Held on February 28, 2018
Part of the Drs. Bebe and Owen Bernstein Lecture Series
Dr. David Engel, Greenberg Professor of Holocaust Studies, Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, and Professor of History at New York University, discusses the treatment of Jews specifically in Poland during the Holocaust. This presentation chronicles his research of the Holocaust in Poland, the Polish government-in-exile, and the role of complicity versus collaboration versus rescue that occurred in Nazi-occupied territories in Eastern Europe.
Dr. David Engel came to New York University from Tel Aviv University in 1991. Initially Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History at NYU, he was awarded the Greenberg chair in Holocaust Studies in 2000. He served as chair of the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at NYU from 2011 through 2018. From 1985 through 2016 Professor Engel edited the journal Gal-Ed: On the History and Culture of Polish Jews, published by Tel Aviv University. A member of the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and a senior scholar for the Nevzlin Forum for Young Scholars of Eastern European Jewish History, he has lectured and taught about various aspects of Jewish history throughout Europe, as well as in Japan and China.
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