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Paul A. Levine (31 December 1956 – 28 October 2019) was an American–Swedish Holocaust and genocide historian, co-author of a widely used Swedish textbook on the subject.

Education

Levine received a Doctor of Philosophy in history from Uppsala University in 1996.[1]

Career

He was a co-founder of Uppsala University's Hugo Valentin Centre for Holocaust & Genocide Studies,[2] and the author of many publications on Holocaust history and memory. After receiving his doctorate in 1996 with the monograph From Indifference to Activism; Swedish Diplomacy and the Holocaust, 1938– 1944,.[3] Levine pursued his work in Uppsala, Sweden. His main preoccupation was writing and teaching about the Holocaust. Working on his book, Raoul Wallenberg and Swedish diplomacy in Budapest in 1944–1945, Levine helped to understand Raoul Wallenberg in his real context, destroying existing myths about the Swedish hero.[4]

Prizes and stipends received

Publications

As single author

Co-author

Other publications

Further reading

References

  1. ^ The Hugo Valentin Centre. "The Hugo Valentin Lectures, VIII–I, Paul E. Levine".
  2. ^ Uppsala University's Hugo Valentin Centre, Uppsala historian Paul A. Levine awarded Raoul Wallenberg Foundation Medal, https://www.raoulwallenberg.net/wallenberg/raoul-wallenberg-centennial/press-raoul-wallenberg-centennial-wallenberg/uppsala-historian-paul-a-levine-awarded-raoul-wallenberg-foundation-medal/
  3. ^ Levine, P. A., From Indifference to Activism: Swedish Diplomacy and the Holocaust, 1938–1944, 1998.
  4. ^ Levine, Paul A., 2019, Written as proposal to one of Levine's projects on the Armenian Genocide; Archive Levine Library.
  5. ^ The Uppsala Programme, for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. "Holocaust and Genocide Studies programmet för studier kring förintelsen och folkmord Newsletter" (PDF). The Uppsala Programme for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Uppsala University. Uppsala University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 June 2007. Retrieved 7 April 2007.
  6. ^ Uppsala, University (30 November 2023). "The Martin Henriksson Holmdahl Prize – Uppsala University, Sweden". Recipients of the Martin Henriksson Holmdahl Prize.
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