Women in the Jewish Resistance to Nazi Occupation
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Author's Biography

Dr. Dalia Ofer is married and has four children.
She has a BA, MA, PhD - Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Presently:

Jacob and Hilda Blaustein visiting Professor In Judaic Studies, Department of Religious Studies, Yale University.
 

Previously:

  • Max and Rita Haber Professor Of Holocaust Studies, Avraham Harman Institiute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew Universily of Jerusalem.
  • Head of Vidal Sassoon International Centre for the Study of Antisemitism.
  • Member, Editorial Board, Bishvil Hazikaron, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.
  • Visiting Professor, Dept. of History and the Mayerhoff Center for Jewish Studies, the University of Maryland.
  • Visiting scholar, Israel and Jewish Center, Columbia University.

List of some of Dr. Ofer's many publications:

Edited books:

"Women in the Holocaust." ed. With Lenore L. Weizman (Yale University) Press, 1998) Nominated Jewish Book award 1999 (For annotation see website's bibliography page.)

"Editor,Vatikim ve'Olim ba-`Aliyah Hagdolah 1948-1951" (Veterans and NewImmigrants during Mass Immigration, 1948-1951, (Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Zvi, 1996).

Books:

"Derech Baiam, Asliyah Bet Bitkufot Hashoah" (Illegal Immigration to Palestine 1939-. (Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben Zvi, 1988) BenZvi award 1992)

"Escaping the Holocaust, Illegal Immigration to the Land of Israel, 1939-1944". (New Oxford University Press, 1990) Jewish Book Award 1992.

"Parashat Kladovo-Sabac: Hamas 'a Shelohelo Higi 'a Shelo Higi`a 1939-1942" (The Uncompleted Voyage: Jewish Refugees in Yugoslavia. 1939-1942) (Tel Aviv: Am-Oved, 1992.) With Hannah Wiener.

Articles: (Two of her many articles)

"Israel Reacts to the Holocaust" in The World Reacts to the Holocaust", ed. David Wyman (Johns Hopkins University, 1996) 939-923.

"Every Day Life in the Ghettos and Camps in Transnistria" (in Hebrew and English) Yad Vashem Studies 25, (1996): 175-208

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