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Michael Berkowitz is a UK-based American historian and professor of modern Jewish history at University College London.WEB,weblink Michael Berkowitz - Center for European Studies at Harvard University, Harvard, University, 16 August 2018, Center for European Studies at Harvard University, 16 August 2018,

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.WEB,weblink Iris View Profile, iris.ucl.ac.uk, 16 August 2018, WEB,weblink Fellow Dr. Michael Berkowitz, Staff, ndg, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 16 August 2018,

Career

Since 2012, Berkowitz has been editor of Jewish Historical Studies: Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England.WEB,weblink Prof Michael Berkowitz, UCL, UCL Hebrew & Jewish Studies, 16 August 2018, Berkowitz has a particular interest in the history of the Jewish involvement in photography.WEB,weblink How Jews shot their way into Britain's photographic memory, timesofisrael.com, 16 August 2018,

Publications

• Jews and Photography in Britain (University of Texas Press, 2015)
• The Crime of My Very Existence: Nazism and the Myth of Jewish Criminality (University of California Press, 2007)
• The Jewish Self-Image: American and British Perspectives, 1881-1939 (Reaktion Press, 2000) [US edition: The Jewish Self Image in the West'' (New York University Press, 2000)
• Western Jewry and the Zionist Project, 1914-1933 (Cambridge University Press, 1997, 2002)
• Zionist Culture and West European Jewry before the First World War (Cambridge University Press, 1993 and University of North Carolina Press, 1996).

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