Moshe Gammer
Moshe Gammer ( Hebrew משה גמר; born September 24, 1950 , d. April 16, 2013 ) was an Israeli historian . His focus was on the history of Central Asia and the Caucasus in the 19th and 20th centuries. He is considered the most prominent expert on the tsarist conquest of the Caucasus .
life and work
Moshe Gammer was born in 1950 in what was then the Soviet Union . He emigrated to Israel in 1960 and initially studied at Tel Aviv University . From 1983 to 1989 he studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science and received his doctorate with Elie Kedourie with a dissertation on " Shamil and the Muslim resistance to the Russian conquest of the Northeast Caucasus". Until his death he was a professor in the Department of History of the Middle East and Africa at Tel Aviv University.
In his academic and journalistic activities, Gammer dealt mainly with the history of the Chechen and Dagestani resistance to Russian colonization and the spread of Sufi orders throughout the Caucasus. His article "The Beginning of the Naqshbandīya in Dagestan and the Russian Conquest of the Caucasus" appeared in the journal Die Welt des Islam in 1994 . An article on "The Qādirīya in the North Caucasus" was published in 2000 in the Journal of the History of Sufism .
Gammer regularly organized scientific conferences in Israel, the US and the EU on the history and culture of the North Caucasus , especially Dagestan. After several months of illness, he died unexpectedly on April 16, 2013 and was buried in Petach Tikwa . He was married and had a daughter.
Publications (selection)
- Muslim resistance to the tsar . Routledge , 1992. ISBN 0-7146-3431-X .
- 'Proconsul of the Caucasus': a Re-examination of Yermolov . Social Studies, March 2003. Online
- The Lone Wolf and the Bear. Three Centuries of Chechen Defiance of Russian Rule. Hurst, London 2006.
- Moshe Gammer and David J. Wasserstein: Daghestan and the world of Islam. Academia Scientiarum Fennica, Helsinki 2006. ISBN 9789514109454 .
- Ethno-Nationalism, Islam and the State in the Caucasus: Post-Soviet Disorder. (Eds.) Routledge, 2008. ISBN 978-0-415-42345-8 .
- Ingeborg Baldauf , Moshe Gammer and Thomas Loy: Bukharan Jews in the 20th Century: History, Experience and Narration. Reichert Verlag , Wiesbaden 2008. ISBN 978-3895006388 .
- Moshe Gammer (Ed.) Islam and Sufism in Daghestan . Sastamala: Finnish Academy of Science and Letters . 2009
- Empire and Mountains: The Case of Russia and the Caucasus. Social Studies, September 2013. Online
- Separatism in the Northern Caucasus . Caucasus Survey, 2014. Online
Web links
- Ron Sela: "In Memoriam Moshe Gammer (1950-2013)" , April 17, 2013
- Rebecca Ruth Gould: “Why Daghestan is Good to Think: Moshe Gammer, Daghestan, and Global Islamic History” , Written Culture in Daghestan , ed. Moshe Gammer (Helsinki: Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, 2015), 17–40 (with an overview about the work of Moshe Gammer).
- Public lecture, 1st of 3 parts at Ilia University , Tbilisi (English)
- Rebecca Ruth Gould: "Moshe Gammer, 1950-2013: Historian of the Caucasus" , Perspectives on History: The Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association 52.6 (2013): 46-47.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gammer, Moshe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | משה גמר (Hebrew) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 24, 1950 |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 16, 2013 |