Michael Berkowitz

Michael Berkowitz
Born
Academic background
Alma materHobart College
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Doctoral advisorGeorge L. Mosse[1]
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.[2]

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.[3][4]

Career

Since 2012, Berkowitz has been editor of Jewish Historical Studies: Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England.[3][5] Berkowitz has a particular interest in the history of the Jewish involvement in photography.[6]

Publications

  • Jews and Photography in Britain (University of Texas Press, 2015)[5]
  • The Crime of My Very Existence: Nazism and the Myth of Jewish Criminality (University of California Press, 2007)[5]
  • 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)[5]
  • Western Jewry and the Zionist Project, 1914-1933 (Cambridge University Press, 1997, 2002)[5]
  • Zionist Culture and West European Jewry before the First World War (Cambridge University Press, 1993 and University of North Carolina Press, 1996).[5]

References

  1. ^ https://mosseprogram.wisc.edu/2022/01/03/stovall/
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ a b "Iris View Profile". iris.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  4. ^ Staff (ndg). "Fellow Dr. Michael Berkowitz". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  5. ^ a b c d e f UCL. "Prof Michael Berkowitz". UCL Hebrew & Jewish Studies. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  6. ^ "How Jews shot their way into Britain's photographic memory". timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 16 August 2018.