Michael Berenbaum
Biographic Data
| ID | 3744718 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Berenbaum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Berenbaum |
| SIGNATURE | BERENBAUM M |
| AFFILIATIONS | American Jewish University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Afterdeath of the Holocaust . Lawrence Langer
Journal Article The Afterdeath of the Holocaust. Lawrence Langer Get access The Afterdeath of the Holocaust, Lawrence Langer (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), pp. 247, hardcover $109.99, softcover $109.99, eBook $84.99. Michael Berenbaum Michael Berenbaum American Jewish University, Los Angeles, CA, USA Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide St…
Obituary
Journal Article Obituary: Lawrence Langer (1929–2024) Get access Michael Berenbaum Michael Berenbaum American Jewish University, Los Angeles, CA, USA Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, dcae027, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/dcae027 Published: 02 July 2024 Article history Received: 29 March 2024 Editorial decision: 03 April 2024 Accepted: 11 June …
Auschwitz
Holocaust and Humanity
The Holocaust has become recognized as a defining event of the twentieth century, with vast implications for the understanding of humanity and the inner workings of government and technology, religion, and culture. The event offers significant insight into the capacity of “ordinary” individuals and groups in the commission of radical evil. It also offers insight into humanity, the insistency of altruistic good, resilience, and the expression of c…
Yehuda Bauer’s Assessment of the US Government and American Jewry During the Holocaust
Beginning with well-deserved personal praise for Professor Yehuda Bauer celebrating his 95th birthday, this article then examines Bauer's brief but important work Could the US Government Have Rescued European Jewry?, in which he challenges the preferred narrative of American and Israeli Jews: that American Jews were silent, ineffective, divided, timid, self-absorbed, weak, and incapable of bringing a Judeo-centric request to the American politica…
Brewster Chamberlin (1939–2020)
Brewster Chamberlin, founder of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) Archives, died on November 12, 2020 in Key West, Florida, his home for the preceding two decades. He is survived by his second wife, Lynn-Marie Smith of Key West and Avignon, France. They had been married for forty years. Chamberlin not only established the then future museum’s archives in 1983, but expanded the collection by spearheading efforts to microfilm sign…
H.G. Adler
The English-reading world owes a debt to Peter Filkins for making the work of H.G. Adler accessible through both his skilled literary translations of Adler’s novels and poetry, and now through this significant biography. Filkins’ research is prodigious, his knowledge of the Central European literary scene impressive. So too, his sojourns into the history of the Holocaust. He knows virtually all that can be known about Adler, and he has the intell…
Obituary
Randolph L. Braham (1922–2018), the dean and conscience of historians of the Holocaust in Hungary, died on November 25, 2018, just weeks shy of his 96th birthday. A working scholar to the very last days of his life, Braham was not only prolific and insightful, but panoramic and precise. His commentary on contemporary Hungary was courageous and incisive. His moral voice grew as political events in Hungary culminated in blatant attempts to rewrite …
Conflicting Perspectives on Timothy Snyder's Black Earth
Timothy Snyder, Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning. New York: Tim Duggan Books, 2015. 462 pp. $35.00.Reviewed by Michael Berenbaum, American Jewish UniversityTimothy Snyder's much-acclaimed book Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin, published by Basic Books in 2010, aroused serious concern among many Holocaust historians. They feared that his emphasis on double genocide—German and Soviet—was a backdoor attempt to diminish t…
The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945
Some books are timely, others are useful, and still others are good. Joshua D. Zimmerman's The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945 is all three. A word about timeliness: the recently elected government in Poland, committed to advancing a Polish-centric agenda, advocates for a presentation of Polish history that stresses Polish heroism and minimizes—perhaps even obliterates—guilt for crimes perpetrated by Poles in occupied Poland during Wor…
The Rescuers
In Memoriam
Ezra Mendelsohn, a distinguished historian and cultural figure, and the Rachel and Michael Edelman Emeritus Professor of European Jewry and Holocaust Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, died in May of cancer at the age of seventy-four. Born in New York City's Upper West Side in 1940 to a prominent family, he came to academic life naturally. His father, Isaac Mendelsohn, was a professor of Semitic languages at Columbia University; his m…
Visualizing the Holocaust
Visualizing the Holocaust: Documents, Aesthetics, Memory David Bathrick, Brad Prager, and Michael D. Richardson (eds) Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2008 336 pp, US $75 (hbk) Comprising twelve well-w
Antisemitism
Judaism
This article contends that the impact of the Holocaust on Judaism and particularly on Jewish theological reflection did not reach full force until the 1960s. Since that time, attention to the Shoah's implications for Jewish religious thought and practice has been intense and widespread. Emphasizing the post-Holocaust reflection of David Weiss' Halivni, it explores key currents and debates in post-Holocaust Judaism as it wrestles with questions ab…
The Bombing of Auschwitz
The Holocaust and History
The Bombing of Auschwitz
Did we know the gas chambers were there? Could we have destroyed them? Why didn't we bomb? For decades, debate has raged over whether the Allies should have bombed the gas chambers at and the railroads leading to the camp, thereby saving thousands of lives and disrupting Nazi efforts to exterminate European Jews. Was it truly feasible to do so? Did failure to do so simply reflect a callous indifference to the plight of the Jews of was it a realis…
Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp
An authoritative account of the operation of the Auschwitz death camp.
