Jacob Toury
Jacob Toury (born January 5, 1915 in Bytom ; died 2004 in Tel Aviv ) was a German-Israeli historian and educator.
Life
He was born as Franz Königsberger in the Silesian city of Beuthen. In 1935 he emigrated with the Werkleuten to Palestine and studied history, philology and education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . After completing his doctorate and teaching at the Technion in Haifa , among others , he joined the Tel Aviv University, which was founded in 1956, early on and was involved in setting up the Institute for German History. Jacob Toury was an important social historian in the field of German-Jewish history.
His son Gideon Toury (1942-2016) was professor of literary theory , comparative literature and translation theory at Tel Aviv University. In the early summer of 2005 he handed over the private and work library of his father, who had died a year earlier , to the Simon Dubnow Institute (DI). For the DI , this was the largest and most valuable book donation that it had ever received.
Fonts (selection)
- Social and political history of the Jews in Germany 1847–1871. Between revolution, reaction and emancipation . Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1977, ISBN 3-7700-0472-8
- The Jewish press in the Austrian Empire. A contribution to the problem of acculturation 1802–1918. Writings of the Leo Baeck Institute. Vol. 41. Tübingen 1983
- Jewish textile entrepreneurs in Baden-Württemberg 1683–1938. Mohr, Tübingen 1984
- Social history of the Jews in Germany. Bleicher, Gerlingen 1991
- Germany's stepchildren. Selected essays on German and German-Jewish history. Wallstein, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 978-3-89244-544-9
literature
- Stefi Jersch-Wenzel (Berlin): Jacob Toury 1915-2004 , in: Moshe Zuckermann (Hrsg.): Tel Aviver Yearbook for German History XXXIV. History and fine arts. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen, 2006, ISBN 978-3-8353-0009-5 , p. 355 ff.
- Robert Jütte : The emigration of the German-speaking "Wissenschaft des Judentums": the emigration of Jewish historians to Palestine 1933 - 1945 . Stuttgart: Steiner 1991
Web links
- Literature by and about Jacob Toury in the catalog of the German National Library
- The library of the Israeli historian Jacob Toury (1915-2004) at the Simon Dubnow Institute (with photo of father and son Toury)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mosheh Tsukerman: Tel Aviv Yearbook 2006 for German history . History and fine arts. Wallstein Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8353-2104-5 , pp. 355 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Toury, Jacob |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Franz Koenigsberger |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Israeli historian and educator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 5, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bytom |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2004 |
| Place of death | Tel Aviv |