David Engel is an American historian

Historian

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 and Professor of Holocaust and Judaic Studies at New York University

New York University

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. Dr. Engel holds a Ph.D. from the University of California

University of California

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, Los Angeles, and completed postdoctoral study at Hebrew University's Division of Holocaust Studies, Institute for Contemporary Jewry, in Jerusalem.

Affiliations

David Engel is a Fellow of the Diaspora Research Institute, Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv University

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 and a member of the Carnegie Commission on Ethics and International Affairs and the Commission on Polish-Jewish Relations, since 2002.

Honours

In 1986-7 David Engel received Outstanding Lecturer honours at Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv University is a public university located in Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel. With nearly 30,000 students, TAU is Israel's largest university.-History:...

; in 1996 he was given the Golden Dozen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at New York University

New York University

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Major publications

• Between Liberation and Flight: Holocaust Survivors in Poland and the Struggle for Leadership, 1944-1946, in Hebrew. Tel Aviv: Am Oved Publishers. 1996.
• Facing a Holocaust: The Polish Government-in-Exile and the Jews, 1943-1945. University of North Carolina Press. 1993.
• In the Shadow of Auschwitz: The Polish Government-in-Exile and the Jews, 1939-1942.University of North Carolina Press. 1987.