Moshe Zimmermann

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Moshe Zimmermann (born December 25, 1943 in Jerusalem ) is an Israeli historian . He was visiting professor in Germany for several years .

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Zimmermann's parents were Hamburg Jews and fled to the British mandate of Palestine during the Nazi era in 1937 . The father, a law-abiding Jew, became a teacher and director at the "enlightened Orthodox" Jerusalem school Ma`ale. Zimmermann also attended this school and obtained the Israeli school leaving certificate Bagrut . With this, Moshe got to know the world of religious Jews as well as normal “profane” knowledge. The authors of the commemorative publication on Zimmermann's 60th birthday (see below) award him “Jewish erudition” even when he finished school. Zimmermann later turned away from the "standards of the religion of law". He began studying history with the historian Jacob Talmon . This made him familiar with the paramount importance of the “ French Revolution and its upheavals”. However, Zimmermann's preferred field of work became German history after the French Revolution. At the beginning of 1977 he received his doctorate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a thesis supervised by Talmon on the emancipation of the Jews in Hamburg from 1830 to 1865, a time of emerging German nationalism . He had to learn the German language, which his parents had deliberately withheld, for this and the following work. In the early 1970s, Zimmermann began an extended research stay in Hamburg. His passion for football, which was also present, was therefore directed towards HSV . In 1982 his biography of the anarchist and anti-Semite Wilhelm Marr was published. From 1986 until his retirement in 2012, Zimmermann held a professorship for modern history, especially German history, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was also director of the Richard Koebner Center for German History there.

His main research interests are German social history from the 18th to 20th centuries as well as the history of German Jews , anti-Semitism , film and the history of sports .

In 2005, Federal Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer appointed Zimmermann to the Independent Commission of Historians - Foreign Office to examine the history of the office under National Socialism and how it dealt with this past after 1945.

He taught as a visiting professor in Jena , Halle , Heidelberg , Kassel ( Franz Rosenzweig guest professorship ), Munich and Princeton . In Germany he published numerous articles on German-Jewish history, German-Israeli relations, remembrance work and the Holocaust, as well as on the subject of Europe. For his research, Zimmermann received the Rudolf Küstermeier Prize of the Israeli-German Society (1990), the Humboldt Prize (1993), the Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm Prize of the DAAD (1997), and the Dr.-Leopold-Lucas Prize of the University of Tübingen (2002) and the Lessing Prize for Criticism (2006).

Politically, Zimmermann is critical of Prime Minister Netanyahu's policies and also criticizes the "appropriation of the Shoah" for current Israeli politics.

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Monographs

  • Hamburg patriotism and German nationalism. The emancipation of the Jews in Hamburg 1830–1865 (= Hamburg contributions to the history of German Jews. 6). Christians, Hamburg 1979, ISBN 3-7672-0557-2 . Revised version of Zimmermann's 1977 thesis in Hebrew and accepted by the Faculty of Humanities at Jerusalem University.
  • Turn in Israel. Between nation and religion (= construction paperbacks. 8501). Aufbau-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-7466-8501-X .
  • The German Jews 1914–1945 (= Encyclopedia of German History . 43). Oldenbourg, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-486-55082-9 .
  • Goliath's trap. Israelis and Palestinians in a stranglehold (= construction paperbacks. 8101). Aufbau-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-7466-8101-4 .
  • German-Jewish past. The hatred of Jews as a challenge. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2005, ISBN 3-506-70120-7 .
  • Germans against Germans. The fate of the Jews 1938–1945. Structure, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-351-02670-7 .
  • The fear of peace. The Israeli Dilemma. Structure, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-351-02717-9 .
  • From the Rhine to the Jordan. The German sources of Israel (= Jena Center History of the 20th Century, Lectures and Colloquia. 18). Wallstein, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8353-1711-6 .

Editorships

  • with Eckart Conze , Norbert Frei and Peter Hayes : The Office and the Past. German diplomats in the Third Reich and in the Federal Republic. Blessing, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-89667-430-2 .
  • with Michael Nagel: hostility towards Jews and anti-Semitism in the German press for five centuries. Appearances, reception, debate and resistance. = Five hundred years of Jew-hatred and anti-Semitism in the German press. Manifestations and reactions (= press and history. New articles. 73–74 = The Jewish press. Communication history in Europe. 14–15). 2 volumes. Edition Lumière, Bremen 2013, ISBN 978-3-943245-10-3 (vol. 1) and ISBN 978-3-943245-11-0 (vol. 2).

literature

  • Dan Diner , Gideon Reuveni, Yfaat Weiss (eds.): German times. History and life world. Festschrift on the retirement of Moshe Zimmermann. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen et al. 2012, ISBN 978-3-525-30164-7 .

Web links

Commons : Moshe Zimmermann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ^ Website of the Jena Center .
  2. ^ Moshe Zimmermann: Wilhelm Marr - The Patriarch of Antisemitism . Translation from Hebrew, first Hebrew in 1982. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986 ISBN 0-19-504005-8 . P. 9ff.
  3. ↑ https://koebner.huji.ac.il/people/staff/ameriti
  4. ↑ Dan Diner, Gideon Reuveni, Yfaat Weiss (ed.): Deutsche Zeiten. History and life world. Festschrift on the retirement of Moshe Zimmermann. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen et al. 2012, ISBN 978-3-525-30164-7 , p. 9.
  5. ↑ Independent Commission of Historians , Auswaertiges-amt.de, October 28, 2010, accessed on December 17, 2010. See website of the Commission of Historians: Independent Commission of Historians to review the history of the Foreign Office in the time of National Socialism and in the Federal Republic ( Memento from 3 February 2011 in the Internet Archive ), uni-marburg.de, accessed on December 17, 2010.
  6. ^ Website of the Jena Center .
  7. ↑ Richard C. Schneider: Between the Mediterranean and Jordan . Israel's culture of remembrance. tagesschau.de, November 11, 2013, archived from the original on November 11, 2013 ; Retrieved November 11, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Zimmermann, Moshe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tsimerman, Moshe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Jerusalem