Sara Bender

Sara Bender
שרה בנדר
OccupationHistorian
Academic background
Alma materHebrew University of Jerusalem
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-disciplineJewish-Polish history of WWII
InstitutionsUniversity of Haifa

Sara Bender (Hebrew: שרה בנדר) is an Israeli historian. She edits the journal Dapim - Studies on the Holocaust.[1]

Education

In 1994, she received her doctoral degree from the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her dissertation focused on the Jews of Białystok during World War II.[2]

Career

Since 1998, she has taught in the Department of Jewish History at the University of Haifa,[3] as an associate professor and later promoted to professor.[4][5]

Works

  • Mikhman, Dan; Gutman, Israel; Bender, Sara (2005). The encyclopedia of the righteous among the nations: rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. Belgium. Yad Vashem.
  • Bender, Sara (2008). The Jews of Bialystok During World War II and the Holocaust. UPNE. ISBN 978-1-58465-729-3.[6][7][8][9]
  • Bender, Sara (2018). In Enemy Land: The Jews of Kielce and the Region, 1939-1946. Academic Studies Press. ISBN 978-1-61811-871-4.[10]

References

  1. ^ "Sara Bender". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 6 February 2020.
  2. ^ "Sara Bender". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 2025-10-28.
  3. ^ "Sara Bender". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 2025-10-28.
  4. ^ "The Jews of Białystok During World War II and the Holocaust". Brandeis University - Tauber Institute. Retrieved 2025-10-28.
  5. ^ Sara Bender (2018). In Enemy Land: The Jews of Kielce and the Region, 1939-1946. Academic Studies Press.
  6. ^ Kobrin, Rebecca (28 April 2010). "Sara Bender. The Jews of Białystok During World War II and the Holocaust. Trans. Yaffa Murciano. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2008. xii, 384 pp". AJS Review. 34 (1): 145–147. doi:10.1017/S0364009410000140.
  7. ^ Berkowitz, Michael (27 January 2017). "The Jews of Bialystok during World War II and the Holocaust. By Sara Bender. Trans. Yaffa Murciano. Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry Series. Hanover: University Press of New England for Brandeis University Press, 2008. xiv, 384 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Maps. $50.00, hard bound". Slavic Review. 69 (1): 216–217. doi:10.1017/S0037677900016909.
  8. ^ Kobrin, Rebecca (17 December 2010). "Sara Bender. The Jews of Białystok during World War II and the Holocaust. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2008. xii, 384 pp". AJS Review. 34 (2): 445–447. doi:10.1017/S0364009410000590.
  9. ^ Epstein, Barbara (August 2010). "The Jews of Bialystok during World War II and the Holocaust". East European Jewish Affairs. 40 (2): 189–192. doi:10.1080/13501674.2010.494053.
  10. ^ Ravvin, Norman (21 July 2019). "Book of nightmares: Kielce in Polish Jewish history". The Canadian Jewish News.