Yaacov Lozowick

Yaacov Lozowick (born in 1957 in Bad Kreuznach) is an Israeli historian and writer. He is the director of the Archives at Yad Vashem.

Education
In 1980 Yaacov Lozowick gained qualifications as a tourist guide. In 1982 he graduated with a Bachelor in history and Jewish philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI). In 1984 he obtained a diploma in pedagogy and in 1989 a Master for Contemporary Judaism from the HUJI. In 1995 he completed his doctorate for Contemporary Judaism in the HUJI.

Professional career
In 1990 Lozowick became a teacher of history at the Paul Himmelfarb high school for boys. Between 1986 and 1989 he worked as an instructor of modern Jewish history in World Union of Jewish Students Academy. From 1989 until 1993 he served as director of Seminars for Educators from Abroad at Yad Vashem, the Israel’s Department of Education National Authority for the Commemoration of the Holocaust.

Since 1993 he serves as the director of the Archives at Yad Vashem.

Publications

 * Hitler’s Bureaucrats: The Nazi Security and the Banality of Evil, Continuum, London and New York, 2002, ISBN 0826457118
 * Right to Exist: A Moral Defense of Israel's Wars, Anchor Books, 2004, ISBN 1400032431