Yechiam Weitz (born 1951) is an Israeli professor and historian.

Biography

Yechiam Weitz is the grandson of

Yosef Weitz Yosef Weitz ( he, יוסף ויץ; 1890–1972) was the director of the Land and Afforestation Department of the Jewish National Fund (JNF). From the 1930s, Weitz played a major role in acquiring land for the Yishuv, the pre-state Jewish community ...

, director of the Land and Afforestation Department of the

Jewish National Fund Jewish National Fund ( he, קֶרֶן קַיֶּימֶת לְיִשְׂרָאֵל, ''Keren Kayemet LeYisrael'', previously , ''Ha Fund HaLeumi'') was founded in 1901 to buy and develop land in Ottoman Syria (later Mandatory Palestine, and subseq ...

, whose son Yechiam was killed in a

Palmach The Palmach (Hebrew: , acronym for , ''Plugot Maḥatz'', "Strike Companies") was the elite fighting force of the Haganah, the underground army of the Yishuv (Jewish community) during the period of the British Mandate for Palestine. The Palmach ...

operation in 1946. Weitz obtained his B.A. in history and philosophy in 1977, and his M.A. in history in 1982, from 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 ...

. He obtained his PhD in 1988, also from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, on the topic of "The Attitude of Mapai Towards the Destruction of European Jewry 1939-1945," supervised by Yisrael Gutman.Prof. Yechiam Weitz
Faculty of Humanities, University of Haifa, accessed October 12, 2009.

Academic career

Weitz teaches at the Department of Land of Israel Studies at the

University of Haifa The University of Haifa ( he, אוניברסיטת חיפה Arabic: جامعة حيفا) is a university located on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel. Founded in 1963, the University of Haifa received full academic accreditation in 1972, becoming Is ...

. He is the editor of ''Between Vision and Revision: One Hundred Years of Zionist Historiography'' (1994) and author of a book about Rudolf Kastner, ''Ha-Ish she-Nirtsah Paamayim'' ("The Man who was Murdered Twice")

Published works

* ''From Fighting Underground to Political Party'' Ben-Gurion Research Center,

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) ( he, אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב, ''Universitat Ben-Guriyon baNegev'') is a public research university in Beersheba, Israel. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has five campuses: the ...

*"The Man who was Murdered Twice"

Yad Vashem Yad Vashem ( he, יָד וַשֵׁם; literally, "a memorial and a name") is Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. It is dedicated to preserving the memory of the Jews who were murdered; honoring Jews who fought against th ...

, 2011 * The Holocaust on Trial: The Impact of the Kasztner and Eichmann Trials on Israeli Society, ''Israel Studies'', Volume 1, Number 2, Fall 1996, pp. 1–26 * The Herut Movement and the Kasztner Trial, ''Holocaust and Genocide Studies'',

Oxford University Press Oxford University Press (OUP) is the university press of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world, and its printing history dates back to the 1480s. Having been officially granted the legal right to print books ...

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Historians offer post-mortem on Labor split
Living people Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni Israeli historians Academic staff of the University of Haifa 1951 births {{Israel-historian-stub