Michael Bar-Zohar

Michael Bar-Zohar

Michael Bar-Zohar ( Hebrew מיכאל בר-זהר, Born January 30, 1938 in Sofia , Bulgaria ) is an Israeli historian, politician and writer of Bulgarian origin.

origin

Bar-Zohar came to Israel in 1948 at the age of ten. His family settled near Jaffa . He completed his schooling in Tel Aviv and then began economics at the University in Jerusalem to study. Later moved to the University of Paris to study political science there; he was able to complete this course with a doctorate .

In 1956 he joined the army and took part in the war during the Suez Crisis in 1956 and eleven years later in the Six Day War . In 1973 Bar-Zohar was a member of a commando unit that fought partially behind the front in the Yom Kippur War .

In 1958 Bar-Zohar was appointed one of the editors of the weekly newspaper Davar . In addition to his journalistic work, Bar-Zohar also wrote several books; u. a. also a highly acclaimed biography of the politician David Ben-Gurion . For the publication of his fiction works, he chose the pseudonym Michael Barak .

Honors

• Ben Gurion Award
• Knight of the Legion of Honor

Works (selection)

Non-fiction

• The Avengers (French original edition Les Vengeurs , Paris 1968, English edition London, Arthur Barker, 1968).
• David Ben-Gurion. The founder of the State of Israel ("Ben-Gurion"). Lübbe-Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 1992, ISBN 3-404-61222-1 .
• Hitler's jewish spy. The most extraordinary true spy story of World War II . Sidgwick & Jackson, London 1985, ISBN 0-283-99293-X (former title: Arrows of the Almighty ).
• The Hunt for the German Scientists (1944-1960). Propylaea Verlag, Berlin 1966.
• Revenge for Munich. Terrorists targeted by the Mossad (“Massacre in Munich”). Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 2006, ISBN 978-3-7700-1238-1 .
• The secret list of Heinrich Röhm . Morrow Press, New York 1976, ISBN 0-688-02991-4 .
• Spies in the promised land . Houghton Mifflin, New York 1972, ISBN 0-395-13641-5 .
• When David becomes Goliath. History and development of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (“Facing qa cruel minor”). Droemer Knaur, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-426-04824-8 .
• Bitter Scent: The Case of L'Oreal, Nazis, and the Arab Boycott (1996) ISBN 978-0-525-94068-5
• Shimon Peres The Biography (2006) ISBN 978-1-4000-6292-8
• Hitler's Jewish spy. ("Hitler's jewish spy"). Plöttner Verlag, Leipzig (2014), ISBN 978-3-95537-138-8 .

Fiction

• Gold trail. Roman ("The Phantom Conspiracy"). Lübbe-Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 1983, ISBN 3-404-10303-3 .
• Hero hunt. Thriller ("The unknown"). Lübbe-Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 1987, ISBN 3-7857-0444-5 .
• Operation Enigma. Historical novel ( "The enigma"). Scherz Verlag, Bern 1979, ISBN 3-502-10035-7 .
• Nothing will be like it used to be. Novel . Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1982