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Michael Shafir
Michael Shafir was a Romanian-Israeli political scientist who studied antisemitism and the treatment of the Holocaust in east-central Europe.
1944 to 2022Research on antisemitism in EuropeStudy of Holocaust treatmentMembership in the Wiesel Commission
- Born
- 4 January 1944, Bucharest
- Died
- 9 November 2022
- Occupation
- political scientist, journalist
Michael Shafir was born in 1944 in Bucharest
Michael Shafir was born on 4 January 1944 in Bucharest, Romania, to a Jewish family. During the Communist period in Eastern Europe he immigrated to Israel.
His work focused on antisemitism and on how the Holocaust was treated in east-central Europe. He was a member of the Wiesel Commission.
In 2005 he returned to Romania. Until he retired, he taught as a professor at the Faculty of European Studies of Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca.
In 2012 he gave his collection to the Octavian Goga Cluj County Library, although the library bears the name of Goga, a radical antisemite. Shafir died on 9 November 2022.
Milestones in Michael Shafir's life
- 1944
Born in Bucharest, Romania.
- 2005
Returned to Romania and began teaching at Babeș-Bolyai University.
- 2012
Donated his collection to the Octavian Goga Cluj County Library.
- 2022
Died on 9 November.
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