Deborah Lipstadt: Biography, Facts and Career

Deborah Esther Lipstadt (born March 18, 1947) is an American historian and diplomat. She is the author of 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. Lipstadt was a consultant to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In 1994, President Bill Clinton appointed her to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, and she served two terms. On July 30, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated her to be the special envoy for monitoring and combating anti-semitism. She was confirmed by voice-vote on March 30, 2022, and sworn in on May 3, 2022. She served in that position until January 2025. Lipstadt was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2023.

Quick facts about Deborah Lipstadt

• Full name: Deborah Lipstadt
• Born: 1947-03-18
• Nationality: United States
• Known as: Author
• Wikidata ID: Q254798

Profile compiled from public Wikipedia and Wikidata data. Details can change over time.