Background
Steinberg, Jonathan was born on March 8, 1934 in New York City. Son of Rabbi Milton and Edith (Alpert) Steinberg.
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German and Italian fascist armies treated the Jews quite differently during the Second World War. Jonathan Steinberg unravels the motives and force underpinning Nazism and Fascism and discusses the roots of atrocity during war.
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historian university professor
Steinberg, Jonathan was born on March 8, 1934 in New York City. Son of Rabbi Milton and Edith (Alpert) Steinberg.
Bachelor, Harvard University, 1955. Master of Arts, Cambridge University, England, 1963. Doctor of Philosophy, Cambridge University, England, 1965.
After serving for 33 years at Cambridge University as University Lecturer and then Reader in European History, Fellow of Trinity Hall, and Vice-Master, he now teaches at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He is an emeritus fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and served as an External Examiner in Participant II of the Cambridge History Tripos for 2009 to 2011. Steinberg"s teaching covers modern Europe since 1789 with specialization in the German and Austrian Empires, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and modern Jewish history.
He has also taught graduate seminars in historical thought and method and recently has taught economic thought from Adam Smith to Karl Marx.
Steinberg served as an expert witness in the Commonwealth of Australia War Crimes prosecution. He was also appointed to the Historical Commission of the Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt am Main to examine bank activity and gold transactions during World World War World War II
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He was a member of the Board of Trustees of Franklin University Switzerland in Lugano, Switzerland, and the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets.
Married Marion Kant; married Jill P. Steinberg, November 13, 1960 (divorced October 2002). Children: Matthew David, Daniel Andrew, Peter James.