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Amos Goldberg

Amos Goldberg is an Israeli historian of the Holocaust and a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

born 1966Research on Holocaust history and memoryEditing Dapim: Studies on the HolocaustJerusalem Declaration on AntisemitismCalling Israel's Gaza war genocide

Occupation: historian of the Holocaust, historian
Education: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Amos Goldberg was born in 1966 in Jerusalem

Amos Goldberg was born in Jerusalem in 1966.

He earned all three of his academic degrees at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He did postdoctoral work at Cornell University and at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Goldberg teaches in the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University, which he headed from 2016 to 2018. He is also a fellow of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. His research covers the Holocaust and its memory, including the cultural and literary history of Jews in that period, trauma, and historiography. He co-edited the journal Dapim: Studies on the Holocaust.

Goldberg has criticized the definition of antisemitism used by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. He was one of the initiators and drafters of the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism. Since April 2024 he has argued that Israel's actions in Gaza during the war amount to genocide.

Milestones in Amos Goldberg's life

1966
Born in Jerusalem.
2007
Became co-editor of the journal Dapim: Studies on the Holocaust.
2014
Finished his term as editor of Dapim.
2016
Became head of the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University.
2018
Ended his term as department head.
2024
Began arguing that Israel's actions in Gaza amount to genocide.