E. Thomas Wood and Stanisław M. Jankowski, Karski
In Memory's Kitchen
Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 MINA'S COOKBOOK Chapter 5 Recipes Chapter 6 Recipe List for the original manuscript Chapter 7 Practical Notes Chapter 8 Poems by Wilhelmina (Mina) Pachter Chapter 9 Letters by Wilhelmina (Mina) Pachter Chapter 10 Wilhelmina Pachter: A Biographical Sketch Chapter 11 Bibliography
Anatomy of the Auschwitz death camp
Hitler and the Jews
Hitler's anti-semitism the emigration policy the quest for a territorial solution, 1939-1941 the fate of the Soviet Jews the final decision Hitler and the holocaust conclusion
The Bombing of Auschwitz
Did we know the gas chambers were there? Could we have destroyed them? Why didn't we bomb? For decades, debate has raged over whether the Allies should have bombed the gas chambers at and the railroads leading to the camp, thereby saving thousands of lives and disrupting Nazi efforts to exterminate European Jews. Was it truly feasible to do so? Did failure to do so simply reflect a callous indifference to the plight of the Jews of was it a realis…
Hitler and the Jews
Hitler's anti-semitism the emigration policy the quest for a territorial solution, 1939-1941 the fate of the Soviet Jews the final decision Hitler and the holocaust conclusion
Yehuda Bauer’s Assessment of the US Government and American Jewry During the Holocaust
Beginning with well-deserved personal praise for Professor Yehuda Bauer celebrating his 95th birthday, this article then examines Bauer's brief but important work Could the US Government Have Rescued European Jewry?, in which he challenges the preferred narrative of American and Israeli Jews: that American Jews were silent, ineffective, divided, timid, self-absorbed, weak, and incapable of bringing a Judeo-centric request to the American politica…
Anatomy of the Auschwitz death camp
Hitler and the Jews
Hitler's anti-semitism the emigration policy the quest for a territorial solution, 1939-1941 the fate of the Soviet Jews the final decision Hitler and the holocaust conclusion
In Memory's Kitchen
Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 MINA'S COOKBOOK Chapter 5 Recipes Chapter 6 Recipe List for the original manuscript Chapter 7 Practical Notes Chapter 8 Poems by Wilhelmina (Mina) Pachter Chapter 9 Letters by Wilhelmina (Mina) Pachter Chapter 10 Wilhelmina Pachter: A Biographical Sketch Chapter 11 Bibliography
E. Thomas Wood and Stanisław M. Jankowski, Karski
Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp
An authoritative account of the operation of the Auschwitz death camp.
