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'''Israel Gutman''' ({{lang-he-n|ישראל גוטמן}}; 20 May 1923 – 1 October 2013) was a [[History of the Jews in Poland|Polish-born]] Israeli survivor and historian of [[the Holocaust]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/ringelbum/ringelblum_gutman.asp |title="Let The World Read And Know" The Oneg Shabbat Archives |publisher=.yadvashem.org |date=2010-02-16 |accessdate=2013-11-16}}</ref>
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'''Israel Gutman''' ({{langx|he|ישראל גוטמן}}; 20 May 1923&nbsp;– 1 October 2013) was a [[History of the Jews in Poland|Polish-born]] Israeli historian and a survivor of [[the Holocaust]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/ringelblum/index.asp |title="Let The World Read And Know" The Oneg Shabbat Archives |publisher=.yadvashem.org |date=2010-02-16 |access-date=2013-11-16}}</ref>


==Biography==
==Biography==
Israel (Yisrael) Gutman was born in [[Warsaw]], [[Second Polish Republic]]. After participating and being wounded in the [[Warsaw Ghetto Uprising]], he was deported to the [[Majdanek]], [[Auschwitz]] and [[Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp|Mauthausen]] concentration camps.<ref name="autogenerated2">[http://wiez.free.ngo.pl/jedwabne/contributors.html Notes on the Contributors] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930014632/http://wiez.free.ngo.pl/jedwabne/contributors.html |date=2007-09-30 }}</ref> His parents and siblings died in the ghetto.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web|url=http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/survivors/gutman.asp |title="To Build and To Be Built" The Contribution of Holocaust Survivors to the State of Israel |publisher=.yadvashem.org |date= |accessdate=2013-11-16}}</ref> In January 1945, he survived the death march from Auschwitz to Mauthausen, where he was liberated by U.S. forces. In the immediate post-war period, he joined the [[Jewish Brigade]] in Italy.<ref name="autogenerated1" /> In 1946, he immigrated to [[British Mandate of Palestine|Mandate Palestine]] and joined [[Kibbutz]] [[Lehavot HaBashan]], where he raised a family. He was a member of the kibbutz for 25 years.<ref name="autogenerated1" /> In 1961, he testified at the trial of [[Adolf Eichmann]].<ref name="autogenerated1" />
Israel (Yisrael) Gutman was born in [[Warsaw]], [[Second Polish Republic]]. After participating and being wounded in the [[Warsaw Ghetto Uprising]], he was deported to the [[Majdanek]], [[Auschwitz]] and [[Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp|Mauthausen]] concentration camps.<ref name="autogenerated2">[http://wiez.free.ngo.pl/jedwabne/contributors.html Notes on the Contributors] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930014632/http://wiez.free.ngo.pl/jedwabne/contributors.html |date=2007-09-30 }}</ref> His parents and siblings died in the ghetto.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web|url=http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/survivors/gutman.asp |title="To Build and To Be Built" The Contribution of Holocaust Survivors to the State of Israel |publisher=.yadvashem.org |access-date=2013-11-16}}</ref> In January 1945, he survived the death march from Auschwitz to Mauthausen, where he was liberated by U.S. forces. In the immediate post-war period, he joined the [[Jewish Brigade]] in Italy.<ref name="autogenerated1" /> In 1946, he immigrated to [[Mandatory Palestine|Mandate Palestine]] and joined [[Kibbutz]] [[Lehavot HaBashan]], where he raised a family. He was a member of the kibbutz for 25 years.<ref name="autogenerated1" /> In 1961, he testified at the trial of [[Adolf Eichmann]].<ref name="autogenerated1" />


==Academic career==
==Academic career==
Gutman was a professor of history at the [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]] and deputy chairman of the International Auschwitz Council at [[Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation]].<ref name="autogenerated2" /> He was the editor-in-chief of the ''[[Encyclopedia of the Holocaust]]''<ref name="autogenerated2" /> and won the [[Yitzhak Sadeh Prize]] for Military Studies.<ref name="autogenerated1" /> At [[Yad Vashem]], he headed the International Institute for Holocaust Research (1993–1996), served as Chief Historian (1996–2000) and was the Academic Advisor (from 2000).<ref name="autogenerated1"/> He was also an advisor to the Polish government on Jewish Affairs, Judaism and Holocaust Commemoration.<ref name="autogenerated1"/>
Gutman was a professor of history at the [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]] and deputy chairman of the International Auschwitz Council at [[Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation]].<ref name="autogenerated2" /> He was the editor-in-chief of the ''[[Encyclopedia of the Holocaust]]''<ref name="autogenerated2" /> and won the [[Yitzhak Sadeh Prize]] for Military Studies.<ref name="autogenerated1" /> At [[Yad Vashem]], he headed the International Institute for Holocaust Research (1993–1996), served as Chief Historian (1996–2000) and was the Academic Advisor (from 2000).<ref name="autogenerated1"/> He was also an advisor to the Polish government on Jewish Affairs, Judaism and Holocaust Commemoration.<ref name="autogenerated1"/>


He died, aged 90, in [[Jerusalem]], [[Israel]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Kershner|first=Isabel|date=2013-10-01|title=Israel Gutman, Who Survived and Documented Holocaust, Dies at 90|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/02/world/israel-gutman-who-survived-and-documented-holocaust-dies-at-90.html|access-date=2020-05-19|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
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He died, aged 90, in [[Jerusalem]], [[Israel]].


