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1933	Born in Czechoslovakia (Czech Repulic)
1949	Immigration to Israel
since 1965	Member of the faculty of the Department of History of the Jewish People, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1966	Post graduate studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University of Frankfurt/M.
1976	Ph.D., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a thesis on the subject:“The ‘Jewish Question’ in the Third Reich. Its Significance in National Socialist Ideology and Politics and its Role in Determining the Status and Activities of the Jews.”
since 1984	Academic advisor to The Multilingual Annotated Bibliography on Antisemitism and Holocaust
1984/85	Visiting professor at Harvard University
1988-1999	The Sol Rosenblum Chair of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1998	Award of the 'Buchman Memorial Prize of Yad Vashem' and the 'Arnold Wiznitzer Prize for the Best Book in Jewish History' for Deutsches Judentum unter dem Nationalsozialismus 1933-1939.
since 1990	Member of the board of the Israel Historical Society
since 1996	Member of the editorial board of Yad Vashem Studies
since 1997	Member of the executive board of Yad Vashem
since 1998	Member of the executive board of the Leo Baeck Institute
since 1999	Professor emeritus
*** Menahem Ben Sasson: "Otto Dov Kulka – The Person, The Scholar, The Teacher," pp.419-423. In: Festschrift in Honor of Otto Dov Kulka: On Germans and Jews under the Nazi Regime. Essays by Three Generations of Historians, Ed.by Moshe Zimmermann, The Hebrew University Magnes Press, Jerusalem 2006. Reviews: - Geoff Eley, in: Journal of Genocide Research 10:1 (2008) pp.165 - 168 - Omer Bartov, in: Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, vol. 14 No 1 (2008), pp.117 – 120