Peter C. Appelbaum

Peter C. Appelbaum MD, PhD has authored and co-authored over 1,000 scientific articles and presentations to scientific audiences world-wide during his career as a clinical microbiologist and antibiotic researcher. The first description of an outbreak of clinical infections caused by drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae came from his laboratory in 1977 and he has authored seminal work on many other aspects of bacterial drug-resistance, including vancomycin non-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus. His publications can be found on US National Institute of Health Center for Biotechnical Information's PubMed.gov website and his presentations on any web search engine.

His interests in German and other languages as well as modern Jewish history led to his discovery of the lives and experiences of the 100,000 Jewish soldiers in the First World War German army. His works include 'Loyalty Betrayed: Jewish Chaplains in the German Army During the First World War' , ‘Loyal Sons: Jewish Soldiers in the German Army in the Great War’, 'Broken Carousel', 'Hell On Earth', 'Jewish Tales of the Great War', and 'Carnage and Care on the Eastern Front', 'Prayer After the Slaughter' , and 'The War and Beyond - Bernhard Bardach’s Diaries, The Galitzianer'. Three more books will be published in 2020.

The winner of the 2019 TLS - Risa Domb/Porjes Prize was Peter C. Appelbaum for a translation of Hell on Earth by Avigdor Hameiri (Wayne State University Press)

Additionally, Peter has unearthed poetry written by German Jewish soldiers, and translated many of those works, making them available in English for the very first time. These poems give a fascinating insight into the German and Jewish experience of the First World War. The Economist www.economist.com chose one of Peter's translations of a poem by Ernst Toller(1893-1939) for their November 11, 2013 Remembrance Day daily chart.