Prof. Havi Dreifuss: "Jewish-Polish relations: The Jewish perspective, is it important and why?"

Havi Dreifuss is a professor of Jewish history and one of the renowned scholars in Holocaust Studies. She is head of the Institute for the History of Polish Jewry and Israel-Poland Relations at Tel Aviv University and a director of the Center for Research on the Holocaust in Poland at the International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem. Her research deals with various aspects of everyday life during the Holocaust, including the relationship between Jews and Poles, religious life in light of the Holocaust, Jewish experience in the face of extermination. She is an author of many books and articles. Her latest book, The Warsaw Ghetto - The End (April 1942 - June 1943)  ( in Hebrew, Yad Vashem 2017), won the Shazar Prize for the Study of Jewish History.



The seminar talk was based mainly on her previous book, which was published originally in Hebrew (Yad Vashem 2009), and recently in English (Yad Vashem 2017): Relations Between Jews and Poles during the Holocaust: The Jewish Perspective.