Name Dina Porat | Role Professor | |
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Books The Fall of a Sparrow: The Life a, The Blue and the Yellow St, Israeli society - the Holocaus | ||
Introduction prof dina porat
Dina Porat is an Israeli historian. She is a professor at the Department of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University and the chief historian of Yad Vashem.
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- Introduction prof dina porat
- Professor dina porat the 1930 s and the 2000 s the relevance of historical comparisons
- Academic career
- Awards and recognition
- Books
- Articles
- References
Professor dina porat the 1930 s and the 2000 s the relevance of historical comparisons
Academic career
Dina Porat served as head of the Jewish History Department at Tel Aviv University's Stephen Roth Institute. She is head of the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry and holds the Alfred P. Slaner Chair for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism at Tel Aviv University.
She served as the academic adviser to the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research. She is also an Advisory Board member of the Israel Council on Foreign Relations.
Awards and recognition
In 1988, Porat's book An Entangled Leadership, the Yishuv and the Holocaust 1942-1945, won the Yad Ben Zvi Award. In 2000, Dina Porat was one of the winners of the annual Buchman Memorial Prize for outstanding achievements in the field of Holocaust commemoration. The award was presented at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Porat received the prize for her book Beyond the Reaches of Our Soul: The Life and Times of Abba Kovner. In 2010, the book also won the National Jewish Book Award.