--- title: "3 Deborah Lipstadt Quotes - Famous Historian of Modern Age (Renia's Diary)" description: "Deborah Esther Lipstadt is an American historian and diplomat. Browse 3 Deborah Lipstadt quotes." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-deborah-lipstadt-28368.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Deborah Lipstadt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-deborah-lipstadt-28368.jpg) # Deborah Lipstadt (1947) Historian Of Modern Age United States **3** quotes in **31** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Deborah Lipstadt is a historian of Modern Age from the United States, best known for *Renia's Diary*. ## Quick Facts About Deborah Lipstadt Born March 18, 1947 Nationality United States Profession Historian Of Modern Age Notable works Renia's Diary ## About Deborah Lipstadt Deborah Esther Lipstadt is an American historian and diplomat. She is the author of Denying the Holocaust (1993), History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier (2005), The Eichmann Trial (2011), and Antisemitism: Here and Now (2019). She served as the United States special envoy for monitoring and combating anti-semitism from 2022 to 2025. Since 1993 she has been the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. ## Awards & Honors Carl von Ossietzky Prize ## Quotes by Deborah Lipstadt > [A creative, thoughtful, and accomplished people such as the Jewish people should be known by what they have done and not by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deborah-lipstadt/a-creative-thoughtful-and-accomplished-people-such-as-the-jewish/) Deborah Lipstadt [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/199/deborah-lipstadt-78547_accomplished_a-creative-thoughtful-and-accomplished-p_642273.png) > [If the main thing the next generations know about Jewish history is that we were persecuted and suffered, they will lose sight…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deborah-lipstadt/if-the-main-thing-the-next-generations-know-about-jewish-history-is/) Deborah Lipstadt [Culture](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/culture/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b4/deborah-lipstadt-78547_culture_if-the-main-thing-the-next-generations-k_1370349.jpg) > [Let us never stop being vigilant about the Oys which face us. But let us never turn them into our raison d'etre.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deborah-lipstadt/let-us-never-stop-being-vigilant-about-the-oys-which-face-us-but-let/) Deborah Lipstadt [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/372/deborah-lipstadt-78547_celebrate_let-us-never-stop-being-vigilant-about-t_2040664.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deborah-lipstadt/#itemlist", "name": "Deborah Lipstadt Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A creative, thoughtful, and accomplished people such as the Jewish people should be known by what they have done and not by what has been done to them.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Deborah Lipstadt" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deborah-lipstadt/a-creative-thoughtful-and-accomplished-people-such-as-the-jewish/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/199/deborah-lipstadt-78547_accomplished_a-creative-thoughtful-and-accomplished-p_642273.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/199/deborah-lipstadt-78547_accomplished_a-creative-thoughtful-and-accomplished-p_642273.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/199/deborah-lipstadt-78547_accomplished_a-creative-thoughtful-and-accomplished-p_642273.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A creative, thoughtful, and accomplished people such as the Jewish people should be known by what they have…” — Deborah Lipstadt", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If the main thing the next generations know about Jewish history is that we were persecuted and suffered, they will lose sight of the tremendous heritage of Jewish culture, theology, and wisdom.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Deborah Lipstadt" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deborah-lipstadt/if-the-main-thing-the-next-generations-know-about-jewish-history-is/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b4/deborah-lipstadt-78547_culture_if-the-main-thing-the-next-generations-k_1370349.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b4/deborah-lipstadt-78547_culture_if-the-main-thing-the-next-generations-k_1370349.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b4/deborah-lipstadt-78547_culture_if-the-main-thing-the-next-generations-k_1370349.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If the main thing the next generations know about Jewish history is that we were persecuted and suffered…” — Deborah Lipstadt", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Let us never stop being vigilant about the Oys which face us. 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