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Deborah Lipstadt

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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 served as the United States Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism from 2022 to 2025. 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. In 1994, President of the United States Bill Clinton appointed her to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, and she served two terms. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Deborah Lipstadt is the 217th most popular historian (up from 328th in 2019), the 3,923rd most popular biography from United States (up from 5,084th in 2019) and the 12th most popular American Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Deborah Lipstadt ranks 217 out of 561. Before her are Moritz Cantor, Mahmoud Mohammed Taha, Guo Pu, Robert Conquest, Anthony Blunt, and Johannes Aventinus. After her are Annius of Viterbo, Gerardus Vossius, H. J. R. Murray, Saul Friedländer, Fritz Fischer, and Khvandamir.

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Among people born in 1947, Deborah Lipstadt ranks 272. Before her are Ray Wise, António Marto, Stefan Persson, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Ron Rivest, and Kailash Purryag. After her are Viktor Klima, Robert Kerman, Marouf al-Bakhit, Jean-Yves Le Drian, George Sabra, and Robert Gordon.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Deborah Lipstadt ranks 3,923 out of 20,380. Before her are Edward Calvin Kendall (1972), Steve Lacy (1934), Herman Wouk (1915), William Devane (1939), James Foley (1973), and Mariska Hargitay (1964). After her are Robert Hanssen (1944), Victor Young (1900), Bill Kristol (1952), LL Cool J (1968), Isabella Karle (1921), and Robert Kerman (1947).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Deborah Lipstadt ranks 12. Before her are Richard Sennett (1943), Barbara W. Tuchman (1912), Timothy D. Snyder (1969), Christopher Browning (1944), Linda Nochlin (1931), and Howard Zinn (1922). After her are Rudolph Rummel (1932), Natalie Zemon Davis (1928), Richard G. Hovannisian (1932), William H. Prescott (1796), Frederick Jackson Turner (1861), and Efraim Zuroff (1948).

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