Dalia Ofer
Biographic Data
| ID | 331306 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dalia Ofer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dalia |
| FAMILY NAME | Ofer |
| SIGNATURE | OFER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Yehuda Bauer
With Silent Screams
Journal Article With Silent Screams: Jewish Women in Auschwitz-Birkenau 1942–1945. Naama Shik Get access With Silent Screams: Jewish Women in Auschwitz-Birkenau 1942–1945, Naama Shik (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2022), 408 pp. Dalia Ofer Dalia Ofer The Hebrew University Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, dcad040, https://do…
Reflections on an Academic Path
The focus of this article is the author's experience as both a student and a colleague of Prof. Bauer and its impact on her development as a historian of the Holocaust. It is a reflection of her contemporary interpretation of their long years of activity at the Hebrew University. The article relates to Bauer as a teacher and a leader of Holocaust studies in Israel. The author addresses the seminars Bauer conducted with students of different backg…
Her Story, My Story?
Z oë W axman . Women in the Holocaust
Women in the Holocaust: A Feminist History takes a departure from the social and cultural approach characteristic of discussions on gender and the Holocaust. In writing a feminist history, Zoë Waxman claims that throughout the Holocaust, the political and social order of oppression, hierarchy, and suppression of women was apparent. It was an essential part of Nazi policy, which targeted women because of their reproductive ability and was confirme…
Studying the Holocaust in Israel
Studying the Holocaust in Israel Dalia Ofer (bio) This essay is a personal reflection on factors that influenced my work as a historian and a teacher. I survey the study and teaching of the Holocaust in Israel. I present some of my personal experiences and insights, which are telling and relevant. Since I rely on my memory, decades after the events, I am aware of the danger of hindsight. I discuss two major issues: why I chose the Holocaust as my…
Les ghettos de Transnistrie et les ghettos d’Europe orientale occupée par l’Allemagne
This comparative study demonstrates the similarities and differences between ghettos in Transnistria and ghettos of a similar size in territories occupied by the Germans. Considering that all ghettos were enforced societies that the Jews despised, a few major issues will be discussed :The concept of the ghetto and its origins in each of the placesThe degree of violence and arbitrary actions in the establishment and the control over the ghetto by …
Enmity, Indifference or Cooperation
Introduction
Introducing the sixth and final installment of the Common Knowledge symposium "Apology for Quietism," Allen looks at the symposium retrospectively and concludes that it has mainly concerned "sage knowledge," defined as foresight into the development of situations. The sagacious knower sees the disposition of things in an early, incipient form and knows how to intervene with nearly effortless and undetectable (quiet) effectiveness. Whatever the ci…
Victims, Fighters, Survivors
A contribution to the sixth installment of the Common Knowledge symposium "Apology for Quietism," this article reflects on the challenges that understanding the Holocaust posed for Jews in Palestine and has posed for them in Israel. Ofer concentrates on the images of victims, fighters, and survivors as they were formulated during the last years of World War II and after the establishment of the State of Israel. Behind these images stood historica…
The Past that Does Not Pass
The article raises issues that relate to the centrality of the Holocaust in the lives and imagination of many Israelis, and as a pivotal event that shapes their Jewish-Israeli identity. It examines the positions held by Israelis on the meaning of the Holocaust and the shaping of its memory, and asks whether the presence of the Holocaust in our lives represents an honest, unwavering effort to understand the Holocaust and its place in our world as …
Sur la spécificité de la place des femmes dans la Shoah
This article has two aims : to state systematically how gender mattered during the Holocaust, and to show how the analysis of gender contributes to a richer understanding of the Holocaust.We identify and discuss four sources of gender differences during the Holocaust. They are :Pre-war roles and responsibilities of men and women ;Anticipatory reactions of Jews to Nazi treatment of men and women ;German Policy and their treatment of men and women …
Les survivants de la Shoah dans l’historiographie israélienne
This article focuses on the various works on the She’erit hapletah and tries to underline how the research developed throughout the years, depending on the different generations the scholars belong to, and on their role in writing history or in taking part to the events before writing their memoirs. It also examines how this question was received in the public debate. What was the role of the Zionist movement in the DP camps in Europe, in the org…
The March of Memory
The article is concerned with the processes by which the collective memory of Israelis relating to the fate of their families in the Holocaust is shaped. The central issues raised are how and when one remembers, what significance is attached to this act of remembrance, and how this memory is transmitted from generation to generation. I shall deal with the transmission of the family memory to two generations and the various public contexts within …
Another Glance through the Historian's Lens
