Dan Michman

Dan Michman (2007)

Dan Michman (born June 28, 1947 in Amsterdam ) is an Israeli historian.

Life

Michman was born to Holocaust survivors in the Netherlands who moved to Israel in 1957, where his father, Dr. Jozeph Michman (Joop Melkman) headed the Yad Vashem memorial from 1957 to 1960 . After military service, he studied Hebrew and history and graduated in 1978 from the history of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem with a doctorate on the Jewish refugees in the Netherlands 1933-1940. Then he dealt with the history of the Dutch and Belgian Jews during the Shoah .

Michman has been Professor of Modern Jewish History at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan since 1976 and has headed the Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research there since 1983. In addition to training his students, he has also created a comprehensive course on the Shoah for the Open University of Israel . Michman is the senior historian at the Yad Vashem Memorial's International Institute for Holocaust Research . He has been a member of the International Scientific Advisory Board of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) since 2012 .

He and his wife Bruria have six grown-up children.

Fonts (selection)

• The Jewish Refugees from Germany in the Netherlands 1933-1940 . PhD thesis, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1978; 2 volumes. Hebrew text, detailed English summary in Volume 1, pp. Iv – xxxiii.
• "The Committee for Jewish Refugees in Holland (1933 - 1940)", in: Yad Vashem Studies , Volume 14 (1981) 205-232.
• “The Jewish Emigration and the Dutch Reaction between 1933 and 1940”, in: Kathinka Dittrich, Hans Würzner (Eds.), The Netherlands and German Exile 1933–1940 . Königstein / Ts: Athenaeum, 1982, pp. 73-90.
• Jozeph Michman, Hartog Beem, Dan Michman, with the assistance of Victor Brilleman and Joop Sanders: Pinkas. Geschiedenis van de joodse gemeenschap in Nederland , Amsterdam: Contact, 1999; 672 p. ISBN 90-254-9513-3 (First Amsterdam / Ede: Nederlands-Israelitisch Kerkgenootschap / Joods Historisch Museum / Kluwer 1992, from the Hebrew by Ruben Verhasselt. Originally: Pinkas Hakehilloth: Holland , Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1985; Hebrew).
• Het Liberale Jodendom in Nederland 1929–1943 , Amsterdam: Van Gennep, 1988; 224 pp. ISBN 90-6012-726-9 .
• The uniqueness of the Joodse Raad in the Western European context , Jerusalem: The Hebrew University, 1993.
• (Ed., Introduction and co-author) Belgium and the Holocaust: Jews, Belgians, Germans , Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1998; 593 pp. (2nd edition 2000). ISBN 965-308-068-7 .
• Remembering the Holocaust in Germany, 1945-2000. German strategies and Jewish responses , New York: Lang, 2002.
• The historiography of the Shoah from a Jewish perspective. Conceptualizations, terminology, views, basic questions , from the Hebrew by Avital Amrani. Hamburg: Dölling and Galitz, 2002; 356 pp., ISBN 3-935549-08-3 (first Tel-Aviv 1998).
• "Jewish councils" and "Jewish associations" under National Socialist rule. Structure and application of an administrative concept , in: Dan Michman: The historiography of the Shoah from a Jewish perspective. Conceptualizations, terminology, views, basic questions , Hamburg: Dölling and Galitz, 2002, pp. 104–117; First published in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft , Volume 46 (1998), Issue 4, pp. 293-304.
• Dan Michman, Peter Geiger , Arthur Brunhart , David Bankier , Carlo Moos, Erika Weinzierl : Questions about Liechtenstein in the Nazi era and in World War II: refugees, assets, art, arms production. Final report of the Independent Commission of Historians Liechtenstein Second World War , Vaduz / Zurich: Historischer Verein Liechtenstein / Chronos, 2005.
• The Jewish councils phenomenon: new insights and their implications for the Hungarian case , Budapest: Balassi, 2005.
• "Criminal evidence and history. The Dieter Wisliceny case and the decision-making process for the “final solution”, “in: Jürgen Matthäus, Klaus-Michael Mallmann (ed.), Germans, Jews, Genocide. The Holocaust as Past and Present . Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2006, pp. 205–219.
• David Bankier, Dan Michman (ed.): Holocaust historiography in context: emergence, challenges, polemics and achievements , Jerusalem: Yad Vashem / New York: Berghahn Books, 2008; 614 pp. ISBN 978-965-308-326-4 .
• David Bankier, Dan Michman (ed.): Holocaust and justice: representation and historiography of the Holocaust in post-war trials , Jerusalem: Yad Vashem / New York: Berghahn Books, 2010; 343 pp. ISBN 978-965-308-353-0 .
• The Emergence of Jewish Ghettos during the Holocaust , Cambridge / Jerusalem: Cambridge University Press / Yad Vashem, 2011; 191 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-76371-4 .
  • Translation of the introduction: Fear of the “Eastern Jews”: The emergence of the ghettos during the Holocaust , translated from English by Udo Rennert, Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 2011; 288 pp. ISBN 978-3-59618208-4 .
• David Bankier, Dan Michman, Iael Nidam-Orvieto (eds.): Pius XII and the Holocaust: Current State of Research , Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2012; 277 pp. ISBN 978-965-308-421-6 .
• Dina Porat and Dan Michman (Eds.), In collaboration with Haim Saadoun: The End of 1942: A Turning Point in World War II and in the Comprehension of the Final Solution? Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2017; 384 pp.

Web links

• Literature by and about Dan Michman in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Dan Michman at perlentaucher.de
• Dan Michman at Yad Vashem

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jozeph Michman ( Michman, Jozeph at VIAF )