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Debórah Dwork

December 20, 2023

Debórah Dwork is an American historian, specializing in the history of the Holocaust. She is the Founding Director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and formerly served as the Rose Professor of Holocaust History at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.[1]

Education and career edit

Dwork earned a B.A. from Princeton University in 1975, an M.P.H. from Yale University in 1978, and a Ph.D. from University College London in 1984. After postdoctoral studies at the Smithsonian Institution, she joined the faculty of the University of Michigan in 1984, and moved to the Yale Child Study Center at Yale University in 1989. She took her current position as Rose Professor at Clark University in 1996. She has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,[2] and has served as the Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and as a visiting scholar at Rutgers University.[3]

Dwork is the founding Director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University, and a delegate to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.[1]

Academic work edit

In her first book, War is Good for Babies and Other Young Children (1987), Dwork examined questions about the family, the role of women, and the concept of children's rights in the context of the development of the modern welfare system.[4]

Dwork moved from the history of childhood as a social construct to the history of children as subjects and actors. Her historical analysis used children's experiences as a lens through which to view all of society. In her Children With A Star (1991), she presented the daily lives of young people caught in the net of Nazism.[5] The book became the subject of a documentary of the same name by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.[6]

Auschwitz, 1270 to the Present (1996), co-authored with Robert Jan van Pelt, demonstrated the connection between industrial killing and the daily functions of a society that believed it was involved in constructive activity. The book uses architectural evidence to understand Auschwitz.[7] The book received the National Jewish Book Award[8] and the Spiro Kostof Award.[9]

Dwork's book Voices and Views: A History of the Holocaust (2002) is an edited, annotated, and illustrated collection used by the national Holocaust education program of the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous.[10] Dwork and van Pelt also collaborated on Holocaust: A History, which discusses the place of the Holocaust in the overall history of Europe, from the Middle Ages to the middle of the twentieth century. It explores how the different occupation regimes shaped the local populations' ability to respond to the genocide enacted outside their windows. It integrates the history of World War II and the history of the Holocaust.[11]

In Flight from the Reich (2009), Dwork and van Pelt turned their attention to the question of refugee Jews from 1933 through the postwar period.[12]

Dwork edited and annotated The Terezin Album of Mariaka Zadikow (2008), a posie album collected by a Jewish inmate as the Germans pushed forward with deportations from Theresienstadt.[13] In A Boy in Terezin: The Private Diary of Pavel Weiner, April 1944 – April 1945 (2011, ISBN 978-0-8101-2779-1), she returned to the experiences of children as an important source for contemporaneous accounts of Jewish life under Nazi persecution.[14]

Personal life edit

Dwork is the daughter of mathematician Bernard Dwork,[15] and sister of computer scientist Cynthia Dwork.

Film Credits edit

Dwork has served as the historian of record on and off film in feature-length and TV documentaries. These include director Rick Trank's "Against the Tide" (2008) and "Unlikely Heroes" (2003),[citation needed] and the Ken Burns/Artemis Joukowsky documentary, "Defying the Nazis" (2016).[16] Television documentaries include "Hiding in Plain Sight" (CBS, 2009) and "Misha Defonseca and her Hoax Memoir," (RTBF, Belgian National TV, 2008).

Bibliography edit

  • Dwork, Debórah (2012). A Boy in Terezin: The Private Diary of Pavel Weiner, April 1944 – April 1945. Evanston: Northwestern University Press. ISBN 978-0-8101-2779-1.[14]
  • Dwork, Debórah; van Pelt, Robert (2009). Flight from the Reich: Refugee Jews, 1933–1946. New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-06229-8.[12] Translations: Dutch (Elmar); French (Calmann-Lévy).
  • Dwork, Debórah (2008). The Terezin Album of Marianka Zadikow. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-51186-3.[13]
  • Dwork, Debórah; van Pelt, Robert (2008). Auschwitz. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. ISBN 978-0-393-32291-0. First published as: Auschwitz 1270 to the Present. New York: Norton. ISBN 0-393-03933-1.[7] Translations: Czech (Argo); Dutch (Boom); German (Pendo); Polish (Swiat Ksiazki).
  • Dwork, Debórah; van Pelt, Robert (2002). Holocaust: A History. New York: Norton. ISBN 0-393-05188-9.[11] Translations: Dutch (Boom); Portuguese (Imago); Spanish (EDAF).
  • Dwork, Debórah (2002). Voices and Views: A History of the Holocaust. New York: Jewish Foundation for the Righteous. ISBN 0-9700602-0-3.[10]
  • Dwork, Debórah (1991). Children With A Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-05054-2.[5] Translations: Dutch (Boom); German (Beck); Italian (Marsilio); Japanese (Sogen Sha).
  • Dwork, Debórah (1987). War Is Good for Babies and Other Young Children: A History of the Infant and Child Welfare Movement in England 1898–1918. London; New York: Tavistock Publications. ISBN 0-422-60660-X.[4]

