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Deborah Lipstadt

1947 - Today

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Deborah Esther Lipstadt (born March 18, 1947) is an American historian and diplomat, best known as author of the books Denying the Holocaust (1993), History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier (2005), The Eichmann Trial (2011), and Antisemitism: Here and Now (2019). She has served as the United States Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism since May 3, 2022. Since 1993 she has been the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, US. Lipstadt was a consultant to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Deborah Lipstadt has received more than 1,424,017 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Deborah Lipstadt is the 328th most popular historian (down from 167th in 2019), the 5,085th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,068th in 2019) and the 12th most popular American Historian.

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  • 1.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Deborah Lipstadt ranks 328 out of 561. Before her are Hafiz-i Abru, Abu Shama, Johannes Meursius, Friedrich Kittler, Gerhard Friedrich Müller, and Heinrich Gelzer. After her are Donald Keene, Julien Ries, Stephen E. Ambrose, Alain Besançon, Nicholas Adontz, and Mykhailo Maksymovych.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Deborah Lipstadt ranks 390. Before her are Nicolae Dobrin, Don Felder, Tatiana Tarasova, Prince Hassan bin Talal, Bunny Wailer, and Jaroslav Pollák. After her are Clare Torry, Ian Ashley, Peter Banks, Takeshi Urata, Danilo Popivoda, and Małgorzata Braunek.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Deborah Lipstadt ranks 5,085 out of 20,380. Before her are Edgar Leonard (1881), J. E. B. Stuart (1833), Hunter Biden (1970), Kenneth Bainbridge (1904), Brent Scowcroft (1925), and Vincent J. McMahon (1914). After her are Tony Williams (1945), Evelyn Ashford (1957), Charlie Mariano (1923), George Huntington (1850), Katherine Anne Porter (1890), and Mackenyu (1996).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Deborah Lipstadt ranks 12. Before her are Hayden White (1928), Barbara W. Tuchman (1912), Howard Zinn (1922), Frederick Jackson Turner (1861), Linda Nochlin (1931), and Joan Wallach Scott (1941). After her are Donald Keene (1922), Stephen E. Ambrose (1936), Timothy D. Snyder (1969), John King Fairbank (1907), Ernest Fenollosa (1853), and William H. Prescott (1796).

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