitätsverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-7281-2518-0 .

Books

• Jewish Privileges in the Polish Commonwealth. Charters of rights granted to the Jewish communities in Poland-Lithuania in the 16th to 18th century . Israel Academy of Sciences and humanities, Jerusalem 1985, ISBN 965-208-072-1 .
• Jews in Poland and Lithuania. Why and how do you follow up on their history? Edition UniMedia, Leipzig 1996, ISBN 3-932019-04-0 .

Web links

• International Rosenzweig Society / visiting professor
• Publications by and about Jacob Goldberg at Litdok East Central Europe / Herder Institute (Marburg)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary by Hanna and Jerzy Jedlicki ( pl ) Gazeta Wyborcza . November 17, 2011. Retrieved November 18, 2011.