Presentation of Dina Porat's book - Nakam
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: May 7, 2026, 16:00 – 18:00
The author presents her book Nakam, which focuses on a group of Holocaust survivors led by the poet and resistance fighter Abba Kovner. This organization of “Avengers” (Nokmim) consisted of about fifty young men and women who, after World War II, planned a revenge for the Holocaust. The book is the result of the author’s many years of research, during which she comprehensively documented the group’s activities for the first time.
The event will be chaired by Dr. Zbyněk Tarant of the University of West Bohemia.
Dina Porat is the founding head of the Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry, served as head of the Department of Jewish History, of the Rosenberg School for Jewish Studies and as incumbent of the Alfred P. Slaner Chair in Antisemitism and Racism, all in Tel Aviv university. She served as the Yad Vashem chief historian 2010-2021 and is now its academic advisor. She was awarded prizes for most of her many publications, including the Jewish National Book Award for her biography of Abba Kovner (2010) and the Bahat Prize for the Nakam book (2018), was TAU's Faculty of Humanities best teacher for 2004, got the Raoul Wallenberg Medal for 2012, is on the 50 leading Israeli scholars the Marker Magazine list of 2013 and on the 50 leading women in Israel list of the Forbes in 2018, and was a visiting professor in Harvard, Columbia, New York, Venice and the Hebrew, universities.
The event will be conducted in English without interpretation.
Please fill the registration form to attend the event: https://forms.gle/dksnJkBvAbY6i4JS8