David Engel (historian)

David Engel (fl. 1969- ) is an American historian and Professor of Holocaust and Judaic Studies at New York University. Dr. Engel holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and completed postdoctoral study at Hebrew University's Division of Holocaust Studies, Institute for Contemporary Jewry, in Jerusalem.^[1]

Affiliations

David Engel is a Fellow of the Diaspora Research Institute, Tel Aviv University and a member of the Carnegie Commission on Ethics and International Affairs and the Commission on Polish-Jewish Relations, since 2002.^[2]

Honours

In 1986-7 David Engel received Outstanding Lecturer honours at Tel Aviv University; in 1996 he was given the Golden Dozen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at New York University.^[2]

Major publications

• Between Liberation and Flight: Holocaust Survivors in Poland and the Struggle for Leadership, 1944-1946, in Hebrew. Tel Aviv: Am Oved Publishers. 1996.
• Facing a Holocaust: The Polish Government-in-Exile and the Jews, 1943-1945. University of North Carolina Press. 1993.
• In the Shadow of Auschwitz: The Polish Government-in-Exile and the Jews, 1939-1942.University of North Carolina Press. 1987.

References

1. ^ "Holocaust Scholar David Engel, Ph.D., to Discuss Newly Discovered Anne Frank Family Documents at Adelphi University". Adelphi University. http://events.adelphi.edu/news/2008/20080204.php. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "David Engel". New York University. http://hebrewjudaic.as.nyu.edu/object/davidengel.html.