In Memoriam

Ezra Mendelsohn, a distinguished historian and cultural figure, and the Rachel and Michael Edelman Emeritus Professor of European Jewry and Holocaust Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, died in May of cancer at the age of seventy-four. Born in New York City's Upper West Side in 1940 to a prominent family, he came to academic life naturally. His father, Isaac Mendelsohn, was a professor of Semitic languages at Columbia University; his mother was a teacher of remedial reading. His sister Ora Mendelsohn Rosen was a research scientist at Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center before her demise from the disease she studied. Shortly after receiving his Ph.D from Columbia in 1966, Mendelsohn went to Israel, then basking in the post–Six Day War euphoria, to join the faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He taught there for most of his career, twice chairing the Institute of Contemporary Jewry. For more than a quarter-century he served as co-editor of Studies in Contemporary Jewry, and he co-edited Zion from 2007 until his death. He is the author and editor of seminal works in Jewish history and culture, and had the most diverse interests: art and music, history and politics, sport, class struggles, Eastern Europe, and Russia both Imperial and Soviet

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