Israel Getzler
Israel Getzler | |
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Born | 14 May 1920 ![]() Berlin ![]() |
Died | 8 January 2012 ![]() |
Occupation | Historian of Eastern Europe ![]() |
Israel Getzler (1920–2012) was a historian of Russia and the Soviet Union.
He lived in Germany until about 1938 when he was deported to Poland by the Nazis. Eventually, he arrived in the Soviet Union and was placed in a Siberian Gold-mining settlement. Following World War II he moved to Australia. He gained a tenured position at Adelaide University.[1] He later went to work at Stanford University. In the early 1970s he became a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was an active participant in anti-settler demonstrations.[2]
Works
[edit]- Martov: A Political Biography of a Russian Social Democrat (1967)[3][4]
- Neither Toleration nor Favor: The Australian Chapter of Jewish Emancipation (1970)[5]
- Kronstadt 1917–1921: The Fate of a Soviet Democracy (1983)
- Nikolai Sukhanov: Chronicler of the Russian Revolution (2002)[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Service, Robert (February 13, 2012). "Israel Getzler obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved January 30, 2024.
- ^ Service, Robert (February 13, 2012). "Israel Getzler obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved January 30, 2024.
- ^ Daniels, Robert V. (1968). "Review of Martov: A Political Biography of a Russian Social Democrat". The American Historical Review. 73 (5): 1585–1586. doi:10.2307/1851498. ISSN 0002-8762. JSTOR 1851498.
- ^ Baron, Samuel H. (1968). "Review of Martov A Political Biography of a Russian Social Democrat". Soviet Studies. 20 (2): 259–260. ISSN 0038-5859. JSTOR 150032.
- ^ Chambers, Don (1975). "Review of Neither Toleration nor Favour: The Australian Chapter of Jewish Emancipation". Journal of Church and State. 17 (3): 515–517. doi:10.1093/jcs/17.3.515. ISSN 0021-969X. JSTOR 23914888.
- ^ Smele, Jonathan D. (2003). "Review of Nikolai Sukhanov: Chronicler of the Russian Revolution". Europe-Asia Studies. 55 (6): 956–958. ISSN 0966-8136. JSTOR 3594598.
Further reading
[edit]- Service, Robert (February 13, 2012). "Israel Getzler obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved January 30, 2021.