Dan Diner
Author · 11 books
Dan Diner (born 1946) is a historian of modern history. He taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and, from 1999 to 2014, was director of the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture and a professor at Leipzig University’s Department of History. Diner edited the seven-volume Encyclopaedia of Jewish History and Culture (2011–2017). His works include Zeitenschwelle. Gegenwartsfragen an die Geschichte (2010), Das Jahrhundert verstehen. 1917–1989 (2015), Rituelle Distanz. Israels deutsche Frage (2015), and Ein anderer Krieg. Das jüdische Palästina und der Zweite Weltkrieg 1935–1942 (2021).