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'''Deborah Esther Lipstadt''' (born March 18, 1947) is an American revisionist historian and diplomat, best known as author of the books ''[[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 has served as the [[Office to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism|United States Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism]] since May 3, 2022. Since 1993 she has been the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at [[Emory University]] in [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], US.<ref name="Lipstadt at Jewish woman archive">[https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/lipstadt-deborah Lipstadt at Jewish woman archive] Retrieved January 19, 2019.</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Deborah E. Lipstadt|url=http://religion.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/lipstadt-deborah.html|publisher=Emory University|access-date=September 2, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906080441/http://religion.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/lipstadt-deborah.html|archive-date=September 6, 2015}}</ref>
 
Lipstadt was a consultant to the [[United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]]. In 1994, [[President of the United States]] [[Bill Clinton]] appointed her to the [[United States Holocaust Memorial Council]], and she served two terms.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huc.edu/newspubs/pressroom/2005/11/bamberger1.shtml|title=Third Annual Bamberger Memorial Lecture with Deborah E. Lipstadt (November 22, 2005)|publisher=[[Hebrew Union College|Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion]] News & Publications|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060904011308/http://www.huc.edu/newspubs/pressroom/2005/11/bamberger1.shtml|archive-date=September 4, 2006 |url-status=dead|access-date=June 14, 2008}}</ref> On July 30, 2021, President [[Joe Biden]] nominated her to be the [[Special Envoy|United States Special Envoy]] for [[Office to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism|Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/biden-to-nominate-deborah-lipstadt-as-antisemitism-envoy/|title=Biden to nominate Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt as US antisemitism envoy|publisher=[[The Times of Israel]]|access-date=July 30, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Emory historian Deborah Lipstadt nominated as U.S. envoy to combat and monitor antisemitism|url=https://news.emory.edu/features/2021/08/deborah-lipstadt-biden-envoy/index.html|access-date=October 6, 2021|website=news.emory.edu|language=en}}</ref> She was confirmed by voice-vote on March 30, 2022, and sworn in on May 3, 2022.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/lipstadt-approved-as-antisemitism-envoy-wrapping-up-8-month-confirmation-process/|title=Lipstadt approved as US antisemitism envoy, wrapping up 8-month confirmation process|publisher=[[The Times of Israel]]|access-date=March 31, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Deborah Lipstadt |url=https://www.state.gov/biographies/deborah-lipstadt/ |access-date=May 13, 2022 |website=United States Department of State |language=en-US}}</ref> Lipstadt was named one of the [[Time 100|100 most influential people in the world]] by ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine in 2023.<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=The 100 Most Influential People of 2023 |url=https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2023/ |access-date=April 17, 2023 |magazine=Time |language=en}}</ref>