David Engel (historian)

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David Joshua Engel (born 1951 ) is an American historian .

Life

Engel received his doctorate in 1979 from the University of California in Los Angeles and then conducted research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem .

He has been a fellow at the Diaspora Research Institute at Tel Aviv University since 1985 and has been a member of other scientific organizations since then. In 2012 he was co-editor of a commemorative publication for the Judaist Robert Chazan .

Engel is Professor of “Holocaust and Judaic Studies” at New York University .

Fonts (selection)

  • (Ed.): Studies in medieval Jewish intellectual and social history: Festschrift in honor of Robert Chazan . Leiden: Brill, 2012 ISBN 978-90-04-22233-5
  • Historians of the Jews and the Holocaust . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2010
  • Zionism . New York: Longman, 2009
  • with yitzchak corn; Eva Fogelman : Daring to resist: Jewish defiance in the Holocaust . New York: Museum of Jewish Heritage, 2007
  • The Holocaust: the Third Reich and the Jews . New York: Longman, 2000
  • The Concept of Antisemitism in the Historical Scholarship of Amos Funkenstein , Jewish Social Studies 6.1 (1999) pp. 111-129
  • Patterns Of Anti-Jewish Violence In Poland, 1944–1946 , in: Yad Vashem Studies, Vol. XXVI, Jerusalem 1998, pp. 43–85.
  • Ben shiḥrur li-veriḥah: nitsole ha-Shoʾah be-Polin ṿeha-maʾavaḳ ʿal hanhagatam, 1944 - 1946 [Between liberation and flight. Holocaust survivors in Poland and the dispute over leadership, 1944–1946]. Tel Aviv: Am Oved Publishers, 1996 (he)
  • Facing a Holocaust: The Polish Government-in-Exile and the Jews, 1943-1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
  • In the Shadow of Auschwitz: The Polish Government-in-Exile and the Jews, 1939-1942. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987.
  • Organized Jewish responses to German antisemitism during the First World War . Los Angeles, Calif. : Univ. of California, 1979. Univ. of California, Diss. 1979

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David Engel , at NYU
  2. ↑ David Engel (Mhrsg.): Studies in Medieval Jewish Intellectual and Social History . Leiden: Brill, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Angel, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Engel, David Joshua (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1951