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==Life and career==
Lipstadt was born in New York City to a Jewish family, the daughter of Miriam ([[née]] Peiman; 1915–2013) and Erwin Lipstadt (1903–1972).<ref>[http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?pid=165950910 Miriam Lipstadt obituary] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304064149/http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?pid=165950910 |date=March 4, 2016 }} Retrieved December 16, 2017.</ref> Her mother was born in Canada, and her father, a salesman, was born in Germany. Her parents met at their neighborhood synagogue. She has an older sister, Helene, a historian, and a younger brother, Nathaniel, an investor on Wall Street.{{cn}}
In her youth, she studied at the Hebrew Institute of Long Island, and grew up in [[Far Rockaway, Queens]]. She studied with Rabbi [[Emanuel Rackman]] at Temple Shaarei Tefillah. Lipstadt spent summers at [[Camp Massad (Poconos)|Camp Massad]].{{cn}}
She spent her junior year of college in Israel during the [[Six-Day War]], where she stayed as an exchange student at the [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]]. She completed a [[Bachelor of Arts]] in [[American History|American history]] at the [[City College of New York]] in 1969. She then enrolled at [[Brandeis University]] where she completed her master's degree in 1972 and then her Ph.D. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies in 1976.<ref name=":0">Lipstadt, Deborah Esther. [https://media.proquest.com/media/pq/classic/doc/758530521/fmt/prv/rep/300PDF?_s=1FxlX6dmu9ej0KDSgv1XWNvsh5Q%3D "The Zionist Career of Louis Lipsky, 1900–1921"]. Brandeis University Ph.D. Dissertation, 1977.</ref> Her doctoral dissertation was entitled "The Zionist Career of [[Louis Lipsky]], 1900–1921".<ref name=":0" />
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