Micha Brumlik (born 1947 in

Davos Davos (, ; or ; ; Old ) is an Alpine resort town and municipality in the Prättigau/Davos Region in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It has a permanent population of (). Davos is located on the river Landwasser, in the Rhaetian ...

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) is professor of education at the Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main,

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. From October 2000 to 2005 he was director of the Fritz Bauer Institute for the Study and Documentation of the History of the

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Early life

Brumlik was born in

, in 1947, the son of German-Jewish refugees. In 1968 and 1969, Brumlik was a student in

Jerusalem Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. It is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest cities in the world, and ...

where he became a member of the communist organization Matzpen. An early critic of Israel's treatment of Palestinians, Brumlik joined a

kibbutz A kibbutz ( / , ; : kibbutzim / ) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1910, was Degania Alef, Degania. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economi ...

and identified as an

anti-Zionist Anti-Zionism is opposition to Zionism. Although anti-Zionism is a heterogeneous phenomenon, all its proponents agree that the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, and the movement to create a sovereign Jewish state in the Palestine (region) ...

Books (selection)

* Die Gnostiker : der Traum von der Selbsterlősung der Menschen (1992) (German) * Schrift, Wort, Ikone Wege aus dem Bilderverbot (1994) (German) * Kein Weg als Deutscher und Jude Eine bundesrepublikanische Erfahrung (1996) (German) * Vernunft und Offenbarung Religionsphilosophische Versuche (2000) (German) * Deutscher Geist und Judenhaß Das Verhältnis des philosophischen Idealismus zum Judentum (2000) (German) * Bildung und Glück Versuch einer Theorie der Tugenden (2002) (German) * Aus Katastrophen lernen Grundlagen zeitgeschichtlicher Bildung in menschenrechtlicher Absicht (2004) (German) * Wer Sturm sät. Die Vertreibung der Deutschen (2005) (German) * Sigmund Freud Der Denker des 20 Jahrhunderts (2006)

References

External links

Brumlik's entry
with Goethe University {{DEFAULTSORT:Brumlik, Micha 1947 births 20th-century German Jews 20th-century Swiss Jews 21st-century German Jews 21st-century Swiss Jews Activists against antisemitism Jewish German anti-Zionists German socialists Jewish socialists Living people Opposition to antisemitism in Germany People from Davos People from Frankfurt German secular Jews Swiss socialists Swiss secular Jews