Micha Brumlik (born 1947 in

Davos , neighboring_municipalities= Arosa, Bergün/Bravuogn, Klosters-Serneus, Langwies, S-chanf, Susch , twintowns = } Davos (, ; or ; rm, ; archaic it, Tavate) is an Alpine resort town and a municipality in the Prättigau/Davos R ...

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

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

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

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

Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...

Early life

Brumlik was born in

, in 1947, the son of

German-Jewish The history of the Jews in Germany goes back at least to the year 321, and continued through the Early Middle Ages (5th to 10th centuries CE) and High Middle Ages (''circa'' 1000–1299 CE) when Jewish immigrants founded the Ashkenazi Jewish ...

refugees. In 1968 and 1969, Brumlik was a student in

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

where he became a member of the communist organization

Matzpen Matzpen ( he, מצפן, lit. 'Compass') is the name of a revolutionary socialist and anti-Zionist organisation, founded in Israel in 1962 which was active until the 1980s. Its official name was the Socialist Organisation in Israel, but it became ...

. An early critic of Israel's treatment of Palestinians, Brumlik joined a

kibbutz A kibbutz ( he, קִבּוּץ / , lit. "gathering, clustering"; plural: kibbutzim / ) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1909, was Degania. Today, farming h ...

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 modern State of Israel, and the movement to create a sovereign Jewish state in the region of Palestine ...

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
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