Daniel Blatman

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Daniel Blatman is an Israeli historian, specializing in history of the Holocaust.^[1] Blatman is the head of the Institute for Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.^[1]

Blatman was a visiting scholar at the Centre for European Studies at Harvard University, 2012–13.^[2]

• The Death Marches. The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide, Cambridge Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2011^[3][4]

In association with the 2023 Israeli judicial reform the Likud-led far-right coalition were compared to Germany in the 1930s by some journalists and historians in Israel including by Daniel Blatman,^[5] an Israeli historian, specializing in history of the Holocaust, ^[1] and head of the Institute for Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.^[6] When interviewed by Ayelett Suhani for Haaretz, Blatman said "Israel's government has neo-Nazi ministers. It really does recall Germany in 1933".^[5] His remarks drew some international attention from long-standing critics of Israel.^[7] However, he was referring specifically to the authoritarian aspects of 1930s Germany, he did not draw direct connections to the ghettos or the Holocaust.^[5]

He is listed in the signatures on the open letter "STATEMENT OF GENOCIDE SCHOLARS ON ISRAEL-PALESTINE" from 21 May 2021.^[8]

In 2016 he criticised Benjamin Netanyahu for referring to removal of Israeli settlers from the West Bank as "ethnic cleansing".^[9] This triggered a discourse with Benny Morris,^[10] in which Blatman asserted that ethnic cleansing had been done by Israel in 1948.^[11]

• 1991: The Pridan Prize for Studies in East European Jewish History, Hebrew University.^[1]
• 1993: Jakob Buchman Prize for the Memory of the Holocaust^[1]
• 2011: Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research^[12]

• Prof. Daniel Blatman at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Daniel Blatman at Haaretz

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