With my own eyes
Subtitle: the autobiography of an historian
By: Jacob Katz ; translated by Ann Brenner and Zipora Brody.
Series: The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series ;; 20
Publisher: Published by University Press of New England [for] Brandeis University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Hanover
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
Subjects: Katz, Jacob, 1904-; Jewish historians -- Israel -- Biography
Description: In this lovely and moving memoir, the world's most distinguished scholar of Jewish social history recalls a life that in many ways encapsulates the arduous path of the remnant of East European Jewry through the cataclysmic events of this century. After a childhood in the crumbling Hapsburg Empire, Jacob Katz left his native Hungary to attend the famous Yeshiva of Pressburg. He later entered the University of Frankfurt, where in 1934 he received the last doctorate granted to a Jew in Nazi Germany.

Heeding ominous undercurrents, Katz immigrated to Palestine-Israel in 1936. There he witnessed the birth of the new state and the growth of the prestigious Hebrew University. With My Own Eyes, guided by the hand and eye of the consummate historian, poignantly recreates the atmosphere of the period in which the author has lived.