Amit Varshizky

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Amit Varshizky
Born1977
Haifa, Israel
OccupationHistorian
Academic background
EducationPhD (2017), Tel Aviv University
Academic work
InstitutionsTel Aviv University, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Concordia University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jena Center 20th Century History
Notable works
  • The Metaphysics of Race: Science and Faith in the Nazi Worldview (forthcoming: The Open University of Israel press and Yad Vashem International Institute for Holocaust Research; the Goldberg prize winner for 2019)
  • Secularism and Sacralism: Studies in the History of Religion, edited by Shalom Ratzabi, Eitan Ginsburg and Amit Varshizky (Sapir Academic Publishers)
Websitehttps://uni-jena.academia.edu/amitvarshizky

Amit Varshizky (Hebrew: עמית ורשיצקי; born in 1977, Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli scientist specializing in intellectual and cultural history of Nazi Germany, racial science and racial philosophy in early 20th-century Germany, and political theology and secularization theory with focus on modern German philosophy.[1]

Varshizky is the author of several books on Race and Secularism, including The Metaphysics of Race: Science and Faith in the Nazi Worldview (forthcoming: The Open University of Israel press and Yad Vashem International Institute for Holocaust Research; the Goldberg prize winner for 2019), Secularism and Sacralism: Studies in the History of Religion, edited by Shalom Ratzabi, Eitan Ginsburg and Amit Varshizky (forthcoming, Sapir Academic Publishers).[2]

Education[edit]

Born in Haifa, Israel Varshizky received his bachelor's degree in Mass Media and Communication from the Faculty of Social Sciences in Academic College of Emek Yezreel and his MA in History from the Tel Aviv University. In 2017 he was awarded a PhD in Studium History from The Zvi Yavetz Graduate School of Historical Studies in Tel Aviv University.[2]

Career[edit]

In 2016 Amit Varshizky was a lecturer in the History Department at Oranim academic college of Education as well as was teaching at the Department of Cultural Studies at Sapir Academic College and in the Department of Communications at the Academic College of Emek Izrael.[3]

From 2017 to 2018 Varshizky was a Research Fellow at the Minerva Institute for German History of the Tel-Aviv University.[2]

From 2018 to 2019 he was a Research Fellow at the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (SICSA) in The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[2]

Since November 2019 Varshizky worked on the postdoc and served as a guest researcher at the Jena Center 20th Century History.[2]

Selected works[edit]

Essays
Book reviews
Books
Encyclopedias
  • Racism, lexica entries, the Holocaust Resource Center – Yad Vashem (the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust edited by Dr. Shmuel Spector on Dr. Robert Rozett).

Awards[edit]

  • The Goldberg prize (2019) for The Metaphysics of Race: Science and Faith in the Nazi Worldview (forthcoming: The Open University of Israel press and Yad Vashem International Institute for Holocaust Research.

Reviews[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ The Hebrew University oj Jerusalem
  2. ^ a b c d e Jena Center Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts
  3. ^ Tel Aviv University’s Roth Institute
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