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'''Dan Bar-On''' ({{lang-he|דן בר-און}}; October 3, 1938 {{endash}} September 4, 2008) was an [[Israel]]i [[psychologist]], therapist, and [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]] and conflict and peace researcher.
'''Dan Bar-On''' ({{langx|he|דן בר-און}}; October 3, 1938 {{endash}} September 4, 2008) was an Israeli [[psychologist]], therapist, and [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]] and conflict and peace researcher.


== Biography ==
== Biography ==
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In 1981, he received his PhD from the [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem|Hebrew University in Jerusalem]], and in 1983 he earned a [[Fulbright Program|Fulbright scholarship]] at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT) in Cambridge, MA. He became a lecturer in [[Behavioural sciences|behavioral sciences]] at BGU, and since 1996 was Professor of Psychology and held the David Lopatie Chair for Post-Holocaust Psychological Studies.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bgu.ac.il/~danbaron/|title=Bar-On, Dan|website=www.bgu.ac.il|access-date=2016-06-29}}</ref> Twice he was chosen to be Chair of the Department of Behavioral Sciences. He retired in 2007.
In 1981, he received his PhD from the [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem|Hebrew University in Jerusalem]], and in 1983 he earned a [[Fulbright Program|Fulbright scholarship]] at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT) in Cambridge, MA. He became a lecturer in [[Behavioural sciences|behavioral sciences]] at BGU, and since 1996 was Professor of Psychology and held the David Lopatie Chair for Post-Holocaust Psychological Studies.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bgu.ac.il/~danbaron/|title=Bar-On, Dan|website=www.bgu.ac.il|access-date=2016-06-29}}</ref> Twice he was chosen to be Chair of the Department of Behavioral Sciences. He retired in 2007.


In 1987, he travelled to Germany, interviewed children of Nazi criminals, and wrote ''Legacy of Silence: Encounters with Children of the Third Reich'' (1989)''.'' This book, first published in English, was translated into German, French, Hebrew, and Japanese. Some of Dan Bar-On's German research participants formed a self-help group who met on a regular basis. In 1992 he suggested that they meet with a group of Holocaust survivors. This became the group ''"To Reflect and Trust"'' (TRT) where children of Holocaust survivors and children of Nazi perpetrators met. Later, they expanded to groups in other conflict areas (South Africa, Northern Ireland, and Israel/Palestine). <ref>http://articles.latimes.com/1989-10-29/books/bk-89_1_jewish-children</ref>
In 1987, he travelled to Germany, interviewed children of Nazi criminals, and wrote ''Legacy of Silence: Encounters with Children of the Third Reich'' (1989)''.'' This book, first published in English, was translated into German, French, Hebrew, and Japanese. Some of Dan Bar-On's German research participants formed a self-help group who met on a regular basis. In 1992 he suggested that they meet with a group of Holocaust survivors. This became the group ''"To Reflect and Trust"'' (TRT) where children of Holocaust survivors and children of Nazi perpetrators met. Later, they expanded to groups in other conflict areas (South Africa, Northern Ireland, and Israel/Palestine).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-29-bk-89-story.html|title=The Other Children of the Holocaust : LEGACY OF SILENCE: Encounters with the Children of the Third Reich by Dan Bar-On (Harvard University Press: $25; 338 pp.)|date=29 October 1989}}</ref>


He published several books on dialogue in conflict situations and worked for mutual understanding in the [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict|Israeli-Palestinian conflict]]. In 1998, together with Palestinian Professor Sami Adwan, he founded and co-chaired ''PRIME: Peace Research Institute in the Middle East'' in [[Beit Jala]] in the [[Palestinian Authority Territories|Palestinian Authority Territory]]. In cooperation with six Israeli and six Palestinian school teachers, they prepared a school text book which contrasted Israeli and Palestinian views on recent Middle Eastern History and allowed students to learn the others’ views and insert their own. He also trained mediators for dialogue in conflict in different areas of the world.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.koerber-stiftung.de/edition-koerber-stiftung/autoren/details/autor/dan-bar-on.html|title=Dan Bar-On|last=Hamburg|first=Körber-Stiftung|website=www.koerber-stiftung.de|access-date=2016-06-29}}</ref>
He published several books on dialogue in conflict situations and worked for mutual understanding in the [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict|Israeli-Palestinian conflict]]. In 1998, together with Palestinian Professor Sami Adwan, he founded and co-chaired ''PRIME: Peace Research Institute in the Middle East'' in [[Beit Jala]] in the [[Palestinian Authority Territories|Palestinian Authority Territory]]. In cooperation with six Israeli and six Palestinian school teachers, they prepared a school text book which contrasted Israeli and Palestinian views on recent Middle Eastern History and allowed students to learn the others’ views and insert their own. He also trained mediators for dialogue in conflict in different areas of the world.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.koerber-stiftung.de/edition-koerber-stiftung/autoren/details/autor/dan-bar-on.html|title=Dan Bar-On|last=Hamburg|first=Körber-Stiftung|website=www.koerber-stiftung.de|access-date=2016-06-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160813152239/http://www.koerber-stiftung.de/edition-koerber-stiftung/autoren/details/autor/dan-bar-on.html|archive-date=2016-08-13|url-status=dead}}</ref>


