Michael Toch

Michael Toch (* 1946 in London ) is an Israeli historian of medieval history.

His family returned to Vienna from emigration in 1948. There Toch attended elementary school and high school. In 1964 he moved to Israel. From 1965 to 1969 he did military service. From 1969 to 1975 he studied history, philosophy and sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . From 1975 to 1978 he studied at the University of Erlangen with a doctoral scholarship from the DAAD . There he received his doctorate in 1978 with a thesis on the Nuremberg middle classes in the 15th century. He then worked as an assistant at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1984 he completed his habilitation in Jerusalem. In 1985/86 he was a Humboldt Research Fellow at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in Munich. Toch has been teaching permanently at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since 1992, as Associate Professor since 1992 and as Full Professor of Medieval History since 1998. Toch held visiting professorships in Germany, England and the USA.

Toch is one of the leading representatives of medieval economic and social history. His main research interests are the history of the Jews of the Middle Ages and early modern times in Germany and Europe, the social and economic history of medieval Germany, the history of farmers and agriculture, the history of technology and communication. In 1998, Toch published a description of the medieval history of the Jews in Germany as part of the Encyclopedia of German History . In 2013, Toch presented a standard work on Jewish history and, above all, the comparative economic and social history of the Middle Ages ( The Economic History of European Jews. Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages ).

Fonts

• The Economic History of European Jews. Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages (= Études sur le judaïsme médiéval. Volume 56). Brill, Leiden et al. 2013, ISBN 978-900-423-534-2 .
• The Jews in the Medieval Empire (= Encyclopedia of German History . Volume 44). Oldenbourg, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-486-55053-5 ; 3rd edition expanded to include a supplement. de Gruyter-Oldenbourg, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-486-71908-6 .
• (Ed.): Economic history of the medieval Jews. Questions and assessments (= writings of the historical college. Volume 71). Oldenbourg, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58670-1 , ( review ).
• Peasants and Jews in medieval Germany. Studies in cultural, social and economic history (= Variorum collected studies series. Volume 757). Ashgate Variorum, Aldershot et al. 2003, ISBN 0-86078-896-2 .
• (Ed.): The oldest account books of the Scheyern Monastery 1339–1363. Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-10406-1 .
• The Nuremberg middle classes in the 15th century (= Nuremberg workpieces on city and state history. Series of publications by the Nuremberg City Archives. Volume 26). City Archives, Nuremberg 1978, ISBN 3-87432-059-6 .

Web links

• Publications by Michael Toch in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
• Page by Michael Toch at the University of Jerusalem
• Page by Michael Toch at the University of Jerusalem

Remarks

1. ↑ See the discussion by Johannes Heil in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 47 (1999), pp. 266–267.
2. ↑ See the discussions by Wolfram Drews in: Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters , Vol. 70 (2014), pp. 347–348; Christian Scholl in: H-Soz-Kult , June 12, 2013, ( online ).