Porat Dina, Dept. of Jewish History



Short Curriculum Vitae (highlights):


Title of M.A. Thesis: "The Concentration of Jewish Refugees in Vilna during 1939-1941, and their Efforts to Leave before the Nazi Occupation".

Title of Dissertation: The Part Played by the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem in the Efforts to Save European Jewry during the Holocaust, 1942-1945".

Senior Lecturer in the Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University, since 1988, (teaching undergraduate students as well as tutoring M.A. and Ph.D students), lecturer in the I.D.F. Staff & Command College, 1975-1977, 1988-1989.

Fellow member of the Institute for Advanced Studies, in the 1984/5 Programme on Nazism & Holocaust, the Hebrew University.

Coordinator of the Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University, 1986-1987.

Member of the Scientific Committee of Yad Vashem, since 1984.

Member of the Consulting Committee of the Weizmann Institute for Zionist Research, since 1986.

Fellow member of the Center for Israel and Jewish Studies, Columbia University, New York, 1988.

Member of the Faculty of Humanities and of the Department of Jewish History Educational Committees, 1989-1993.

Head of the Project for the Study of Anti-Semitism and the database of Contemporary Anti-Semitism, since 1992. Initiator and supervisor of research publications, including the annual report on anti-Semitism Worldwide, and researchers seminars.

Guest Lecturer in the seminar of the Harvard Centre for European Studies, October 1992.

Member of the Scientific Committee of the Diaspora Research Institute, 1992.

Active member of the Israeli Foreign ministry delegation to the Human Rights International Convention in Vienna, 1993.

Member of the Yad-Vashem International Center of Holocaust Studies board, since 1993.

Member of the New-York Academy of Sciences, since 1994.


Major publications (books and major articles):


*PAPERS*

"The Holocaust in Lithuania", presented in the Ukrainian Historical Society Conference in Kiev, on the Holocaust in the Soviet Union, 1991 and published by the Jewish University of Moscow, 1993, No.2.

"The Role played by the Jewish Communists in the Undergrounds and the Fighting in the Ghettos and in the Forests", presented in the Haifa University conference on "Jewish Fighting in the Holocaust - History, Echoes, Legacy", March 1993. Published in Dapi m Leheker HaShoa VeHamered 12, 1995, pp. 121-139 (Hebrew).

"The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: New Uses of an Old Myth", presented in the "The Other as Threat: Demonization and Antisemitism", the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, June 1995. To be published in the conference proceedings.

"Bertrand Russel on the Jewish State", Studies in Zionism 3, Vol. 2 No. 1, 1981, pp. 125-131 (English) & Rumbos 11, 1984, pp. 85-93 (Spanish) & Kivunim, April 1993, pp. 7-14 (Hebrew).

" ‘Al-Domi’ - Palestinian Intellectuals and the Holocaust, 1943-1945", Zionut 8, 1983, pp. 240-270 (Hebrew) & Studies in Zionism, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1984 pp. 92-143 (English) & Rumbos 17-18, 1986, pp. 31-62 (Spanish) & in The Nazi Holocaust, ed. Michael Marr us, Meckler, West Port, Con. & London, part VIII, Vol. 3, pp. 692-719, 1989.

"Martin Buber in Eretz-Israel during the Holocaust Years, 1942-1944", Yad-Vashem Studies 17, 1986, pp. 93-143 (English) & Kovetz Yad-Vashem 17-18, 1987, pp. 29-63 (Hebrew).

"David Ben Gurion and the Holocaust", Zionut 12, 1987, pp. 293-315 (Hebrew), and in : David Ben Gurion, Politics and Leadership in Israel, ed. Ronald W. Zweig, London and Jerusalem, 1990, pp. 145-170 (English).

"Jews from the Third Reich in the Ninth fort near Kovno, 1941-1942, Tel-Aviv Jahrbuch fur Deutsche Geschichte, band XX, 1991, pp. 363-392 (English) & in Masua 20, April 1992, pp. 72-95 (Hebrew).


"Amalek’s Accomplices": Blaming Zionism for the Holcaust - Anti-Zionist Ultra Orthodoxy in Israel during the 1980’s, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 27, October 1992, pp. 695-729 (English) & Hazionut 19, 1995, pp. 295-325 (Hebrew).

"The Allies, Herzl’s Testament, the Holocaust and the Limitations of Jewish Policies, July 1944, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Vol.6, no. 3, 1991, pp. 269-282.

"With Mercy and Forgiveness - the Encounter of Ruzka Korcak with the Yishuv and its Leadership", Yalkut Moreshet 52, April 1992, pp. 9-33 (Hebrew).


*BOOKS*


An Entangled Leadership, the Yishuv and the Holcaust 1942-1945, Am Oved, Tel Aviv, 1986, 580p. (Hebrew). The book won the 1988 Yad Ben Zvi Award.

The Blue and the Yellow Stars of David, The Zionist Leadership and the Holocaust, 1939-1945, Harvard University Press, 1990, 334 pp. (English). The book was nominated for the National Jewish Book Award, in the U.S.A., 1991.

Ghetto Every Day, diary and documents from the Kovno Ghetto, written and collected by Avraham Tory. Editing, introductions & footnotes by Dina Porat, Tel Aviv University & ‘Mosad Bialik’, 1988, 612 p. (Hebrew).

Published in May 1990 by harvard University Press as: Avraham Tory, Surviving the Holocaust, edited and with an introduction by Martin Gilbert, textual and historical notes by Dina Porat (English).


Teaches in the following subject areas:


Anti-Semitism since antiquity.
Nazi ideology and the image of the Jew.
History of the Holocaust and of Jewish reaction during and after.
the Allies, The Jewish leaderships and rescue.

World War II and the Final Solution.
The Yishuv and Israeli society vis-a-vis the Holocaust and its survivors.
Lithuanian Jewry.
Sources, methodology and problematics in teaching the Holocaust and anti-Semitism.

Teaches the following courses in the current academic year:


1996/7 Courses

First Semester:

B.A. : The Jewish community in Lithuania, its life and death.
B.A. : (Lecture) : The Image of the Jews in the 19th and 20th centuries - continuity and disruption.

Second Semester:

B.A. : Seminar: D. Ben-Gurion and the Holocaust.
M.A.: Seminar: Fin-de-Siecle - new debates on old controversies: Daniel Y. Goldhagen; Post-Zionism; and "The Swiss Gold".


Areas of current research interest:


The biography of Abba Kovner:
Jewish Vilna - Vilna ghetto - forest partisanka - revenge - organized leaving of Europe - War of Independence - poet and public figure - building Beit-Hatefutzot.

The Jewish women prisoners in Ravensbruck - during the war and in its aftermath: financed by the GIF, and conducted with Yehudit Buber-Agasi and Hana Herzog.

Research and analysis of contemporary anti-Semitism worldwide, from violent to verbal and visual expression; of Holocaust denial; of the legal struggle against both.

Additional points of contact (office/home telephone,fax,etc.):


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