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Fania Oz-Salzberger (Hebrew: פניה עוז-זלצברגר; born 28 October 1960) is an Israeli historian and writer, Professor Emerita of history at the University of Haifa School of Law and the Haifa Center for German and European Studies (HCGES).
Oz-Salzberger is married to Professor Eli Salzberger. They have twin sons: Dean and Nadav.[2]
In November 2012, the book Jews and Words (ISBN9780300156478), co-authored by Oz-Salzberger and her father, was published by Yale University Press. The book is an essay on Jewish history from a secular Israeli vantage point, reflecting an ongoing dialog between father and daughter, novelist and historian.[citation needed]
Teaching at the University of Haifa since 1993, Oz-Salzberger was appointed associate professor in 2009. Her book Israelis in Berlin, which was published in 2001 in Hebrew and German, became a prism of Israeli–German dialog.[3] She has taken part in media panels and interviews, commenting on politics, culture and literature, and contributed opinion articles to major newspapers and journals in Israel and globally. She is active on advisory boards of the Israel Democracy Institute and the German-Israeli Future Forum.[citation needed]
Oz-Salzberger served as joint editor in chief of the Haifa University Press (1996–99). She is director (since 2003) of the Posen Research Forum for Jewish European and Israeli Political Thought.
Oz-Salzberger was Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin (1999–2000). Between 2007 and 2012, she held the Leon Liberman Chair in Modern Israel Studies at Monash University's Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation.[4] In 2009–10 she was the Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University.
Between 2016 and 2019 Oz-Salzberger was the director of Paideia – The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden.[5] In 2020 she became an honorary doctor at Uppsala University.[6]
Books
Oz-Salzberger, Fania (13 April 1995). Translating the Enlightenment: Scottish Civic Discourse in Eighteenth Century Germany (Reprinted.). USA: Oxford University Press. ISBN9780198205197.
Oz-Salzberger, Fania (1 October 2001). Israelis in Berlin (in German) (1. Aufl.ed.). Frankfurt am Main: Jüdischer Verlag im Suhrkamp-Verlag. ISBN9783633541713.
Oz, Amos; Oz-Salzberger, Fania (20 November 2012). Jews and Words. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN9780300156478.
(ed.) with Adam Hofri, Adam Smith: Philosopher of the Enlightenment (Mapa, 2005)
(ed.) with Eveline Goodman-Thau, Das jüdische Erbe Europas (Philo, 2005)
(ed.) with Gordon Schochet and Meirav Jones, Political Hebraism: Judaic Sources in Early Modern Political Thought (Shalem, 2008)
(ed.) with Thomas Maissen, The Liberal-Republican Quandary in Israel, Europe, and the United States: Early Modern Political Thought Meets Current Affairs (Academic Studies Press, 2012)
(ed.) with Yedidia Stern, The Israeli Nation – State: Political, Constitutional and Cultural Challenges (Academic Studies Press, 2014)
Fania Oz-Salzberger, Heidelberg's HopeArchived 15 December 2011 at the Wayback Machine, opening lecture of the academic year at the University of Heidelberg (19 October 2003)
