Professor Dr. Dan Diner
Director of the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at the University of Leipzig and Professor in the Department of History
Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of History
Regular Member of the Philological-Historical Class of the Saxonian Academy of Sciences Leipzig
Curriculum Vitae
*1946
1973 Doctorate
1975–1977 Habilitation Fellowship of the German
Research Foundation (DFG)
1980 Habilitation
1984–1985 Assistant Professor, University of Southern Denmark
(Syddansk Universitet)
1985–1999 Professor, Department of History,
University of Essen
1987–1999 Professor, Department of History, Tel Aviv University
1994–1999 Director, Institute for German History,
Tel Aviv University
1997–1999 Holder of the Benyamin and Chaya Schapelski Chair
of Holocaust Studies, Tel Aviv University
1999–2001 Professor, Department of History, Ben Gurion
University of the Negev/Beer Sheva
since 1999 Director of the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish
History and Culture and Professor in
the Department of History at the University of Leipzig
since 2001 Professor of Modern European History, Hebrew
University of Jerusalem
Prizes and Awards
2006 Ernst Bloch Prize of the city of Ludwigshafen am
Rhein
2007 Premio Capalbio for Il tempo sospeso. Stasi e crisi
nel mondo musulmano, Milano 2007.
Acting Professorships
1982–1984 Acting Professor, Department of Political Science,
University of Marburg
1984/85 Acting Professor, Department of Political Science,
University of Osnabrück
Guest Professorships
1978/79 Guest Professor, Gesamthochschule Kassel
1981/82 Guest Professor, Gesamthochschule Kassel
1997 Guest Professor, University of Munich
1997/98 Guest Researcher, Professor, International Research
Center in the Cultural Sciences Vienna
2001 Research Fellow, University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign
2003 Guest Professor, Institute for Jewish-Christian
Studies, University of Lucerne
2003 Visiting Professor, Mansfield College, Oxford
University
2004/05 Member of the Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton
2008 Research Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center,
Stanford University
Memberships
Fritz Bauer Institute Frankfurt am Main, Member of the Scientific Council
German Marshall Fund of the United States, Member of the Advisory Committee
Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism, Technical University Dresden, Member of the Friends Association of the Institute
Herder Institute e. V. Marburg, Member
Foundation Fund, The Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Member of the Board of Trustees
The Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Permanent Academic Member
The Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center Jerusalem, Member of the Academic Board
Foundation Topography of Terror Berlin, Member of the Foundation Council
Foundation Topography of Terror Berlin, Member of the International Advisory Council
Vienna Fund for Science, Research and Technology (WWTF), Member of the Advisory Council
Editorship
Publications of the Simon Dubnow Institute
Bulletin
Jahrbuch/Yearbook
Leipziger Beiträge zur jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur
Schriften des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts
Toldot – Essays zur jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur/Essays on Jewish History and Culture
Co-Editorship
Babylon. Beiträge zur jüdischen Gegenwart
Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik
Constellations. An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory
History & Memory. Studies in Representation of the Past (1988–1998)
Jewish History Quarterly (Warsaw)
Leo Baeck Institute Year Book
Naharaim. Zeitschrift für deutsch-jüdische Literatur und Kulturgeschichte / Journal of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History
Storia della Shoah. La crisi dell'Europa, lo sterminio degli ebrei e la memoria del XX secolo
Tabur. Yearbook for European History, Society, Culture and Thought
Tel Aviv Yearbook for German History (1994–1999)
Book Publications, 1999–2010
Zeitenschwelle. Gegenwartsfragen an die Geschichte, München 2010.
Porzumět dvacátému století, Pavel Váňa 2010. Czech translation of: Das Jahrhundert verstehen. Eine universalhistorische Deutung, Munich 1999.
Yüzyılı Anlamak. Evrensel Bir Tarih Yorumu, Istanbul 2009. Turkish translation of: Das Jahrhundert verstehen. Eine universalhistorische Deutung, Munich 1999.
Zrozumiec stulecie, Warszawa 2009. Polish translation of: Das Jahrhundert verstehen. Eine universalhistorische Deutung, Munich 1999.
Lost in the Sacred. Why the Muslim World Stood Still, Princeton, N. J., 2009. English translation of: Versiegelte Zeit. Über den Stillstand in der islamischen Welt, Berlin 2005.
Shever zman [Time Fracture], Tel Aviv 2009. Hebrew translation of: Das Jahrhundert verstehen. Eine universalhistorische Deutung, Munich 1999.
Disseminating German Tradition. The Thyssen Lectures, Leipzig 2009 (ed. with Moshe Zimmermann).
Aufklärungen. Über Varianten von Moderne, Zürich 2008.
Cataclysms. A History of the Twentieth Century from Europe’s Edge, Madison, Wis., 2008. English translation of: Das Jahrhundert verstehen. Eine universalhistorische Deutung, Munich 1999.
Gegenläufige Gedächtnisse. Über Geltung und Wirkung des Holocaust, Göttingen 2007.
Restitution and Memory. Material Restoration in Europe, New York/Oxford 2007 (ed. with Gotthard Wunberg).
Synchrone Welten. Zeitenräume jüdischer Geschichte, Göttingen 2005 (Ed.).
Il tempo sospeso. Stasi e crisi nel mondo musulmano, Milano 2007. Italian translation of: Versiegelte Zeit. Über den Stillstand in der islamischen Welt, Berlin 2005.
Versiegelte Zeit. Über den Stillstand in der islamischen Welt, Berlin 2005.
Dark Times, Dire Decisions. Jews and Communism, Oxford 2005 (ed. with Jonathan Frankel).
Gedächtniszeiten. Über jüdische und andere Geschichten, Munich 2003.
Feindbild Amerika. Über die Beständigkeit eines Ressentiments, Berlin 2002 (revised edition).
Raccontare il Novecento. Una storia politica, Milano 2001. Italian translation of: Das Jahrhundert verstehen. Eine universalhistorische Deutung, Munich 2000.
Beyond the Conceivable. Studies on Germany, Nazism and the Holocaust, Berkeley, Calif., 2000.
Das Jahrhundert verstehen. Eine universalhistorische Deutung, Frankfurt am Main 2000 (Paperback).
Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt. A Juxtaposition, Gerlingen 1999 (ed. with Michael Stolleis).
Das Jahrhundert verstehen. Eine universalhistorische Deutung, Munich 1999.
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