Dan Diner

Dan Diner (born 1946) is a historian of modern history. He taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at Leipzig University. From 1999 to 2014, he directed the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture in Leipzig and was a professor in the university’s Department of History. Diner is a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and served as editor of the seven-volume Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture (2011–2017). His works include Against the Grain of Memory, Ritual Distance: Israel’s German Question, Understanding the Twentieth Century: 1917–1989, and Another War: Jewish Palestine and the Second World War, 1935–1942.