Background
Yechiam Weitz is the grandson of Yosef Weitz, director of the Land and Afforestation Department of the Jewish National Fund.
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Yechiam Weitz
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Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Career
Weitz obtained his Bachelor of Arts in history and philosophy in 1977, and his Master of Arts in history in 1982, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in 1988, also from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, on the topic of "The Attitude of Mapai Towards the Destruction of European Jewry 1939-1945," supervised by Yisrael Gutman. Weitz teaches at the Department of Land of Israel Studies at the University of Haifa.
He is the editor of Between Vision and Revision: One Hundred Years of Zionist Historiography (1994) and author of a book about Rudolf Kastner, Ha-Ish she-Nirtsah Paamayim ("The Manitoba who was Murdered Twice").