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Debórah Dwork, Ph.D." Clark University History. Clark University. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
  2. ^ Curriculum vitae[permanent dead link], retrieved 2017-07-17
  3. ^ <[1], retrieved 2020-04-30
  4. ^ a b Reviews of War is Good for Babies and Other Young Children by Richard West (1988), Med Hist. 32 (1): 103–104, PMC 1139835; Angela Woollacott (1988), Social History 21 (41) 155–157 [2]; Jay M. Winter (1989), Continuity and Change 4 (3): 474–475, doi:10.1017/S0268416000003829; Richard A. Soloway (1988), Albion 20 (3): 510–512, doi:10.2307/4049777
  5. ^ a b Reviews of Children with a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe by Publishers Weekly [3]; J.C.H. Blom (1993), BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review 108 (1): 123–124, doi:10.18352/bmgn-lchr.3647; Marc E. Saperstein (1992), Journal of Interdisciplinary History 23 (1): 180–182, doi:10.2307/205513; Tibbi Duboys (1992), History of Education Quarterly 32 (1): 126–128, doi:10.2307/368414; Tom Taylor (1993), German Studies Review 16 (2): 377–378, doi:10.2307/1431685; Deborah E. Lipstadt (1992), American Historical Review 97 (2): 547–548, doi:10.2307/2165779; David Cesarani (1992–1994), Jewish Historical Studies 33: 284–287, JSTOR 29779943 29779943
  6. ^ Maltz, Judy (December 22, 2013), "The Unknown Woman Who Helped Jewish Families Torn Apart by Shoah", Haaretz
  7. ^ a b Reviews of Auschwitz, 1270 to the Present: Publishers Weekly [4]; Kirkus Reviews [5]; Abraham Brumberg (August 4, 1996), The Washington Post [6]; The Chronicle of Higher Education [7]; Barbara Distel (1998), German History 16 (1): 127–128. doi:10.1177/026635549801600149; Wm. Laird Kleine-Ahlbrandt (2000), Shofar 18 (4): 161–164. doi:10.1353/sho.2000.0012; Larry Eugene Jones (1997), History: Reviews of New Books 25 (3): 127, doi:10.1080/03612759.1997.9952823
  8. ^ JNBA Winners 2015-09-07 at the Wayback Machine, Jewish Book Council, retrieved 2017-07-13
  9. ^ Sprio Kostof Book Award Recipients, Society of Architectural Historians, retrieved 2017-07-13
  10. ^ a b Review of Voices and Views, Elizabeth R. Baer (2006), Holocaust and Genocide Studies 20 (1): 134–138, doi:10.1093/hgs/dcj014, [8]
  11. ^ a b Reviews of Holocaust: A History: Publishers Weekly [9]; Roth, John K. (September 22, 2002), "Can Evil Ever Truly Be Understood?", Cover Review, Los Angeles Times; Saul Lerner (2004), Shofar 23 (1): 133–137, JSTOR 42943765; Tim Cole (2004), History 89 (1): 163, JSTOR 24426743
  12. ^ a b Reviews of Flight from the Reich: Michael N. Dobkowski, Jewish Book Council, [10]; Kirkus Reviews, [11]; David Pryce-Jones, Commentary Magazine, [12]; Publishers Weekly, [13]; The New Republic, [14]
  13. ^ a b Reviews of The Terezin Album of Marianka Zadikow: Adam Kirsch (2008), New York Sun, [15]; Publishers Weekly, [16]; Sacks, Pamela H. (April 13, 2008), "Notes from the horror", Telegram & Gazette
  14. ^ a b Reviews of A Boy in Terezin: Mimi Frank, Jewish Book Council, [17][permanent dead link]; Alexander, Elaine K. (April 24, 2012), "Boy's diary from Terezin expresses hope and despair", St. Louis Jewish Light
  15. ^ Bernard M. Dwork, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, retrieved 2017-07-13
  16. ^ ""DEFYING THE NAZIS: THE SHARPS' WAR," A NEW FILM BY KEN BURNS AND ARTEMIS JOUKOWSKY TO AIR ON PBS SEPTEMBER 20". About PBS - Main.

