Jacob Katz

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Jacob Katz (also Jacob Katz , Hebrew יעקב כ"ץ. Ya'aqov Kas ; born 15. November 1904 in Magyargencs , Austria-Hungary , died 20th May 1998 in Jerusalem ) was a from Hungary originating Israeli social historian whose main focus the social history of European Jewry was.

Life

Katz was born into an Orthodox family in a small village in western Hungary. After training as a rabbi , he studied sociology at the University of Frankfurt, first with Karl Mannheim and Norbert Elias , who emigrated to Great Britain after they came to power in 1933 . Katz then completed his studies with the social historian Georg Küntzel in 1934 with a thesis on the assimilation of German Jewry.

After completing his studies, Katz also emigrated and after a year in Great Britain came to Palestine in 1935 and became a teacher. After the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, he received a position at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , where he was professor until his retirement in 1974 and rector from 1969 to 1972 . In 1962/63 he held a visiting professorship at Harvard University in the USA and one at the Institute for Jewish-Christian Research (IJCF) in Lucerne in 1976/77 . In 1974 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Katz's journalistic work is determined by two central themes: the relations between Jews and non-Jews and the confrontation between orthodox and liberal or assimilatory currents within Judaism. His main work From Prejudice to Destruction: Anti-Semitism, 1700–1933 ( From Prejudice to Destruction ) illuminates the cultural-historical development of European anti -Judaism from Christian anti-Judaism to anti-Jewish facets of the Enlightenment to the racist anti-Semitism of the 20th century, with parallels and shows the differences between the respective epochs.

Fonts (selection)

  • Jews and Freemasons in Europe 1723-1939 . Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1970, ISBN 0-674-47480-5 .
  • For the assimilation and emancipation of the Jews. Selected writings WBG, Darmstadt 1982, ISBN 3-534-08428-4
  • Ka.s, Yaaqov (d. I. Jacob Katz): Richard Wagner , Harbinger of Antisemitism Ed. Leo Baeck Institute . Jewish publishing house Athenäum, Königstein / Ts. 1985, ISBN 3-7610-8374-2 (French: Wagner et la question juive ) trans. Pierre Rusch. Hachette, Paris 1986, series: La force des idées ISBN 2-01-011653-4 --- engl .: The darker side of genius, Richard Wagner's antisemitism Brandeis University Press by University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 1986. series : The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series, Vol. 5. With index. ISBN 0-87451-368-5
  • From the ghetto to civil society. Jewish emancipation from 1770–1870 Translated by Wolfgang Lotz. Jewish publishing house at Athenaeum, Bodenheim 1986 ISBN 3-7610-0394-3 Athenaeum TB 1988: ISBN 3-610-04713-5
  • From prejudice to destruction. Anti-Semitism 1700–1933 Translated by Ulrike Berger. Beck, Munich 1990 ISBN 3-406-33555-1 Union, Berlin 1990 ISBN 3-372-00379-9
  • Between messianism and Zionism. On the Jewish Social History Jüdischer Verlag, Frankfurt 1993 ISBN 3-633-54075-X
  • Ed., With Karl H. Rengstorf: Encounter of Germans and Jews in the intellectual history of the 18th century Niemeyer, Tübingen 1994 ISBN 3-484-17510-9
  • The Hep-Hep persecutions of 1819 Metropol, Berlin 1994 ISBN 3-926893-17-6
  • With my own eyes. The Autobiography of an Historian Brandeis University Press, Hanover ISBN 0-87451-639-0
  • Tradition and crisis. The way of the Jewish society in the modern age Beck, Munich 2002 ISBN 3-406-49518-4 ( Hebrew first 1958 ) Publication of the department for Jewish history and culture at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Translated from Christian Wiese . Foreword by Michael Brenner (series: Beck Kulturwissenschaft)
  • Ka.s, Yaaqov: haq- Qera sel-lô mit'a.h¯a: perîsat h¯a-ôrtôdôqsîm mik-kelal haq-qehîllôt be-Hûngary¯a û-ve-Germany¯a (The unhealed breach) Verlag Merkaz Zalman S¯az¯ar le-Tôledôt Yi´sr¯a'¯el, Yerûs¯alayim 1995 (In Hebrew) .- On Orthodoxy and Zionism in Hungary, ISBN 965-227-094-6

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