Dalia Ofer Dalia Ofer is the Max and Rita Haber Professor of Holocaust and East European Studies (Emeritus) at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry and at the Melton Center for Jewish Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalm. She has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Yale, the University of Maryland, and Stockton College. She is the author and editor of seven books and numerous articles on the daily life in Eastern European ghettos, rescue during the Holocaust, immigration to Palestine and Israel, and the memory of the Holocaust in Israel. She received the Ben Zvi Award for Derech Bayam: Aliyah Bet Bitkufat Hashoah (Yad Ben Zvi 1988) and the Jewish Book Award for Escaping the Holocaust: Illegal Immigration to the Land of Israel (Oxford University Press 1992). Her edited volume (with Lenore J. Weitzman) Women in the Holocaust (Yale University Press 1998) was a finalist for the Jewish Book Award 2000. Recently, she edited (with Paula Hyman) the online Historical Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women Archives 2007). Read More Read Less