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Yaacov Lozowick

Yaacov Lozowick is a German-born Israeli historian and writer who directed the Yad Vashem archives and served as Israel's State Archivist from 2011 to 2018.

born 1957Directing the Yad Vashem archivesServing as Israel's State ArchivistDigitizing the Israel State ArchivesThe book Hitler's Bureaucrats

Occupation: historian

Yaacov Lozowick was born in 1957 in Bad Kreuznach

Yaacov Lozowick was born in 1957 in Bad Kreuznach, Germany. In 1980 he qualified as a tourist guide.

He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He earned a bachelor's degree in history and Jewish philosophy in 1982, a diploma in pedagogy in 1984, and a master's degree in contemporary Judaism in 1989. He completed his doctorate in contemporary Judaism in 1995.

He began working as a researcher at Yad Vashem in 1982 and taught history at Himmelfarb high school in Jerusalem from 1985 to 1990. From 1989 to 1993 he directed the Seminars for Educators from Abroad, and from 1993 to 2007 he directed the Yad Vashem archives. His books include a study of Nazi security police bureaucrats and a work applying Just War theory to Israel's wars.

From 2011 to 2018 he served as Israel's State Archivist and led efforts to digitize the national archives. In 2017 he published a report critical of the procedures for releasing files. He also lectures in information science at Bar-Ilan University.