The Bombing of Auschwitz
Did we know the gas chambers were there? Could we have destroyed them? Why didn't we bomb? For decades, debate has raged over whether the Allies should have bombed the gas chambers at and the railroads leading to the camp, thereby saving thousands of lives and disrupting Nazi efforts to exterminate European Jews. Was it truly feasible to do so? Did failure to do so simply reflect a callous indifference to the plight of the Jews of was it a realis…
The Bombing of Auschwitz
The Holocaust and History
Judaism
This article contends that the impact of the Holocaust on Judaism and particularly on Jewish theological reflection did not reach full force until the 1960s. Since that time, attention to the Shoah's implications for Jewish religious thought and practice has been intense and widespread. Emphasizing the post-Holocaust reflection of David Weiss' Halivni, it explores key currents and debates in post-Holocaust Judaism as it wrestles with questions ab…
Visualizing the Holocaust
Visualizing the Holocaust: Documents, Aesthetics, Memory David Bathrick, Brad Prager, and Michael D. Richardson (eds) Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2008 336 pp, US $75 (hbk) Comprising twelve well-w
Antisemitism
The Rescuers
In Memoriam
Ezra Mendelsohn, a distinguished historian and cultural figure, and the Rachel and Michael Edelman Emeritus Professor of European Jewry and Holocaust Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, died in May of cancer at the age of seventy-four. Born in New York City's Upper West Side in 1940 to a prominent family, he came to academic life naturally. His father, Isaac Mendelsohn, was a professor of Semitic languages at Columbia University; his m…
The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945
Some books are timely, others are useful, and still others are good. Joshua D. Zimmerman's The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945 is all three. A word about timeliness: the recently elected government in Poland, committed to advancing a Polish-centric agenda, advocates for a presentation of Polish history that stresses Polish heroism and minimizes—perhaps even obliterates—guilt for crimes perpetrated by Poles in occupied Poland during Wor…
Conflicting Perspectives on Timothy Snyder's Black Earth
Timothy Snyder, Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning. New York: Tim Duggan Books, 2015. 462 pp. $35.00.Reviewed by Michael Berenbaum, American Jewish UniversityTimothy Snyder's much-acclaimed book Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin, published by Basic Books in 2010, aroused serious concern among many Holocaust historians. They feared that his emphasis on double genocide—German and Soviet—was a backdoor attempt to diminish t…
Obituary
Randolph L. Braham (1922–2018), the dean and conscience of historians of the Holocaust in Hungary, died on November 25, 2018, just weeks shy of his 96th birthday. A working scholar to the very last days of his life, Braham was not only prolific and insightful, but panoramic and precise. His commentary on contemporary Hungary was courageous and incisive. His moral voice grew as political events in Hungary culminated in blatant attempts to rewrite …
H.G. Adler
The English-reading world owes a debt to Peter Filkins for making the work of H.G. Adler accessible through both his skilled literary translations of Adler’s novels and poetry, and now through this significant biography. Filkins’ research is prodigious, his knowledge of the Central European literary scene impressive. So too, his sojourns into the history of the Holocaust. He knows virtually all that can be known about Adler, and he has the intell…
Brewster Chamberlin (1939–2020)
Brewster Chamberlin, founder of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) Archives, died on November 12, 2020 in Key West, Florida, his home for the preceding two decades. He is survived by his second wife, Lynn-Marie Smith of Key West and Avignon, France. They had been married for forty years. Chamberlin not only established the then future museum’s archives in 1983, but expanded the collection by spearheading efforts to microfilm sign…
Holocaust and Humanity
The Holocaust has become recognized as a defining event of the twentieth century, with vast implications for the understanding of humanity and the inner workings of government and technology, religion, and culture. The event offers significant insight into the capacity of “ordinary” individuals and groups in the commission of radical evil. It also offers insight into humanity, the insistency of altruistic good, resilience, and the expression of c…
Yehuda Bauer’s Assessment of the US Government and American Jewry During the Holocaust
Beginning with well-deserved personal praise for Professor Yehuda Bauer celebrating his 95th birthday, this article then examines Bauer's brief but important work Could the US Government Have Rescued European Jewry?, in which he challenges the preferred narrative of American and Israeli Jews: that American Jews were silent, ineffective, divided, timid, self-absorbed, weak, and incapable of bringing a Judeo-centric request to the American politica…
The Afterdeath of the Holocaust . Lawrence Langer
Journal Article The Afterdeath of the Holocaust. Lawrence Langer Get access The Afterdeath of the Holocaust, Lawrence Langer (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), pp. 247, hardcover $109.99, softcover $109.99, eBook $84.99. Michael Berenbaum Michael Berenbaum American Jewish University, Los Angeles, CA, USA Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide St…
Obituary
Journal Article Obituary: Lawrence Langer (1929–2024) Get access Michael Berenbaum Michael Berenbaum American Jewish University, Los Angeles, CA, USA Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, dcae027, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/dcae027 Published: 02 July 2024 Article history Received: 29 March 2024 Editorial decision: 03 April 2024 Accepted: 11 June …
Auschwitz
Political science (14 works) · The Holocaust (13 works) · Law (11 works) · History (10 works) · Art (9 works) · History (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Judaism (7 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (7 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (6 works)