"Building Bridges Among Abraham's Children honors the extraordinary career of Professor Michael Berenbaum, a luminary in Holocaust studies, museum design, filmmaking, and interfaith dialogue. With contributions from renowned scholars and close friends, the short and highly readable essays in this collection delve into the core themes that have defined Professor Berenbaum's work: biblical and postbiblical narratives, rabbinic thought and action, Jewish commitment to education, interreligious relations, and Holocaust remembrance. From his role in building the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to his pioneering work in preserving survivor testimonies through film, Professor Berenbaum's influence is profound and multifaceted, and the compelling essays in this volume serve as a tribute to a scholar whose enduring legacy continues to make a global impact"--
Building Bridges Among Abrahams Children honors the extraordinary career of Professor Michael Berenbaum, a luminary in Holocaust studies, museum design, filmmaking, and interfaith dialogue. With contributions from renowned scholars and close friends, the short and highly readable essays in this collection delve into the core themes that have defined Professor Berenbaums work: biblical and postbiblical narratives, rabbinic thought and action, Jewish commitment to education, interreligious relations, and Holocaust remembrance. From his role in building the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to his pioneering work in preserving survivor testimonies through film, Professor Berenbaums influence is profound and multifaceted, and the compelling essays in this volume serve as a tribute to a scholar whose enduring legacy continues to make a global impact.
Recenzijos
I welcome the publication of this collection of essays for its valuable interdisciplinary exploration of many aspects of the Shoah. The appearance of this hefty volume is a happy coincidence with the seventy-fifth anniversary of the 1947 Seelisberg Conference, a watershed event in Jewish-Christian dialogue and a foundational event for the International Council of Christians and Jews (ICCJ). John Pawlikowski and Norman Tobias provide crisp accounts of the vision and courage of our predecessors to replace the 'Teaching of Contempt,' outlined carefully by the renowned French historian Jules Isaac, one of the pioneers at Seelisberg. This book also contains a rich sample of current interreligious encounters among Jews, Christians, and Muslims, showing the potential for unequalled spiritual growth that can flow from reciprocity and even complementarity, while respecting our differences and integrity.
Liliane Apotheker, President, International Council of Christians and Jews
The momentous reckoning with the Holocaust that followed World War IIwhat is celebrated and advanced in this powerful bookmight well not have happened. If, as Michael Berenbaum suggests, the final stage of every genocide is denial, the eyes and conscience of Western culture might have remained where they were fixed in the immediate aftermath of the Shoah, which was profoundly turned away. The Nazis had committed the crime, but they could not have nearly succeeded in the elimination of the Jewish people if not for the broad complicity of religious anti-Judaism, historic antisemitism, and the Wests long tradition of self-exoneration. The post-war silence of denial was broken first by Jews themselves, lifting up what had occurred. The initial demand for a moral accounting of why the catastrophe happened was met by nearly three generations of work by historians, theologians, activists, and common people. This volumegathering the testimony of a crucial cohort of witnesses, thinkers, and reformershonors that profound principled achievement. That this festschrift is centered on the lifes work of Michael Berenbaum makes the point that, across the critical decades, few have done more than him to enable broad publics to confront the harsh truth of the Holocaust and its meaning, which has led to deeper reckonings with history itself. Honoring Professor Berenbaum for creating intellectual, imaginative, cinematic, and physical monuments to moral memory, this book is itself a monument to his magnificent work and life.
James Carroll, Author of Constantines Sword: The Church and the Jews, A History
This volume is large because there is so much to learn from and about Michael Berenbaum. He is a teacher and author, a producer of historic films and the visionary genius who served as project director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and as the first director of its world-class research center. There is another reason as well: it is a big book because there are so many people eager to tell their own part of this mans story. Berenbaum has many admirers because he is a patient and deep listener.
Rev. James L. Fredericks, Professor of Theology Emeritus, Loyola Marymount University
Following the Second Vatican Council and the promulgation of Nostra Aetate in 1965, many efforts have been made to foster dialogue between Catholics and Jews, which have born great fruit over the past six decades, with many Jews and Catholics growing closer together in friendship and working together to build a better society. Rabbi Michael Berenbaum was one of the pioneers working to assist the Catholic Church in the United States in the process of implementing Nostra Aetate in this country, and his contributions towards building genuine friendship and understanding among Catholics and Jews have laid strong foundations on which our dialogues continue to grow. Building Bridges Among Abrahams Children: A Celebration of Michael Berenbaum gives the reader a sense of the truly monumental and vast contributions that Rabbi Berenbaum has made throughout his distinguished career. The comprehensive nature of this text reflects the breadth of his dedication. May this volume help readers to appreciate Rabbi Berenbaums legacy and inspire many to continue his work of education and advocacy as well as mutual understanding and friendship among members of all faith traditions.
Cardinal Wilton Gregory, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, DC
A marvelous collection of essays paying tribute to Professor Michael Berenbaum, a scholar who has made study of the Holocaust an imperative in education at all levels from middle schools to universities, all over the United States and around the globe.
