Alberto Dines

A native of Rio de Janeiro, Alberto Dines worked as a journalist beginning in 1952. He founded numerous periodicals in Portugal and Brazil, served as a professor of journalism, wrote fifteen books, and in 1996 founded a website for media analysis. At the Jewish school Dines attended as a boy, he learned Yiddish, enabling a facility with German, and at the age of eight he was greatly impressed by a school visit from Stefan Zweig. Dines later wrote a biography of Zweig and became president of the Casa Stefan Zweig, a cultural organization celebrating Zweig’s years in Brazil. In 2007 Dines received the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award for his work remembering the Holocaust.