David Bankier
{{Short description|German historian}}
{{Infobox academic
| name = David Bankier
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1947|1|19|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Zeckendorf camp, Scheßlitz, Germany
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2010|2|27|1947|1|19|df=yes}}
| death_place = Jerusalem, Israel{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-david-bankier-leading-scholar-on-nazi-germany-and-the-holocaust-1984988.html?r=21801|title=Professor David Bankier: Leading scholar on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust|date=28 May 2010|work=The Independent|access-date=17 March 2022}}
| alma_mater = Hebrew University of Jerusalem
| thesis_title = German Society and National Socialist Antisemitism, 1933–1938
| thesis_year = 1983
| native_name = דוד בנקיר
| native_name_lang = he
}}
David Bankier ({{Langx|he|דוד בנקיר}}; 19 January 1947 – 27 February 2010) was a Holocaust historian and head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem.Ethan Bronner, "David Bankier, Scholar of Holocaust, Dies at 63", New York Times, February 28, 2010, available at [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/01/world/middleeast/01bankier.html link].
Early life and education
David Bankier was born on January 19, 1947 (27 Tevet, 5707), in the Zeckendorf DP camp in the Bamberg district, Oberfranken, Germany, in the then American Occupation Zone. His parents were Holocaust survivors from Ukraine and Poland. From there his family migrated first to Israel and then to Argentina (on reaching adulthood, David immigrated to Israel; the family immigrated to the USA; in the 1980s his parents returned to Israel). Bankier grew up in Argentina; he studied at a public school and at a Jewish school where he consolidated his knowledge of the Hebrew language. In his youth he participated in Zionist activity and in 1967 immigrated to Israel. He began to study Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and in 1983 he completed his doctoral dissertation, “German Society and National Socialist Antisemitism, 1933–1938.”
Academic career
In 1986, David Bankier became lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.{{Cite journal|url=https://academic.oup.com/hgs/article-pdf/24/1/190/1606647/dcq018.pdf|title=David Bankier, 1947–2010|first=Richard|last=Breitman|date=1 March 2010|journal=Holocaust and Genocide Studies|volume=24|issue=1|pages=190–191 |doi=10.1093/hgs/dcq018|url-access=subscription|access-date=17 March 2022}} He would also serve on the editorial board of Contemporary Jewry and Yad Vashem Studies and as associate editor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Bankier's most influential work covered the role of public opinion in Nazi Germany, specifically opinion relevant to Nazi anti-Semitism and to the Nazi Holocaust.Bankier, David. The Germans and the Final Solution: Public Opinion Under Nazism (Wiley-Blackwell, 2006) His work on this topic involved extensive original research into Sopade reports as well as the internal documentation of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) regarding German public opinion.
References
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External links
- [https://www.yadvashem.org/research/about/bankier.html About David Bankier], in Yad Vashem website
- [https://www.yadvashem.org/research/about/studies/back-issues/38-1/michman.html David Bankier's Path in Holocaust Research] - an article by Prof. Dan Michman, in Yad Vashem website
- [https://www.yadvashem.org/articles/academic/the-nazis-and-the-german-population%C2%A0a-faustian-deal.html An article by David Bankier] about the relations between the Gestapo and the German population during Nazi period, in Yad Vashem website
- [http://www1.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%203645.pdf An interview with David Bankier about the Holocaust, its perpetrators, its reasons and its uniqueness], in Yad Vashem website
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmIOeSv17oc
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