Alon Confino

Alon Confino (April 1, 1959 – June 27, 2024) was an Israeli cultural historian.[1][2][3] He served as the Director of the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies and a Professor of History and Judaic Studies at University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Confino grew up in Jerusalem,[4] and studied at the University of Tel Aviv (BA) and University of California, Berkeley (MA & PHD).[5] He died on June 27, 2024, at the age of 65.[6]

  1. ^ "Wilkommen go hÉirinn". www.drb.ie.
  2. ^ Gopnik, Adam. "Why We Keep Studying the Holocaust". The New Yorker.
  3. ^ Taylor, Simon; Stammers, Tom (5 July 2017). An Analysis of Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. CRC Press. ISBN 9781351352321 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ "Alon Confino". Department of History | UMass Amherst. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  5. ^ "Prof. Alon Confino". www.tau.ac.il.
  6. ^ In Memoriam: Alon Confino