==Published works==
==Published works==
*''[[The Jews of Warsaw, 1939-1943: Ghetto, Underground, Revolt]]'' (1982)<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Fox|first=John P.|date=1983|title=The Jews of Warsaw, 1939–1943: ghetto, underground, revolt|journal=International Affairs|language=en|volume=59|issue=4|pages=746–747|doi=10.2307/2619513|jstor=2619513|issn=1468-2346}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Ellis|first1=Joyce|last2=Walton|first2=John|last3=King|first3=Christine E.|date=1984|title=Yisrael Gutman, The Jews of Warsaw 1939–1943, Ghetto, Underground, Revolt. Harvester Press, 1982. £22.50.|url=http://www.journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0963926800007264|journal=Urban History|language=en|volume=11|pages=206–207|doi=10.1017/S0963926800007264|s2cid=146256166 |issn=0963-9268}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Stanislawski|first=Michael|date=1984|title=Yisrael Gutman. The Jews of Warsaw, 1939-1943: Ghetto, Underground, Revolt. Translated from the Hebrew by Ina Friedman. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982. xviii, 487 pp. $24.95|url=https://brill.com/view/journals/css/18/1-2/article-p215_54.xml|journal=Canadian-American Slavic Studies|volume=18|issue=1–2|pages=215|doi=10.1163/221023984X00991|issn=0090-8290}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Ezergailis|first=Andrew|date=1984|title=Yisrael Gutman. The Jews of Warsaw, 1939–1943: Ghetto, Underground, Revolt. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1982. Pp. 487.|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S009059920004215X/type/journal_article|journal=Nationalities Papers|language=en|volume=12|issue=1|pages=151–152|doi=10.1017/S009059920004215X|s2cid=186436005 |issn=0090-5992}}</ref>
*''Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ushmm.org/research/center/publications/details.php?content=1994-01 |title=Academic Publications |publisher=Ushmm.org |date= |accessdate=2013-11-16 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130827081546/http://www.ushmm.org/research/center/publications/details.php?content=1994-01 |archivedate=2013-08-27 |df= }}</ref>
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*''Unequal Victims: Poles and Jews in World War Two'' (1986)
*''Anatomy of Auschwitz Death Camp''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/025320884X |title=Anatomy of Auschwitz Death Camp: Yisrael Gutman |publisher=Amazon.co.uk |date= |accessdate=2013-11-16}}</ref>
*''The Jews of Poland Between Two World Wars''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0874514460 |title=The Jews of Poland Between Two World Wars (Tauber Institute): Yisrael Gutman, Ezra Mendelsohn, Jehuda Reinharz, Chone Shmeruk |publisher=Amazon.co.uk |date= |accessdate=2013-11-16}}</ref>
*''[[The Jews of Poland Between Two World Wars]]'' (1989)<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kochan|first=Lionel|date=1991|title=The Jews of Poland between two world wars|journal=International Affairs|language=en|volume=67|issue=3|pages=597|doi=10.2307/2622002|jstor=2622002|issn=1468-2346}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|date=1990|title=Yisrael Gutman, Ezra Mendelsohn, Jehuda Reinharz, and Chone Shmeruk, eds. The Jews of Poland Between Two World Wars. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England/Brandeis University Press, 1989. xi, 575 pp.|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0364009400003020/type/journal_article|journal=AJS Review|language=en|volume=15|issue=2|pages=300–301|doi=10.1017/S0364009400003020|issn=0364-0094}}</ref>
*''Anatomy of Auschwitz Death Camp'' (with [[Michael Berenbaum]], 1994)
* ''[[Emanuel Ringelblum]]&nbsp;– The Man and the Historian''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/pressroom/magazine/pdf/yv_magazine41.pdf |title=Yad Vashem Jerusalem - Quarterly Magazine |format=PDF |date= |accessdate=2013-11-16}}</ref>
*''Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising'' (1994)<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kraut|first=Benny|date=1995-04-01|title=Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising|journal=History: Reviews of New Books|volume=23|issue=3|pages=131–132|doi=10.1080/03612759.1995.9951127|issn=0361-2759}}</ref>
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* ''Unequal Victims: Poles and Jews in World War Two''
*''[[Emanuel Ringelblum]]&nbsp;– The Man and the Historian'' (2006)


