David Bankier is the Solomon and Victoria Cohen Professor at the Hebrew University and heads the university’s section for Studies in anti-Semitism and the Holocaust at the Institute for Contemporary Jewry. Over the years, he has been visiting professor at universities in London, the United States, South Africa, and South America. His doctorate thesis was on German society and Nazi anti-Semitism in 1933–1938. In articles and lectures at scholarly conferences he has expounded on relations between Jews and non-Jews in occupied Europe, the interaction between propaganda and political mobilization during the war; the emigration of Jews from Germany and the rehabilitation of their community life in Latin America and the position taken by German anti-Nazi exiles on the “Jewish question.”

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