Shlomo Simonsohn
Shlomo Simonsohn Hebrew שלמה סימונסון(born October 30, 1923 in Wroclaw ; died March 14, 2019 in Tel Aviv ) was an Israeli historian.
Life
Ludwig Simonsohn was a son of the businessman Isidor Simonsohn (1894–1964) and Dorothea Wertheim. The Breslau Rabbi Max Simonsohn (1888–1936) was an uncle. Simonsohn attended school in Fulda , the birthplace of his mother. The family emigrated to Palestine in 1933 after the handover of power to the National Socialists . From 1942 to 1947 he was a member of the Haganah and was mobilized as a reserve officer in the Israeli wars of 1956, 1967 and 1973. He studied history from 1943 to 1946 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (MA) and from 1949 to 1952 at the University College of London University and received his doctorate with a dissertation on Leone da Modena . Afterwards, he also researched primarily the history of the Jews in northern Italy. From 1957 he was a lecturer, from 1968 professor of history at Tel Aviv University . From 1961 to 1965 he was in charge of the university library, which was being set up, and from 1971 to 1977 he was rector of the university and temporarily chairman of the Israeli rectors' conference. At the university he headed the Diaspora Research Institute and at times the School for Jewish Studies. In 1970 Simonsohn was one of the initiators of the Diaspora Museum Tel Aviv, which opened in 1978 .
Simonsohn was awarded the Ben Zwi Prize in 1964 and the Salman Schasar Prize in 1996. In 1976 he received the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic .
Simonsohn was married to Gabriela Manfield since 1957 and they have three children.
Fonts (selection)
- Leone da Modena . London 1953
- Responsa Ziqne Yehuda . Jerusalem 1957
- Clipeus et Gladius, Leonis Mutinensis Tractatus Antichristianus . Jerusalem 1960
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History of the Jews in the Duchy of Mantua (Hebrew) 2 volumes, Jerusalem, 1964
- History of the Jews in the Duchy of Mantua . Translation. New York 1977. ISBN 0-87068-341-1
- History of the Jews in the Duchy of Milan (Hebrew) 4 volumes, Jerusalem, 1982
- The Apostolic See and the Jews . 8 volumes. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1988–1991
- The jews in Sicily . 3 volumes. Leiden: Brill, 2001
literature
- Simonsohn, Shlomo , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 1087
- Simonsohn, Shlomo , in: Encyclopaedia Judaica
Web links
- Literature by and about Simonson, Shelomoh in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Shlomo Simonsohn in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Simonsohn, Shlomo . Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
- Shlomo Simonsohn , cv at TAU
- Shalom Berger: Obituary: Prof. Shlomo Simonsohn , hnet, March 20, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ Simonsohn, Isidor , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 345. There also the entry for Max Simonsohn, rabbi
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Simonsohn, Shlomo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Simonsohn, Ludwig (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 14, 2019 |
| Place of death | Tel Aviv |