Fania Oz-Salzberger Explained

Fania Oz-Salzberger (Hebrew: פניה עוז-זלצברגר; born 28 October 1960) is an Israeli historian and writer, Professor Emerita of history at the University of Haifa School of Law and the Haifa Center for German and European Studies (HCGES).

Biography

Oz-Salzberger was born in 1960 in Kibbutz Hulda, the eldest daughter of writer Amos Oz and his wife Nily. She is the great-great-niece of historian and literary scholar Joseph Klausner.[1] Oz-Salzberger was educated in kibbutz schools and served as an officer in the Israel Defense Forces. She completed her B.A. in history and philosophy (magna cum laude) and M.A. in modern history (summa cum laude) at Tel Aviv University. Her doctoral thesis, on the Scottish and German Enlightenments (1991), was written at the University of Oxford, supervised by Dr. John Robertson and mentored by philosopher Isaiah Berlin. She was a Senior Scholar at Lincoln College, Oxford in 1988–1990, and a Hornik Junior Research Fellow in Intellectual History at Wolfson College, Oxford in 1990–1993.

Oz-Salzberger is married to Professor Eli Salzberger. They have twin sons: Dean and Nadav.[2]

In November 2012, the book Jews and Words, co-authored by Oz-Salzberger and her father, was published by Yale University Press. The book is an essay on Jewish history from a secular Israeli vantage point, reflecting an ongoing dialog between father and daughter, novelist and historian.

Academic career

Teaching at the University of Haifa since 1993, Oz-Salzberger was appointed associate professor in 2009. Her book Israelis in Berlin, which was published in 2001 in Hebrew and German, became a prism of Israeli–German dialog.[3] She has taken part in media panels and interviews, commenting on politics, culture and literature, and contributed opinion articles to major newspapers and journals in Israel and globally. She is active on advisory boards of the Israel Democracy Institute and the German-Israeli Future Forum.

Oz-Salzberger served as joint editor in chief of the Haifa University Press (1996–99). She is director (since 2003) of the Posen Research Forum for Jewish European and Israeli Political Thought.

Oz-Salzberger was Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin (1999–2000). Between 2007 and 2012, she held the Leon Liberman Chair in Modern Israel Studies at Monash University's Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation.[4] In 2009–10 she was the Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University.

Oz-Salzberger has published essays in the history of ideas and political thought, translation in the European Enlightenment, the biblical sources of John Locke, and intercivilizational conflict. Her opinion pieces on politics, culture, and current affairs have been published in Newsweek, the International Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, Le Figaro, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and Ha’aretz.

Between 2016 and 2019 Oz-Salzberger was the director of Paideia – The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden.[5] In 2020 she became an honorary doctor at Uppsala University.[6]

Published works

Books

Articles

Commentary

Awards and recognition

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External links

Notes and References

  1. Fania Oz-Salzberger, Heidelberg's Hope, opening lecture of the academic year at the University of Heidelberg (19 October 2003)
  2. https://www.timesofisrael.com/accompanied-by-melancholy-songs-writer-amos-oz-buried-on-kibbutz-of-his-youth/ Accompanied by melancholy songs, writer Amos Oz buried on kibbutz of his youth
  3. Lissi Ahrens-Heimer, "Special DerBerliton Interview with Fania Oz-Salzberger ", DerBerliton (28 March 2010)
  4. Gareth Narunsky, "Farewelling Oz", JewishNews (1 May 2012)
  5. Web site: MAG. JEU. Fania Oz-Salzberger – the Next Director of Paideia. 2020-07-23. JEU – European Jewish Magazine. en.
  6. Web site: Honorary Doctors of the Faculty of Theology – Uppsala University, Sweden.

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