Jonathan Steinberg

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Jonathan Steinberg (born March 8, 1934 in New York City ) is an American modern historian. He holds the Walter H. Annenberg Professorship in European Modern History at the University of Pennsylvania .

Life

Steinberg studied history at Harvard University and received his doctorate from the University of Cambridge , where he was also a lecturer and reader in European history for 33 years . He is a Fellow of Trinity Hall . He then taught as a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. The focus of his academic work has been on European history since the beginning of the French Revolution, with particular attention to the history of the Axis powers Germany, Austria and Italy and the fate of the Jewish population in these countries on their way to the Holocaust . The Deutsche Bank commissioned him to process their gold deals during World War II . His Bismarck biography Bismarck - A Life , published in 2011, was reviewed by Henry Kissinger in The New York Times Book Review .

"" Bismarck: A Life "is the best study of its subject in the English language"

- Henry Kissinger

Steinberg was a conversation partner in the documentary drama Bismarck - Hardness and Sensibility (2014) shot for ZDF and in an episode of Alexander Kluge's culture magazine 10 to 11 .

Fonts

  • Tirpitz and the birth of the German battle fleet: Yesterday's deterrent. Macdonald, London 1968.
  • Germans, Italians and Jews: the Italian resistance to the Holocaust. Steidl, Göttingen 1997, ISBN 3-88243-505-4 .
  • Deutsche Bank and its gold transactions during the Second World War. Historians' Commission, co-editor Avraham Barkai u. a. Translator Karl Heinz Sieber. Beck-Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-44551-9 (also online).
  • Bismarck, anti-semitism and the tragedy of German Jewry. Leo Baeck Institute, New York / Berlin 2011, DNB 1021086975 .
  • Bismarck. Magician of power . Propylaeen, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-549-07416-9 (American English: Bismarck: a life . Translated by Klaus-Dieter Schmidt, limited preview on Google Books ; review , review on H-Soz-u-Kult ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vita Jonathan Steinberg at history.upenn.edu
  2. ^ Henry Kissinger Review: Otto von Bismarck, Master Statesman in: The New York Times . dated March 31, 2011.
  3. ↑ https://www.dctp.tv/filme/bismarck-10vor11-16122013/
personal data
SURNAME Steinberg, Jonathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American modern historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City