Diana Pinto (historian)
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Diana Pinto is an intellectual historian
and writer
living in Paris
.
The daughter of Italian Jewish
parents, she is married to the French political scientist
Dominique Moïsi
and a resident of France
.
where she obtained her PhD in Contemporary European History.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall
, she became the editor-in-chief of Belvédère, France’s first pan-European
review for a general public. She also worked as a Consultant to the Political Directorate of the Strasbourg
-based Council of Europe
for its civil society
programmes in Eastern Europe
and the former Soviet Union
.
She has been a Fulbright
Fellow, a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies
, of Collegium Budapest in Hungary
and of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam
. She is a founder member of the European Council on Foreign Relations
.
As a Senior Fellow and a Board Member of the London
-based Institute for Jewish Policy Research
she has been working on a project of “Jewish voices for the European res publica”.
In 1996 she published an internationally debated policy paper on A new Jewish identity for post-1989
Europe, claiming that post-Cold War
Europe could be turned “into the third pillar of a world Jewish identity at the cross-roads of a newly interpreted past, and a pluralist and democratic future”.
Intellectual history
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and writer
Writer
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living in Paris
Paris
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.
The daughter of Italian Jewish
Italian Jews
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parents, she is married to the French political scientist
Political science
Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...
Dominique Moïsi
Dominique Moïsi
Dominique Moïsi is a French Political Scientist and writer.He was a co-founder and is a senior advisor of the Paris-based Institut Français des Relations Internationales , Pierre Keller Visiting Professor at Harvard University, and the chairholder for Geopolitics at the College of Europe in Natolin...
and a resident of France
France
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.
Life
She was educated in the United States and is a graduate of Harvard UniversityHarvard University
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where she obtained her PhD in Contemporary European History.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin...
, she became the editor-in-chief of Belvédère, France’s first pan-European
Pan-European identity
Pan-European identity refers to the sense of personal identification with Europe. The most concrete examples of pan-europeanism are the European Union and the older Council of Europe...
review for a general public. She also worked as a Consultant to the Political Directorate of the Strasbourg
Strasbourg
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-based Council of Europe
Council of Europe
The Council of Europe is an international organisation promoting co-operation between all countries of Europe in the areas of legal standards, human rights, democratic development, the rule of law and cultural co-operation...
for its civil society
Civil society
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programmes in Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...
and the former Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
.
She has been a Fulbright
Fulbright Program
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Fellow, a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies
American Council of Learned Societies
The American Council of Learned Societies , founded in 1919, is a private nonprofit federation of seventy scholarly organizations.ACLS is best known as a funder of humanities research through fellowships and grants awards. ACLS Fellowships are designed to permit scholars holding the Ph.D...
, of Collegium Budapest in Hungary
Hungary
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and of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam
Potsdam
Potsdam is the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg and part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. It is situated on the River Havel, southwest of Berlin city centre....
. She is a founder member of the European Council on Foreign Relations
European Council on Foreign Relations
The ' is the first pan-European think tank. Launched in October 2007, its objective is to conduct research and promote informed debate across Europe on the development of coherent and effective European values based foreign policy....
.
As a Senior Fellow and a Board Member of the London
London
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-based Institute for Jewish Policy Research
Institute for Jewish Policy Research
The Institute for Jewish Policy Research , founded as the Institute of Jewish Affairs, is a London-based research institute and think tank. It specializes in contemporary Jewish affairs, with a particular focus on Jews in Britain and across Europe...
she has been working on a project of “Jewish voices for the European res publica”.
Publications
Amongst others, Diana Pinto published a reader on Contemporary Italian Sociology (1981) and the autobiographical book Entre deux mondes (Between two worlds, 1991). She has lectured widely on transatlantic issues and on Jewish life in contemporary Europe as a crucial chapter in the continent’s pluralist challenges. Her articles have been published across Eastern and Western Europe.In 1996 she published an internationally debated policy paper on A new Jewish identity for post-1989
Revolutions of 1989
The Revolutions of 1989 were the revolutions which overthrew the communist regimes in various Central and Eastern European countries.The events began in Poland in 1989, and continued in Hungary, East Germany, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and...
Europe, claiming that post-Cold War
Cold War
The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...
Europe could be turned “into the third pillar of a world Jewish identity at the cross-roads of a newly interpreted past, and a pluralist and democratic future”.
Partial bibliography
- Contemporary Italian Sociology. A Reader. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1981, ISBN 0-521-23738-6
- Entre deux mondes. Édition Odile Jacob, Paris 1991, ISBN 2-7381-0132-1
- The great European sea change. Dædalus 121, 4 (1992), 129-150.
External links
- Diana Pinto’s CV at The Jewish Cultural Heritage Foundation
- Diana Pinto’s CV at The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University
- Towards European Jewish Identity, HaGalil, undated
- The great European sea change, The Free Library, 1992
- Potsdamer Platz versus Aschenbach. Two paradigms of Jewish life in Europe, European Association for Jewish Culture, 2002