Dovid Katz

Quick Facts

Full Name	Dovid Katz
Occupation	Historian
Date Of Birth	May 9, 1956(1956-05-09)
Age	68
Birthplace	Brooklyn
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Taurus

Dovid Katz Biography

Dovid Katz is one of the most popular and richest Historian who was born on May 9, 1956 in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

Born in the New York City borough of Brooklyn into the Litvak (Lithuanian Jewish) family of the award-winning Yiddish and English poet Menke Katz, Dovid Katz attended the Brooklyn day schools Hebrew Institute of Boro Park, East Midwood Jewish Day School, and then, Yeshivah of Flatbush High School, where he led a student protest calling for the inclusion of Yiddish in American Hebrew day school curricula, and founded and edited the Yiddish-English student journal “Aleichem Sholem” (1972–1974). He majored in linguistics at Columbia University, where he graduated in 1978, having studied concurrently at New York’s Herzliah Yiddish Teachers’ Seminary. He relocated to London in 1978 to work on a doctorate (completed in 1982) on the origins of the Semitic component in the Yiddish language at the University of London, where he won the John Marshall Medal in Comparative Philology (1980).

For eighteen years (1978–1996) he taught Yiddish Studies at Oxford, building from scratch, sometimes single-handedly, the Oxford Programme in Yiddish. It grew in the 1980s and 1990s into an international program. His contributions include initiating a new four-week summer course at four levels of language instruction (in 1982), the annual Stencl Lecture (from 1983), annual winter symposiums (from 1985); University of Oxford BA, MSt and MPhil options (from 1982), and a doctoral program (from 1984), these being concentrated in the University’s Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages. His former doctoral students are today professors of Yiddish at Indiana University (Bloomington) and Düsseldorf among others. He founded the series Winter Studies in Yiddish in English (vol. 1 appeared in 1987), and Oksforder Yidish (or “Oxford Yiddish”), entirely in Yiddish (vol. 1 appeared in 1990). His posts, at the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies (renamed the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies) were instructor and junior fellow (1978–1982), senior research fellow and director of Yiddish studies (1983–1994). In 1994 he founded the Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies and served as its research director until 1997. He was Research Fellow at St. Antony’s College Oxford from 1986 to 1997, and a member of the Modern Language Faculty’s Graduate Studies Committee from 1984 to 1997.

Dovid Katz Net Worth

Dovid Katz is one of the richest Historian from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Dovid Katz 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Dovid Katz (Yiddish: הירשע־דוד כ״ץ , also הירשע־דוד קאַץ , Hirshe-Dovid Kats, [ˌhirʃɛ ˈdɔvit ˈkɑt͡s] , born 9 May 1956) is an American-born, Vilnius-based scholar, author and educator, specializing in Yiddish language and literature, Lithuanian Jewish culture, and the Holocaust in Eastern Europe. In recent years, he has been known for combating the so-called “Double Genocide” revision of Holocaust history which asserts a moral equivalence between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. He is editor of the web journal DefendingHistory.com, which he founded in 2009; it has brought together a modest cluster of otherwise little heard-from East European voices. He is known to spend part of each year at his home in North Wales. His website (www.DovidKatz.net) include a list of his books, of some articles by topic, a record of recent work, and a more comprehensive bibliography.

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Katz, taken aback by the poverty he found among the last aged Yiddish speakers in Eastern Europe (many of them “flight survivors” who survived the war by fleeing to the Soviet Union, hence not eligible for aid under the narrow definition of “Holocaust survivor”), alerted the wider world to the issue in a 1999 op-ed in the Forward, which was cited by Judge Edward R. Korman in the Swiss Banks settlement in the U.S. District Court in 2004. Katz began to work closely with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) on these issues, and he helped inspire and inform the 2004 founding of the Survivor Mitzvah Project by a group based in Santa Monica, California.

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Professor Katz was apparently the first to publicly challenge the 2008 Prague Declaration in two May 2009 op-eds, in The Jewish Chronicle and The Irish Times. He subsequently contributed articles to The Guardian (in 2010), Tablet magazine (2010), The Jerusalem Post (2011), the London Jewish News (2012), The Times of Israel (2012), and other publications. He has lectured on these issues at the Jewish National Fund in Adelaide, Australia (May 2011), Lund University in Sweden (May 2010), Monash University in Melbourne (June 2011), Musée d’Aquitaine in Bordeaux (March 2012), Rutgers University (Nov 2008), University of Pennsylvania (Nov 2008), University of South Carolina at Columbia (March 2011), the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute in Washington, D.C. (March 2011), University of London (April 2009), and Yeshiva University (March 2011), among others.