# Dalia Ofer

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'''Dalia Ofer''' ({{Langx|he|דליה עופר}}; born 8 January 1939, [Jerusalem](/source/Jerusalem)) is a retired Professor of [Holocaust](/source/Holocaust) and East European Studies at the Institute of Contemporary Jewry, [The Hebrew University of Jerusalem](/source/Hebrew_University_of_Jerusalem).

== Early life and education ==
Ofer graduated from the [Hebrew University High School](/source/Hebrew_University_Secondary_School) in 1956, completed her [IDF service](/source/Conscription_in_Israel) in the [Nahal](/source/Nahal) and went to [Kibbutz Ein Gev](/source/Ein_Gev).<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Dalia Ofer|url=https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/ofer-dalia|access-date=2021-03-27|website=Jewish Women's Archive|language=en}}</ref> Ofer received her B.A. in history from the Hebrew University in 1962 and, a year later, received a teaching certificate. From 1964 until 1982 she taught at the Hebrew University High School.<ref name=":0" /> In 1973 she completed her M.A. in history ''summa cum laude,'' with a thesis titled “The Rescue and Aid Operation of the ''Yishuv'' Delegation in Istanbul, 1943–1944.” In 1981 Ofer received her Ph.D. from the Hebrew University for her dissertation titled “Illegal Immigration to Palestine 1939–1941.”<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Shavit|first=Yaacov|date=1992-06-01|title=Dalia Ofer. Escaping the Holocaust: Illegal Immigration to the Land of Israel, 1939–1944. (Studies in Jewish History.) New York: Oxford University Press. 1990. Pp. xiii, 408. $35.00 and Dina PoratThe Blue and the Yellow Stars of David: The Zionist Leadership in Palestine and the Holocaust, 1939–1945. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1990. Pp. x, 334. $27.95|url=https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/97.3.900|journal=The American Historical Review|volume=97|issue=3|pages=900–902|doi=10.1086/ahr/97.3.900|issn=0002-8762|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Dr. Dalia Ofer — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum|url=https://www.ushmm.org/research/about-the-mandel-center/all-fellows-and-scholars/dalia-ofer-2006|access-date=2021-03-27|website=www.ushmm.org}}</ref>

== History prizes ==
In 1992, ''Derekh ba-yam,'' her first book, appeared in Hebrew and won that year's [Yad Ben-Zvi](/source/Yad_Ben_Zvi) Award.<ref name=":1" /> The English translation, ''Escaping the Holocaust: Illegal Immigration to the Land of Israel, 1939–1944'', won the [Jewish Book Award](/source/Jewish_Book_Council) in the same year.<ref name=":1"/>

== Bibliography ==

* ''Escaping the Holocaust, Illegal Immigration to the Land of Israel 1939–1944'' (Oxford: [Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press), 1990)
* ''The Dead-End Journey: The Tragic Story of the Kladovo-Sabac Group'' (Maryland: [University Press of America](/source/University_Press_of_America), 1996)
* ''Women in the Holocaust'' (New Haven: [Yale University Press](/source/Yale_University_Press), 1998)
* ''The Holocaust: The Particular and the Universal.'' Edited with Samuel Almog, [David Bankeir](/source/David_Bankier), [Daniel Blatman](/source/Daniel_Blatman) (Jerusalem: 2001) 
* ''The Holocaust: History and Memory,'' edited with Samuel Almog, David Bankeir, Daniel Blatman (Indiana: [Indiana University Press](/source/Indiana_University_Press), 2001)

== References ==
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== External links ==

* [https://www.yalebooks.co.uk/display.asp?K=9780300080803 Dalia Ofer] at [Yale University Press](/source/Yale_University_Press)
* [https://www.yadvashem.org/articles/interviews/dalia-ofer.html Interview with Professor Dalia Ofer] at [Yad Vashem](/source/Yad_Vashem)
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