Jacques Picard (historian)

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Jacques Picard (born March 3, 1952 in Basel ) is a Swiss historian and full professor of general and Jewish history and modern culture at the University of Basel .

Life

Jacques Picard studied history and literature at the Universities of Freiburg i.Üe. and Bern . This was followed by research stays in New York, New Mexico and Israel. From 1985 to 2001 he worked as a lecturer for culture, politics and history at the Bern University of Applied Sciences, where he was head of the department for wood engineers. From 1996 to 2001 he was a member of the Independent Expert Commission Switzerland - World War II .

From 2001 to 2016, he worked at the University of Basel as full professor for general and Jewish history and cultures in modern times and as Branco-Weiss professor for cultural anthropology, at the end of 2016 he retired. At the University of Basel he was head of the Institute for Jewish Studies from 2001 to 2009, from 2006 to 2011 research dean of the Philosophical-Historical Faculty, from 2011 he was a member of the management of the seminar for cultural studies and European ethnology and of the center for cultural topographies.

Today he is President of the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Contemporary History Foundation of the Archives for Contemporary History at ETH Zurich , and since 2019 a fellow at the University of Haifa, Israel, where he is associated with the Herzl Institute. His research focus is on the history and culture of Judaism. In 2016 he received the National Jewish Book Award for the anthology Makers of Jewish Modernity .

Publications (selection)

  • Xenophobia, racism, anti-Semitism: Zurich Symposium on December 2, 1990. Konstanz 1991.
  • The fortunes of racially, religiously and politically persecuted people in Switzerland and their replacement from 1946 to 1973: Switzerland and the fortunes of disappeared Nazi victims. Bern 1993.
  • Switzerland and the Jews 1933-1945: Swiss anti-Semitism, Jewish resistance and international migration and refugee policy. Zurich 1994.
  • with Philipp Sarasin and Regina Wecker : Raubgold, Reduit, Refugees: On the history of Switzerland in the Second World War. Zurich 1998.
  • A broken time: Jewish couples in exile. Zurich 2009.
  • Edit by Coler . As a Nazi agent in Bucharest. Schiller, Bonn / Hermannstadt 2010.
  • Swiss Judaism in Transition: Religion and Community between Integration, Self-Assertion and Demarcation. Edited by Jacques Picard and Daniel Gerson. Zurich 2014.
  • Like above clouds. Jewish worlds of life and thought in the city, region and University of Bern, 1200-2000 . Edited by René Bloch and Jacques Picard. Zurich 2014
  • Limits from a cultural studies perspective. Edited by Jacques Picard, Silvy Chakkalakal and Silke Andris. Berlin 2016.
  • Makers of Jewish Modernity. Edited by Jacques Picard, Jacques Revel, Michael P. Steinberg and Idith Zertal. Princeton / Oxford 2016.
  • Aargau Jewish cultural area. Edited by Jacques Picard and Angela Bhend. Baden / Zurich 2020.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Foundation of Contemporary Jewish History at the ETH Zurich for the preservation and development of historical sources in Switzerland .
personal data
SURNAME Picard, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel