Yaacov Lozowick
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Yaacov Lozowick is Israel's second-oldest university, after the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. The Hebrew University has three campuses in Jerusalem and one in Rehovot. The world's largest Jewish studies library is located on its Edmond J...
. In 1984 he obtained a diploma in pedagogy
Pedagogy
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and in 1989 a master's degree
Master's degree
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in contemporary Judaism
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from the Hebrew University. In 1995, he completed his doctorate in contemporary Judaism at Hebrew University.
Professional career
In 1990, Lozowick worked as a history teacher at Himmelfarb high school for boys in Jerusalem.In 1986-1989, he taught modern Jewish history
Jewish history
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at World Union of Jewish Students
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Academy. He worked as a researcher at Yad Vashem from 1982, and served as director of Seminars for Educators from Abroad from 1989 to 1993. At the suggestion of Austrian political scientist Andreas Maislinger
Andreas Maislinger
Andreas Maislinger is an Austrian historian and founder of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service and Braunau Contemporary History Days.- Studying and learning :...
, he organized the first German-language Seminars for Educators from Abroad.
From 1993 until 2007 he served as the director of the Archives at Yad Vashem.
Lozowick's 2003 book Right to Exist is an attempt to apply Just War
Just War
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theory to Israel's wars.Contemporary Sociology
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describes Lozowick as a “long time leftist and peace activist.”
Published works
- Hitler’s Bureaucrats: The Nazi Security and the Banality of Evil, ContinuumContinuum International Publishing GroupThe Continuum International Publishing Group is a publisher of books, with its editorial offices in London and New York City. It had been owned by Nova Capital Management since 2005...
, London and New York, 2002, ISBN 0826457118 - Right to Exist: a Moral Defense of Israel's Wars, Anchor Books, 2004, ISBN 1400032431
- Serious Scholarship, Lightweight Polemics, review of Mark MazowerMark MazowerMark A. Mazower is a British historian. His expertise is Greece, the Balkans and, more generally, 20th century Europe. He is currently a professor of history at Columbia University in New York City.-Career:...
's book Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe, 2010.