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Efraim Zuroff

1948 - Today

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Efraim Zuroff (Hebrew: אפרים זורוף; born August 5, 1948) is an American-born Israeli historian and Nazi hunter who has played a key role in bringing Nazi and fascist war criminals to trial. Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center office in Jerusalem, is the coordinator of Nazi war crimes research worldwide for the Wiesenthal Center and the author of its annual "Status Report" on the worldwide investigation and prosecution of Nazi war criminals which includes a list of most-wanted Nazi war criminals. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2024). Efraim Zuroff is the 303rd most popular historian (up from 365th in 2024), the 5,075th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,896th in 2019) and the 18th most popular American Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Efraim Zuroff ranks 303 out of 561. Before him are Gerald of Wales, Vardan Areveltsi, Ubbo Emmius, Marc Ferro, Tom Segev, and Gustave Lanson. After him are Paul Kennedy, Gerda Lerner, Filippo Baldinucci, Charles Barbier de Meynard, Émile Mâle, and Yehuda Bauer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Efraim Zuroff ranks 332. Before him are Koloman Gögh, Michael Berryman, Lojze Peterle, Peter James, Yaakov Litzman, and Enrique Vila-Matas. After him are Robert Holdstock, Selda Bağcan, Luis Rodríguez, Alfonso Cano, Shigesato Itoi, and Kyung Wha Chung.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Efraim Zuroff ranks 5,075 out of 20,380. Before him are Fanny Crosby (1820), Dennis Oppenheim (1938), Warren Sturgis McCulloch (1898), Katherine Helmond (1929), John Warner (1927), and Dannel Malloy (1955). After him are Ann Wilson (1950), Jerry Nadler (1947), Pat Benatar (1953), Christina Koch (1979), Michael Weatherly (1968), and James Kirkwood Sr. (1876).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Efraim Zuroff ranks 18. Before him are Deborah Lipstadt (1947), Rudolph Rummel (1932), Natalie Zemon Davis (1928), Richard G. Hovannisian (1932), William H. Prescott (1796), and Frederick Jackson Turner (1861). After him are Robert Darnton (1939), Donald Keene (1922), Richard N. Frye (1920), Ernest Fenollosa (1853), Joan Wallach Scott (1941), and Stanley G. Payne (1934).

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