Shlomo Aronson (historian)
{{Short description|Israeli historian (1936–2020)}}
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Shlomo Aronson ({{Langx|he|שלמה אהרונסון}}; 27 November 1936 – 21 February 2020) was an Israeli historian and professor of political science at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Biography
Shlomo Aronson was born in Tel Aviv. He worked as a newspaper columnist for Haaretz and Maariv, as well as a radio news editor. In 2007-2009 he was a visiting Professor in Israel Studies at The Arizona Center for Judaic Studies.[https://judaic.arizona.edu/news/we-remember-professor-shlomo-aronson-z%E2%80%9Dl We Remember Professor Shlomo Aronson (z”l)]
Aronson died in Kfar Saba.{{cite news |title=הלך לעולמו ההיסטוריון והעיתונאי פרופ שלמה אהרונסון |url=https://www.news1.co.il/Archive/001-D-422862-00.html |work=www.news1.co.il}}
Published works
Aronson's book Hitler, the Allies, and the Jews argued a thesis that he had advanced in many of his earlier publications—to "explain the Holocaust in terms of a multiple trap". According to Aronson, the Nazis devised this trap such that Jews' attempts to extricate themselves would only further the Nazis' genocidal ambitions. The book received mixed reviews.{{cite journal |last1=Herzstein |first1=R. E. |title=Hitler, the Allies, and the Jews, Shlomo Aronson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 382 pp., $85.00. |journal=Holocaust and Genocide Studies |date=1 January 2005 |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=525–528 |doi=10.1093/hgs/dci046}}{{cite journal |last1=McKale |first1=Donald M. |title=Hitler, the Allies, and the Jews |journal=Central European History |date=4 December 2006 |volume=39 |issue=4 |pages=722–724 |doi=10.1017/S0008938906260242}}{{cite journal |last1=Cesarani |first1=David |title=Reviews: Shlomo Aronson, Hitler, the Allies, and the Jews, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2004; 406 pp.; 0521838770, £45 (hbk) |journal=European History Quarterly |date=22 April 2016 |volume=37 |issue=3 |pages=458–460 |doi=10.1177/02656914070370030502 }}
The book received the Israeli Political Science Association Award for an outstanding book in English and the Sybil Milton Prize of the German Studies Association for outstanding work on the Holocaust.{{cite web |title=Shlomo Aronson |url=https://judaic.arizona.edu/user/shlomo-aronson |website=The Arizona Center for Judaic Studies |accessdate=6 February 2020}}
- {{cite book |last1=Aronson |first1=Shlomo |title=Hitler, the Allies, and the Jews |date=2004 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-0-521-83877-1 |language=en}}
- ''David Ben-Gurion and the Jewish Renaissance (1999)
- ’’Levi Eshkol: From Pioneering Operator to Tragic Hero—-A Doer (Vallentine Mitchell, 2022)
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Category:Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Category:Historians of the Holocaust