Michael Berkowitz
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 451762 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michael Berkowitz |
| PRENOMES | Michael |
| SOBRENOME | Berkowitz |
| ASSINATURA | BERKOWITZ M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University College London |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 54 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1977 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The Afterlife of Moses
Everyday Zionism in East-Central Europe
Jan Rybak's Everyday Zionism in East-Central Europe: Nation Building in War and Revolution, 1914–1920 is a refreshingly expansive, richly suggestive study. Its superb analysis complements those of his contemporaries, Brendan McGeever and William Pimlott, for the respective cases of Jewish support for Bolshevism in the early Soviet Union and the vitality of the Yiddish press in London's East End. Each of them reveals that Zionism penetrated Jewish…
Fascination with the Persecutor
Out of the Whirlwind Reconsidered
This article argues that Albert Friedlander’s edited book, Out of the Whirlwind (1968), should be recognised as pathbreaking. Among the first to articulate the idea of ‘Holocaust literature’, it established a body of texts and contextualised these as a way to integrate literature – as well as historical writing, music, art and poetry – as critical to an understanding of the Holocaust. This article also situates Out of the Whirlwind through the pe…
On Cazenave's Archive of the Catastrophe and McGlothlin, Prager, and Zisselsberger's Construction of Testimony
On Cazenave's Archive of the Catastrophe and McGlothlin, Prager, and Zisselsberger's Construction of Testimony Michael Berkowitz An Archive of the Catastrophe: The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann's Shoah. By Jennifer Cazenave. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2019. 313 pp., ISBN 9781438474779, $95.00 The Construction of Testimony: Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and Its Outtakes. Edited by Erin McGlothlin, Brad Prager, and Markus Zisselsberger. Detroit, MI: Way…
Israel and Jewish communities worldwide
Photography’s Jewish affinities
This article explores previously undervalued aspects of Zionist and Israeli visual culture in light of the (newly recognized) significance of Jews in the history of photography. Zionism and the emergence of the State of Israel accrued a great deal of good will and benevolent publicity due to the historical confluence between Jews and the rise of photojournalism especially from the 1920s to the 1950s. The first part of the article focuses on Rober…
Stefan Lux (1888–1936)
In 1936 Stefan Lux, a Jew born in Vienna, and naturalized in Czchoslovakia, shot himself during a session of the League of Nations in Geneva. The situation would become much more dire for German Jews in the coming years, and few sensed that anything akin to the Holocaust was in store. Lux believed he had timed his suicide precisely to bring attention to, and counteract, the problem of “statelessness” that was on the agenda of the League. Lux also…
The Life of Mario von Bucovich
Despite the wide circulation of his photographs (to the present day) and popularity of his publications (from the 1920s to the 40s), there has been limited interest in Mario von Bucovich in the history of photography, which may reflect a somewhat ungenerous assessment. Although much of his work was conventional, he was a creative and talented photographer. He also took the initiative to produce books of his photographs dedicated to New York and v…
Loyal sons
Loyal sons: Jews in the German army in the Great War." Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 16(3), pp. 518–519
E. Lawrence Levy and Muscular Judaism 1851–1932
Britain together
A British-Jewish Film Genre? Consider Gasbags (1941)
There is sparse comment on the feature-length movie Gasbags (Marcel Varnel, Walter Forde, UK, 1941), which starred Bud Flanagan (1896–1968, born Chaim Weintrop), the leader of the “Crazy Gang” comedy troupe and a performer clearly marked as a Jew. Gasbags is in many respects comparable to Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator (USA, 1940) and, similarly, includes a schlemiel posing as Hitler. Jewish elements are prominent in other Crazy Gang films,…
On Photography
produced an attractive, erudite, readable yet sophisticated work on Benjamin, specifically, his "key statements on photography"
Prevalence of Human papillomavirus (HPV) and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) in oral and oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma in south-eastern Poland
In major patients from Southeastern region of Poland with oropharyngeal cancer HPV type 16 was detected but in oral cavity cancer other mixed infections were observed (i.e. 51, 52, 59, 66, 68, 71, 74). HPV 16 was detected more often among patients younger than 50 years of age, whereas the mixed HPV in the group aged 50-59. The pathogenesis of oral squamous cell carcinoma may be connected with EBV infection. Future studies on the mechanisms of HPV…
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Globalization
For nearly a century scholars have recognized nationalism as a dominant force in the modern world. Among the early notable analyses was that of Carlton J.H. Hayes, who begins by asserting: “The most significant emotional factor in public life today is nationalism. Of the current age it is the mark at once intense and universal” (Hayes 1933, 1). Is it dormant anywhere in the second decade of the twenty-first century? There is, understandably, a gl…
Emma Goldman's Radical Trajectory
The enduring legacy of Emma Goldman may be more of a factor in American Jewish politics and identity, especially among women, than is typically assumed. In order to gain a better sense of her positive resonance it may help to revisit Goldman's origins and intellectual development from under-exploited vantage points. An immense body of historiography is devoted to Goldman. Yet her birthplace, Kovno [Kaunas], Lithuania, and her initial United State…
