Deborah Lipstadt
Deborah Lipstadt | |
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Official portrait, 2022 | |
| United States Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Antisemitism | |
| In office May 3, 2022 – January 20, 2025 | |
| President | Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | Elan Carr |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Deborah Esther Lipstadt March 18, 1947 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Education | City College of New York (BA) Brandeis University (MA, PhD) |
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. On July 30, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated her to be the United States 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.