Zvi Yavetz
{{Short description|Israeli historian and professor}}
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Zvi Yavetz ({{Langx|he|צבי יעבץ}}; 26 April 1925 – 7 January 2013) was an Israeli historian. He was a professor of ancient history at Tel Aviv University.
Biography
Zvi Zucker (later Yavetz) was born in Czernowitz, Ukraine. When he was five years old, he was diagnosed with polio and his father committed suicide.{{cite news|author=Aharon Appelfeld|title=A city that was and is no longer|url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/a-city-that-was-and-is-no-longer-1.240681|access-date=25 January 2013|newspaper=Haaretz|date=5 March 2008}} After the German occupation in 1941, he was sent to a concentration camp. His relatives, including his mother, were murdered, but he survived the Holocaust and escaped in 1944.{{cite news|author=Ofer Aderet|title=Distinguished Israeli historian Zvi Yavetz dies at 87|url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/distinguished-israeli-historian-zvi-yavetz-dies-at-87.premium-1.492724|access-date=25 January 2013|newspaper=Haaretz|date=8 January 2013}} Arriving in Turkey, he was transferred to Cyprus and eventually reached Mandatory Palestine.
Initially, Yavetz joined a kibbutz in the Jordan valley. Then he left to study modern history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. While at university, Yavetz worked as a teacher for deaf and speech impaired children. He received a master's degree and PhD in history, classics and sociology in 1950 and 1956, respectively.{{cite web|title=Zwi Yavets|url=http://www.isro-press.net/Premii/Yavetz.Engl.htm|publisher=ISRO|access-date=25 January 2013}} In 1960, he carried out post-doctoral research at University of London and Lund University.
Yavetz died in January 2013 and was buried at Kibbutz Tel Yitzhak cemetery.
Academic and literary career
After completing his PhD, Yavetz helped to found Tel Aviv University. In 1956, he was named the department chair of general history and later, dean of humanities faculty at the university.
In 2008, Yavetz published his autobiography, My Czernowitz. He adopted his mother's family name, Yavetz, when he learned that all members of her family had been killed in the Holocaust.{{cite book|author=Irad Malkin|title=Leaders and Masses in the Roman World: Studies in Honor of Zvi Yavetz|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zlp5orrpC4gC&pg=PR4|year=1995|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-09917-3|page=5}}
Awards and recognition
In 1990, Yavetz was awarded the Israel Prize for humanities.{{cite news|author=Neri Brenner|title=Israel Prize laureate Prof. Zvi Yavetz dies|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4330099,00.html|access-date=25 January 2013|newspaper=Ynet News|date=8 January 2013}} In 1997, he was awarded a doctorate (Honoris Causa) from Beer Sheba University and Munich University.
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Category:20th-century Israeli historians
Category:Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
Category:Israel Prize in humanities recipients who were historians
Category:Jewish concentration camp survivors