Baruch Kimmerling, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Baruch Kimmerling

Israeli sociologist and historian

Date of Birth: 16-Oct-1939

Place of Birth: Turda, Cluj County, Romania

Date of Death: 20-May-2007

Profession: political scientist, university teacher, sociologist, opinion journalist

Nationality: Israel

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Baruch Kimmerling (Hebrew: ???? ?????????; 16 October 1939 – 20 May 2007) was an Israeli scholar and professor of sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Upon his death in 2007, The Times described him as "the first academic to use scholarship to reexamine the founding tenets of Zionism and the Israeli State".
Though a sociologist by training, Kimmerling was associated with the New Historians, a group of Israeli scholars who question the official narrative of Israel's creation.