Leni Yahil
German historian of modern age and historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Leni Yahil , née Leni Westphal, was a German-born Israeli historian, specializing in the Holocaust and Danish Jewry. Early life Leni was born in Düsseldorf, Germany, in 1912, and was raised in Potsdam, Germany. She was a sixth-generation descent of Moses Mendelssohn's family, as well as a granddaughter of James Simon. Her father, Ernst Westphal, was a judge. Yahil studied history at the universities of Munich and Berlin. Afterwards, she was accepted into the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin, but had her education interrupted by the Nazi rise to power in Germany in 1933. She joined a Jewish youth movement called Werkleute and eventually became one of its leaders. She immigrated to Palestine in 1934, and was eventually able to resume her college education by studying at the Hebrew University, where she majored in general history, with a dual minor in Jewish history and Hebrew literature. She received her master's degree in 1940, with her thesis being about “The Concept of Democracy in Tocqueville.” In 1942, Leni married Chaim Hoffman , later having two sons with him – Amos and Jonathan .
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