Zvi Yavetz
Zvi Yavetz ( Hebrew צְבִי יַעְבֵץ Zvī Jaʿvetz or Ṣevî Yaʿavēṣ ; born as Harry Zucker on April 26, 1925 in Chernivtsi , Greater Romania [today Ukraine ]; died January 7, 2013 in Tel Aviv ) was an Israeli ancient historian .
Zvi Yavetz came from a family of textile manufacturers. After his mother became a victim of the Shoah in 1941 , Zvi Yavetz managed to flee to Palestine in 1942. There he witnessed the establishment of the State of Israel and studied history , classical philology and sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , where he received his doctorate in 1955 with a dissertation on the plebs urbana . In the following year he received his first lectureship in the history department at Tel Aviv University , to which he remained associated in various functions, from 1970 Chairman of the Graduate School of History. The fact that Walter Grab was able to found an institute for German history at Tel Aviv University in 1971, despite some resistance, was not least thanks to the support of Zvi Yavetz.
From 1962 to 1964 he was the founding dean of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Addis Ababa . In addition, he accepted numerous visiting professorships in Europe and the United States. a. in Munich (since 1982), Princeton , Oxford , Florence and Paris. Since 1989 he has also been a professor at Queens College in New York.
In his academic work, Yavetz not only dealt with outstanding figures from the Roman Empire such as Augustus , Tiberius and Caligula , to whom he dedicated monographs, but also dealt with their impact on their contemporary environment (Caesar in public opinion) . He also gained a high reputation with his studies on anti-Semitism in antiquity (Die Judenfeindschaft in der Antike) .
In 1990 Zvi Yavetz was honored with the Israel Prize , the highest cultural distinction in Israel. He also received honorary doctorates from the universities of Beer Scheba , Munich (1997) and Osnabrück (2001).
Fonts
- Caesar in public opinion ("Caesar. The Limits of a Charisma"). Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1979, ISBN 3-7700-0530-9
- Plebs and Princeps . Transaction Books, New Brunswick 1988, ISBN 0-88738-154-5 (reprint of the Oxford 1969 edition)
- Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Rome . New edition Transaction Books, New Brunswick, NJ 1991, ISBN 0-88738-128-6
- Tiberius and Caligula . Tel Aviv 1995
- Anti-Semitism in antiquity. The Munich Lectures . Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-42022-2
- Tiberius. The sad emperor. Biography . dtv, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-423-30833-8
- Memories of Chernivtsi. Where people and books lived . 2nd revised edition, CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-55747-7
- Emperor Augustus. A biography ("Augustus"). Rowohlt, Reinbek 2010, ISBN 978-3-498-07365-7
Web links
- Literature by and about Zvi Yavetz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Zvi Yavetz at perlentaucher.de
- Press release No. 80/2001 Osnabrück, 2001-06-14 Honorary doctorate from the university for the ancient scientist Zvi Yavetz
Individual evidence
- ^ Distinguished Israeli historian Zvi Yavetz dies at 87. In: Haaretz . Retrieved January 8, 2013
- ^ Jüdische Allgemeine , July 26, 2007.
- ^ Christian Meier : The Germans, Israel and Rome. The historian Zvi Yavetz died in Tel Aviv . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 14, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Yavetz, Zvi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ya'avēṣ, Ṣevî |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli ancient historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 26, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chernivtsi , Romania |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 7, 2013 |
| Place of death | Tel Aviv |