Harry J. Benda

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Harry Jindrich Benda (b. October 28, 1919, Liberec, Czechoslovakia; d. October 26, 1971 New Haven, Conn.) was a full professor at Yale University. He specialised in Indonesian politics. [1]

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Born to a Jewish family in former Czechoslovakia, he was sent to Java by his father to escape Nazism. [2] [3] [4] He was the first director of the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore. [5]

The Association for Asian Studies' prize for first book in Southeast Asian studies is named in his honour. [6]

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  1. For a brief biography and list of publications, see Andreas W. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann, James J. Sheehan, eds., The Second Generation: Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians. With a Biobibliographic Guide. New York: Berghahn Books, 2016 ISBN   978-1-78238-985-9, 348-9.
  2. "Harry Jindrich Benda | Council On Southeast Asia Studies at Yale". cseas.yale.edu.
  3. Nguyen, Cindy A. (February 16, 2016). "ARTICLE REVIEWS: Van Leur (1934), Smail (1961), Benda (1964)".
  4. Mcvey, Ruth T. (May 30, 1972). "Harry J. Benda: An Obituary". The Journal of Asian Studies. 31 (3): 589–590. doi: 10.1017/S0021911800137155 .
  5. Kartodirdjo, Sartono (1972). "In Memoriam: Harry Jindrich Benda, 1919-1971". Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. 3 (1): 171–174. doi:10.1017/S0022463400000990. JSTOR   20069980. S2CID   162396575 via JSTOR.
  6. "Benda Prize". Association for Asian Studies.