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Daniel Blatman

Daniel Blatman is an Israeli historian of the Holocaust who heads the Institute for Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

born 1953Research on the HolocaustThe book The Death MarchesHeading the Institute for Contemporary JewryCriticism of Israeli government policy

Born: 31 January 1953, Tel Aviv
Occupation: historian
Education: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Daniel Blatman was born in 1953 in Tel Aviv

Daniel Blatman was born in Tel Aviv on January 31, 1953. His family came from Eastern Europe and included Holocaust survivors. He went to Tichon Hadash high school.

He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and earned a master's degree in 1988. From 1981 to 1992 he taught at Danziger high school in Kiryat Shmona. He then wrote his doctorate under Israel Gutman.

He has taught at the Hebrew University since 1997 and became an associate professor in 2009. He has also taught in Washington, Paris and Kraków. In 2018 he was named chief historian of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum.

His research covers Eastern European Jews, the Jewish labor movement in Poland and the Nazi camps. His book on the death marches describes them as the final phase of the Nazi genocide.

He has spoken publicly against Israeli government policy. In May 2025 he accused Israel of genocide in Gaza. He lives in Jerusalem and has 2 children.