Michael Berkowitz
Born
Rochester, New York, US
Academic background
Alma materHobart College
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Doctoral advisorGeorge L. Mosse
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity College London
Main interestsHistory of Zionism, visual culture, photography

Michael Berkowitz is a UK-based American historian and professor of modern Jewish history at University College London.[1]

Early life

Berkowitz was born in Rochester, New York. He earned a bachelor's degree from Hobart College in Geneva, New York, and a master's degree and PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[2][3]

Career

Since 2012, Berkowitz has been editor of Jewish Historical Studies: Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England.[2][4] Berkowitz has a particular interest in the history of the Jewish involvement in photography.[5]

Publications

  • Jews and Photography in Britain (University of Texas Press, 2015)[4]
  • The Crime of My Very Existence: Nazism and the Myth of Jewish Criminality (University of California Press, 2007)[4]
  • The Jewish Self-Image: American and British Perspectives, 1881-1939 (Reaktion Press, 2000) [US edition: The Jewish Self Image in the West (New York University Press, 2000)[4]
  • Western Jewry and the Zionist Project, 1914-1933 (Cambridge University Press, 1997, 2002)[4]
  • Zionist Culture and West European Jewry before the First World War (Cambridge University Press, 1993 and University of North Carolina Press, 1996).[4]

References

  1. ↑ University, Harvard (16 August 2018). "Michael Berkowitz - Center for European Studies at Harvard University". Center for European Studies at Harvard University. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Iris View Profile". iris.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  3. ↑ Staff (ndg). "Fellow Dr. Michael Berkowitz". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 UCL. "Prof Michael Berkowitz". UCL Hebrew & Jewish Studies. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  5. ↑ "How Jews shot their way into Britain's photographic memory". timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
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