Deborah Lipstadt

American historian

Deborah Esther Lipstadt (born March 18, 1947) is an American historian and politician. Lipstadt is the United States Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism since 2022. She is 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 was a professor at Emory University.[1][2]

Deborah Lipstadt
Official portrait, 2022
United States Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism
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, New York, U.S.
EducationCity College of New York (BA)
Brandeis University (MA, PhD)

Lipstadt worked for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In 1994, President of the United States Bill Clinton nominated her to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.[3]

In July 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]

References

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  1. Lipstadt at Jewish woman archive Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  2. "Deborah E. Lipstadt". Emory University. Archived from the original on 6 September 2015. Retrieved 2 September 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 2021-10-06.
  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 2022-05-13.