Dina Porat

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Dina Porat (2008)

Dina Porat (* 1943 in Argentina ) is an Israeli historian . She is the chief historian of Yad Vashem .

Life

Porat was born in Argentina in 1943 as the daughter of Soviet emigrants. Her father was a senior representative of the Jewish community in Argentina. After the family's aliyah went to Israel, she attended school there and did her military service . She then studied history at Tel Aviv University , where she received her doctorate in 1984 with Daniel Carpi with a thesis on Jewish history .

In 1985 she was a Fellow Member of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . From 1987 to 1988 she conducted research at the Center for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University in New York. In 1995/96 she completed the Yad Vashem Researchers Seminar. Afterwards she was visiting professor at Harvard University . From 1998 to 2010 she was director of the Stephen Roth Institute . She headed the Department of Jewish History from 2000 to 2003 and the Chaim Rosenberg School for Jewish Studies at Tel Aviv University from 2004 to 2008 . In 2004 she went to New York University as a visiting scholar and in 2007 to the Mémorial de la Shoah in Paris. In 2008 she taught at Venice International University in Italy.

Since 1997 she has held the Alfred P. Slaner Chair for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism at the Department of Jewish History. She also heads the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry at Tel Aviv University.

Porat is a member of the Yad Vashem Scientific Advisory Board, the board of the International School for Holocaust Studies, and has been the memorial's chief historian since 2011. She was u. a. Adviser to the Task Force on International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research (2006), member of the Advisory Board of the Israel Council on Foreign Relations (ICFR) and conference participant of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the UN .

She is the author of several essays and books on anti-Semitism and the Holocaust , for which she was also awarded. She also published a book about the Nakam with " Vengeance and Retribution are Mine" .

Porat is married and has three sons.

Awards

  • 1988: Yad Ben-Zvi Award for the Hebrew edition of The Blue and the Yellow Stars of David: the Zionist Leadership in Palestine and the Holocaust, 1939–1945
  • 1990: Kubowitzky Award for the Hebrew edition of The Blue and the Yellow Stars of David: the Zionist Leadership in Palestine and the Holocaust, 1939–1945
  • 2000: Buchman Award for the Hebrew edition of The Fall of a Sparrow: the Life and Times of Abba Kovner
  • 2000: Zandman Award for the Hebrew edition of The Fall of a Sparrow: the Life and Times of Abba Kovner
  • 2004: TAU's Faculty of Humanities best teacher
  • 2009: National Jewish Book Award for The Fall of a Sparrow: the Life and Times of Abba Kovner

Fonts (selection)

  • The Blue and the Yellow Stars of David: the Zionist Leadership in Palestine and the Holocaust, 1939-1945 . Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1990, ISBN 978-0-674-07708-9 . (Original edition 1986)
  • Avraham Tory: Surviving the Holocaust: the Kovno Ghetto Diary . Edited by Martin Gilbert , Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1990, ISBN 0-674-85810-7 . (Editor of the original edition 1988)
  • The Fall of a Sparrow: the Life and Times of Abba Kovner . Stanford University Press, Stanford 2010, ISBN 978-0-8047-6248-9 . (Original edition 2000)
  • Israeli Society, the Holocaust and its Survivors . Vallentine Mitchell, London a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-0-85303-742-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander Osang: Vengeance is mine. In: Der Spiegel . January 17, 2020, accessed March 10, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Porat, Dina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Argentina