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Havi Dreifuss

Havi Dreifuss is an Israeli historian of the Holocaust in Poland, a professor at Tel Aviv University and head of the Center for Research on the Holocaust in Poland at Yad Vashem.

born 1972Research on the Holocaust in PolandJewish-Polish relations in the HolocaustBook on the Warsaw Ghetto's end

Occupation: historian

Havi Dreifuss was born in 1972 in Jerusalem

Havi Dreifuss was born in Jerusalem in 1972. She graduated from Pelech High School in Jerusalem.

She earned a bachelor's degree with honors in psychology and history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received her doctorate in history there in 2005. Her thesis dealt with how Polish Jews viewed Poland and Poles during World War II.

Dreifuss teaches in the Department of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University. Her research covers daily life in the Holocaust, including relations between Jews and Poles, religious life and Jewish existence in the face of deportation and murder. Since 2010 she has headed the center for research on the Holocaust in Poland at Yad Vashem.

Since 2016 she has coordinated and taught in an online academic program on the Holocaust for high school students. She served on the academic council of the committee for the Jewish Rescuer Award. In 2019 she received the Shazar Prize for her book on the end of the Warsaw Ghetto.

Milestones in Havi Dreifuss's life

1972
Born in Jerusalem.
2005
Received her doctorate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2006
Received a Mandel Scholars Program fellowship.
2009
Published a book on Jewish-Polish relations in the Holocaust with Yad Vashem.
2010
Became head of the center for research on the Holocaust in Poland at Yad Vashem.
2016
Began teaching in an online Holocaust program for high school students.
2018
Published a book on the end of the Warsaw Ghetto.
2019
Received the Shazar Prize for her Warsaw Ghetto book.