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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 1,364,130 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Deborah Lipstadt is the 167th most popular historian (down from 162nd in 2019), the 3,075th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,086th in 2019) and the 9th most popular American Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Deborah Lipstadt ranks 167 out of 339Before her are Benzion Netanyahu, Linda Nochlin, Karl Lamprecht, René Grousset, Hisham ibn al-Kalbi, and Johan Rudolph Thorbecke. After her are Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad, Ibn al-Faqih, Faustus of Byzantium, Roger Chartier, Shlomo Sand, and Pulakeshin II.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Deborah Lipstadt ranks 200Before her are Maria Farantouri, Bryan Brown, Alain Connes, Adolfo Rodríguez Saá, Michel Sardou, and Thomas Cech. After her are Patrice Leconte, Aleksander Krupa, Nancy Fraser, Emmylou Harris, Riyoko Ikeda, and Eric F. Wieschaus.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Deborah Lipstadt ranks 3,075 out of 18,182Before her are Douglas Hofstadter (1945), Michelle Monaghan (1976), John Waters (1946), Calista Flockhart (1964), Geoffrey Lewis (1935), and Robert James Waller (1939). After her are Elizabeth Banks (1974), Barbara O'Neil (1910), Jacques Futrelle (1875), Daniel Baldwin (1960), Dick Scobee (1939), and Annie Sprinkle (1954).

Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Deborah Lipstadt ranks 9Before her are Donna Haraway (1944), Barbara W. Tuchman (1912), Hayden White (1928), Richard Sennett (1943), Howard Zinn (1922), and Linda Nochlin (1931). After her are Frederick Jackson Turner (1861), Robert Darnton (1939), John King Fairbank (1907), William H. Prescott (1796), Natalie Zemon Davis (1928), and Donald Keene (1922).