Yechiam Weitz (; born 1951) is an Israeli professor and historian.

Biography

Yechiam Weitz is the grandson of Yosef Weitz, director of the Land and Afforestation Department of the

Jewish National Fund The Jewish National Fund (JNF; , ''Keren Kayemet LeYisrael''; previously , ''Ha Fund HaLeumi'') is a non-profit organizationProfessor Alon Tal, The Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, The Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben Gurion ...

, whose son Yechiam was killed in a

Palmach The Palmach (Hebrew: , acronym for , ''Plugot Maḥatz'', "Strike Phalanges/Companies") was the elite combined strike forces and sayeret unit of the Haganah, the paramilitary organization of the Yishuv (Jewish community) during the period of th ...

operation in 1946. Weitz obtained his B.A. in history and philosophy in 1977, and his M.A. in history in 1982, from the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; ) is an Israeli public university, public research university based in Jerusalem. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizmann in July 1918, the public university officially opened on 1 April 1925. ...

. He obtained his PhD in 1988, also from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, on the topic of "The Attitude of Mapai Towards the Destruction of European Jewry 1939-1945," supervised by Yisrael Gutman.Prof. Yechiam Weitz
Faculty of Humanities, University of Haifa, accessed October 12, 2009.

Academic career

Weitz teaches at the Department of Land of Israel Studies at the

University of Haifa The University of Haifa (, ) is a public research university located on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel. Founded in 1963 as a branch of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Haifa received full academic accreditation as an inde ...

. He is the editor of ''Between Vision and Revision: One Hundred Years of Zionist Historiography'' (1994) and author of a book about Rudolf Kastner, ''Ha-Ish she-Nirtsah Paamayim'' ("The Man who was Murdered Twice")

Published works

* ''From Fighting Underground to Political Party'' Ben-Gurion Research Center,

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) (, ''Universitat Ben-Guriyon baNegev'') is a public university, public research university in Beersheba, Israel. Named after Israeli List of national founders, national founder David Ben-Gurion, the unive ...

*"The Man who was Murdered Twice"

Yad Vashem Yad Vashem (; ) is Israel's official memorial institution to the victims of Holocaust, the Holocaust known in Hebrew language, Hebrew as the (). It is dedicated to preserving the memory of the Jews who were murdered; echoing the stories of the ...

, 2011 * The Holocaust on Trial: The Impact of the Kasztner and Eichmann Trials on Israeli Society, ''Israel Studies'', Volume 1, Number 2, Fall 1996, pp. 1–26 * The Herut Movement and the Kasztner Trial, ''Holocaust and Genocide Studies'',

Oxford University Press Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world. Its first book was printed in Oxford in 1478, with the Press officially granted the legal right to print books ...

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Historians offer post-mortem on Labor split
Living people Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni Israeli historians Academic staff of the University of Haifa 1951 births Hebrew University Secondary School alumni {{Israel-historian-stub