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Fania Oz-Salzberger

Fania Oz-Salzberger is an Israeli historian and writer, Professor Emerita of history at the University of Haifa.

born 1960Jews and Words, with Amos OzResearch on the EnlightenmentThe book Israelis in Berlin

Born: 28 October 1960, Hulda
Occupation: historian, writer
Education: Tel Aviv University, University of Oxford

Fania Oz-Salzberger was born in 1960 in Hulda

Oz-Salzberger was born in 1960 in Kibbutz Hulda. She is the eldest daughter of writer Amos Oz and his wife Nily. She went to school in Hulda and at the Brenner high school in Givat Brenner.

She served as an officer in the IDF Intelligence Corps from 1980 to 1982. She earned a B.A. in history and philosophy and an M.A. in history at Tel Aviv University. She wrote her doctorate on the Scottish and German Enlightenments at the University of Oxford in 1991.

She has taught at the University of Haifa since 1993 and has led the Posen Research Forum since 2003. She held a chair at Monash University from 2007 to 2012 and was a visiting professor at Princeton in 2009 and 2010. Her research covers the history of political thought and the Enlightenment.

In 2012 she published Jews and Words with her father. From 2016 to 2019 she directed the Paideia institute in Sweden. She retired in 2020 and is married to Professor Eli Salzberger, with whom she has 2 sons.