2013/02/01 by Lionel Gossman · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Social Sciences · #Archaeological Research and Protection #Archaeology and Historical Studies #Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
paper · doi:10.11647/obp.0030
openalex publication_date 2013/02/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/04/26
Born into a prominent German Jewish banking family, Max von Oppenheim was a keen amateur archaeologist and ethnologist, whose excavation of Tel Halaf in Syria marked an important contribution to knowledge of the ancient Middle East. He was also an ardent German patriot, eager to support his country’s pursuit of its ‘place in the sun’. Ranging widely over many fields – from war studies to archaeology and banking history – this book tells the gripping and at times unsettling story of one part-Jewish man’s passion for his country in the face of persistent and, in his later years, genocidal anti-Semitism.