Jean Ancel is an independent historian based in Jerusalem. A leading expert on the Holocaust in Romania, Dr. Ancel has been instrumental in bringing attention to the history of Romanian antisemitism and the persecution of Romanian Jewry. He is coeditor of The Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania (in Hebrew, 1980), editor of the twelve-volume Documents Concerning the Fate of Romanian Jewry during the Holocaust (1986), and author of The Comprehensive History of the Holocaust in Romania, to be published by Yad Vashem later this year.
