Deborah Lipstadt
Deborah Lipstadt | |
|---|---|
 Official portrait, 2022 | |
| United States Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism | |
| Assumed office May 3, 2022 | |
| President | Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | Elan Carr |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Deborah Esther Lipstadt March 18, 1947 New York, New York, U.S. |
| Education | City College of New York (BA) Brandeis University (MA, PhD) |
Deborah Esther Lipstadt (born March 18, 1947) is an American historian and politician. Lipstadt is the United States Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism since 2022. She is best known as author of the books Denying the Holocaust (1993), History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier (2005), The Eichmann Trial (2011), and Antisemitism: Here and Now (2019). She was a professor at Emory University.[1][2]
Lipstadt worked for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In 1994, President of the United States Bill Clinton nominated her to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.[3]
In July 2021, President Joe Biden nominated her to be the United States Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating anti-Semitism.[4][5] She was confirmed by voice-vote on March 30, 2022 and sworn in on May 3, 2022.[6][7]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Lipstadt at Jewish woman archive Retrieved 19 January 2019.
- ↑ "Deborah E. Lipstadt". Emory University. Archived from the original on 6 September 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
- ↑ "Third Annual Bamberger Memorial Lecture with Deborah E. Lipstadt (November 22,2005)". Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion News & Publications. Archived from the original on September 4, 2006. Retrieved June 14, 2008.
- ↑ "Biden to nominate Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt as US antisemitism envoy". The Times of Israel. Retrieved July 30, 2021.
- ↑ "Emory historian Deborah Lipstadt nominated as U.S. envoy to combat and monitor antisemitism". news.emory.edu. Retrieved 2021-10-06.
- ↑ "Lipstadt approved as US antisemitism envoy, wrapping up 8-month confirmation process". The Times of Israel. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
- ↑ "Deborah Lipstadt". United States Department of State. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
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