Natan Sznaider
Natan Sznaider (born October 6, 1954 in Mannheim ) is an Israeli sociologist . He teaches at the Academic College in Tel Aviv .
Life
Natan Sznaider was born in Mannheim in 1954 as the child of stateless survivors of the Shoah from Poland . At the age of 20 he went to Israel and initially worked in various kibbutzim . In August 1993, Sznaider married an Israeli historian, and their daughter was born the following year.
Academic career
Natan Sznaider began studying sociology , psychology , history and philosophy at Tel Aviv University in 1977 . In 1984 he moved to Columbia University in New York City , where he received his doctorate in 1992 with the thesis "The Social History of Compassion". In the same year he started to work for the Leo Baeck Institute in Berlin.
He has taught at Columbia, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem , the LMU Munich and has been teaching since 1994, initially as an associate professor for sociology at the Tel Aviv University of Applied Sciences , where he has held the chair for sociology since 1996. His research focuses on cultural sociology , political theory , Hannah Arendt , globalization , cosmopolitanism , memory and the Shoah.
Meurer controversy
When Friedbert Meurer in a DLF interview on the Gaza conflict in 2014 on August 2, 2014 insisted to Sznaider that Sznaider had to show compassion for the other side in view of the only three Israeli civilian victims and the 1,000 Palestinian civilians who died, Sznaider felt this as an outrageous allusion to the fact that Israel does not have enough dead. The CDU politician and former GDR civil rights activist Vera Lengsfeld saw Meurer's interview as an example of the perfidy of reporting on Israel.
Fonts
- The Compassionate Temperament: Care and Cruelty in Modern Society. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland, USA 2000, ISBN 0-8476-9556-5 .
- About compassion in capitalism . Provincial Library, 2000, ISBN 3-901862-08-0 .
- with Daniel Levy: Memories in the Global Age: The Holocaust . 2001. (updated new edition: Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-45870-9 )
- in English: The Holocaust and Memory in the Global Age . Temple University Press 2006, ISBN 1-59213-276-6 .
- with Ulrich Beck and Rainer Winter : Global America? The cultural consequences of globalization. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2003, ISBN 3-89942-172-8 .
- with Ulrich Speck: Empire America. Perspectives of a New World Order . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt 2003, ISBN 3-421-05798-2 .
- with Angelika Poferl: Ulrich Beck's cosmopolitan project. Nomos 2004, ISBN 3-8329-0654-1 .
- The negative justification of human rights. In: Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha (ed.): Culture and justice. (= Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies / Interdisciplinary Studies on Culture and Society. Volume 2). Baden-Baden 2007, ISBN 978-3-8329-2604-5 .
- Europe as a memory space. The visions of European cosmopolitanism . A Jewish perspective. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-89942-692-2 .
- with Daniel Levy: Human Rights and Memory. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-271-03738-7 .
- Jewish Memory and the Cosmopolitan Order. Polity Press, Cambridge 2011, ISBN 978-0-7456-4796-8 .
- with Doron Rabinovici : Herzl relo @ ded - No fairy tale . Suhrkamp, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-633-54276-5 .
- Societies in Israel - An Introduction in Ten Pictures . Suhrkamp, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-633-54285-7 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Natan Sznaider in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jan Feddersen : Israeli sociologist on remembrance: “What does it mean to be forgiving?” In: The daily newspaper . January 25, 2020 (Interview with Natan Sznaider).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Natan Sznaider at Suhrkamp
- ↑ a b c d Natan Sznaider at the provincial library
- ↑ a b Natan Sznaider at Social Trends Institute
- ↑ Where are you from? Interview with Natan Sznaider as part of the exhibition project "In which world do we want to live?", Dilemma Verlag (accessed on January 18, 2018)
- ↑ Interview in Deutschlandfunk from August 2, 2014.
- ↑ Vera Lengsfeld: The dead in Israel are not enough for Deutschlandfunk. Achgut dated August 3, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sznaider, Natan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli sociologist and book author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 6, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | near Mannheim |