Background
David Bankier was born on January 19, 1947 (27 Tevet, 5707), in the Zeckendorf DP camp in the Bamberg district, Oberfranken, Germany, in the then American Occupation Zone.
historian historian of modern age
David Bankier was born on January 19, 1947 (27 Tevet, 5707), in the Zeckendorf DP camp in the Bamberg district, Oberfranken, Germany, in the then American Occupation Zone.
Bachelor, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1972. Master of Arts, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1976. Doctor of Philosophy in Jewish History, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1983.
David grew up in Argentina. He studied at a public school and at a Jewish school where he consolidated his knowledge of the Hebrew language. In his youth he participated in Zionist activity and in 1967 immigrated to Israel.
Bankier"s most influential work covered the role of public opinion in Nazi Germany, specifically opinion relevant to Nazi anti-Semitism and to the Nazi Holocaust.
His work on this topic involved extensive original research into Sopade reports as well as the internal documentation of the Sicherheitsdienst (South Dakota) regarding German public opinion.
(The Germans and the Final Solution stand as the fullest a...)
In that year he began to study Jewish history at the Hebrew University and in 1983 he completed his doctoral dissertation, “German Society and National Socialist Antisemitism, 1933–1938.”1.
Married Ruth Scarupa, March 9, 1976. Children: Ariela, Itai, Moshe.