Fania Oz-Salzberger - School of Historical Studies Staff
Position
Professor to the Leon Liberman Chair of Modern Israel StudiesPhone
+61 3 9902 9942Address
School of Historical StudiesAustralian Centre for Jewish Civilisation
Building 11
Monash University Victoria 3800
Australia
Location
Building H, 8th Floor, Caulfield Campus
Personal History
Fania Oz-Salzberger is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Haifa, and Founding Director of the Posen Research Forum for Jewish European and Israeli Political Thought at the Faculty of Law. She is Professor and Leon Liberman Chair in Modern Israel Studies at the University of Monash, in Melbourne. For the period 2007-2012, she holds a joint appointment at Haifa and Monash Universities.
Current Research
A book-in-writing on seventeenth-century Hebraist republicanism in England and the Netherlands, based on research into the political readings of the Bible by early modern jurists and thinkers, including Cunaeus, Selden, Harrington, Milton and Locke.
An essay on Jewish history from a modern secular perspective. It will be a companion volume to the Posen Library of Jewish texts, published by Yale University Press. This essay will discuss recurrent themes in Jewish intellectual history, including the role of open debate, the affordability of disagreement and the literacy of women.
Other research in progress:
- Translations and Trajectories in the European Enlightenment.
- From Republicanism to Liberalism in Early Modern Europe.
- Uses of the Past for Israeli-European Dialogue Today.
Major Publications
BooksEveline Goodman-Thau and Fania Oz-Salzberger (eds.), Das Judische Erbe Europas: Zur Krise der Kultur im Spannungsfeld von Religion und Moderne. Berlin: Philo-Verlag, 2005, (460pages) [German and English]
Fania Oz-Salzberger, Israelis in Berlin [Hebrew] (Jerusalem: Keter, 2001). German translation (Frankfurt am Mein: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2001).
Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society, ed. and introd. by Fania Oz-Salzberger, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995)
Fania Oz-Salzberger, Translating the Enlightenment: Scottish Civic Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Germany (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995)
Refereed Publications
"Adam Ferguson", in: The New Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
"The Non-Israeli Herzl", in: Herzl Then and Now: Old Jew - New Man?, edited by Yedidia Stern and Avi Sagi (Jerusalem: Keter, 2008).(Hebrew.)
"Israel: How Is It Really Doing Today?", Internationale Politik, 7 May 2008.
"Intercivilizational Conflict: Some Points of Order", The Israel Journal of Conflict Management, 1 (2008). (This will also appear as the opening chapter of a forthcoming book titled Intercivilizational Conflict: Contemporary Perspectives).
"Inside Europe: An Israeli Perspective", Franz Rosenzweig Jahrbuch (Summer 2008).
"Jewish Berlin", in: Yirmiyahu Yovel, David Shaham and Yair Tsaban (eds.), New Jewish Time: Jewish Culture in a Secular Age – an Encyclopedic View, edited by Yirmiyahu Yovel, Jerusalem: Keter, 2007, vol. 3, 328-335. [Hebrew].
"Europe, Rivers, and Trams: Reflections of an Ex-European", in: Hans-Åke Persson and Bo Stråth (eds), Reflections on Europe. Defining a Political Order in Time and Space. Brussels: PIE-Peter Lang, 2007, 203-213.
Eli Salzberger and Fania Oz-Salzberger, "The Tradition of Freedom of Expression in Israel", in: Michael D. Birnhack (ed.), Be Quiet, Someone is Speaking! The Judicial Culture of Freedom of Speech in Israel, Tel Aviv University Press, 2006, 27-70.
"Forty Years of Diplomatic Relations, Four Hundred Years of Cultural Ties", in: The Legacy of the German-Jewish Religious and Cultural Heritage: A Basis for German-Israeli Dialogue? Berlin: Konrad Adenauer Foundation and Bar Ilan University, 2006.
"The Enlightenment in Translation: Regional and European Aspects", European Review of History, 13 (2006), 385-409.
The Political Thought of John Locke and the Significance of Political Hebraism", Hebraic Political Studies, 1:5 (2006), 568–592.
"Israel: Some European Contexts", in: .Eveline Goodman-Thau and Fania Oz-Salzberger (eds.), Das Judische Erbe Europas: Zur Krise der Kultur im Spannungsfeld von Religion und Moderne (Berlin: Philo-Verlag, 2005)., 151-166 [English].
"Quelle paix pour le Moyen-Orient?", Revue Cit?s 24 (2005), 39-52.
"The Political Theory of the Scottish Enlightenment", in: Alexander Broadie (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 157-177.
"Christian Garve", in: Oxford Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, edited by Alan Charles Kors et al. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), II:101-102.
"Translation", in: Oxford Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, edited by Alan Charles Kors et al. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), IV:181-188.
"Aufklurung", in: Oxford Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, edited by Alan Charles Kors et al. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), I:97-100.
"Republicanism and Commerce in Eighteenth-Century Scotland and Germany", in: Quentin Skinner and Martin van Gelderen (eds.), Early Modern European Republicanism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), vol. II, ch. 11, 107-226.
