Yosef Govrin

Background

Yosef Govrin was born on December 18, 1930 in Czernowitz, Bucovina (Ukraine). Son of David-Leib and Zadcanit Fradia (Lerner) Hurvitz.

Education

He received his BA in 1960, MA in 1976 with distinction and PhD degrees in 1984 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Jewish History and International Relations.

Career

He joined Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1953. His diplomatic service between 1953 and 1970 took him to Sydney (1956-59), Moscow, (First Secretary 1964-67), Buenos Aires (Counselor 1967-70). From 1970 to 1976 he wad Deputy Director of the Ministry's Latin American Department and Director of the Central Institute of Cultural Relations between Israel and Latin America, Spain and Portugal. From 1976 he was Director of the Ministry's East European Department, after which he was appointed Ambassador to Romania (1985-89), Deputy Director General of the Ministry (1989-93) and Ambassador to Austria, Slovakia, Slovenia and the UN in Vienna (1993-95). Since his retirement from the MFA (1996) has been Research Fellow at the Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Works

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  • Israel's Relations with the East European States: From Disruption (1967) to Resumption (1989-91)

    (Author Yosef Govrin served as Deputy Director General of ...)

    2009
  • Israeli-Soviet Relations, 1953-1967: From Confrontation to Disruption

    (An Israeli Ambassador's account of the longest and most t...)

    1990

  • Reflections on my Mission as Israel's Ambassador to Austria, Slovakia and Slovenia

    (Reflections on my Mission focuses upon Govrin’s two-and a...)

    2016
  • The Jewish Factor in the Relations between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union: 1933-1941

    (The purpose of this book is to assess the place and influ...)

    1998
  • Israeli-Romanian Relations at the End of the Ceausescu Era: As Seen by Israel's Ambassador to Romania 1985-1989 (Israeli History, Politics and Society Book 20)

    (Govrin describes Israeli-Romanian relations as he observe...)

    2000
  • In the Shadow of Destruction: Recollections of Transnistria and the Illegal Immigration to Eretz Israel (Library of Holocaust Testimonies (Paperback))

    (This is a personal account of a young boy's struggle to s...)

    1991

• Research paper

  • The Six-Day War in the mirror of Soviet Israeli relations, April-June 1967 (Research paper) 1985

Membership

Yosef Govrin is a member of World Congress for Jewish Studies, Academic Association of Social Studies and Humanities, Association of Hebrew University Graduates.

• World Congress for Jewish Studies , Israel

• Academic Association of Social Studies and Humanities , Israel

• Association of Hebrew University Graduates , Israel

Connections

He is married to Hanna Kwietny and has 2 children: Liora and David.

Father:

David-Leib Hurvitz

Mother:

Zadcanit Fradia (Lerner) Hurvitz

Son:

David Govrin

Daughter:

Liora Govrin

Wife:

Hanna Kwietny