The essay addresses the issues of health and medicine in the ghettos of eastern Europe, emphasizing the centrality of oral testimonies and memoirs to historical analysis. It opens with some general remarks on Holocaust testimonies and then moves on to a discussion of medicine in the ghettos. It first deals with the state of public health and medicine there, which was shaped by both the community's medical experience and the catastrophic results o…
Tormented Memories
Tormented Memories:The Individual and the Collective Dalia Ofer (bio) This article sets out to probe the public debate that evolved in Israel over the dedication of a forest to the memory of King Boris III of Bulgaria. It will also address the image of Bulgaria in Israel's collective memory in relation to the rescue of Bulgarian Jews and to the deportation of the Macedonian and Thracian Jews to the death camps. This particular case study sheds li…
Women in the Holocaust
As Jews throughout Europe faced Nazi persecution, Jewish women-wives, daughters, mothers-encountered special problems and had particular vulnerabilities. This is the first book of original scholarship devoted to women in the Holocaust. Testimonies of Holocaust survivors and chapters by eminent historians, sociologists, and literary experts shed light on women's lives in the ghettos, the Jewish resistance movement, and the concentration camps. By …
The Strength of Remembrance
L'article traite de la place centrale de l'Holocauste dans le discours israelien actuel qui cree l'impression que durant les premieres annees de l'Etat d'Israel il etait ignore et que sa memoire posait des difficultes. L'A. retrace l'histoire de la commemoration en Israel depuis 1945 et dans la decade qui a suivi pour montrer que cette memoire a ete une affaire majeure
Women in the Holocaust
Women in the Holocaust
Women in the Holocaust
Holocaust Historiography
Ofer addresses the return of antisemitism as a major factor in explanations of the Final Solution, and explores the significance and meaning of the reinstatement of antisemitism at the centre of historical work on the subject. She refers mostly to three books published in the mid-1990s. The one that caused the greatest uproar was Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, the title of which makes c…
Holocaust Survivors as Immigrants
HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS AS IMMIGRANTS: THE CASE OF ISRAEL AND THE CYPRUS DETAINEES Get access Dalia Ofer Dalia Ofer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 16, Issue 1, February 1996, Pages 1–24, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/16.1.1 Published: 01 February 1996
Linguistic Conceptualization of the Holocaust in Palestine and Israel, 1942-53
The term Shoah usually translated into English as Holocaust did not become the standard term describing the catastrophe that befell the Jews of Europe during the second world war until some years after the war ended. In this article I propose to illustrate that linguistic conceptualization of the fate of European Jewry under the nazis reveals the process of internalization of the Holocaust among the Jews of Palestine the Yishuv -and Israel. The p…
Everyday Life of Jews under Nazi Occupation
Despite the dire circumstances of Jews under Nazi occupation, individuals continued to persevere in their efforts to maintain patterns of everyday life. An understanding of daily routines may help us comprehend the reality of the Holocaust, but it may also contribute to the trivialization and banalization of the topic. To counter this danger, the methodology proposed in this article asserts that the individual's struggle reveals another perspecti…
The Past that Does Not Pass
The article raises issues that relate to the centrality of the Holocaust in the lives and imagination of many Israelis, and as a pivotal event that shapes their Jewish-Israeli identity. It examines the positions held by Israelis on the meaning of the Holocaust and the shaping of its memory, and asks whether the presence of the Holocaust in our lives represents an honest, unwavering effort to understand the Holocaust and its place in our world as …
The Strength of Remembrance
L'article traite de la place centrale de l'Holocauste dans le discours israelien actuel qui cree l'impression que durant les premieres annees de l'Etat d'Israel il etait ignore et que sa memoire posait des difficultes. L'A. retrace l'histoire de la commemoration en Israel depuis 1945 et dans la decade qui a suivi pour montrer que cette memoire a ete une affaire majeure
Holocaust Survivors as Immigrants
HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS AS IMMIGRANTS: THE CASE OF ISRAEL AND THE CYPRUS DETAINEES Get access Dalia Ofer Dalia Ofer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 16, Issue 1, February 1996, Pages 1–24, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/16.1.1 Published: 01 February 1996
Linguistic Conceptualization of the Holocaust in Palestine and Israel, 1942-53
The term Shoah usually translated into English as Holocaust did not become the standard term describing the catastrophe that befell the Jews of Europe during the second world war until some years after the war ended. In this article I propose to illustrate that linguistic conceptualization of the fate of European Jewry under the nazis reveals the process of internalization of the Holocaust among the Jews of Palestine the Yishuv -and Israel. The p…
Victims, Fighters, Survivors
A contribution to the sixth installment of the Common Knowledge symposium "Apology for Quietism," this article reflects on the challenges that understanding the Holocaust posed for Jews in Palestine and has posed for them in Israel. Ofer concentrates on the images of victims, fighters, and survivors as they were formulated during the last years of World War II and after the establishment of the State of Israel. Behind these images stood historica…
Studying the Holocaust in Israel
