Dalia Ofer (in

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: דליה עופר; born 8 January 1939,

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

) was the Professor of

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and East European Studies at the Institute of Contemporary Jewry,

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 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 ...

Early life and education

Ofer graduated from the

Hebrew University High School Hebrew University High School ( he, התיכון ליד האוניברסיטה), commonly known as ''Leyada'' (literally "next to"), is a semi-private high school in West Jerusalem, established in 1935 by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The s ...

in 1956, completed her IDF service in the Nahal and went to

Kibbutz Ein Gev Ein Gev ( he, עֵין גֵּב) is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located on the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee near the ruins of the Greco-Roman settlement of Hippos, it falls under the jurisdiction of Emek HaYarden Regional Council. In it ...

. Ofer received her B.A. in history from the Hebrew University in 1962 and, a year later, received a teaching certificate. From 1964 until 1982 she taught at the Hebrew University High School. In 1973 she completed her M.A. in history ''summa cum laude,'' with a thesis titled “The Rescue and Aid Operation of the ''Yishuv'' Delegation in Istanbul, 1943–1944.” In 1981 Ofer received her Ph.D. from the Hebrew University for her dissertation titled “Illegal Immigration to Palestine 1939–1941.”

History prizes

In 1992, ''Derekh ba-yam,'' her first book, appeared in Hebrew and won that year's Yad Ben-Zvi Award. The English translation, ''Escaping the Holocaust: Illegal Immigration to the Land of Israel, 1939–1944'', won the Jewish Book Award in the same year.

Bibliography

* ''Escaping the Holocaust, Illegal Immigration to the Land of Israel 1939–1944'' (Oxford:

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, 1990) * ''The Dead-End Journey: The Tragic Story of the Kladovo-Sabac Group'' (Maryland: University Press of America, 1996) * ''Women in the Holocaust'' (New Haven:

Yale University Press Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University. It was founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day, and became an official department of Yale University in 1961, but it remains financially and operationally autonomous. , Yale Universi ...

, 1998) * ''The Holocaust: The Particular and the Universal.'' Edited with Samuel Almog, David Bankeir,

Daniel Blatman Daniel Blatman is an Israeli historian, specializing in history of the Holocaust. Blatman is the head of the Institute for Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Blatman was a visiting scholar at the Centre for European Studie ...

(Jerusalem: 2001) * ''The Holocaust: History and Memory,'' edited with Samuel Almog, David Bankeir, Daniel Blatman (Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2001)

References

External links

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