Dan Diner
EURIAS Fellow, SCAS.
Professor of Modern European History, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Director, Simon-Dubnow-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und
Kultur, and Professor of History, Universität Leipzig
Dan Diner received his Ph.D. in International Law at Goethe-
Universität Frankfurt am Main in 1973 and
later, in 1980, his habilitation.
Afterwards, he has taught at Odense University and
Universität Essen, where
he was tenured Full Professor at its Dep.
of History in 1989. From 1988 to 1999, he served as Professor
of History at Tel Aviv University, and from 1994 to 1999, he headed
its Minerva Institute for German
History and held the Benyamin
and Chaya Schapelski Chair of Holocaust Studies. After two years
at the
Dep. of Political Science at Ben-Gurion University of the
Negev, Beer Sheva, he took up his current
positions at Universität
Leipzig in 1999 and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2001.
He is a
Regular
Member of the Philological-Historical Class of the
Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig.
Diner has been a visiting scholar at numerous research centres,
e.g. at Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften,
Vienna (1997); Institut für Jüdisch-Christliche Forschung, Universität
Luzern;
Mansfield College, University of Oxford (2003);
the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2004–05);
the Stanford
Humanities Center, Stanford University (2008); and the
Center for Jewish Studies, Duke
University (2011).
Dan Diner was the recipient of the Ernst-Bloch-Preis der Stadt
Ludwigshafen in 2006, the 2007 Capalbio
Award for his book Il
tempo sospeso: Stasi e crisi nel mondo musulmano (Milano 2007)
and the 2013
Leipziger Wissenschaftspreis. He directs the longterm
project ‘Encyclopedia of Jewish European Cultures’
at the
Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig and a European
Research Council Advanced
Grant project, ‘Judging Histories’,
based at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Among his more recent publications are Cataclysms: A History
of the Twentieth Century from Europe’s
Edge (Madison 2008),
Beyond the Conceivable: Studies on Germany, Nazism, and the Holocaust
(Berkeley
2000), Gegenläufige Gedächtnisse: Über Geltung
und Wirkung des Holocaust (Göttingen 2007), Lost in
the Sacred:
Why the Muslim World Stood Still (Princeton 2009), and Zeitenschwelle:
Gegenwartsfragen
an die Geschichte (Munich 2010). His
books have been translated into numerous languages.
