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Prof. Dan Diner | Jacob Robinson Institute

Prof. Dan Diner

 Dan Diner
Prof.
Dan
Diner
Director

 

ddiner@mail.huji.ac.il

 

Dan Diner acts as Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and as Chair of the Alfred Landecker Foundation and its Governing Council. Formerly he served as Director of the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at Leipzig University. Presently he is a Member of The Saxonian Academy of Science. Prof. Diner's research focuses on two main topics: the conceptualization of modern Jewish history and an interpretation of WWII observed from the periphery. He has published widely on 20th-century history, modern Jewish history, Middle Eastern history, and German history, particularly in the period of National Socialism and the Holocaust.