Diana Pinto (historian)

Diana Pinto ( born 1949 ) is a Paris-based historian and writer. Her research interests include the development of the Jewish community in Eastern and Western Europe after the turn of 1989.

She is married to the French political scientist, journalist and author Dominique Moïsi and has two sons.

Life

Diana Pinto comes from an Italian- Jewish family. She studied at Harvard University, where he became a PhD in the subject European History (Contemporary European History ) PhD.

In the nineties, she participated as a consultant to the Council of Europe in the development of programs to promote civil society in Eastern and South Eastern Europe as well as on the territory of the former Soviet Union.

Diana Pinto was among other things a Fulbright scholar and a Fellow at the " American Council of Learned Societies ," at the Collegium Budapest and at the Einstein Forum in Potsdam. She serves on the board of the London " Institute for Jewish Policy Research ( JPR ) " and is a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations.

Scientific and literary work

The work of Diana Pinto includes numerous publications on transatlantic issues, Italian and French political and Jewish life in Germany and Europe since the end of the Cold War. In her autobiographical book Entre deux mondes ( Between two worlds) treats the question of how individual identity in the tension of different cultures to flourish and can be lived.

She became internationally known published with the 1996 until today debated thesis could through the integration of Europe after the end of the Cold War, a European Judaism (again) buy, in addition to the Israeli and American Jewry possibly "the third pillar of a world Jewish identity " will form (the third pillar of a global Jewish identity).

Publications

• Contemporary Italian Sociology. A Reader. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1981, ISBN 0-521-23738-6
• Entre deux mondes. Édition Odile Jacob, Paris, 1991, ISBN 2-7381-0132-1
• Israël a DEMENAGE. Editions Stock, Paris 2012, ISBN 978-2-234-07321-0 ( German 2013 by Suhrkamp: Israel has moved )