External links edit

  • Debórah Dwork Academic homepage.
  • Debórah Dwork Personal homepage.
  • Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Homepage.

December 20, 2023
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Deborah Dwork is an American historian specializing in the history of the Holocaust She is the Founding Director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and formerly served as the Rose Professor of Holocaust History at Clark University in Worcester Massachusetts 1 Contents 1 Education and career 2 Academic work 3 Personal life 4 Film Credits 5 Bibliography 6 References 7 External linksEducation and career editDwork earned a B A from Princeton University in 1975 an M P H from Yale University in 1978 and a Ph D from University College London in 1984 After postdoctoral studies at the Smithsonian Institution she joined the faculty of the University of Michigan in 1984 and moved to the Yale Child Study Center at Yale University in 1989 She took her current position as Rose Professor at Clark University in 1996 She has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation the American Council of Learned Societies and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 2 and has served as the Shapiro Senior Scholar in Residence at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and as a visiting scholar at Rutgers University 3 Dwork is the founding Director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University and a delegate to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance 1 Academic work editIn her first book War is Good for Babies and Other Young Children 1987 Dwork examined questions about the family the role of women and the concept of children s rights in the context of the development of the modern welfare system 4 Dwork moved from the history of childhood as a social construct to the history of children as subjects and actors Her historical analysis used children s experiences as a lens through which to view all of society In her Children With A Star 1991 she presented the daily lives of young people caught in the net of Nazism 5 The book became the subject of a documentary of the same name by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 6 Auschwitz 1270 to the Present 1996 co authored with Robert Jan van Pelt demonstrated the connection between industrial killing and the daily functions of a society that believed it was involved in constructive activity The book uses architectural evidence to understand Auschwitz 7 The book received the National Jewish Book Award 8 and the Spiro Kostof Award 9 Dwork s book Voices and Views A History of the Holocaust 2002 is an edited annotated and illustrated collection used by the national Holocaust education program of the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous 10 Dwork and van Pelt also collaborated on Holocaust A History which discusses the place of the Holocaust in the overall history of Europe from the Middle Ages to the middle of the twentieth century It explores how the different occupation regimes shaped the local populations ability to respond to the genocide enacted outside their windows It integrates the history of World War II and the history of the Holocaust 11 In Flight from the Reich 2009 Dwork and van Pelt turned their attention to the question of refugee Jews from 1933 through the postwar period 12 Dwork edited and annotated The Terezin Album of Mariaka Zadikow 2008 a posie album collected by a Jewish inmate as the Germans pushed forward with deportations from Theresienstadt 13 In A Boy in Terezin The Private Diary of Pavel Weiner April 1944 April 1945 2011 ISBN 978 0 8101 2779 1 she returned to the experiences of children as an important source for contemporaneous accounts of Jewish life under Nazi persecution 14 Personal life editDwork is the daughter of mathematician Bernard Dwork 15 and sister of computer scientist Cynthia Dwork Film Credits editDwork has served as the historian of record on and off film in feature length and TV documentaries These include director Rick Trank s Against the Tide 2008 and Unlikely Heroes 2003 citation needed and the Ken Burns Artemis Joukowsky documentary Defying the Nazis 2016 16 Television documentaries include Hiding in Plain Sight CBS 2009 and Misha Defonseca and her Hoax Memoir RTBF Belgian National TV 2008 Bibliography editDwork Deborah 2012 A Boy in Terezin The Private Diary of Pavel Weiner April 1944 April 1945 Evanston Northwestern University Press ISBN 978 0 8101 