Mirjam Zadoff

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Mirjam Zadoff at the NS Documentation Center in Munich, 2019

Mirjam Zadoff , née Mirjam Triendl (born 1974 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian historian and director of the NS Documentation Center in Munich .

Life

Mirjam Zadoff studied history and Jewish studies at the University of Vienna . From 2001 to 2002 she was a member of the Historians' Commission of the Republic of Austria , which, on behalf of the Austrian government, researched the “asset deprivation” during the Nazi era, as well as returns and compensation measures that have taken place since then.

In 2006 she did her doctorate summa cum laude with Michael Brenner in the subjects of modern and contemporary history as well as Jewish history and culture at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Your dissertation next year in Marienbad. The opposite worlds of modern Jewish cultures was awarded the Dissertation Prize by the LMU and the Peregrinus Foundation Prize by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . The English translation received the American Academy for Jewish Research's Salo W. Baron Prize. In 2014 Mirjam Zadoff published her habilitation thesis Der Rote Job. Werner Scholem. A German Life at Verlag Carl Hanser (awarded the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History from the Wiener Library , London). 

From 2014 to 2019 she was Professor of History and holder of the Alvin H. Rosenfeld Chair in Jewish Studies at Indiana University Bloomington . Guest professorships and fellowships have brought her to Berkeley, Zurich, Berlin, Augsburg, London and Jerusalem.

Since May 2018, she has been the successor to founding director Winfried Nerdinger, head of the NS Documentation Center in Munich , where she is responsible for the exhibition, event and education program.

Mirjam Zadoff is a member of the University Council of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and an extraordinary member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

She is married to the historian Noam Zadoff and lives in Munich.

Awards

Publications

  • Next year in Marienbad. Opposite worlds of modern Jewish cultures. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 3-525-56995-5 .
  • Red Job. The life of Werner Scholem. Hanser, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-446-24622-5 .

Web links

Commons : Mirjam Zadoff  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. habil. Mirjam Zadoff - Faculty of Cultural Studies - LMU Munich. Retrieved August 13, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Lost Worlds - LMU Munich. Retrieved August 13, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Previous Fraenkel Prize Winners - Wiener Library. Retrieved August 13, 2020 .
  4. ^ Muenchen.de: The new director of the NS Documentation Center in Munich. Retrieved August 13, 2020 .
  5. ↑ NS Dokuzentrum - Team. Retrieved August 13, 2020 .
  6. ^ Academy of Fine Arts Munich - University Council. Retrieved August 13, 2020 .
  7. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Academy elects new members from science. Retrieved August 13, 2020 .
  8. ↑ a b c d Mirjam Zadoff. Archived from the original on March 15, 2019 ; accessed on July 27, 2019 (English).
  9. ^ Next year in Marienbad. Retrieved August 13, 2020 .
  10. ↑ The red job - books - Hanser literary publishers. Retrieved August 13, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Zadoff, Mirjam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Triendl, Mirjam (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian and director of the NS Documentation Center in Munich
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck