Deborah Lipstadt

Deborah Lipstadt
Official portrait, 2022
United States Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Antisemitism
Assumed office
May 3, 2022
PresidentJoe Biden
Preceded byElan Carr
Personal details
Born
Deborah Esther Lipstadt

(1947-03-18) March 18, 1947 (age 77)
New York City, U.S.
EducationCity College of New York (BA)
Brandeis University (MA, PhD)

Deborah Esther Lipstadt (born March 18, 1947) is an American historian and diplomat, best known as author of the books Denying the Holocaust (1993), History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier (2005), The Eichmann Trial (2011), and Antisemitism: Here and Now (2019). She has served as the United States Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism since May 3, 2022. Since 1993 she has been the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, US.[1][2]

Lipstadt was a consultant to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In 1994, President of the United States Bill Clinton appointed her to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, and she served two terms.[3] On July 30, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated her to be the United States Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism.[4][5] She was confirmed by voice-vote on March 30, 2022, and sworn in on May 3, 2022.[6][7] Lipstadt was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2023.[8]

  1. ^ Lipstadt at Jewish woman archive Retrieved January 19, 2019.
  2. ^ "Deborah E. Lipstadt". Emory University. Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Retrieved September 2, 2015.
  3. ^ "Third Annual Bamberger Memorial Lecture with Deborah E. Lipstadt (November 22, 2005)". Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion News & Publications. Archived from the original on September 4, 2006. Retrieved June 14, 2008.
  4. ^ "Biden to nominate Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt as US antisemitism envoy". The Times of Israel. Retrieved July 30, 2021.
  5. ^ "Emory historian Deborah Lipstadt nominated as U.S. envoy to combat and monitor antisemitism". news.emory.edu. Retrieved October 6, 2021.
  6. ^ "Lipstadt approved as US antisemitism envoy, wrapping up 8-month confirmation process". The Times of Israel. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
  7. ^ "Deborah Lipstadt". United States Department of State. Retrieved May 13, 2022.
  8. ^ "The 100 Most Influential People of 2023". Time. Retrieved April 17, 2023.