Michael Berkowitz is a UK-based American historian and professor of modern Jewish history at

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Early life

Berkowitz was born in

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. He earned a bachelor's degree from Hobart College in

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, and a master's degree and PhD from the

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Career

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

Publications

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

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Berkowitz, Michael 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Living people Academics of University College London Hobart and William Smith Colleges alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni Historians of Jews and Judaism 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers Historians of photography 20th-century American male writers Photography academics Year of birth missing (living people)