Shulamit Volkov

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Shulamit Volkov ( Hebrew שולמית וולקוב, Transcription Schulamit Wolkov ; born December 10, 1942 in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli historian specializing in the history of German Jews and anti-Semitism . She is professor emerita for modern European history at Tel Aviv University . In Germany she became known with her biography about Walther Rathenau .

Life

Shulamit Volkov was born in Tel Aviv, in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine . Her mother came from a family of Hebrew- speaking Zionists who immigrated to Palestine in 1912 from Berditschew - then in the Russian Empire . Her mother moved to Germany from the newly emerging Tel Aviv to study physics and later medicine in Heidelberg and Berlin. In Berlin she met Rudolf Otto Heinsheimer . She left Germany in mid-April 1933. Shulamith Volkov's father, the lawyer Rudolf Otto Heinsheimer, who came from an assimilated Jewish family from Baden-Baden , fled to Palestine from Germany after the Nazi regime “ seized power ” in the summer of 1933. He was one of the founders of the Ministry of Justice of the State of Israel and was involved in drafting the Israeli Declaration of Independence and the Law of Return .

In her childhood home, only Hebrew was spoken. Volkov only learned the German language during her studies. Volkov explained her fascination for Germany, the former home of her father, in an interview on the occasion of the 50th birthday of the State of Israel with the “mixture of cultural richness and the terrible events in modern history”.

Volkov lives in Herzliya , Israel. She was married to the pianist Alexander Volkov, who died in 2006, and has two children. Her son Ilan Volkov is a successful conductor.

Teaching and Research

From 1963 to 1964 Volkov studied history and philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , then at the University of California in Berkeley , where she received her doctorate in 1972 under Hans Rosenberg with a social-historical dissertation on the anti-modernist attitude of German master craftsmen in the German Empire . At Tel Aviv University she headed the history department from 1972, the Institute for German History from 1985 to 1993 and from 1989 she was professor for modern history. From 1987 to 1993 she edited the series of publications of the Institute for German History. She was visiting professor at LMU Munich , FU Berlin , Oxford University , the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and Columbia University in New York. In the college year 1989/1990 she was a research fellow at the historical college in Munich. She is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Tel Aviver yearbook for German history .

The book Germans, Jews, and Antisemites: Trials in Emancipation (2006) summarizes her essays from three decades of her research on the social history of the emancipation of German Jews and the social and cultural foundations of anti-Semitism in Germany during the nineteenth century.

Publications

  • The Rise of popular Antimodernism in Germany. The Urban Master Artisans, 1873-1896. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1978, ISBN 0-691-05264-6 .
  • Jewish Life and Anti-Semitism in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Ten essays. Beck, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-406-34761-4 (2nd edition, expanded by a register under the title: Antisemitism as a cultural code. Ten essays (= Beck'sche Reihe. Vol. 1349). Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-42149-0 ).
  • The invention of a tradition. On the emergence of modern Judaism in Germany (= writings of the historical college. Lectures. Vol. 7). Historisches Kolleg Foundation, Munich 1992 ( digitized version ).
  • The Jews in Germany 1780-1918 (= Encyclopedia of German History . Vol. 16). Oldenbourg, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-486-55059-4 (2nd, improved edition, ibid. 2000, ISBN 3-486-56481-1 ).
  • as editor: German Jews and the Modern Age (= Writings of the Historical College . Colloquia. Vol. 25). Munich 1994, ISBN 978-3-486-56029-9 ( digitized version ).
  • Iḥud ṿe-ḥerut be-Germanyah. Mi-Napoleon ʿad Bismarḳ. Miśrad ha-Biṭaḥon, Tel Aviv 1997, ISBN 965-05-0872-4 .
  • The Jewish Project of Modernity. Ten essays (= Beck series. Vol. 1421). Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-45961-7 .
  • Ba-maʿagal ha-mekhushaf. Yehudim, anṭishemim ṿe-Germanim aḥerim (= Sifriyat Ofaḳim. Vol. 230). Hotsaʾat ʿAm ʿOved, Tel Aviv 2002, ISBN 965-13-1543-1 .
    • English translation: Germans, Jews and Antisemites. Trials in Emancipation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2006, ISBN 0-521-60959-3 .
  • Walther Rathenau. Weimar's Fallen Statesman. Yale University Press, New Haven CT et al. 2012, ISBN 978-0-300-14431-4 .
    • German translation: Walther Rathenau. A Jewish Life in Germany 1867–1922. Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63926-5 .

Awards

literature

  • David Bankier (Ed.): Questions about the Holocaust. Interviews with prominent researchers and thinkers . Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0095-4 , pp. 296-313.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shulamit Volkov: The individual and the community: between fulfillment and disappointment , in: dies .: The Jewish project of modernity , Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3-406-45961-0 , p. 186.
  2. ↑ a b Shulamit Volkov: Prologue. My Father Leaves His German Homeland . In: Germans, Jews, and Antisemites. Trials in Emancipation . Cambridge University Press, 2006 ( online ).
  3. ↑ a b Gisela Dachs : The historian Shulamit Volkov calls for a new coexistence between Jews and non-Jews. In: Die Zeit , March 19, 1998. Retrieved January 26, 2013.
  4. ↑ a b Shulamit Volkov: Speech of thanks given at the 1998 Friedrich Gundolf Prize . In: German Academy for Language and Poetry. 1998 yearbook . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-89244-314-9 , p. 45-48 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Shulamit Volkov: German Émigré Historians in Israel . In: Andreas W. Daum , Hartmut Lehmann , James J. Sheehan (Eds.): The Second Generation: Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians . Berghahn Books, New York 2016, pp. 261–270.
  6. ^ Jewish Studies, University of Florida
  7. ↑ European Leo Baeck Lecture Series London 2010: Jews in Politics .
  8. ↑ Historical College - Shulamit Volkov. Retrieved September 19, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Shelley O. Baranowski. Review of Volkov, Shulamit, Germans, Jews, and Antisemites: Trials in Emancipation. H-German, H-Net Reviews. January, 2007 .
  10. ↑ Germans, Jews, and Antisemites: Trials in Emancipation by Shulamit Volkov. Review by: Geoff Eley, Central European History , Vol. 41, No. 2 (June 2008), pp. 302-305.
  11. ↑ Review note at perlentaucher.de .
  12. ↑ Michael A. Meyer: Review of Volkov, Shulamit, Walther Rathenau: Weimar's Fallen Statesman. H-Judaic, H-Net Reviews , April 2012.
  13. ^ German Academy for Language and Poetry, list of award winners
  14. ↑ Reinhart Koselleck: Laudation to Shulamit Volkov . In: German Academy for Language and Poetry Darmstadt. 1998 yearbook . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-89244-314-9 , p. 39-42 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Volkov, Shulamit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Tel Aviv