Michael Berkowitz

Michael Berkowitz is a UK-based American historian and professor of modern Jewish history at University College London.

Early life

Berkowitz was born in Rochester, New York. He earned a bachelor's degree from Hobart College in Geneva, New York, and a master's degree and PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Career

Since 2012, Berkowitz has been editor of ''Jewish Historical Studies: Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England''. Berkowitz has a particular interest in the history of the Jewish involvement in photography.

Publications

*''Jews and Photography in Britain'' (University of Texas Press, 2015)
*''The Crime of My Very Existence: Nazism and the Myth of Jewish Criminality'' (University of California Press, 2007)
*''The Jewish Self-Image: American and British Perspectives, 1881-1939'' (Reaktion Press, 2000) [US edition: The Jewish Self Image in the West'' (New York University Press, 2000)
*''Western Jewry and the Zionist Project, 1914-1933'' (Cambridge University Press, 1997, 2002)
*''Zionist Culture and West European Jewry before the First World War'' (Cambridge University Press, 1993 and University of North Carolina Press, 1996).

References

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Living people
Academics of University College London
Hobart and William Smith Colleges alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
Historians of Jews and Judaism
20th-century American historians
American male non-fiction writers
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
Historians of photography
Photography academics
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century American male writers