Daniel Blatman

Daniel Blatman is an Israeli historian, specializing in history of the Holocaust. Blatman is the head of the Institute for Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Career History
Blatman was a visiting scholar at the Centre for European Studies at Harvard University, 2012–13.

Books

 * The Death Marches. The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide, Cambridge Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2011

Criticism of the Israeli Government
In association with the 2023 Israeli judicial reform the Likud-led far-right coalition were compared to Germany in the 1930s, by journalists and historians within in Israel. Including by Daniel Blatman, an Israeli historian, specializing in history of the Holocaust, and head of the Institute for Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. When interviewed by Ayelett Suhani for Haaretz, Blatman said "Israel's government has neo-Nazi ministers. It really does recall Germany in 1933". His remarks drew some international attention from long-standing critics of Israel. However, it should be noted he was referring specifically to the authoritarian aspects of 1930s Germany, he did not draw direct connections to the ghettos or the Holocaust.

Prizes

 * 1991: The Pridan Prize for Studies in East European Jewish History, Hebrew University.
 * 1993: Jakob Buchman Prize for the Memory of the Holocaust
 * 2011: Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research