Dov Levin ( January 27, 1925 , Kaunas , Lithuania - December 3, 2016 ) is an Israeli historian , sociologist and teacher, a specialist in the history of Jewish communities in Eastern Europe , known for his work on Jewish resistance during the Holocaust in Lithuania .
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 Dov Levin in 2008 | ||||||
| Date of Birth | January 27, 1925 | |||||
| Place of Birth | Kaunas , Lithuania | |||||
| Date of death | December 3, 2016 (91 years old) | |||||
| Place of death | Israel | |||||
| A country |  Lithuania  the USSR  Israel | |||||
| Scientific field | story | |||||
| Place of work | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | |||||
| Alma mater | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | |||||
| Academic degree | doctor of history | |||||
| Known as | Jewish History Specialist, Eastern Europe | |||||
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Biography
Dov Levin was born in Kaunas in 1925 in the family of Zvi-Hirsch Dovidovich Levin and Bluma Berovna Vygoder (from the town of Vekshnyai ), where he graduated from the Jewish gymnasium of Moses Shvabe with Hebrew education (1940) and Sholom Aleichem secondary school with instruction in Yiddish ( 1941) [1] [2] [3] .
During the occupation of Lithuania, he was a prisoner of the Kaunas ghetto and a member of the anti-fascist underground. In 1944, he fought in the partisan detachment "Death to the Invaders" in the forests near Vilnius .
In 1945 he illegally immigrated to Palestine . In 1946-1947 he studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem . He participated in the war for the independence of Israel , served in intelligence.
After the war, continued his education. He took part in the 1956 Sinai Campaign and the Six Day War . He defended his doctoral dissertation in 1971. In 1973 he participated in the Doomsday War .
In protest against the prosecution by the Lithuanian prosecutor of the former partisan Yitzhak Arad in 2008, Dov Levin returned to Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus the award received from the previous president in 1993 for heroism in the fight against the Nazis. Levin said that "this is the minimum of what I can do for my friend" [4] [5] .
Scientific activity
From 1954 to 1958, Dov Levin worked as a research fellow at the Department of Sociology at Hebrew University. Since 1958, he began working as an interviewer in the oral history department of the Institute of Modern Jewry. Later he held the position of senior researcher at the Institute of Modern Jewry as the director of the project "Jews in the territories annexed by the Soviet Union in World War II." Since 1988, Professor Dov Levin has been working as the head of the oral history department at the Institute of Modern Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
He was awarded the Yitzhak Sade Prize in Military History for his work on the study of the armed struggle of Lithuanian Jews during World War II [6] .
Publications
Dov Levin is the author of more than 500 scientific publications. The most significant of these is Pinkas Ha Kehillot Lita - a 700-page encyclopedia of the pre-war Jewish population of Lithuania with more than 500 separate articles - for each shtetl . The books Fighting Back - Lithuanian Jewry's Armed Resistance to the Nazis (1997) and The Lesser of Two Evils - Eastern European Jewry under Soviet Rule 1939-1941 (1995) were also widely known.
Published in a number of scientific journals, including The Holocaust and Genocide Studies [7] , East European Jewish Affairs [8] , Yad Vashem Studies [9] , Journal of Baltic Studies [10] and others.
Notes
- ↑ With a Rifle in My Hand and Eretz Yisrael in My Heart
- ↑ Genealogy of the Vygoder and Levin families : His father was deported to Estonia , where he died; Basia's twin mother and sister die in Stutthof concentration camp
- ↑ Dov Levin with a group of students from the Jewish school of Schwabs in Kaunas
- ↑ Haviv Rettig Gur. 'It's the least I could do for my friend ... (Eng.) // The Jerusalem Post . - 2008.
- ↑ When friendship is more valuable than reward ... (inaccessible link) . Center and Foundation "Holocaust". Date of treatment October 1, 2012. Archived October 26, 2012.
- ↑ The Complete Bibliography of the Works of Professor Dov Levin
- ↑ On the Relations between the Baltic Peoples and their Jewish Neighbors Before, During and after World War II
- ↑ The Jews in the Soviet Lithuanian establishment, 1940-41
- ↑ Fateful decision: the flight of Jews to the interior of the USSR in the summer of 1941
- ↑ Participation of the Lithuanian Jews in the Second World War
Links
- CURRICULUM VITAE
- Dov Levin . Ariel Center for Policy Research. Date of treatment September 28, 2012. Archived November 1, 2012.
- The Complete Bibliography of the Works of Professor Dov Levin
- YouTube video
- LIŪTAS GRINIUS. Soviet Consequences to Lithuanian Jews (English) // Ed. Antanas Dundzila Lithuanian Quarterly Journal of Arts and Sciences. - Fall 1985. - Vol. 31 , iss. 3 . - ISSN 0024-5089 . - Review of Levin's article on Soviet repressions against Lithuanian Jews.