David Engel (born 1951) is an American

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and Professor of Holocaust and Judaic Studies at

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. Engel received his Ph.D. from the

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in Los Angeles, in 1979, and completed postdoctoral study at Hebrew University's Division of Holocaust Studies,

Institute for Contemporary Jewry The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

in Jerusalem. David Engel is a Fellow of the Diaspora Research Institute at

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...

; and a member of the

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and the Commission on Polish-Jewish Relations since 2002. In 1986–87 Engel received Outstanding Lecturer honours at Tel Aviv University; in 1996 he was given the Golden Dozen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at

Publications

*''Zionism''. Harlow, England: Pearson Longman, 2009 (series: Short histories of big ideas). *''Between Liberation and Flight: Holocaust Survivors in Poland and the Struggle for Leadership, 1944–1946,'' in Hebrew. Tel Aviv: Am Oved Publishers, 1996. *''Facing a Holocaust: The Polish Government-in-Exile and the Jews, 1943–1945.'' University of North Carolina Press, 1993. *''In the Shadow of Auschwitz: The Polish Government-in-Exile and the Jews, 1939–1942.'' University of North Carolina Press, 1987.

References

21st-century American historians American male non-fiction writers Historians of the Holocaust Living people New York University faculty 1951 births 21st-century American male writers {{US-historian-stub