Studying the Holocaust in Israel Dalia Ofer (bio) This essay is a personal reflection on factors that influenced my work as a historian and a teacher. I survey the study and teaching of the Holocaust in Israel. I present some of my personal experiences and insights, which are telling and relevant. Since I rely on my memory, decades after the events, I am aware of the danger of hindsight. I discuss two major issues: why I chose the Holocaust as my…
The March of Memory
The article is concerned with the processes by which the collective memory of Israelis relating to the fate of their families in the Holocaust is shaped. The central issues raised are how and when one remembers, what significance is attached to this act of remembrance, and how this memory is transmitted from generation to generation. I shall deal with the transmission of the family memory to two generations and the various public contexts within …
Everyday Life of Jews under Nazi Occupation
Despite the dire circumstances of Jews under Nazi occupation, individuals continued to persevere in their efforts to maintain patterns of everyday life. An understanding of daily routines may help us comprehend the reality of the Holocaust, but it may also contribute to the trivialization and banalization of the topic. To counter this danger, the methodology proposed in this article asserts that the individual's struggle reveals another perspecti…
Personal Letters in Research and Education on the Holocaust
Through a case study of a group of Jewish refugees stranded in Yugoslavia 1939–1941 who were ultimately murdered by the Nazis, the article suggests how a systematic and careful use of personal letters can aid historical research in general, and the study of the Holocaust in particular. A methodological approach is recommended with respect to the inherent problem of the ‘sketchy’ nature of such documentation. The use of letters, together with indi…
The Rescue of European Jewry and Illegal Immigration to Palestine in 1940–prospects and Reality
Journal Article THE RESCUE OF EUROPEAN JEWRY AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION TO PALESTINE IN 1940–PROSPECTS AND REALITY: BERTHOLD STORFER AND THE MOSSAD LE'ALIYAH BET Get access Dalia Ofer Dalia Ofer HEBREW UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 4, Issue 2, May 1984, Pages 159–181, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/4.2.159 Published: 01 May 1984
Personal Letters in Research and Education on the Holocaust
Through a case study of a group of Jewish refugees stranded in Yugoslavia 1939–1941 who were ultimately murdered by the Nazis, the article suggests how a systematic and careful use of personal letters can aid historical research in general, and the study of the Holocaust in particular. A methodological approach is recommended with respect to the inherent problem of the ‘sketchy’ nature of such documentation. The use of letters, together with indi…
Escaping The Holocaust
Illegal Jewish immigration to Palestine prior to the founding of the State of Israel forms one of the most fascinating chapters in the history of Zionism and modern Jewish history. Bringing Jews from Europe to Palestine by land and by sea in defiance of restrictive British immigration policies was partly an undertaking of national rescue and partly a calculated strategy of political brinkmanship. Ofer focuses on this important phase in the histor…
"Yahil, "The Holocaust
Everyday Life of Jews under Nazi Occupation
Despite the dire circumstances of Jews under Nazi occupation, individuals continued to persevere in their efforts to maintain patterns of everyday life. An understanding of daily routines may help us comprehend the reality of the Holocaust, but it may also contribute to the trivialization and banalization of the topic. To counter this danger, the methodology proposed in this article asserts that the individual's struggle reveals another perspecti…
Holocaust Survivors as Immigrants
HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS AS IMMIGRANTS: THE CASE OF ISRAEL AND THE CYPRUS DETAINEES Get access Dalia Ofer Dalia Ofer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 16, Issue 1, February 1996, Pages 1–24, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/16.1.1 Published: 01 February 1996
Linguistic Conceptualization of the Holocaust in Palestine and Israel, 1942-53
The term Shoah usually translated into English as Holocaust did not become the standard term describing the catastrophe that befell the Jews of Europe during the second world war until some years after the war ended. In this article I propose to illustrate that linguistic conceptualization of the fate of European Jewry under the nazis reveals the process of internalization of the Holocaust among the Jews of Palestine the Yishuv -and Israel. The p…
Women in the Holocaust
Women in the Holocaust
Women in the Holocaust
Holocaust Historiography
Ofer addresses the return of antisemitism as a major factor in explanations of the Final Solution, and explores the significance and meaning of the reinstatement of antisemitism at the centre of historical work on the subject. She refers mostly to three books published in the mid-1990s. The one that caused the greatest uproar was Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, the title of which makes c…
Women in the Holocaust
As Jews throughout Europe faced Nazi persecution, Jewish women-wives, daughters, mothers-encountered special problems and had particular vulnerabilities. This is the first book of original scholarship devoted to women in the Holocaust. Testimonies of Holocaust survivors and chapters by eminent historians, sociologists, and literary experts shed light on women's lives in the ghettos, the Jewish resistance movement, and the concentration camps. By …
The Strength of Remembrance
