Daniel blatman biography

Dr. Daniel Blatman

Professional Background

Dr. Daniel Blatman earned a Ph.D., summa cum laude, and an M.A. in contemporary Jewry from the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a B.A. in history and education from the same university. During his fellowship at the Museum, he was Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. For his Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellowship for Archival Research, Dr. Blatman conducted research on, “Kriegsende and Genocidal Massacre: Germany, April 1945.”

Dr. Blatman is the author, editor and co-editor of numerous scholarly publications including For Our Freedom and Yours: The Jewish Labor Bund, 1939-1949 (Yad Vashem, 1996) which has been translated into English and French, and Reportage from the Ghetto, The Jewish Underground press in Warsw, 1939-1945 (Yad Vashem, 2002) which was also published in French. His articles have been published in a range of books and academic journals and include “A Hesitant Partnership: The Bund and Polish Socialists during the Ho

Daniel Blatman

Daniel Blatman (born 31 January 1953 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli historian. He studies the history of the Holocaust.[1] Blatman is the head of the Institute for Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[1]

Career History

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Blatman was a visiting scholar at the Centre for European Studies at Harvard University, 2012–13.[2]

Life

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Daniel Blatman attended school in Kiryat Shmona [en] and studied history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he passed the first exam in 1981, completed his master's degree in 1988 and received his doctorate under Israel Gutman [en] in 1992. From 1981 to 1992 he worked as a high school teacher in Kiryat Shmona. Blatman became a research fellow at the Hebrew University in 1997 and an associate professor at the Institute for Contemporary Judaism in 2009. He has held visiting professorships at Tel Aviv University, New York University, Jagiellonian University, Georgetown University and Sciences Po in Paris. Bla

Daniel Blatman

Israeli historian


Daniel Blatman is an Israeli historian, specializing in history of the Holocaust.[1] Blatman is the head of the Institute for Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[1]

Career History

Blatman was a visiting scholar at the Centre for European Studies at Harvard University, 2012–13.[2]

Books

  • The Death Marches. The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide, Cambridge Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2011[3][4]

Criticism of the Israeli Government

In association with the 2023 Israeli judicial reform the Likud-led far-right coalition were compared to Germany in the 1930s by some journalists and historians in Israel including by Daniel Blatman,[5] an Israeli historian, specializing in history of the Holocaust, [1] and head of the Institute for Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[6] When interviewed by Ayelett Suhani for Haaretz, Blatman said "Israel's government has neo-Nazi ministers. It really doe

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