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The Encyclopedia of the Holocaust was published in 1990, in tandem Hebrew
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
 and English editions, by Yad Vashem
Yad Vashem

File:Yad Vashem BW 3.JPGYad Vashem is Israel's official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust established in 1953 through the Yad Vashem Law passed by the Knesset, Israel's parliament....
 (?? ???), the Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
i Holocaust Memorial Authority.

Included in the Encyclopedia: hundreds of entries, with illustrations, maps, and bibliographic references for further reading. Both editions have a Glossary of Terms. The Index of the Hebrew edition (vol. 6) includes bilingual lists of names of persons, organizations, and places.

The Encyclopedia was the winner of the 1990 American Library Association’s Dartmouth Medal
Dartmouth Medal

The American Library Association?s Dartmouth Medal is awarded annually to a reference work of outstanding quality and significance, published during the previous calendar year....
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The Encyclopedia of the Holocaust was published in 1990, in tandem Hebrew
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
 and English editions, by Yad Vashem
Yad Vashem

File:Yad Vashem BW 3.JPGYad Vashem is Israel's official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust established in 1953 through the Yad Vashem Law passed by the Knesset, Israel's parliament....
 (?? ???), the Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
i Holocaust Memorial Authority.

Included in the Encyclopedia: hundreds of entries, with illustrations, maps, and bibliographic references for further reading. Both editions have a Glossary of Terms. The Index of the Hebrew edition (vol. 6) includes bilingual lists of names of persons, organizations, and places.

The Encyclopedia was the winner of the 1990 American Library Association’s Dartmouth Medal
Dartmouth Medal

The American Library Association?s Dartmouth Medal is awarded annually to a reference work of outstanding quality and significance, published during the previous calendar year....
.

International Editorial Board

  • Yitzhak Arad
    Yitzhak Arad

    Yitzhak Arad is a Lithuanian-born Israelis historian and retired Israel Defense Forces brigadier general. A veteran of the Nazism-era Jewish resistance movement in ghetto; Soviet partisan and alleged former member of the NKVD, he has researched, lectured, and published extensively on the Holocaust....
    , Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
    Jerusalem

    Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
  • Yehuda Bauer
    Yehuda Bauer

    Yehuda Bauer is a historian and scholar of the Holocaust. He is a Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem....
    , Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Hebrew University of Jerusalem

    The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is Israel's oldest university.The First Board of Governors included Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Martin Buber, and Chaim Weizmann....
  • Randolph L. Braham
    Randolph L. Braham

    Randolph L. Braham is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the CUNY Graduate Center of the City University of New York. A specialist in comparative politics and the Holocaust, he also is Director of The Graduate Center's Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies....
    , City University of New York
    City University of New York

    Not to be confused with New York University formerly known as the University of the City of New York.For similar uses see University of New York...
  • Martin Broszat
    Martin Broszat

    Martin Broszat was a Germany historian. Broszat was born in Leipzig, Germany and studied history at the University of Leipzig and at the University of Cologne ....
     (1926 - 1989), University of Munich
  • Christopher R. Browning, University of North Carolina
    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public university research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, North Carolina, United States....
  • Richard I. (Yerachmiel) Cohen
    Richard I. Cohen

    Richard I. Cohen is a professor of history, presently holding the Paulette and Claude Kelman Chair in History of the Jews in France Studies in the Department of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem....
    , Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Henry L. Feingold, City University of New York
    City University of New York

    Not to be confused with New York University formerly known as the University of the City of New York.For similar uses see University of New York...
  • Saul Friedlander, Tel Aviv University
    Tel Aviv University

    Tel Aviv University is a large, public university, located in Tel Aviv, Israel. As of 2006, the Tel Aviv University has a student population of 29,000....
  • Martin Gilbert
    Martin Gilbert

    Sir Martin John Gilbert, Order of the British Empire, D.Litt. is a United Kingdom historian and the author of over eighty books, including works on the Holocaust and Jewish history....
    , University of London
    University of London

    Based primarily in London, England, United Kingdom, the University of London is a federal mega university made up of 31 affiliates: 19 separate university institutions, and 12 research institutes....
  • Israel Gutman
    Israel Gutman

