David Engel

David Engel (fl. 1969- ) is an American historian and Professor of Holocaust and Judaic Studies at New York University. Dr. Engel holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and completed postdoctoral study at Hebrew University's Division of Holocaust Studies, Institute for Contemporary Jewry, in Jerusalem.

Affiliations
David Engel is a Fellow of the Diaspora Research Institute, Tel Aviv University and a member of the Carnegie Commission on Ethics and International Affairs and the Commission on Polish-Jewish Relations, since 2002.

Honours
In 1986-7 David Engel received Outstanding Lecturer honours at Tel Aviv University; in 1996 he was given the Golden Dozen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at New York University.

Major publications

 * Between Liberation and Flight: Holocaust Survivors in Poland and the Struggle for Leadership, 1944-1946, in Hebrew. Tel Aviv: Am Oved Publishers. 1996.
 * Facing a Holocaust: The Polish Government-in-Exile and the Jews, 1943-1945. University of North Carolina Press. 1993.
 * In the Shadow of Auschwitz: The Polish Government-in-Exile and the Jews, 1939-1942.University of North Carolina Press. 1987.