Zev Golan
Zev Golan (Hebrew: זאב גולן) is an Israeli historian, author, and Senior Research Fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies, where he was previously Director of the Public Policy Center. In the 1970s he was one of the world's foremost Nazi hunters. Coordinating with Simon Wiesenthal and Israeli Police he helped bring to justice Romanian cleric and former fascist Valerian Trifa and former Nazi collaborator Boleslavs Maikovskis.[1][better source needed] He moved to Israel in 1979.[1]
Books
[edit]Written
[edit]- 2003: Free Jerusalem: Heroes, Heroines And Rogues Who Created The State Of Israel [Devora]
- 2007: God, Man and Nietzsche: A Startling Dialogue Between Judaism and Modern Philosophers [Universe][2]
- 2011: Stern: The Man and His Gang [Geffen]
- Machtarot Be'Maasar (The History of the Jerusalem Central Prison During the British Mandate, in Hebrew)
- Shofarot Shel Mered (The Shofars of the Revolt, in Hebrew)
- Zion's Captive Heroes
- The Western Wall Wars
Edited
[edit]- Kitvei Shlomo Molcho (The Collected Writings of Shlomo Molcho, in Hebrew)
- Lechu Neranena Le'et Hageula (commentaries by Shlomo Molcho, in Hebrew)
- Michtavim Nivcharim (Israel Eldad: Selected Letters 1944-1995, in Hebrew)
- Lehi B'eyn Hamatslema (Lehi Through the Camera's Eye, a pictorial history of Lehi, Modan Publishing, 2021, in Hebrew)
Translated
[edit]- Golan translated the memoirs of Stern Group commander Israel Eldad into English.[3]
- Golan is the English translator of Hanna Armoni's Hebrew memoirs of her teenage years in the Stern Group, Are You Waiting for Eliahu?
- A Soldier and a Poet: The Collected Poems of Avraham 'Yair' Stern (the Lehi Heritage Association's Authorized Translation of all of Stern's poetry)
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Devora Publishing - Golan". Archived from the original on 9 August 2011.
- ^ Klein, Abigail (8 January 2009). "Nietzschean Judaism; An author looks to an atheist's ideas to buttress a divinely oriented worldview". The Jerusalem Post.
The very notion of imagining Friedrich "God is dead" Nietzsche on the same page as the master kabbalist Isaac Luria may seem unlikely at best. Throwing Job, Niels Bohr, F.W.J. Schelling and Maimonides into the mix just sharpens the perception of random absurdity. Yet Zev Golan's unassuming paperback is so chock-full of original and thought-provoking ideas that it's impossible to read it without drawing a highlighter across one pithy passage after another. Revealing himself as a sensitive intellectual who credits Soren Kierkegaard's writings with giving him "the strength to remain Orthodox," Golan searches for truth at the intersection of secular and Jewish philosophy. Boldly, he tackles such timeless puzzles as: What is the purpose of life? Why is there suffering? Where is history heading? Do science and religion clash?
- ^ "Zev Golan". Gefen Books.
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