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Uriel Tal (born December 23, 1929 in Vienna ; died 1984 in Herzlia , Israel ) was an Israeli historian .

Life

Tal, originally called Taubes, came to Palestine in 1940. He received his PhD from Jerusalem University and in 1977 became Professor of Contemporary Jewish History at Tel Aviv University . Tal was a member of the Jerusalem Board of the Leo Baeck Institute .

The main focus of his research was the relationship between religion, ideology, ethics and politics . In Germany he was best known for his study of Christian-Jewish relations in the German Empire ( Christians and Jews in Germany. Religion, Politics, and Ideology in the Second Reich 1870-1914 ). Later he dealt with the nature of modern political religions, in particular the interrelationships between the sacralization of politics on the one hand and the politicization of religion on the other. Most of his work focused on the ideological and religious conditions in Germany before and during the time of National Socialism . In the second half of his work, he increasingly dealt with the political situation in Israel in articles and essays , where, since the Six Day War , he has perceived what he saw as a disastrous rapprochement between nationalism and religious-political worldviews in Judaism .

Fonts (selection)

  • Religion, Politics and Ideology in the Third Reich. Selected essays. In Memoriam by Saul Friedländer. Routledge , London / New York 2004, ISBN 978-0714681900 .
  • Jewish and Universal Social Ethics in the Life and Thought of Albert Einstein. In: Gerald Holton , Yehuda Elkana (Ed.): Albert Einstein, Historical and Cultural Perspectives. Princeton University Press, 1982, pp. 297-318
    (reprinted in the anthology published by S. Friedländer posthumously. Religion, Politics and Ideology in the Third Reich , pp. 204-222).
  • Structures of German 'Political Theology' in the Nazi Era. Second annual lecture of the Jacob M. and Shoshana Schreiber Chair of Contemporary Jewish History, May 16, 1979. Tel Aviv 1979
    (reprinted in the anthology published by S. Friedländer posthumously. Religion, Politics and Ideology in the Third Reich , p. 87–121, limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Christians and Jews in Germany. Religion, Politics, and Ideology in the Second Reich 1870-1914. Cornell University Press, Ithaca 1975, ISBN 0801408792 .
  • Religious and Anti Religious Roots of Modern Anti Semitism. Leo Baeck Institute, New York 1971
    (reprinted in the anthology published posthumously by S. Friedländer. Religion, Politics and Ideology in the Third Reich , pp. 171–190).

literature

  • Robert Jütte : The emigration of the German-speaking "Wissenschaft des Judentums": the emigration of Jewish historians to Palestine 1933 - 1945 . Stuttgart: Steiner 1991

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saul Friedländer : Uriel Tal: In Memoriam. In: ders. (Ed.), Uriel Tal: Religion, Politics and Ideology in the Third Reich. Selected essays. In Memoriam by Saul Friedländer. London / New York 2004, p. Vii.
personal data
SURNAME Valley, Uriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 1984
Place of death Herzliya , Israel