Michael Berkowitz

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According to Wikipedia, 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.

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Zionist Culture and West European Jewry before the First World War (1993) (54)
Western Jewry and the Zionist Project, 1914-1933 (1996) (32)
Redemption and Utopia. Jewish Libertarian thought in Central Europe. A study in elective affinity (1994) (29)
The Stigma of Names: Antisemitism in German Daily Life, 1812-1933 (1992) (21)
Robbing the Jews: The Confiscation of Jewish Property in the Holocaust, 1933-1945. (2009) (19)
Images of Sephardi and Eastern Jewries in transition: The teachers of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, 1860–1939 (1995) (14)
The Man Nobody Liked: Toward A Social History of the Truant Officer, 1840-1940 (1977) (13)
The Jewish Self-Image in the West (2000) (10)
Nationalism, Zionism and ethnic mobilization of the Jews in 1900 and beyond (2004) (9)
Art in Zionist popular culture and Jewish national self-consciousness, 1897-1914 (1990) (8)
Hitler’s Volksgemeinschaft and the Dynamics of Racial Exclusion: Violence against Jews in Provincial Germany, 1919–1939. By Michael Wildt. Translated by Bernard Heise.New York: Berghahn, 2012. Pp. x+311. $95.00. (2014) (8)
Jewish Scholarship and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Between History and Faith (2009) (7)
The real horror. (2008) (6)
Historians of the Jews and the Holocaust (2011) (6)
The Madoff Paradox: American Jewish Sage, Savior, and Thief (2012) (5)
Jewish Fighters in Britain in Historical Context: Repugnance, Requiem, Reconsideration (2011) (5)
The Nazi equation of Jewish partisans with ‘bandits’ and its consequences1 (2006) (5)
Photographing the Jewish Nation: pictures from S. An‐Sky’s Ethnographic Expeditions (2010) (5)
Murder without Hatred: Estonians and the Holocaust (2010) (4)
Photography as a Jewish business: from high theory, to studio, to snapshot (2009) (4)
Perceptions of Jewish Displaced Persons as criminals in Postwar Germany: Lingering stereotypes and self-fulfilling prophesies (2010) (4)
Kiev, Jewish Metropolis: A History, 1859–1914 (2013) (3)
review of Images of Sephardi and Eastern Jewries in transition: The teachers of the Alliance Israelite Universelle (1995) (3)
The Jewish self-image: American and British perspectives, 1881-1939 (2000) (3)
Forging Modern Jewish Identities: Public Faces and Private Struggles (2003) (3)
Jewish blood-sport: Between bad behavior and respectability (2007) (3)
Toward an understanding of fundraising, philanthropy and charity in Western Zionism, 1897–1933 (1996) (3)
Zion's cities: Projections of urbanism and German-Jewish self-consciousness, 1909-1938 (1997) (3)
Moses presages Kubler-Ross: five stages in accepting death, as seen in the midrash. (2001) (3)
Criminals and their Scientists: Unmasking Counterhistory: An Introductory Exploration of Criminality and the Jewish Question (2005) (2)
Crime and redemption? American Jewish gangsters, violence, and the fight against Nazism (2002) (2)
Helping cities drive transformation: the 100 Resilient Cities Initiative. Interviews with Michael Berkowitz, president of 100 Resilient Cities, and Dr. Arnoldo Matus Kramer, Mexico City’s Chief Resilience Officer (2018) (2)
Connecting the Dots: The Tale of an Undergraduate Research Experience Investigating International Affairs Knowledge (2011) (2)
Preface: Introducing the new edition of Jewish Historical Studies: Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England (2012) (2)
Kristallnacht in Context: Jewish War Veterans in America And Britain and the Crisis of German Jewry (2009) (2)
"A hidden theme of Jewish self-love? Eric Hobsbawm, Karl Marx, and Cesare Lombroso on 'Jewish criminality' in The Cesare Lombroso Handbook, eds. Paul Knepper and P. J. Ystehede (2013) (2)
The invention of secular ritual; Western Jewry and nationalized tourism in Palestine, 1922-1933 (1997) (2)
Tracing the Rothschilds' radicalism: A historian tackles the legacy of Jewry's first family [review of The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets and The House of Rothschild: The World's Banker] (2000) (1)
