Scienceשולמית וולקוב

Shulamit Ṿolḳov

Shulamit Volkov is an Israeli historian of modern Germany, German Jews and antisemitism, and professor emerita at Tel Aviv University.

born 1942History of German JewsAntisemitism as a cultural codeBiography of Walther Rathenau

Born: 10 December 1942, Tel Aviv
Occupation: historian, university teacher
Education: University of California, Berkeley

Shulamit Ṿolḳov was born in 1942 in Tel Aviv

Shulamit Volkov was born in Tel Aviv. In 1963 she began studying history and philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

After a year she moved to the University of California, Berkeley. There she earned a B.A. in 1966, an M.A. in 1967 and a Ph.D. in 1972, under Hans Rosenberg. Her dissertation became her first book, published by Princeton University Press, on urban master artisans in Germany.

She then returned to Israel and taught general history at Tel Aviv University, becoming full professor of modern history in 1989. She headed the Institute for German History and edited the Tel Aviv yearbook for German history from 1987 to 1993. Her 1978 essay on antisemitism as a cultural code described antisemitism as a sign of belonging to the nationalist camp in Germany.

She received the Friedrich Gundolf Prize in 1998 and joined the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2006. She served on the Council for Higher Education's planning and budgeting committee. In 2014 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev gave her an honorary doctorate.