Michael Selzer

Michael Selzer's very diverse publications reflect a life lived on three continents and interests that range from Biblical text criticism, psychohistorical studies (among others, of major Nazi war criminals based on psychological test data), to Jewish topics (Deliverance Day won a National Jewish Book Award), and the history of the concept of symmetry, the subject of his major book, Symmetry Fallacies. His careers have included stints in the academic world, journalism, Wall Street, antiquarian bookselling, and Internet commerce. He was co-founder of Bibliofind, the major online database for old, used and rare books that Amazon acquired in 1999 and later merged into its main site. Michael Selzer is an erudite but entertaining lecturer, and has given talks on a large variety of subjects to audiences in Australia, Israel, the UK and the US. At present he is editing a series of important texts in the history of architectural theory, some of which he has also translated. He can be contacted at MichaelSelzer@ProtonMail.com