Israel Getzler
Historian
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Israel Getzler (Hebrew: ישראל גצלר; 1920–2012) was a historian of Russia and the Soviet Union.
Israel Getzler | |
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| Born | May 14, 1920  |
| Died | January 8, 2012 (aged 91) |
| Occupation | Historian of Eastern Europe |
He lived in Germany until about 1938 when he was deported to Poland by the Nazis. Eventually, he arrived in the Soviet Union and was placed in a Siberian Gold-mining settlement. Following World War II he moved to Australia. He gained a tenured position at Adelaide University.[1] He later went to work at Stanford University. In the early 1970s he became a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was an active participant in anti-settler demonstrations.[2]