L'article traite de la place centrale de l'Holocauste dans le discours israelien actuel qui cree l'impression que durant les premieres annees de l'Etat d'Israel il etait ignore et que sa memoire posait des difficultes. L'A. retrace l'histoire de la commemoration en Israel depuis 1945 et dans la decade qui a suivi pour montrer que cette memoire a ete une affaire majeure
Tormented Memories
Tormented Memories:The Individual and the Collective Dalia Ofer (bio) This article sets out to probe the public debate that evolved in Israel over the dedication of a forest to the memory of King Boris III of Bulgaria. It will also address the image of Bulgaria in Israel's collective memory in relation to the rescue of Bulgarian Jews and to the deportation of the Macedonian and Thracian Jews to the death camps. This particular case study sheds li…
Another Glance through the Historian's Lens
The essay addresses the issues of health and medicine in the ghettos of eastern Europe, emphasizing the centrality of oral testimonies and memoirs to historical analysis. It opens with some general remarks on Holocaust testimonies and then moves on to a discussion of medicine in the ghettos. It first deals with the state of public health and medicine there, which was shaped by both the community's medical experience and the catastrophic results o…
The March of Memory
The article is concerned with the processes by which the collective memory of Israelis relating to the fate of their families in the Holocaust is shaped. The central issues raised are how and when one remembers, what significance is attached to this act of remembrance, and how this memory is transmitted from generation to generation. I shall deal with the transmission of the family memory to two generations and the various public contexts within …
Sur la spécificité de la place des femmes dans la Shoah
This article has two aims : to state systematically how gender mattered during the Holocaust, and to show how the analysis of gender contributes to a richer understanding of the Holocaust.We identify and discuss four sources of gender differences during the Holocaust. They are :Pre-war roles and responsibilities of men and women ;Anticipatory reactions of Jews to Nazi treatment of men and women ;German Policy and their treatment of men and women …
Les survivants de la Shoah dans l’historiographie israélienne
This article focuses on the various works on the She’erit hapletah and tries to underline how the research developed throughout the years, depending on the different generations the scholars belong to, and on their role in writing history or in taking part to the events before writing their memoirs. It also examines how this question was received in the public debate. What was the role of the Zionist movement in the DP camps in Europe, in the org…
The Past that Does Not Pass
The article raises issues that relate to the centrality of the Holocaust in the lives and imagination of many Israelis, and as a pivotal event that shapes their Jewish-Israeli identity. It examines the positions held by Israelis on the meaning of the Holocaust and the shaping of its memory, and asks whether the presence of the Holocaust in our lives represents an honest, unwavering effort to understand the Holocaust and its place in our world as …
Enmity, Indifference or Cooperation
Introduction
Introducing the sixth and final installment of the Common Knowledge symposium "Apology for Quietism," Allen looks at the symposium retrospectively and concludes that it has mainly concerned "sage knowledge," defined as foresight into the development of situations. The sagacious knower sees the disposition of things in an early, incipient form and knows how to intervene with nearly effortless and undetectable (quiet) effectiveness. Whatever the ci…
Victims, Fighters, Survivors
A contribution to the sixth installment of the Common Knowledge symposium "Apology for Quietism," this article reflects on the challenges that understanding the Holocaust posed for Jews in Palestine and has posed for them in Israel. Ofer concentrates on the images of victims, fighters, and survivors as they were formulated during the last years of World War II and after the establishment of the State of Israel. Behind these images stood historica…
Les ghettos de Transnistrie et les ghettos d’Europe orientale occupée par l’Allemagne
This comparative study demonstrates the similarities and differences between ghettos in Transnistria and ghettos of a similar size in territories occupied by the Germans. Considering that all ghettos were enforced societies that the Jews despised, a few major issues will be discussed :The concept of the ghetto and its origins in each of the placesThe degree of violence and arbitrary actions in the establishment and the control over the ghetto by …
Studying the Holocaust in Israel
Studying the Holocaust in Israel Dalia Ofer (bio) This essay is a personal reflection on factors that influenced my work as a historian and a teacher. I survey the study and teaching of the Holocaust in Israel. I present some of my personal experiences and insights, which are telling and relevant. Since I rely on my memory, decades after the events, I am aware of the danger of hindsight. I discuss two major issues: why I chose the Holocaust as my…
Z oë W axman . Women in the Holocaust
Women in the Holocaust: A Feminist History takes a departure from the social and cultural approach characteristic of discussions on gender and the Holocaust. In writing a feminist history, Zoë Waxman claims that throughout the Holocaust, the political and social order of oppression, hierarchy, and suppression of women was apparent. It was an essential part of Nazi policy, which targeted women because of their reproductive ability and was confirme…
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