Yair Mintzker
Yair Mintzker (born 1975, Jerusalem, Israel) is an Israeli-American historian. Mintzker is professor of history at Princeton University.
Early life and education
Mintzker was born and raised in Jerusalem, and attended The Israel Arts and Science Academy (IASA). He received his M.A. in history from Tel-Aviv University (2003) and his Ph.D. from Stanford University (2009), where he studied under James J. Sheehan. His Ph.D. at Stanford was titled "The defortification of the German city, 1689–1866".[1] Mintzker is best known for his work on Joseph Süß Oppenheimer and for developing the historiographical technique of Polyphonic history.
History prizes
- Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize, 2010
- Urban History Association Best Book Prize, 2014
- National Jewish Book Award in History, 2017[2]
- Financial Times History Book of the Year, 2017
Bibliography
- The Defortification of the German City, 1689–1866 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)[3]
- The Many Deaths of Jew Süss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2017)[4]
- (With David A. Bell) Rethinking the Age of Revolutions: France and the Birth of the Modern World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019)
References
- Friedrichs, Christopher (2013). "The Defortification of the German City, 1689–1866 by Yair Mintzker (review)". American Historical Review. 118 (3): 948–949. doi:10.1093/ahr/118.3.948. ISSN 2164-8646.
- "Yair Mintzker | Jewish Book Council". www.jewishbookcouncil.org. Retrieved 2021-03-27.
- Mintzker, Yair (2012). The Defortification of the German City, 1689–1866. Publications of the German Historical Institute. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9781139162166. ISBN 978-1-107-02403-8.
- The Many Deaths of Jew Süss. 2017-05-30. ISBN 978-0-691-17232-3.
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