Michael Berkowitz

Michael Berkowitz
Born	Rochester, New York, US
Academic background
Alma mater	Hobart College University of Wisconsin–Madison
Doctoral advisor	George L. Mosse
Academic work
Institutions	University College London
Main interests	History of Zionism, visual culture, photography

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.

Career

Since 2012, Berkowitz has been editor of Jewish Historical Studies: Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England. Berkowitz has a particular interest in the history of the Jewish involvement in photography.

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).