The Origins of Zionist Tourism in Mandate Palestine
What came to be recognized as a firm pattern and essential components of Zionist tourism emerged during the British Mandate for Palestine. Tourist sites originating from earlier archaeological digs and ongoing work became integral to this effort. All varieties of archaeology were appropriated in the Zionist itinerary, but the movement did not typically spearhead such excavations. Still, important lessons were learned during the Mandate that would…
Jews in Photography”
This article explores the initial attempt to write a comprehensive overview of the involvement of Jews in photography. To the editorial board of the Encyclopaedia Judaica in the late 1960s, it was self-evident that Jews were represented well out of proportion to their number in the field of photography, and therefore, their project demanded that this be dealt with in a general article and individual entries. Peter Pollack, a pioneering curator an…
Jewish Fighters in Britain in Historical Context
Despite Jewish boxers being plentiful and among its leaders for more than a century, and vital on the business side to the present, until recently there has been relatively little scholarly attention paid to the phenomenon. A Jewish Museum exhibition in 2007 revealed, however, intense interest in the subject. Prior to boxing becoming marginalized in British society in the last three or four decades, it was regarded suspiciously by many individual…
Photographing the Jewish Nation
Murder without Hatred
by Anton Weiss‐Wendt, Syracuse, NY, Syracuse University Press, 2009, xxiii + 476 pp., US$45.00, ISBN 978‐0‐8156‐3228‐3 At first glance, the destruction of Estonian Jewry seems a tiny fragment of a
Robbing the Jews
Martin Dean's book reveals the centrality of naked greed, and the resulting impoverishment of European Jewry, in the conception and perpetration of the Holocaust. “For the Jews,” Dean asserts, “deprivation of property reduced considerably their chances for survival,” substantially abetting “the terrifying effectiveness of genocide” (p. 221). Situating his study in a context encompassing political and legal developments, Dean states that “until th…
Zionist culture and West European Jewry before the First World War
This book investigates Zionism's reception by bourgeois West European Jews from 1897 to 1914, with regard to the movement's approach toward those who were not ...
Western Jewry and the Zionist Project, 1914–1933
Preface Introduction 1. Manly men and the attempted appropriation of the war experience 2. A new pantheon: the portrayal of Zionist leaders in the West 3. Dollars and the changing sense of Zionism 4. Fundraising and catastrophe 5. 'From swamp to settlement': rural and urban utopian visions 6. Nationalized tourism in Palestine 7. Idealism, realism, and sociability in Western Zionist youth organizations 8. Cold embrace: the reception of Hasassah an…
Jewish Cattle Traders in the German Countryside, 1919-1939
The stigma of names
Murder without Hatred
by Anton Weiss‐Wendt, Syracuse, NY, Syracuse University Press, 2009, xxiii + 476 pp., US$45.00, ISBN 978‐0‐8156‐3228‐3 At first glance, the destruction of Estonian Jewry seems a tiny fragment of a
Photography as a Jewish business
The Man Nobody Liked
flattering. In 1880 a writer in Harper's Magazine expressed a common view: purpose of agent ... is to let loose upon truant scholars and nonattendants legal 'dogs of war,' and woe be to hapless urchin who becomes object of his terrible eye. Petitions, complaints, warrants, and commitments are hurled at his devoted head, until he is thrust headlong into Attendance School-a sort of earthly purgatory. In 1918 supervisor of attendance in Milwaukee co…
The Origins of Zionist Tourism in Mandate Palestine
What came to be recognized as a firm pattern and essential components of Zionist tourism emerged during the British Mandate for Palestine. Tourist sites originating from earlier archaeological digs and ongoing work became integral to this effort. All varieties of archaeology were appropriated in the Zionist itinerary, but the movement did not typically spearhead such excavations. Still, important lessons were learned during the Mandate that would…
Toward an understanding of fundraising, philanthropy and charity in Western Zionism, 1897-1933
Although scholarship on the ‘third sector’ has successfully integrated Jewish history and the contemporary Jewish scene (including the State of Israel) into its overall agenda, the Zionist movement in Western Europe and the United States, before 1933, is largely absent. This is mainly because, almost until the present, spokespersons for the movement have denied that Zionism is a charity. It may seem obvious that Zionism relied on the tradition of…
Jewish Fighters in Britain in Historical Context
Despite Jewish boxers being plentiful and among its leaders for more than a century, and vital on the business side to the present, until recently there has been relatively little scholarly attention paid to the phenomenon. A Jewish Museum exhibition in 2007 revealed, however, intense interest in the subject. Prior to boxing becoming marginalized in British society in the last three or four decades, it was regarded suspiciously by many individual…
The Man Nobody Liked
flattering. In 1880 a writer in Harper's Magazine expressed a common view: purpose of agent ... is to let loose upon truant scholars and nonattendants legal 'dogs of war,' and woe be to hapless urchin who becomes object of his terrible eye. Petitions, complaints, warrants, and commitments are hurled at his devoted head, until he is thrust headlong into Attendance School-a sort of earthly purgatory. In 1918 supervisor of attendance in Milwaukee co…
The Stigma of Names
Zionist Culture and West European Jewry before the First World War.
