Dina Porat (born 24 September 1943 in

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) is an

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historian. She is

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of modern Jewish history at the Department of Jewish History at

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and the chief historian of

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.Head of the Kantor Center
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Academic career

Dina Porat served as head of the Jewish History Department at Tel Aviv University's

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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. She served as the academic adviser to the

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. She is also an Advisory Board member of the

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. Since 2011 she has served as chief historian of Yad Vashem.

Definition of anti-Semitism

Porat participated in formulating an extended definition of anti-Semitism.

Awards and recognition

In 1988, Porat's book ''An Entangled Leadership, the Yishuv and the Holocaust 1942-1945'', won the

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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

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. Porat received the prize for her book ''Beyond the Reaches of Our Soul: The Life and Times of Abba Kovner.'' In 2010, the book also won a

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, January 28, 2007.

References

External links

A review of Dina Porat's biography of Abba Kovner
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