Israel Gutman
Israel Gutman | |
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ישראל גוטמן | |
Holocaust survivor , historian |
Israel Gutman (Hebrew: ישראל גוטמן; 20 May 1923 – 1 October 2013) was a Polish-born Israeli historian and a survivor of the Holocaust.[1]
Biography
Israel (Yisrael) Gutman was born in
Academic career
Gutman was a professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and deputy chairman of the International Auschwitz Council at Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation.[2] He was the editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust[2] and won the Yitzhak Sadeh Prize for Military Studies.[3] At Yad Vashem, he headed the International Institute for Holocaust Research (1993–1996), served as Chief Historian (1996–2000) and was the Academic Advisor (from 2000).[3] He was also an advisor to the Polish government on Jewish Affairs, Judaism and Holocaust Commemoration.[3]
He died, aged 90, in Jerusalem, Israel.[4]
Published works
- The Jews of Warsaw, 1939-1943: Ghetto, Underground, Revolt (1982)[5][6][7][8]
- Unequal Victims: Poles and Jews in World War Two (1986)
- The Jews of Poland Between Two World Wars (1989)[9][10]
- Anatomy of Auschwitz Death Camp (with Michael Berenbaum, 1994)
- Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1994)[11]
- Emanuel Ringelblum – The Man and the Historian (2006)
References
- ^ ""Let The World Read And Know" The Oneg Shabbat Archives". .yadvashem.org. 2010-02-16. Retrieved 2013-11-16.
- ^ a b c Notes on the Contributors Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c d e f g ""To Build and To Be Built" The Contribution of Holocaust Survivors to the State of Israel". .yadvashem.org. Retrieved 2013-11-16.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
- JSTOR 2619513.
- S2CID 146256166.
- ISSN 0090-8290.
- S2CID 186436005.
- JSTOR 2622002.
- ISSN 0364-0094.
- ISSN 0361-2759.
External links
- Israel Gutman in an online exhibition by Yad Vashem
- Interview with Professor Israel Gutman, Yad Vashem website