Susannah Heschel, Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College
Thirty-three years ago, I was privileged to be part of the small community of artists and historians, architects and engineers who worked together to create the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. The project that Michael Berenbaum directed transformed what a museum could be: a place where ordinary people enter as bystanders and leave as responsible upstanders. Today Michael remains the same friendly mensch he was then. He still listens carefully to narratives of people endangered in our troubled world. And he wears the same warm and welcoming smile. This collection of essays is a worthy celebration of a giant in the field of memorial and museum building. I am very happy for knowing him so long as a wise and cherished friend.
Radu Ioanid, Ambassador of Romania to Israel
Michael Berenbaum is a multi-talented and multifaceted person: a rabbi, a theologian, a scholar, a museum builder, an educator, a filmmaker, a family man. He has contributed enormously to promoting Holocaust memory not just as a sacred memory, but as a point of departure for contemplation and even more for acting to preserve the human spirit via the Jewish tradition. Central to Michaels entire oeuvre and life is his neshome. This volume is an intellectual treasure which consists of an impressive series of chapters which cover a broad variety of issues and topics taking Berenbaums activities as a point of departure. Through fascinating contributions by a broad variety of scholarsmore than 120!this volume provides helpful introductions to topics which range from research on a variety of aspects of the Holocaust and its documentation to education on and thought and action in the wake of the Shoah as well as the multiple ways of its memorialization; and from the meaning of ancient Jewish texts for today to new paths in Jewish thought and to interreligious dialogues. This volume will surely become a handbook to be used in university courses as well as in batei midrash and commemoration gatherings on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Dani Michman, Head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem
What better tribute could there be for the accomplished scholar, beloved teacher and rabbi, and visionary filmmaker and commemorator of the Holocaust than a collection of insightful commentaries, and written and photographic tributes? The range, depth, and humanity of this Festschrift are worthy of its subject, and worth savoring by those who know and should know Michael Berenbaum.
Martha Minow, Former Dean, Harvard Law School, 300th Anniversary University Professor, Harvard University
The breadth of scope of this extraordinary Festschrift is required by the multiple talents that led Michael Berenbaum to excel in many fields of endeavor and to connect many disciplines in a truly remarkable way. His awareness of the Hebrew Bible and rabbinic thought and action, his contributions to interreligious encounters among Jews, Christians, and Muslims, his prolific scholarship and writing, and his enormous achievement in the herculean labor of revising the Encyclopaedia Judiaca mark him as a public intellectual of the highest order. His capacity to lead the project of designing and building the US Holocaust Memorial Museum changed the way we think about museums and memory in general. His deep empathy with Holocaust survivors assisted the preservation of over 52,000 interviews by the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. This collection of essays enables us to appreciate and celebrate Berenbaums status as an amazing national and global treasure.
John Sexton, President Emeritus, New York University
The editors have brought together in one inclusive volume the collective wisdom and insight of various preeminent scholars in the fields of Jewish Studies, Jewish-Christian Relations, and of Holocaust Studies to honor Michael Berenbaums extraordinary life and work. The essays succinctly offer readers a fundamental and accessible introduction to the foremost issues within these fields. Reading them, one soon comprehends the obstacles that the dialogue has overcome and the challenges that it still faces. They serve as an urgent warning about the past and a beckoning light for the future.
Kevin P. Spicer, CSC, James J. Kenneally Distinguished Professor of History, Stonehill College, Chair, Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations
Contents
Acknowledgments
The Editors
Preface: Blessing an Illustrious Student: The Scholarship of Michael
Berenbaum
Richard L. Rubenstein
Foreword: Giving Thanks for an Amazing Colleague: Michael Berenbaum as an
Educator, Museum Builder, and Filmmaker
Jeffrey Herbst
Introduction: Creating a Multi-Focused Festschrift: Michael Berenbaum as a
Multi-Talented Bridge-Builder
Edward McGlynn Gaffney
Part One. Expressing Deep Thanks: Personal Tributes from Old Friends
1. Expanding Horizons of Jewish Thought and Modelling Integrity: The
Lifelong Impact of a Campus Rabbi on a College Freshman
Jane Eisner
2. Grasping and Expressing Foundational Insights: An Anchor and a Pillar in
Holocaust Studies
John K. Roth
3. Creating Living Memorials after the Catastrophe: Michael Berenbaums
Contribution to Holocaust Education
Irving Greenberg
4. Befriending Our Family, Loving Books, and Building Museums: A Capacious
Mind and a Generous Soul
Stuart E. Eizenstat
5. Learning Most from Ones Students: The Highest Standard of Teaching
Excellence
Carol Rittner, RSM
6. Learning from a Patient Teacher: My Steady Friend Michael Berenbaum
Jeanette Friedman Sieradski
7. Teaching Teachers of the Shoah: The Recurring Impact of a Mentor and
Friend
Harriet Sepinwall
8. Opening Doors of Opportunity for Other Filmmakers: A Better Understanding
of Hollywood
Deborah Oppenheimer
Part Two. Searching for Meaning in Ancient Texts: Biblical, Talmudic, and
Midrashic Narratives and Theology
Painting: Jacob Wrestling with the Angel
Eugčne Delacroix
9. Wrestling with God and Contending with Fire: Jacob at the Jabbok and Moses
at the Burning Bush
Henry F. Knight
10. Harvesting the Berry Tree: A Midrash for Michael Berenbaum (on Pirke
Rabbi Eliezer 3031)