The Origins of Zionist Tourism in Mandate Palestine: Impressions (and Pointed Advice) from the West (2012) (1)
“Jews in Photography”: Conceiving a Field in the Papers of Peter Pollack (2011) (1)
Loyal sons: Jews in the German army in the Great War (2017) (1)
Rootless Cosmopolitans : The New York Jewish detectives of Jerome Charyn and Reggie Nadelson (2005) (1)
The tragedy of a generation: The rise and fall of Jewish nationalism in Eastern Europe by Joshua M Karlip (2015) (1)
On Photography: Walter Benjamin (2016) (1)
Robert S. Wistrich and European Jewish History: Straddling the Public and Scholarly Spheres* (1998) (1)
We Are Here: New Approaches to the History of Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany (2010) (1)
Reimagining Herzl and other Zionist sex symbols (2007) (1)
On the Eve: The Jews of Europe before the Second World War. By Bernard Wasserstein.New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012. Pp. xxii+552. $32.50. (2014) (1)
"Humour wholesalers"? Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran's Anglo-Jewish Television Comedy (2016) (1)
review of Life and death in the Third Reich (2010) (1)
EMMA GOLDMAN'S RADICAL TRAJECTORY: A RESILIENT “LITVAK” LEGACY? (2012) (1)
Nationalizing a Borderland: War, Ethnicity, and Anti-Jewish Violence in East Galicia, 1914-1920 by Alexander Prusin (review) (2007) (1)
Stefan Lux (1888–1936): a calculated suicide before the Second World War (2018) (1)
Photography’s Jewish affinities: Unintended benefits and squandered opportunities for Zionism & Israel (2019) (1)
Transcending "tzimmes and sweetness": Recovering the history of Zionist women in Central and Western Europe, 1897-1933 (1995) (1)
Beaumont Newhall & Helmut Gernsheim: collaboration, friendship, and tension amidst the 'Jewishness' of photography (2010) (1)
review of Zakhor: Jewish history and Jewish memory (1998) (1)
Israel and Jewish communities worldwide: New approaches and directions (2019) (1)
What history tells: George L. Mosse and the culture of modern Europe (2005) (1)
Introduction: 1900 to 2000 and Beyond: Taking Nationalism for Granted? (2004) (1)
Photography as Jewish space (2017) (1)
review of The 'Jewish Question' in Europe: The Case of Hungary and Maskerado: Dancing Around Death in Nazi Hungary (2002) (1)
Courage Under Siege: Starvation, disease, and death in the Warsaw Ghetto (1994) (1)
review of Leo Rosenthal: Ein Chronist in der Weimarer Republik: Fotografien 1926-1933 (2012) (1)
Barricades and Banners: The Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry by Scott Ury (review) (2022) (0)
Review of On Photography: Walter Benjamin, edited and translated by Esther Leslie (2016) (0)
Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora. By Rebecca Kobrin. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010. xiv, 363 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. Maps. ․54.98, hard bound. ․24.95, paper. (2011) (0)
How Great Grandma Looked [review of Vintage Glamour in London's East End: Photos by Boris Bennett Curated by Michael Greisman] (2014) (0)
review of Jewish Masculinities: German Jews, Gender, and History. Edited by Benjamin Maria Baader, Sharon Gillerman, and Paul Lerner (2013) (0)
Documents on the Holocaust: Selected Sources on the Destruction of the Jews in Germany and Austria, Poland and the Soviet Union by Yitzhaks>AradIsrael Gutman, Abraham Margaliot (review) (2001) (0)
Rejecting Zion, Embracing the Orient: (2020) (0)
Orthodox Judaism and the Politics of Religion: From Prewar Europe to the State of Israel. By Daniel Mahla. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xiv+306. $99.99 (cloth); $80.00 (Adobe eBook Reader). (2022) (0)
The Jewish East End and Beyond HTML5 App (2014) (0)
15. Religious to Ethnic-National Identities: Political Mobilization Through Jewish Images in the United States and Britain, 1881–1939 (2002) (0)
Viewing the Jewish Masses (2002) (0)
review of Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust by David Shneer (2012) (0)
Hadassah and the Zionist project (2007) (0)