He was married, a father of four, and a grandfather. He died in 2008.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://en.qantara.de/content/obituary-dan-bar-on-dialogue-against-walls-of-silence-and-hostility-0|title=Obituary: Dan Bar-On: Dialogue against Walls of Silence and Hostility - Qantara.de|access-date=2016-06-29}}</ref>
He was married, a father of four, and a grandfather. He died in 2008.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://en.qantara.de/content/obituary-dan-bar-on-dialogue-against-walls-of-silence-and-hostility-0|title=Obituary: Dan Bar-On: Dialogue against Walls of Silence and Hostility - Qantara.de|access-date=2016-06-29}}</ref>
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* 2005: Victor Goldberg Award for Peace in the Near East (USA, with Sami Adwan)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.iie.org/en/Programs/Victor-J-Goldberg-Prize/Past-Winners|title=IIE Victor J. Goldberg Prize for Peace {{!}} Past Winners|website=www.iie.org|access-date=2016-06-29}}</ref>
* 2005: Victor Goldberg Award for Peace in the Near East (USA, with Sami Adwan)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.iie.org/en/Programs/Victor-J-Goldberg-Prize/Past-Winners|title=IIE Victor J. Goldberg Prize for Peace {{!}} Past Winners|website=www.iie.org|access-date=2016-06-29}}</ref>


== Select Bibliography ==
== Select bibliography ==
* ''Legacy of Silence: Encounters with Children of the Third Reich''. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: Harvard University Press 1989. <nowiki>ISBN 0-674-52185-4</nowiki>.
* ''Legacy of Silence: Encounters with Children of the Third Reich''. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: Harvard University Press 1989. {{ISBN|0-674-52185-4}}.
* ''Fear and Hope: Three Generations of the Holocaust''. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: Harvard University Press 1995. <nowiki>ISBN 0-674-29552-6</nowiki>.
* ''Fear and Hope: Three Generations of the Holocaust''. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: Harvard University Press 1995. {{ISBN|978-0674295223}}.
* ''The Indescribable and the Undiscussable: Reconstructing Human Discourse after Trauma''. Budapest: Central European University Press 1998. ISBN 9789639116337.
* ''The Indescribable and the Undiscussable: Reconstructing Human Discourse after Trauma''. Budapest: Central European University Press 1998. {{ISBN|9789639116337}}.
* (with Julia Chaitin) ''Parenthood and the Holocaust''. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem 2000. <nowiki>ISBN 965-308-133-0</nowiki>.
* (with Julia Chaitin) ''Parenthood and the Holocaust''. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem 2000. {{ISBN|965-308-133-0}}.
* (Editor) ''Bridging the Gap: Story Telling as a Way to Work through Political and Collective Hostilities''. Hamburg: Edition Körber-Stiftung 2000. <nowiki>ISBN 3-89684-030-4</nowiki>.
* (Editor) ''Bridging the Gap: Story Telling as a Way to Work through Political and Collective Hostilities''. Hamburg: Edition Körber-Stiftung 2000. {{ISBN|3-89684-030-4}}.
* ''Tell Your Life Story: Creating Dialogue among Jews and Germans, Israelis and Palestinians.'' Budapest: Central European University Press 2006. <nowiki>ISBN 978-963-7326-70-7</nowiki>.
* ''Tell Your Life Story: Creating Dialogue among Jews and Germans, Israelis and Palestinians.'' Budapest: Central European University Press 2006. {{ISBN|978-963-7326-70-7}}.
* ''The Other Within Us: Constructing Jewish-Israeli Identity''. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press 2008. <nowiki>ISBN 9780521881876</nowiki>.
* ''The Other Within Us: Constructing Jewish-Israeli Identity''. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press 2008. {{ISBN|9780521881876}}.
* (With Sami Adwan, Ayal Naveh and the Peace Research Institute in the Middle East) ''Side by Side: Parallel Histories in Israel-Palestine''. New York, NY: The New Press 2012. ISBN 978-1-59558-683-4.
* (With Sami Adwan, Ayal Naveh and the Peace Research Institute in the Middle East) ''Side by Side: Parallel Histories in Israel-Palestine''. New York, NY: The New Press 2012. {{ISBN|978-1-59558-683-4}}.


== References ==
== References ==
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* [http://vispo.com/PRIME/ Peace Research Institute in the Middle East]
* [http://vispo.com/PRIME/ Peace Research Institute in the Middle East]
* [https://vimeo.com/12311292 CROSSING THE BORDER: Israeli Dan Bar-On - Palestinian Sami Adwan] (30 min)
* [https://vimeo.com/12311292 CROSSING THE BORDER: Israeli Dan Bar-On - Palestinian Sami Adwan] (30 min)

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Latest revision as of 21:05, 3 November 2024

Dan Bar-On
Born(1938-10-03)October 3, 1938
DiedSeptember 4, 2008(2008-09-04) (aged 69)
NationalityIsrael Israeli
Alma materBen-Gurion University
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Children4

Dan Bar-On (Hebrew: דן בר-און; October 3, 1938 – September 4, 2008) was an Israeli psychologist, therapist, and Holocaust and conflict and peace researcher.

