Hagit Lavsky is Professor at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she is the Samuel L. and Perry Haber Chair of Post-Holocaust Studies, and Director of the Bernard Cherrick Center for the Study of Zionism, the Yishuv and the State of Israel. She is the author of numerous books, including Before Catastrophe: The Distinctive Path of German Zionism (1996) and New Beginnings: Holocaust Survivors in Bergen-Belsen and the British Zone in Germany, 1945–1950 (2002).
