Shulamit Volkov


Shulamit Volkov is an Israeli historian, specializing in the history of German Jews and anti-Semitism. She is professor emerita for modern European history at Tel Aviv University.

Biography

She was born in Tel Aviv, studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in history and philosophy and then at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was awarded the degree of B.A., M.A. and Ph.D..

Books

  • The Rise of popular Antimodernism in Germany. The Urban Master Artisans,1873–1896, Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton N.J. 1978
  • Jüdisches Leben und Antisemitismus im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, Verlag C.H.Beck, München 1990.
  • *second edition, under the title Antisemitismus als Kultureller Code, Becksche Reihe, Beck Verlag, Munich 2000
  • Unity and Liberty in Germany: from Napoleon to Bismarck, Tel Aviv 1997
  • Die Juden in Deutschland 1780–1918, vol. 16 of the Enzyklopädie deutscher Geschichte, edited by Lothar Gall a.o., Oldenbourg Verlag, München 1994..
  • *expanded and edited Hebrew version: Unity and Assimilation: German Jews 1780-1933), The Open University 2003
  • Das Juedische Projekt der Moderne, Becksche Reihe, Beck Verlag, Munich 2001.
  • The Magic Circle. Jews, Antisemites, and Other Germans, Am Oved, Tel Aviv 2002
  • *revised English version, Germans, Jews, and Antisemites. Trials in Emancipation, Cambridge University Press. 2006
  • 2012: Walther Rathenau: Weimar's Fallen Statesman
  • *2014: ולטר רתנאו – טרגדיה יהודית גרמנית
  • 2022: גרמניה ויהודיה - היסטוריה אחרת
She is also an editor of several monographs.

Awards and recognition