Scots, Germans, Republic and Commerce", in: Quentin Skinner and Martin van Gelderen (eds.), Republicanism: A Shared European Heritage (Cambridge, 2002).
"Der Globalisierte Jude: Wo der Antisemitismust beginnt", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Feuilleton, 18 June 2002.
"Civil Society in Eighteenth-Century Scotland and Germany", in: Sudipta Kaviraj and Sunil Khilnani (eds.), Civil Society: History and Possibilities (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 58-83.
"Die Zukunfte der Israelischen Gesellschaft" ("The Futures of Israeli Society"), Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, April 2001.
"New Approaches toward the History of the Enlightenment: Can Disparate Perspectives Make a General Picture?", Tel Aviver Jahrbuch fur deutsche Geschichte 30 (2001), 171-182.
"Intellectual History, History of Ideas", International Encyclopaedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences (Amsterdam and Oxford, 2001).
"Civil Society in Eighteenth-Century Scotland and Germany", in: Sunil Khilnani and Sudipta Kaviraj (eds.), Civil Society: History and Possibilities (Cambridge, 2001).
"Intellectual History", in: International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences, edited by Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes (Oxford: Elsevier Science, 2001), XI:7605-12.
"Adam Ferguson's Histories in Germany: English Liberty, Scottish Vigour and German Rigour", in: Peter Wende and Benedikt Stuchtey (eds.), British and German Historiography 1750-1950: Traditions, Perceptions and Transfers (Oxford: Oxford University Press,2000), 49-66.
Eli Salzberger and Fania Oz-Salzberger, "The Secret German Sources of the Israeli Supreme Court", Israel Studies 3 (1999), 159-192.
(With Eli Salzberger), "Die geheimen deutschen Quellen am Israelischen Obersten Gerichtshof", Kritische Justiz 31 (1998).
"Adam Ferguson", in: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law, edited by Peter Newman (London: Macmillan, 1998).
"Exploring the Germanick Body: Eighteenth-Century British Images of Germany", Tel Aviver Jahrbuch fur deutsche Geschichte 26 (1997), 7-23.
"National Identity in Eighteenth-Century Scotland and Germany: Affinities, Impact, Divergence", 1650-1850. Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era , 2 (1996), 137-166.
"Die schottische Aufklurung in Frankreich" in: Helmut Holzhey and Daniel Bruhlmeier (eds.), Die Schottische Aufklurung (Berlin: Akademieverlag, 1995), 107-122.
"Von den Hugeln der Kaledonier", Usterreichische Zeitschrift fur Geschichtswissenschaften 5 (1994), 178-200.
Other Publications
"Vieles Anders, Aber Doch Vertraut: Wenn Sich Die Einstigen Zionistischen Träumer Heute Auf Israel-Reise Begeben Würden", Jüdische Almanach (June 2008).
"Dreams and Mistakes: Herzl, Nordau, Jabotinsky, Achad Haam, Berl and Bialik Tour Today's Israel with Fania Oz-Salzberger", Kivunim Hadashim, May 2008 (Hebrew). [An abridged English version appeared in the Australian periodical Rhapsody 2 (Winter 2008)].
"No easy solutions while Hamas keeps warring", The Age, January 2008.
"If we’re already talking about reparations". Ha’Aretz, November 2007.
"The Haifa and Bar Ilan Boycott", Wall Street Journal, 2 May 2005.
"Gaza", Wall Street Journal, 22 August 2005.
"A Letter to Europe", Eretz Acheret, special issue: "Letter to Europe", 2004.
"Blut und Druhte: Der Stockholmer Kunstskandal", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Feuilleton, 20 January 2004.
"Ihr boykottieren die Falschen: Brief an ein Funtel meiner Studenten", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Feuilleton, 18 January 2003.
"An absurd link? Europe Forgets Israel's Origins", International Herald Tribune, Editorials and Commentary, 27 June 2003.
"In der Fernsehfalle: Warum Europa Angst vor Israel hat", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Feuilleton, 19 November 2003.
"A Letter to One Fifth of my Students", Yedioth Aharonot, Opinions Page, 13 January 2003. [Hebrew].
"Bridging the Chasm: Europe and Israel," Aufbau 16 (2003), 8-9.
"The Jewish Roots of Western Freedom", Azure 13 (2002).
"Europe Should Step In - And Look Israelis in the Eye", International Herald Tribune, Editorials and Commentary, 29 March 2002. http://www.iht.com/articles/2002/03/29/edfania_ed3_.php
Areas of Research & Supervision
History of Ideas; History of Political Thought; The Enlightenment; Liberalism - Historical and Current Perspectives and Jewish Elements in Modern Political Thought
Teaching
JWC2/3540 - Israeli culture through cinema and literature
JWC4020/JWM4/5020 - Zionism: the argument
Public Lectures
- Inaugural Monash Israel Oration - "The Future of Israel: Three Scenarios" delivered on Monday 26 May 2008 at Monash University. Download [pdf 111kb]
- 2008 Australia-Israel Hawke Lecture - "Old-New Lands: Antiquity, Modernity and Europe's Complex Legacy in Israel and Australia" delivered on Wednesday 13 August 2008 at the University of South Australia.
View transcript here