Yaacov Lozowick
Yaacov Lozowick (* 1957 in Bad Kreuznach ) is an Israeli historian .
education
At the Hebrew University in Jerusalem he completed a bachelor's degree in history and Jewish philosophy in 1982 , received a diploma in education in 1984 and graduated in 1989 with a master's degree in contemporary Judaism . In 1995 he received his PhD from the Hebrew University with Saul Friedländer . His widely acclaimed doctoral thesis was published in Germany in 2000 by Pendo-Verlag under the title "Hitler's Bureaucrats. Eichmann, his willing executors and the banality of evil ".
Career
From 1990 he taught history at the Paul-Himmelfarb- Gymnasium in Jerusalem. From 1986 to 1989 he taught modern Jewish history at the WUJS Academy there. After working on a Yad Vashem research project since 1982 , he was director of seminars for foreign educators at the "International School for Holocaust Studies", Yad Vashem, from 1989 to 1993. In 1991 he initiated the first German-language seminars for teachers and educators, following a suggestion made by the Austrian political scientist Andreas Maislinger .
From 1993 to 2007 he was director of the archives in Yad Vashem.
Publications
- Hitler's bureaucrats. Pendo-Verlag, Zurich Munich 2000 ISBN 3-85842-390-4
- Israel's struggle for existence. A moral defense of his wars. Konkret Literatur Verlag, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-89458-237-5
Footnotes
- ↑ "Transforming guilt into understanding" , The Jerusalem Post International Edition Week, January 23, 1993rd
- ^ Seminar in Yad Vashem (DÖW-Mitteilungen, 123 / 9.1995)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lozowick, Yaacov |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Kreuznach |