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I am so honored to deliver a lecture on Karl W. Deutsch at an institution named after Simon Dubnow. Simon Dubnow is perhaps the most important and – considering his fate – also the most tragic of the three great modern historians of Judaism. The other two, of course, are Heinrich Hirsch Graetz and Salo Wittmayer Baron. Dubnow’s two-volume History of Chasidism was my introduction into this highly interesting and important field of Jewish life. His ten-volume [World] History of the Jews from the Earliest Times Until the Present Day [Weltgeschichte des jüdischen Volkes von den Uranfängen bis zur Gegenwart] is one of the great achievements of modern historiography, and not merely with respect to Jewish history.
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Abbreviated version of “The Thyssen Lecture” delivered at the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at the University of Leipzig, Thursday, November 18, 2004. This address was first published in: “Historical Experience and the Culture of Knowledge. Karl W. Deutsch from Prague to America”, in: Dan Diner and Moshe Zimmermann (Eds.): Disseminating German Tradition – The Thyssen Lectures (Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2009), reprinted courtesy of Leipziger Universitätsverlag.
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See http://www.bookrags.com/biography/karl-wolfgang-deutsch/ or http://www.answers.com/topic/karl-deutsch – Also Richard L. Merritt, Bruce M. Russett, and Robert A. Dahl, “Karl Wolfgang Deutsch, 1912–1992”, Biographical Memoirs for The National Academy of Sciences, Volume 80 (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 2001).
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“The Political Sociology of Integration and Social Development: A Comparative Analysis of Emile Durkheim and Karl W. Deutsch,” in Richard L. Merritt and Bruce M. Russett (eds.), From National Development to Global Community: Essays in Honor of Karl W. Deutsch. (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1981), pp. 165–183. [with Warren W. Oliver III.] I also published a few other entries on Karl Deutsch. Among them are “Deutsch, Karl Wolfgang (1912–92)” in The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, Volume 2, D–J (Bristol, UK: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005); pp. 626–629; ‘Deutsch’ in the 20th Century Supplement of the Encyclopedia of World Biography, Volume 13, (A–F), 1987; and an obituary in Austria’s paper of record, Der Standard, entitled “Karl Deutsch 1912–1992” in Der Standard, November 13, 1992. [with Anton Pelinka]).
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Markovits, A.S. (2020). Historical Experience and the Culture of Knowledge: Karl W. Deutsch from Prague to America. In: Taylor, C., Russett, B. (eds) Karl W. Deutsch: Pioneer in the Theory of International Relations. Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice, vol 25. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02910-8_9
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