Dina Porat | |
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 Dina Porat 2008 | |
| Born | September 24, 1943 |
| Occupation | Israeli historian |
Dina Porat (born 24 September 1943 in Buenos Aires[1]) is an Israeli historian. She is professor emeritus of modern Jewish history at the Department of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University and the chief historian of Yad Vashem.[2][3]
Dina Porat served as head of the Jewish History Department at Tel Aviv University's Stephen Roth Institute.[4] 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.[2][3]
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. Since 2011 she has served as chief historian of Yad Vashem.[3]
Porat participated in formulating an extended definition of anti-Semitism.[5]
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.[4] In 2010, the book also won a National Jewish Book Award.[6]
