Amit Varshizky | |
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Born | 1977 Haifa, Israel |
Occupation | Historian |
Academic background | |
Education | PhD (2017), Tel Aviv University |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Tel Aviv University, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Concordia University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jena Center 20th Century History |
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Website | https://uni-jena.academia.edu/amitvarshizky |
Amit Varshizky (Hebrew: עמית ורשיצקי; born in 1977, Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli scientist specializing in intellectual and cultural history of Nazi Germany, racial science and racial philosophy in early 20th-century Germany, and political theology and secularization theory with focus on modern German philosophy.[1]
Varshizky is the author of several books on Race and Secularism, including The Metaphysics of Race: Science and Faith in the Nazi Worldview (forthcoming: The Open University of Israel press and Yad Vashem International Institute for Holocaust Research; the Goldberg prize winner for 2019), Secularism and Sacralism: Studies in the History of Religion, edited by Shalom Ratzabi, Eitan Ginsburg and Amit Varshizky (forthcoming, Sapir Academic Publishers).[2]