Jonathan Frankel (July 15, 1935 in
London
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– May 7, 2008 in
Jerusalem
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) was a historian and writer. He was a lecturer at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...
from 1964 to 1985, and a professor between 1985 and 2004.
[Steven J. Zipperstein]
Professor Jonathan Frankel: Historian of modern Jewry
// Obituary. The Independent
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, Saturday 2 August 2008.
Influence
Frankel was a noted historian of Modern Jewry, as testified in many obituaries: “the most highly regarded historian of modern Jewry of his generation” (
Steven Zipperstein, ''The Independent''
[); “arguably the greatest historian of modern Jewry of his generation” ('']The Times
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''); “a brilliant historian of Russian and Jewish history” (David Cesarani
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Early life ...
, ''The Guardian
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'',).
Frankel contributed to the historiography of East European Jewish life with his book ''Prophecy and Politics: Socialism, Nationalism, and the Russian Jews, 1862–1917'' (1982), which became a classic at the moment of its publication. This work approached Jewish history of the nineteenth and early twentieth century from a completely new perspective.
He is credited with having "helped establish the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies" at ''Hebrew University of Jerusalem''.
Family
Frankel married Edith Rogovin in 1963; they have two daughters.[
]
Books
* ''Vladimir Akimov on the Dilemmas of Russian Marxism 1895-1903: The Second Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party''. Cambridge University Press
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, 1969.
* ''Prophecy and Politics: socialism, nationalism and the Russian Jews, 1862-1917''. Cambridge University Press
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, 1984,
1984. — 686 pages
(translated into Hebrew, Italian and Russian).
* ''The Damascus Affair: 'Ritual Murder', Politics, and the Jews in 1840''. Cambridge University Press
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1997. — 491 pages
—
Review
/ Middle East Quarterly, Volume 13 / September 1, 1998) (translated into Hebrew).
* ''Social Radicalism: “Jewish Socialism” and Jewish Labour Movement in Eastern Europe'', Open University of Israel
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, 2007 (in Hebrew).
* ''Crisis, Revolution, and Russian Jews''. Cambridge University Press
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, 2009.
Other works
* Jonathan Frankel, Jewish politics and the Russian Revolution of 1905, Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv University, 1982 (21 pages)
Obituaries
* Steven J. Zipperstein, "Remembering Our Colleagues: Jonathan Frankel (1935 - 2008)," ''Association for Jewish Studies'', January 2008.
* Vladimir Levin, Professor Jonathan Frankel (1935-2008), ''Journal East European Jewish Affairs'', Volume 38, Issue 3, December 2008, pp. 251 - 252.
* Semion Gol’din and Vladimir Levin, "In memoriam of Jonathan Frankel," in: ''Arkhiv evreiskoi istorii'', Vol. 5 (2008), pp. 347–351 (in Russian).
* Eli Lederhendler, "In Memoriam: Jonathan Frankel, 1935–2008," ''American Jewish History'', July 2009, 94 (3), pp. 225-227.
Jonathan Frankel - Thought-provoking contributor to Jewish and Russian history
Professor Jonathan Frankel: Historian of Russia and modern Jewry
References
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1935 births
2008 deaths
Hebrew University of Jerusalem faculty
Historians of Jews and Judaism
British historians of religion
British male non-fiction writers
20th-century British historians
21st-century British historians