Dr Miriam Offer, PhD

Western Galilee College and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel


Dr. Miriam Offer is a senior lecturer at Western Galilee College, Akko, Israel and teaches the History of Medicine during the Holocaust in the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University. Her book, White Coats Inside the Ghetto: Jewish Medicine in Poland During the Holocaust was published in Hebrew in April 2015 by Yad Vashem, and the English edition is forthcoming. Dr. Offer's research expertise is in Jewish medical activity during the Holocaust, and she is a partner in research and educational initiatives in this field. Inter alia, she initiated and co-chaired a large-scale international conference on the Study of Medicine during the Holocaust and Beyond, at Western Galilee in 2017. She is a member of the organizational scientific committee of the annual Nahariya Conferences on Medicine and the Holocaust, and is a scientific committee member for “Witnesses in White”—organized guided tours to Poland for physicians—under the auspices of the Israel Medical Association. Dr. Offer was a scholar-in-residence at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute (HBI) during the summer semester of 2017, is currently a member of the HBI Academic Advisory Committee and a Research Associate. In this capacity, she is researching Jewish women’s contribution to the medical services in the ghettos. Offer is co-editor of several forthcoming collections of articles on medicine during the Holocaust, including a book to be published by Berghahn, The Past in the Present: New Studies on Medicine Before, During and After the Holocaust and Legacies for the 21st Century (with S. Hildebrandt and M. Grodin). She is a guest co-editor of NASHIM journal 36, a special issue that will be devoted to Jewish Women Medical Practitioners in Europe Before, During, and After the Holocaust and guest co-editor of KOROT: The Israel Journal of the History of Medicine and Science No. 26, a special issue that will be devoted to Medical Education and the Shoah. She was one of the founders of the Hedva Eibschitz Institute for Holocaust Studies in Haifa, where she served as Director from 1988 to 1993, and has extensive experience in leading and developing Holocaust teaching programs and memorialization activities.

Contact details for Dr. Miriam Offer:
miriamo@wgalil.ac.il \ miriamoffer@gmail.com

For a selection of articles and CV:
https://wgalil.academia.edu/MiriamOffer

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