Dovid Katz

Dovid Katz (Yiddish: הירשע־דוד כ״ץ, also דוד קאַץ, הירשע־דוד קאַץ—Hirshe-Dovid Kats) (born 9 May 1956) is an American-born, Vilnius-based Yiddish scholar, author and educator, and cultural historian of Lithuanian Jewry (the Litvak heritage). In recent years, he has become a human rights defender specializing in contemporary legacies of the East European Holocaust. He is editor of the website DefendingHistory.com.