    Israel Gutman is a History of the Jews in Poland Israeli historian of the Holocaust....
    , Yad Vashem; Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Andreas Hillgruber
    Andreas Hillgruber

    Andreas Fritz Hillgruber was a Conservatism West Germany historian....
     (1925 - 1989), University of Cologne
    University of Cologne

    The University of Cologne is one of the oldest University in Europe and, with over 44,000 students, one of the largest universities in Germany....
  • Eberhard Jäckel
    Eberhard Jäckel

    Eberhard J?ckel is a Social Democratic Party of Germany Germany historian, noted for his studies of Adolf Hitler's role in history of Germany. J?ckel sees Hitler as being the historical equivalent to the Chernobyl disaster....
    , University of Stuttgart
    University of Stuttgart

    The University of Stuttgart is a university located in Stuttgart, Germany. It was founded in 1829 and is organized in 10 faculties.It is one of the leading technical universities in Germany with highly ranked programs in civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering....
  • Steven Katz
    Steven T. Katz

    Steven T. Katz is a Jewish philosophy and scholar. He is the director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University in Massachusetts, USA....
    , Boston University
    Boston University

    Boston University is a private nonsectarian university located in Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. Although chartered by the Massachusetts Legislature in 1869, Boston University traces its roots to the establishment of the Newbury Biblical Institute in Newbury, Vermont in 1839....
    , USA
  • Shmuel Krakowski, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
  • Otto Dov Kulka, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Dov Levin, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Czeslaw Madajczyk
    Czeslaw Madajczyk

    Czeslaw Madajczyk was a Polish historian. His area of specialty was the history of Poland in the 20th century, with particular emphasis on the WWII period. Member of the PZPR party in communist Poland....
    , Polish Academy of Sciences
    Polish Academy of Sciences

    The Polish Academy of Sciences, headquartered in Warsaw, is one of two Polish institutions having the nature of an academy of sciences....
    , Warsaw
    Warsaw

    Warsaw is the Capital and World's largest cities of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River roughly from both the Baltic Sea coast and the Carpathian Mountains....
  • Michael Marrus
    Michael Marrus

    Michael Robert Marrus is a Canada historian of France, the Holocaust and Jewish history. He was born in Toronto and received his BA at the University of Toronto in 1963 and his MA and PhD at the University of California, Berkeley in 1964 and 1968....
    , University of Toronto
    University of Toronto

    The University of Toronto is a public university research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated a mile north of the city's Financial District, Toronto on grounds that surround Queen's Park ....
  • György Rank, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
    Hungarian Academy of Sciences

    The Hungarian Academy of Sciences is the most important learned society of Hungary. Its seat is at the bank of the Danube in Budapest.The history of the academy began in 1825, when Count Istv?n Sz?chenyi offered one year's income of his estate for the purposes of a Learned Society at a district session of the Diet in Bratislava , a...
    , Budapest
    Budapest

    Budapest is the Capitals of Hungary of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it serves as the country's principal political, cultural, commerce, Industry, and transportation center and is considered an important hub in Central Europe....
  • Jehuda Reinharz
    Jehuda Reinharz

    Jehuda Reinharz is the President of Brandeis University notable for his proposed deaccession of one of the country's finest art collections. He is also a Richard Koret Professor of Modern Jewish History at the same institution....
    , Brandeis University
    Brandeis University

    Brandeis University is a Private university research university with a liberal arts focus, located in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, nine miles west of Boston, Massachusetts....
    , USA
  • Shmuel Spector, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
  • Jerzy Tomaszewski
    Jerzy Tomaszewski (historian)

    Jerzy Tomaszewski is a Poles political scientist and historian. Former employee of the Warsaw University of Life Science, professor of the Warsaw University....
    , University of Warsaw
    University of Warsaw

    University of Warsaw is the largest university in Poland, ranked by the Times Higher Education Supplement as the second best Polish university among the world top 500 in 2006....
  • Aharon Weiss, Yad Vashem; University of Haifa
    University of Haifa

    The University of Haifa is a university in Haifa, Israel.About 16,500 undergraduate and graduate student students study in the university a wide variety of topics, specializing in social sciences, humanities, law and education....
  • Leni Yahil, University of Haifa
Editor of the English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 edition: Geoffrey Wigoder