Zev Golan (Hebrew: זאב גולן) is an Israeli historian, author, and Senior Research Fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies, where he was previously Director of the Public Policy Center.[1] In the 1970s he was one of the world's foremost Nazi hunters. Coordinating with Simon Wiesenthal and Israeli Police he helped bring justice to Archbishop Valerian Trifa and Boleslavs Maikovskis.[2] He moved to Israel in 1979.[2]
Books
Golan is the author of many books, among them:
- God, Man and Nietzsche: A Startling Dialogue Between Judaism and Modern Philosophers
- Free Jerusalem: Heroes, Heroines And Rogues Who Created The State Of Israel
- Stern: The Man and His Gang
- Golan also translated the memoirs of Stern Group commander Israel Eldad into English.[3]
- Golan is the English translator of Hanna Armoni's Hebrew memoirs of her teenage years in the Stern Group, Are You Waiting for Eliahu?
- Machtarot Be'Maasar (The History of the Jerusalem Central Prison During the British Mandate, in Hebrew)
- Michtavim Nivcharim (editor of Israel Eldad: Selected Letters 1944-1995, in Hebrew)
- Shofarot Shel Mered (The Shofars of the Revolt, in Hebrew)
- Zion's Captive Heroes
- The Western Wall Wars
- Lechu Neranena Le'et Hageula (editor of a selection of commentaries by Shlomo Molcho, in Hebrew)
- Kitvei Shlomo Molcho (editor, The Collected Writings of Shlomo Molcho, in Hebrew)