Memorializing Jews and Non-Jews in Common Space: Un-reconstructed Killing Ground as Second World War and Holocaust Memorials in Europe (2005) (0)
German history, Jewish history, German-Jewish Studies: old wine in new bottles? (2001) (0)
Modernity within tradition: the social history of Jewish orthodoxy in Imperial Germany (1995) (0)
Between altruism and self-interest: Immigration restriction and the emergence of American-Jewish politics in the United States (2003) (0)
review of Zionism and technocracy: The engineering of Jewish settlement in Palestine, 1881-1925 (1994) (0)
review of Redemption and utopia: Jewish libertarian thought in Central Europe (1994) (0)
review of The Jews in Poland and Russia, Volume I: 1350-1881 by Antony Polonsky (2011) (0)
A revised Goodenough draw-a-man test as a measure of school readiness. (2013) (0)
review essay on The broken staff: Judaism through Christian eyes (1996) (0)
Reviews of Books (1982) (0)
review of The Crosses of Auschwitz: Nationalism and Religion in Post-communist Poland by Genevieve Zubrzycki and Antisemitism and its Jewish Opponents in Modern Poland, ed. Robert Blobaum (2012) (0)
Jewish Thought and Theology (2001) (0)
The Jews of Bialystok during World War II and the Holocaust (2010) (0)
review of Barricades and Banners: The Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry by Scott Ury (2013) (0)
Martin Dean. Robbing the Jews: The Confiscation of Jewish Property in the Holocaust, 1933–1945. New York: Cambridge University Press, with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 2008. Pp. x, 437. $60.00 (2009) (0)
Picture a nation: Poster art unearthed from Jerusalem's Central Zionist Archives (2006) (0)
Embarrassing relations: myths and realities of the Ashkenazi influx, 1650-1750 and beyond (2001) (0)
Cops, robbers, and anarcho-terrorists: Crime and magical realism's Jewish Questions (2005) (0)
Life and death in the Third Reich, by Peter Fritzsche, Cambridge, MA and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008, 384 pp., US$17.95 (paperback), ISBN-13: 978-0674034655, US$27.95 (hardback), ISBN-13: 978-0674027930. (2010) (0)
Kodachrome's (rather) Jewish musical history (2020) (0)
The Art Market in Photography: Modernity, Jews, and Wiedergutmachung? (2022) (0)
Jewish questions lurking in Peeping Tom (1960) (2016) (0)
Introduction: Breadth and depth in the history of the Kindertransport and beyond (2020) (0)
Reviews of Books:Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind David Cesarani (2002) (0)
Grenville, J. A. S. (2012). The Jews and Germans of Hamburg: The Destruction of a Civilization 1790–1945 (2012) (0)
From Daniel Mendoza to Amir Khan: Minority boxers in Britain (2007) (0)
5. Re-presenting Zionism as the Apex of Global Conspiracy (2019) (0)
6. Lingering Stereotypes and Jewish Displaced Persons (2019) (0)
"Jews and photojournalism: Between contempt, intimacy, and celebrity," in Die PRESSA/The PRESSA: Internationale Pressausstellung Köln 1928 und der jüdische Beitrag zum modernen Journalismus/International Press Exhibition Cologne 1928 and the Jewish Contributions to Modern Journalism, eds. Suzanne Ma (2012) (0)
Erica B. Simmons. Hadassah and the Zionist Project. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. 2006. Pp. x, 241. Cloth $75.00, paper $24.95 (2007) (0)
review of The Jews and Germans of Hamburg: The Destruction of a Civilisation 1790-1945 by J.A.S. Grenville (2012) (0)
review of Unwelcome strangers: East European Jews in Imperial Germany (1993) (0)
JEWISH CONSUMER CULTURES IN 19TH- AND 20TH- CENTURY EUROPE AND AMERICA (2015) (0)
The debate about Hebrew, in German: The Kulturfrage in the prewar Zionist congresses (1994) (0)
review of The myth of the Jewish race: A biologist's point of view (2008) (0)
Shylock's Children: Economics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe, by Derek J. Penslar (2005) (0)
review of On modern Jewish politics and The fatal embrace (1995) (0)
review of The labyrinth of exile: A life of Theodor Herzl (1992) (0)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Globalization: Nationalism, Meet Religion (2013) (0)
Can the Jews Talk about Einstein and Zionism? Probably Not (1969) (0)