Biography

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Dan Bar-On was born in Haifa, British Mandate Palestine (part of modern-day Israel) in 1938. Both his parents had immigrated from Nazi Germany in 1933.[1] Before the army, he attended an agricultural high school for two years. For 25 years he lived in Kibbutz Revivim in the Negev where he tended fruit trees, and studied behavioral sciences at Ben Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Beer Sheva, Israel. In 1975, he received his MA and worked as a therapist in the kibbutz clinic, specializing in work with families of Holocaust survivors and their children and doing research in this field of work. This later led to his book Fear and Hope: Three Generations of the Holocaust (1998).

In 1981, he received his PhD from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and in 1983 he earned a Fulbright scholarship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA. He became a lecturer in behavioral sciences at BGU, and since 1996 was Professor of Psychology and held the David Lopatie Chair for Post-Holocaust Psychological Studies.[2] Twice he was chosen to be Chair of the Department of Behavioral Sciences. He retired in 2007.

In 1987, he travelled to Germany, interviewed children of Nazi criminals, and wrote Legacy of Silence: Encounters with Children of the Third Reich (1989). This book, first published in English, was translated into German, French, Hebrew, and Japanese. Some of Dan Bar-On's German research participants formed a self-help group who met on a regular basis. In 1992 he suggested that they meet with a group of Holocaust survivors. This became the group "To Reflect and Trust" (TRT) where children of Holocaust survivors and children of Nazi perpetrators met. Later, they expanded to groups in other conflict areas (South Africa, Northern Ireland, and Israel/Palestine).[3]

He published several books on dialogue in conflict situations and worked for mutual understanding in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In 1998, together with Palestinian Professor Sami Adwan, he founded and co-chaired PRIME: Peace Research Institute in the Middle East in Beit Jala in the Palestinian Authority Territory. In cooperation with six Israeli and six Palestinian school teachers, they prepared a school text book which contrasted Israeli and Palestinian views on recent Middle Eastern History and allowed students to learn the others’ views and insert their own. He also trained mediators for dialogue in conflict in different areas of the world.[4]

He was married, a father of four, and a grandfather. He died in 2008.[5]

Awards and honors

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Select bibliography

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  • Legacy of Silence: Encounters with Children of the Third Reich. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: Harvard University Press 1989. ISBN 0-674-52185-4.
  • Fear and Hope: Three Generations of the Holocaust. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: Harvard University Press 1995. ISBN 978-0674295223.
  • The Indescribable and the Undiscussable: Reconstructing Human Discourse after Trauma. Budapest: Central European University Press 1998. ISBN 9789639116337.
  • (with Julia Chaitin) Parenthood and the Holocaust. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem 2000. ISBN 965-308-133-0.
  • (Editor) Bridging the Gap: Story Telling as a Way to Work through Political and Collective Hostilities. Hamburg: Edition Körber-Stiftung 2000. ISBN 3-89684-030-4.
  • Tell Your Life Story: Creating Dialogue among Jews and Germans, Israelis and Palestinians. Budapest: Central European University Press 2006. ISBN 978-963-7326-70-7.
  • The Other Within Us: Constructing Jewish-Israeli Identity. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press 2008. ISBN 9780521881876.
  • (With Sami Adwan, Ayal Naveh and the Peace Research Institute in the Middle East) Side by Side: Parallel Histories in Israel-Palestine. New York, NY: The New Press 2012. ISBN 978-1-59558-683-4.

References

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  1. ^ Bar-On, Dan (2006). Tell Your Life Story: Creating Dialogue among Jews and Germans, Israelis and Palestinians. Budapest: Central European University Press. ISBN 978-963-7326-70-7.
  2. ^ "Bar-On, Dan". www.bgu.ac.il. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
  3. ^ "The Other Children of the Holocaust : LEGACY OF SILENCE: Encounters with the Children of the Third Reich by Dan Bar-On (Harvard University Press: $25; 338 pp.)". 29 October 1989.
  4. ^ Hamburg, Körber-Stiftung. "Dan Bar-On". www.koerber-stiftung.de. Archived from the original on 2016-08-13. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
  5. ^ "Obituary: Dan Bar-On: Dialogue against Walls of Silence and Hostility - Qantara.de". Retrieved 2016-06-29.
  6. ^ "Office of the President - Honors". intraweb.stockton.edu. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
  7. ^ "Fondazione | Alexander Langer | Stiftung". www.alexanderlanger.org. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
  8. ^ "IIE Victor J. Goldberg Prize for Peace | Past Winners". www.iie.org. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
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