{{short description|American historian}}
{{Infobox academic|honorific_prefix=<!-- see MOS:CREDENTIAL and MOS:HONORIFIC -->|name=|honorific_suffix=|image=|image_size=|alt=|caption=|native_name=|native_name_lang=|birth_name=<!-- use only if different from full/othernames -->|birth_date=<!-- {{birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} -->|birth_place=Rochester, New York, US|death_date=<!-- {{death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) -->|death_place=|death_cause=|region=|nationality=|citizenship=|residence=|other_names=|occupation=|period=|known_for=|home_town=|title=|boards=<!--board or similar positions extraneous to main occupation-->|spouse=|partner=|children=|parents=|relatives=|awards=<!--notable national-level awards only-->|website=|education=|alma_mater=Hobart College<br>University of Wisconsin–Madison|thesis_title=|thesis_url=|thesis_year=|school_tradition=|doctoral_advisor=George L. Mosse<ref>https://mosseprogram.wisc.edu/2022/01/03/stovall/</ref>|academic_advisors=|influences=<!--must be referenced from a third-party source-->|era=|discipline=<!--major academic discipline – e.g. Physicist, Sociologist, New Testament scholar, Ancient Near Eastern Linguist-->|sub_discipline=<!--academic discipline specialist area – e.g. Sub-atomic research, 20th Century Danish specialist, Pauline research, Arcadian and Ugaritic specialist-->|workplaces=University College London|doctoral_students=<!--only those with WP articles-->|notable_students=<!--only th Lose with WP articles-->|main_interests=History of Zionism, visual culture, photography|notable_works=|notable_ideas=|influenced=<!--must be referenced from a third-party source-->|signature=|signature_alt=|signature_size=|footnotes=}}'''Michael Berkowitz''' is a UK-based American historian and professor of modern Jewish history at University College London.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/people/michael-berkowitz|title=Michael Berkowitz - Center for European Studies at Harvard University|first=Harvard|last=University|date=16 August 2018|website=Center for European Studies at Harvard University|accessdate=16 August 2018}}</ref>
==Early life== Berkowitz was born in Rochester, New York. He earned a bachelor's degree from Hobart College in Geneva, New York, and a master's degree and PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.<ref name="ucl.ac.uk">{{cite web|url=https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=MBERK26|title=Iris View Profile|author=|date=|website=iris.ucl.ac.uk|accessdate=16 August 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ushmm.org/research/competitive-academic-programs/fellows-and-scholars/all-fellows-and-scholars/michael-berkowitz-2002|title=Fellow Dr. Michael Berkowitz|author=Staff|date=ndg|website=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum|accessdate=16 August 2018}}</ref>
==Career== Since 2012, Berkowitz has been editor of ''Jewish Historical Studies: Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England''.<ref name="ucl.ac.uk"/><ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewish/people/academic-staff/prof-michael-berkowitz|title=Prof Michael Berkowitz|last=UCL|date=|website=UCL Hebrew & Jewish Studies|accessdate=16 August 2018}}</ref> Berkowitz has a particular interest in the history of the Jewish involvement in photography.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-jews-shot-their-way-into-britains-photographic-memory/|title=How Jews shot their way into Britain's photographic memory|author=|date=|website=timesofisrael.com|accessdate=16 August 2018}}</ref>
==Publications== *''Jews and Photography in Britain'' (University of Texas Press, 2015)<ref name="auto"/> *''The Crime of My Very Existence: Nazism and the Myth of Jewish Criminality'' (University of California Press, 2007)<ref name="auto"/> *''The Jewish Self-Image: American and British Perspectives, 1881-1939'' (Reaktion Press, 2000) [''US edition: The Jewish Self Image in the West'' (New York University Press, 2000)<ref name="auto"/> *''Western Jewry and the Zionist Project, 1914-1933'' (Cambridge University Press, 1997, 2002)<ref name="auto"/> *''Zionist Culture and West European Jewry before the First World War'' (Cambridge University Press, 1993 and University of North Carolina Press, 1996).<ref name="auto"/>
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