Impossible Home: German-Jewish History of Federal Republic of Germany (2008) (0)
Out of the Whirlwind Reconsidered (2020) (0)
'Jewish criminals' as types and citizens: Belongingness, alienation, and being hip in the United States and Britain (2001) (0)
Jewish Dps Confronting the LawPrescriptions, Self-Perceptions, and Pride of Self-Control (2007) (0)
A British-Jewish Film Genre?: Consider Gasbags (1941) (2016) (0)
review of Caroline Sharples and Olaf Jensen, eds.Britain and the Holocaust: Remembering and Representing War and Genocide. The Holocaust and its Contexts.Houndmills, Basingstoke, UK, and New York:Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 264. $95.00 (cloth). (2014) (0)
Mark Levene. War, Jews and the New Europe: The Diplomacy of Lucien Wolf, 1914–1919. Littman Library of Jewish Civilization. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. xiv, 346 pp. (1995) (0)
History through the crime novel (2008) (0)
review of Jewish Thought and Theology (2001) (0)
The Myth of the Jewish Race: A Biologist's Point of View (review) (2007) (0)
Becoming Austrians: Jews and Culture between the World Wars. By Lisa Silverman. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xi, 334. $55.00.) (2014) (0)
Between Orthodoxy and modernism: Hermann Struck's influence on the countenance and soul of Zion (2001) (0)
Jack Wertheimer, Unwelcome Strangers: East European Jews in Imperial Germany. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987, statistical tables, index, ix, 181 pp.,$42.00. (1993) (0)
Introduction: Anthologizing Jews (2003) (0)
Jewish Masculinities: German Jews, Gender, and History . Edited by Benjamin Maria Baader, Sharon Gillerman, and Paul Lerner. Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press. 2012. Pp. xi + 242. Cloth $80.00. ISBN 978-0-253-00213-6. Paper $28.00. ISBN 978-0-253-00206-8. (2013) (0)
Book Review:Defenders of the Race: Jewish Doctors and Racial Science in Fin-de-Siecle Europe John M. Efron (1995) (0)
A more genteel antisemitism? Displaced persons and the stigma of "Jewish Criminality" in literature and film (2006) (0)
The Uses of Tradition: Jewish Continuity in the Modern Era (review) (2012) (0)
Before Auschwitz: Jewish Prisoners in the Prewar Concentration Camps. By Kim Wünschmann (Harvard University Press, 2015, 376pp. £33.95) (2016) (0)
review of Holocaust remembrance: The shapes of memory (1995) (0)
Beyond 'The Crisis of German Ideology': contextualizing German culture, the Holocaust, and history of German Jewry (1999) (0)
Ghettostadt: Lodz and the Making of a Nazi City (2009) (0)
Review of Michael Wildt, Hitler's Volksgemeinschaft and the Dynamics of Racial Exclusion: Violence against Jews in Provincial Germany, 1919-1939 (2014) (0)
review of Never despair: Sixty years in the service of the Jewish People and the cause of human rights (2008) (0)
A British-Jewish Film Genre? (2016) (0)
review of The Stigma of Names (1994) (0)
Anarchism, Jews, Relief – and Photography? (2017) (0)
review of Becoming Judy Chicago (2009) (0)
1. Above Suspicion? Facts, Myths, and Lies about Jews and Crime (2019) (0)
review of The Jews of Chicago: From shtetl to suburb (1997) (0)
review of Benjamin Disraeli (2010) (0)
The 'Jewish Question' in Europe: The Case of Hungary by Tamáss>UngváriMaskerado: Dancing around Death in Nazi Hungary by Tivadar SorosHumphrey Tonkin (review) (2022) (0)
The Life of Mario von Bucovich: Perils, Pleasures, and Pitfalls in the History of Photography (2017) (0)
review of Yehoshue Perle, Ordinary Jews (2013) (0)
review of Gerhart M. Riegner, Never Despair: Sixty Years in the Service of the Jewish People and the Cause of Human Rights for H-German (2008) (0)
review of Rebecca T. Alpert, Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball (2013) (0)
1948 and After: Israel and the Palestinians (review) (2012) (0)
review of Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka (2000) (0)
review of The People Speak! Anti-Semitism and Emancipation in nineteenth-century Bavaria (1995) (0)
David EngelHistorians of the Jews and the Holocaust. (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture.) Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 2010. Pp. xvii, 314. $65.00. (2011) (0)
