Shulamit Volkov (; born October 12, 1942) is an Israeli historian, specializing in the history of German Jews and anti-Semitism. She is professor emerita for modern European history at

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Biography

She was born in

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, studied at 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. ...

in history and philosophy (1963–1964) and then at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

(1964–1972), where she was awarded the degree of B.A. (1966), M.A. (1967) and Ph.D. (1972).

Books

*''The Rise of popular Antimodernism in Germany. The Urban Master Artisans,1873–1896'', Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton N.J. 1978 *''Jüdisches Leben und Antisemitismus im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert'', Verlag C.H.Beck, München 1990. **second edition, under the title ''Antisemitismus als Kultureller Code'', Becksche Reihe, Beck Verlag, Munich 2000 *Unity and Liberty in Germany: from Napoleon to Bismarck, ebrew() Tel Aviv 1997 *''Die Juden in Deutschland 1780–1918'', vol. 16 of the Enzyklopädie deutscher Geschichte, edited by Lothar Gall a.o., Oldenbourg Verlag, München 1994. (Second edition, 1999). **expanded and edited Hebrew version: ''Unity and Assimilation: German Jews 1780-1933)'' (), The Open University 2003 *''Das Juedische Projekt der Moderne'', Becksche Reihe, Beck Verlag, Munich 2001. *''The Magic Circle. Jews, Antisemites, and Other Germans'', ebrew() Am Oved, Tel Aviv 2002 **revised English version, ''Germans, Jews, and Antisemites. Trials in Emancipation'', Cambridge University Press. 2006 *2012: ''

Walther Rathenau Walther Rathenau (; 29 September 1867 – 24 June 1922) was a German industrialist, writer and politician who served as foreign minister of Germany from February 1922 until his assassination in June 1922. Rathenau was one of Germany's leading ...

: Weimar's Fallen Statesman'' **2014: ebrew *2022: (translated by from ''Die Juden in Deutschland 1780–1918''. The book contains an alternative title in English: ''German History through Jewish Eyes. Another History from the Eighteenth Century to the Present) She is also an editor of several monographs.

Awards and recognition

*1998: Friedrich-Gundolf-Preis. From citation: "... whose work shows that the communication of German culture today consists first and foremost in the effort to find the truth, even if it is bitter".Shulamit Volkov
profile from Friedrich-Gundolf-Preis *2006: member of the

Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, based in Jerusalem, was established in 1961 by the State of Israel to foster contact between Israeli scholars in the sciences and humanities and create a think tank for advising the government on res ...

*2014: honorary doctorate from the

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 ...

דוקטור לשם כבוד ליוסי ורדי
December 1, 2014

References

External links

Profile at the Tel Aviv UniversityProfile at the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
{{DEFAULTSORT:Volkov, Szulamit 1942 births Living people Israeli historians Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni Academic staff of Tel Aviv University