David S. Katz facts for kids

David S. Katz FRHistS (born 1953) is Director of the History of Ideas Program and a member of the Department of History at Brandeis University and Professor Emeritus of early modern European history at Tel Aviv University in Israel, where he taught from 1978 until retiring in 2019. He held the Abraham Horodisch Chair for the History of Books (1994-2019) at Tel Aviv University and was Director of the Lessing Institute for European History and Civilization (2006-2018). Katz received his B.A. from Columbia University (1974) and his D.Phil. from Oxford University (1978) where he was a pupil of Hugh Trevor-Roper (Lord Dacre). He was elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society of England in 1993.