Ph. D. in Jewish History David. Incumbent of the John Najmann Chair of Holocaust Studies and the Head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research – Yad Vashem. He attended the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he earned his doctorate degree in Jewish history. A Lady Davis fellow, heads the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s section for Studies in anti-Semitism and the Holocaust at the Institute for Contemporary Jewry. Over the years, he has been visiting professor at universities in London, the United States, South Africa, and South America. Prof. Bankier has worked on German society and Nazi anti-Semitism in 1933–1945. In recent years he has focussed his research on three main areas of research. In articles and lectures at scholarly conferences he has expounded on relations between Jews and non-Jews in occupied Europe, the interaction between propaganda and political mobilization during the war; and the position taken by German anti-Nazi exiles on the “Jewish question.”

Publications include: El Holocausto (1986), The Germans and the Final Solution (1992), Die öffentliche Meinung im Hitler Staat (1995), The Secret and the Exposed in Nazi Wartime Propaganda (2003).