Hanna Yablonka

Israeli historian and scholar

Hanna Yablonka (Hebrew: חנה יבלונקה, born 1950) is an Israeli historian and scholar. Born in Tel Aviv, she is a Professor of Holocaust Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev^[1] and staff historian for the Ghetto Fighters' House.^{[citation needed]}

She has been described by S. Ilan Troen and Noah Lucas as "one of the new generation of Israeli historians who have begun to systematically explore the immigration experience" during and after the establishment of Israel.^[2]

In 2002, Yad Vashem awarded Yablonka the Buchman Foundation Memorial Prize for her book on Eichmann.^[3]

In 2010, she was removed as chair of the Ministry of Education committee on history because she had criticised the teaching of history in schools.^[4]

Published works

• Foreign Brethren: Holocaust Survivors in the State of Israel, 1948–1952 (Ben-Gurion University Press, 1994), translated into English by Ora Cummings as Survivors of the Holocaust: Israel after the War (New York University Press, 1999)^[5]
• The State of Israel vs. Adolf Eichmann (2001), translated into English by Ora Cummings (Schocken Books, 2004)^[6]
• As editor, with Tuvia Friling, Israel and the Holocaust (2004), Israel Studies, a Series Subject, vol. 8, no. 3, Indiana University Press, USA, 217pp.
• Off the Beaten Track: The Mizrahim and the Shoah (Yedioth Aharonoth Books and Chemed Books, 2008), translated into French by Avner Lahav as Les Juifs d'Orient, Israël et la Shoah, Calmann-Lévy, 2016.^[7]

References

1. Prof. Hanna Yablonka (Turek), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, retrieved 2020-09-19
2. Troen, S.I.; Lucas, N. (2012). Israel: The First Decade of Independence. SUNY series in Israeli Studies. State University of New York Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-1-4384-2232-9. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
3. Yad Vashem Awards the Buchman Memorial Prize to Dr. Hanna Yablonka and Professor Arieh Kochavi, Vad Yashem, 3 December 2002, retrieved 2020-09-19
4. Williams, J.H. (2014). (Re)Constructing Memory: School Textbooks and the Imagination of the Nation. EBL-Schweitzer. SensePublishers. p. 172. ISBN 978-94-6209-656-1. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
5. Reviews of Foreign Brethren / Survivors of the Holocaust:
   • Engel, David (February 2001), The American Historical Review, 106 (1): 299–300, doi:10.2307/2652419, JSTOR 2652419{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Hoch, Richard (May 2000), "Review", H-Net
6. Reviews of The State of Israel vs. Adolf Eichmann:
   • "Nonfiction book review", Publishers Weekly
   • Groner, Jonathan (2009), "Eichmann's Israeli legacy", JBooks.com
7. Review of Off the Beaten Track / Les Juifs d'Orient:
   • Delmaire, Danielle (2016), "Review", Tsafon (in French), 72: 175–176, doi:10.4000/tsafon.483