2779 1 14 Dwork Deborah van Pelt Robert 2009 Flight from the Reich Refugee Jews 1933 1946 New York W W Norton ISBN 978 0 393 06229 8 12 Translations Dutch Elmar French Calmann Levy Dwork Deborah 2008 The Terezin Album of Marianka Zadikow Chicago University of Chicago Press ISBN 978 0 226 51186 3 13 Dwork Deborah van Pelt Robert 2008 Auschwitz New York W W Norton amp Co ISBN 978 0 393 32291 0 First published as Auschwitz 1270 to the Present New York Norton ISBN 0 393 03933 1 7 Translations Czech Argo Dutch Boom German Pendo Polish Swiat Ksiazki Dwork Deborah van Pelt Robert 2002 Holocaust A History New York Norton ISBN 0 393 05188 9 11 Translations Dutch Boom Portuguese Imago Spanish EDAF Dwork Deborah 2002 Voices and Views A History of the Holocaust New York Jewish Foundation for the Righteous ISBN 0 9700602 0 3 10 Dwork Deborah 1991 Children With A Star Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe New Haven Yale University Press ISBN 0 300 05054 2 5 Translations Dutch Boom German Beck Italian Marsilio Japanese Sogen Sha Dwork Deborah 1987 War Is Good for Babies and Other Young Children A History of the Infant and Child Welfare Movement in England 1898 1918 London New York Tavistock Publications ISBN 0 422 60660 X 4 References edit a b Deborah Dwork Ph D Clark University History Clark University Retrieved 14 July 2017 Curriculum vitae permanent dead link retrieved 2017 07 17 lt 1 retrieved 2020 04 30 a b Reviews of War is Good for Babies and Other Young Children by Richard West 1988 Med Hist 32 1 103 104 PMC 1139835 Angela Woollacott 1988 Social History 21 41 155 157 2 Jay M Winter 1989 Continuity and Change 4 3 474 475 doi 10 1017 S0268416000003829 Richard A Soloway 1988 Albion 20 3 510 512 doi 10 2307 4049777 a b Reviews of Children with a Star Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe by Publishers Weekly 3 J C H Blom 1993 BMGN Low Countries Historical Review 108 1 123 124 doi 10 18352 bmgn lchr 3647 Marc E Saperstein 1992 Journal of Interdisciplinary History 23 1 180 182 doi 10 2307 205513 Tibbi Duboys 1992 History of Education Quarterly 32 1 126 128 doi 10 2307 368414 Tom Taylor 1993 German Studies Review 16 2 377 378 doi 10 2307 1431685 Deborah E Lipstadt 1992 American Historical Review 97 2 547 548 doi 10 2307 2165779 David Cesarani 1992 1994 Jewish Historical Studies 33 284 287 JSTOR 29779943 29779943 Maltz Judy December 22 2013 The Unknown Woman Who Helped Jewish Families Torn Apart by Shoah Haaretz a b Reviews of Auschwitz 1270 to the Present Publishers Weekly 4 Kirkus Reviews 5 Abraham Brumberg August 4 1996 The Washington Post 6 The Chronicle of Higher Education 7 Barbara Distel 1998 German History 16 1 127 128 doi 10 1177 026635549801600149 Wm Laird Kleine Ahlbrandt 2000 Shofar 18 4 161 164 doi 10 1353 sho 2000 0012 Larry Eugene Jones 1997 History Reviews of New Books 25 3 127 doi 10 1080 03612759 1997 9952823 JNBA Winners Archived 2015 09 07 at the Wayback Machine Jewish Book Council retrieved 2017 07 13 Sprio Kostof Book Award Recipients Society of Architectural Historians retrieved 2017 07 13 a b Review of Voices and Views Elizabeth R Baer 2006 Holocaust and Genocide Studies 20 1 134 138 doi 10 1093 hgs dcj014 8 a b Reviews of Holocaust A History Publishers Weekly 9 Roth John K September 22 2002 Can Evil Ever Truly Be Understood Cover Review Los Angeles Times Saul Lerner 2004 Shofar 23 1 133 137 JSTOR 42943765 Tim Cole 2004 History 89 1 163 JSTOR 24426743 a b Reviews of Flight from the Reich Michael N Dobkowski Jewish Book Council 10 Kirkus Reviews 11 David Pryce Jones Commentary Magazine 12 Publishers Weekly 13 The New Republic 14 a b Reviews of The Terezin Album of Marianka Zadikow Adam Kirsch 2008 New York Sun 15 Publishers Weekly 16 Sacks Pamela H April 13 2008 Notes from the horror Telegram amp Gazette a b Reviews of A Boy in Terezin Mimi Frank Jewish Book Council 17 permanent dead link Alexander Elaine K April 24 2012 Boy s diary from Terezin expresses hope and despair St Louis Jewish Light Bernard M Dwork John Simon Guggenheim Foundation retrieved 2017 07 13 DEFYING THE NAZIS THE SHARPS WAR A NEW FILM BY KEN BURNS AND ARTEMIS JOUKOWSKY TO AIR ON PBS SEPTEMBER 20 About PBS Main External links editDeborah Dwork Academic homepage Deborah Dwork Personal homepage Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Homepage Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Deborah Dwork amp oldid 1186181190, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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