Zev Golan
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Zev Golan

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Zev Golan (Hebrew: זאב גולן‎) is an Israeli historian, author, and Director of the Public Policy Center at the Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies. 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. He moved to Israel in 1979.

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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.
  • 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)
  • Shofrot Shel Mered (The Shofars of the Revolt, in Hebrew)