review of Natan M. Meir, Kiev, Jewish Metropolis: A History, 1859-194 (2013) (0)
Dorothy Bohm and Paris: A Proustian community (and romance), revisited (2016) (0)
review of Dear Kitty: Remembering Anne Frank (DVD) (2008) (0)
BOOK REVIEWS (2010) (0)
Jewish Historical Studies Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England Review : Jews and Photography in Britain , (2010) (0)
The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of the Ghettos (2007) (0)
Bound Upon a Wheel of Fire: Why So Many German Jews Made the Tragic Decision to Remain in Nazi Germany. By John V. H. Dippel, New York: Basic Books. 1996. Pp. 353. $27.50. ISBN 0-465-09103-2. (1999) (0)
Jay M. Harris. Nachman Krochmal: Guiding the Perplexed of the Modern Age. New York: New York University Press, 1991. xvi, 336 pp. (1994) (0)
Viewing the Jewish Masses Easing (?) and Interpreting Entry to the New World (2001) (0)
Introduction: Historical boom and bust – and the (British) Jewish question (2018) (0)
Table of Contents: Jewish Historical Studies: Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England , Volume 51 Issue 1 (2020) (0)
Out of the frying pan . . . [review of For King and Country? The Jewish Experience of the First World War, Jewish Museum London] (2014) (0)
Russian Jews and Photography (2015) (0)
Rags and Riches, or Bogeymen of the Bourse: Antisemitism and the Abstract Economy in England, the United States, France and Central Europe, 1720-1900 (2003) (0)
Benjamin Disraeli (review) (2010) (0)
Religious to multi-ethnic identities: Political mobilization through Jewish Images in the U.S. and Britain, 1881-1939 (2002) (0)
A Busy Decade:: Lessons Learned from Crisis Planning and Response from 1999 to 2009 (2012) (0)
Arthur Koestler: The homeless mind. (2002) (0)
Review essay on The invention of the Jewish people (2010) (0)
The shtetl on the Sihl. Immigration, living standards and daily routine of the Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe in Zurich 1880-1939 (2000) (0)
Review of Bernard Wasserstein, On the Eve: The Jews of Europe before the Second World War (2014) (0)
review of The uses of tradition: Jewish continuity in the modern era (1994) (0)
review of Murder without hatred: Estonians and the Holocaust (2010) (0)
Carol Zemel, Looking Jewish: Visual Culture and Modern Diaspora (2018) (0)
4. Inverting the Innocent and the Criminal in Concentration Camps (2019) (0)
Contributors to this issue (1984) (0)
review of Reflections on Nazism: An essay on kitsch and death (1995) (0)
Shylock's Children: Economics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe (review) (2005) (0)
2. The Construction of “Jewish Criminality” in Nazi Germany (2019) (0)
Review: Nils H. Roemer, Jewish Scholarship and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Between History and Faith, University of Wisconsin Press: Madison, WI, 2005; 251pp., 2 b/w photos, 1 illus.; 0299211703, $60.00 (hbk) (2009) (0)
Mortality Plays: Presentations of Criminality and Disease in Nazi Ghettos and Concentration Camps (2014) (0)
John Efron, Steven Weitzman, Matthias Lehmann, and Joshua Holo, eds. The Jews: A History . Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2009. xv, 430 pp. (2011) (0)
E. Lawrence Levy and Muscular Judaism 1851–1932: Sport, Culture, and Assimilation in Nineteenth-Century Britain Together with ‘The Autobiography of an Athlete’ (2016) (0)
The broken staff: Judaism through Christian eyes: Frank E. Manuel (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992), vi + 363 pp., $34.95 cloth (1995) (0)
Publication of Theodor Herzl's 'Der Judenstaat' begins a diverse tradition in Central Europe of Zionist writing in German (1997) (0)
review of The American synagogue: A sanctuary transformed (1997) (0)
review of Defenders of the Race: Jewish doctors and Racial Science in Fin-de-Siecle Europe (1995) (0)
review essay on Harry Haft: Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano (2007) (0)
Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora (2011) (0)

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