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
* [http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/survivors/gutman.asp Israel Gutman] in an online exhibition by Yad Vashem
* [http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/survivors/gutman.asp Israel Gutman] in an online exhibition by [[Yad Vashem]]
* [https://www.yadvashem.org/articles/interviews/israel-gutman.html Interview with Professor Israel Gutman], Yad Vashem website
* [http://www1.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%202306.pdf Israel Gutman] on [[Daniel Goldhagen]]'s book ''[[Hitler's Willing Executioners]]''


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Latest revision as of 13:20, 25 October 2024

Israel Gutman
ישראל גוטמן
Israel Gutman at Adolf Eichmann's trial in 1961
Born(1923-05-20)20 May 1923
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
Died1 October 2013(2013-10-01) (aged 90)
Jerusalem, Israel
NationalityPoland (1923-1946)
Israel (1946-2013)
Occupation(s)Holocaust survivor, historian

Israel Gutman (Hebrew: ישראל גוטמן; 20 May 1923 – 1 October 2013) was a Polish-born Israeli historian and a survivor of the Holocaust.[1]

Biography

Israel (Yisrael) Gutman was born in Warsaw, Second Polish Republic. After participating and being wounded in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, he was deported to the Majdanek, Auschwitz and Mauthausen concentration camps.[2] His parents and siblings died in the ghetto.[3] In January 1945, he survived the death march from Auschwitz to Mauthausen, where he was liberated by U.S. forces. In the immediate post-war period, he joined the Jewish Brigade in Italy.[3] In 1946, he immigrated to Mandate Palestine and joined Kibbutz Lehavot HaBashan, where he raised a family. He was a member of the kibbutz for 25 years.[3] In 1961, he testified at the trial of Adolf Eichmann.[3]

Academic career

Gutman was a professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and deputy chairman of the International Auschwitz Council at Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation.[2] He was the editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust[2] and won the Yitzhak Sadeh Prize for Military Studies.[3] At Yad Vashem, he headed the International Institute for Holocaust Research (1993–1996), served as Chief Historian (1996–2000) and was the Academic Advisor (from 2000).[3] He was also an advisor to the Polish government on Jewish Affairs, Judaism and Holocaust Commemoration.[3]

He died, aged 90, in Jerusalem, Israel.[4]

Published works

References

  1. ^ ""Let The World Read And Know" The Oneg Shabbat Archives". .yadvashem.org. 2010-02-16. Retrieved 2013-11-16.
  2. ^ a b c Notes on the Contributors Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ a b c d e f g ""To Build and To Be Built" The Contribution of Holocaust Survivors to the State of Israel". .yadvashem.org. Retrieved 2013-11-16.
  4. ^ Kershner, Isabel (2013-10-01). "Israel Gutman, Who Survived and Documented Holocaust, Dies at 90". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
  5. ^ Fox, John P. (1983). "The Jews of Warsaw, 1939–1943: ghetto, underground, revolt". International Affairs. 59 (4): 746–747. doi:10.2307/2619513. ISSN 1468-2346. JSTOR 2619513.
  6. ^ Ellis, Joyce; Walton, John; King, Christine E. (1984). "Yisrael Gutman, The Jews of Warsaw 1939–1943, Ghetto, Underground, Revolt. Harvester Press, 1982. £22.50". Urban History. 11: 206–207. doi:10.1017/S0963926800007264. ISSN 0963-9268. S2CID 146256166.
  7. ^ Stanislawski, Michael (1984). "Yisrael Gutman. The Jews of Warsaw, 1939-1943: Ghetto, Underground, Revolt. Translated from the Hebrew by Ina Friedman. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982. xviii, 487 pp. $24.95". Canadian-American Slavic Studies. 18 (1–2): 215. doi:10.1163/221023984X00991. ISSN 0090-8290.
  8. ^ Ezergailis, Andrew (1984). "Yisrael Gutman. The Jews of Warsaw, 1939–1943: Ghetto, Underground, Revolt. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1982. Pp. 487". Nationalities Papers. 12 (1): 151–152. doi:10.1017/S009059920004215X. ISSN 0090-5992. S2CID 186436005.
  9. ^ Kochan, Lionel (1991). "The Jews of Poland between two world wars". International Affairs. 67 (3): 597. doi:10.2307/2622002. ISSN 1468-2346. JSTOR 2622002.
  10. ^ "Yisrael Gutman, Ezra Mendelsohn, Jehuda Reinharz, and Chone Shmeruk, eds. The Jews of Poland Between Two World Wars. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England/Brandeis University Press, 1989. xi, 575 pp". AJS Review. 15 (2): 300–301. 1990. doi:10.1017/S0364009400003020. ISSN 0364-0094.
  11. ^ Kraut, Benny (1995-04-01). "Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising". History: Reviews of New Books. 23 (3): 131–132. doi:10.1080/03612759.1995.9951127. ISSN 0361-2759.
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