Courage Under Siege
(1994). Courage Under Siege: Starvation, disease, and death in the Warsaw Ghetto. History of European Ideas: Vol. 18, No. 6, pp. 949-950
Redemption and Utopia. Jewish Libertarian thought in Central Europe. A study in elective affinity
Language in time of revolution
The stigma of names
The broken staff
Modernity within tradition
(1995). Modernity within tradition: the social history of Jewish orthodoxy in Imperial Germany. History of European Ideas: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 67-74
Reflections on Nazism
Images of Sephardi and Eastern Jewries in transition
Zionist Culture and West European Jewry before the First World War
Defenders of the Race
Toward an understanding of fundraising, philanthropy and charity in Western Zionism, 1897-1933
Although scholarship on the ‘third sector’ has successfully integrated Jewish history and the contemporary Jewish scene (including the State of Israel) into its overall agenda, the Zionist movement in Western Europe and the United States, before 1933, is largely absent. This is mainly because, almost until the present, spokespersons for the movement have denied that Zionism is a charity. It may seem obvious that Zionism relied on the tradition of…
The Jews of Chicago
Zionist Culture and West European Jewry before the First World War
The Israeli-American Connection
This work examines the ways in which the American experience influenced six leaders of the Yishuv, the Jewish settlement in Palestine, during and between the World Wars, a crucial time for the development of the framework for statehood and the Hebrew-speaking society.
Robert S. Wistrich and European Jewish History
in Modern Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, can hardly be considered a senior scholar for whom the major part of his work is behind him.Yet the sheer amount and range of his writing would be staggering even if he had been active in the historical profession since World War II.It may come as a surprise to learn that he was born in the Soviet Union in 1945.Among the post-Second World War generation of scholars, Wistrich, who was…
The New Niagara
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 171 consumers and producers over the cultural meaning of nylon (and celluloid, Bakelite, and other synthetic materials) to be extremely suggestive and a model for others to follow. Some readers may feel that Meikle indulges too often in cultural criticism. Thus, for instance, he detects ominous meaning in Edwin E. Slosson’s 1919 best-seller, Creative Chemistry, when Slosson com pares chemical polymerization to…
The New Niagara
Viewing the Jewish Masses Easing (?) and Interpreting Entry to the New World
Jewish Thought and Theology
Nationalism, Zionism and Ethnic Mobilization of the Jews in 1900 and Beyond
This volume engages diverse topics such as art, music, and radio broadcasting in the development of modern Jewish nationalism by leading scholars in their respective fields. It contains richly detailed studies that challenge existing historiography--from personal struggles with nationalism, to the lesser-known origins of the Balfour Declaration, from boisterous demonstrations on the streets of pre-World War I Galicia, to skirmishes between Jews i…
The Nazi equation of Jewish partisans with ‘bandits’ and its consequences
This article deals with the history of Jewish partisans during the Second World War, with the general aim of encouraging further research into the subject. Despite the facts that partisan activity was a significant part of the war experience for Jews, and an important dimension of the conduct of the war against the Third Reich and its accomplices, the history of Jewish partisans occupies only a minute portion of Holocaust and World War II histori…
The Crime of My Very Existence
The Crime of My Very Existence investigates a rarely considered yet critical dimension of anti-Semitism that was instrumental in the conception and perpetration of the Holocaust: the association of Jews with criminality. Drawing from a rich body of documentary evidence, including memoirs and little-studied photographs, Michael Berkowitz traces the myths and realities pertinent to the discourse on "Jewish criminality" from the eighteenth century t…
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