Mordecai Paldiel
Mordecai Paldiel (born March 10, 1937 in Antwerp as Markus Wajsfeld) is an American historian.
Life
Wajsfeld's parents immigrated to Belgium from Eastern Europe, where his father worked as a diamond dealer. After the German occupation of Belgium in 1940, the family managed to escape from Vichy France to Switzerland with the help of a Catholic priest . They later emigrated to the USA.
Paldiel studied Religion and Holocaust Studies at Hebrew University (BA) and Temple University in Philadelphia (MA), where he also received his doctorate. Paldiel worked at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem from 1984 to 2007 , where he headed the Righteous Among the Nations Division . Since then he has been teaching at Stern College at Yeshiva University and at Queens College in New York.
A daughter of Paldiel is the communications specialist Siggy Flicker , who was born in 1967 .
Fonts (selection)
- Secular Dualism: The 'religious' Nature of Hitler's Antisemitism . Temple University, 1982
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The Path of the Righteous: Gentile Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust . Hoboken: KTAV, 1993 ISBN 0881253766
- There were also the righteous: saviors and salvation of Jewish life in German-occupied Europe 1939–1945 . Brigitte Pimpl in Romanian. Edited by Erhard Roy Wiehn . Constance: Hartung-Gorre, 1999
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Sheltering the Jews: Stories of Holocaust Rescuers . 1996 ISBN 0800628977
- They protected the Jews: stories of people who saved Jews from the Holocaust . Translation by Janet Reinhardt and Wolfgang Neumeister. Sprockhövel: One Way Medien, 2005
- (Ed.): Saving the Jews: Amazing Stories of Men and Women who Defied the Final Solution . Rockville: Schreiber, 2000, ISBN 1-887563-55-5
- Churches and the Holocaust: Unholy Teaching, Good Samaritans, and Reconciliation . Hoboken: KTAV, 2006 ISBN 088125908X
- Diplomat Heroes of the Holocaust . Hoboken: KTAV, 2007 ISBN 0881259098
- The right among the nations . 2007 ISBN 0061151122
Web links
- Literature by and about Mordecai Paldiel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Mordecai Paldiel in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Mordecai Paldiel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Mordecai Paldiel , at JFR
- Elliot Resnick: The Holocaust's Unsung Heroes: An Interview with Professor Mordecai Paldiel , at JewishPress.com, May 27, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Siggy Flicker in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Paldiel, Mordecai |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Markus Wajsfeld |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Antwerp |