Burton L. Visotzky
11. Marking Jewish Identity in a Famous Memoir: Page One of Elie Wiesels
Night
David Patterson
12. Seeing through the Prism of the Shoah: Biblical, Talmudic, and Hasidic
Characters of Elie Wiesel
Joel Rappel
13. Honoring Father and Mother: An Impossible Possibility?
H. Martin Rumscheidt
14. Searching for Wisdom: Ethical Guidance in Proverbs, Psalms, Prophets, and
Midrash
Joseph Blenkinsopp
15. Probing Deeply for Common Ground: Jewish Scholarship on Jesus the Jew
Edward Kessler
16. Transforming a Symbol: The Scandal of the Cross
Donald P. Senior, CP
17. Rereading His Blood Be Upon Us: The Blessing of the Blood of Life in
Matthews Gospel
Frederick A. Niedner
18. Arranging Readings in the Lectionary: The Problem of Troublesome
Readings in the Liturgy
Dianne Bergant, CSA
Part Three. Rebuilding a Culture after a Catastrophe: Rabbinic Thought and
Action
Painting: Rosh Hashanah
Arthur Szyk
Photos: Standing in the Need of Prayer: Beth Tefilla and Egalitarian Worship
19. Restoring Credibility and Revelation in a World Still Full of
Atrocities: Religion, Ethics, and Culture after the Shoah
Irving Greenberg
Poem: god
Robert Krell
20. Rethinking Theology after the Shoah: God as a Universal Force of
Transformation and Healing
Michael Lerner
21. Understanding Jewish Law: Fundamental Purposes, Modern Approaches to Its
Observance, and Three Psalms in Its Praise
Elliot N. Dorff
22. Acting Justly and Pursuing Peace: The Religious Action Center of Reform
Judaism
David Saperstein
23. Agonizing and Preaching Boldly in the Pulpit: Rabbi Isaac Herzog in
Dublin and Jerusalem
Marc Saperstein
24. Discerning a Role for Gods Law and Popular Governance: Rabbi Hayyim
David Halevi on the State of Israel and Democracy
David Ellenson
25. Searching Our Souls and Confessing Our Sins: Small and Large Confessions
for Yom Kippur
Arik Ascherman
Sculpture: Marble Bas-Relief of Rabbi Maimonides, United States Capitol
Building
Brenda Putnam
Photos: Speaking in Gods Name in Public Fora: Rabbis Protesting on the
Streets, in Congress, and in a Cemetery against Genocide, Racism, and Modern
Warfare, 19431968
Part Four. Promoting Growth in Understanding: Jewish Commitment to Education
Sculpture: Rabbi Maimonides, Córdoba, Spain
Amadeo Olmos Ruiz
Photos: Searching for Wisdom Wherever It May Be Found: Images of Jewish
Learning
26. Building Edifices of Jewish Knowledge: Michael Berenbaum and the Third
Encyclopaedia Judaica
David N. Myers
27. Introducing College Students to Jewish Customs and Beliefs: The
Importance of Jewish Studies Programs
Richard Libowitz
Poem: They Sat in the Back
Hannah Daniel
28. Searching for Holocaust Insights: Museums as Living Memorials and Dual
Narratives in Holocaust Education
Holli Levitsky
29. Trusting and Contending in Jewish Education: Curricular Integration and
Interaction
Gordon Bernat-Kunin
30. Sustaining Jewish Commitment to Education as a Central Value: Holocaust
Education and Museum Building
Edward Jacobs
31. Celebrating Freedom in the Cradle of Liberty: The National Museum of
American Jewish History
Jonathan D. Sarna
32. Illuminating Inclusive Freedom and Equipping Modern Abolitionists: The
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
Woodrow Keown, Jr. and Christopher Miller
Appendix: Lift Every Voice and Sing (The Black National Anthem)
James Weldon Johnson
33. Helping Teachers to Teach and Students to Learn: Facing History and
Ourselves
Margot Stern Strom
Part Five. Reconnecting Abrahamic Collegiality and Building Beautiful
Bridges: Interreligious Encounters
Sculpture: Synagoga and Ecclesia in Our Time
Joshua Koffman
Photos: Healing Wounds: Journeys of FriendshipAuschwitz, Jerusalem,
Bethlehem, and Rome
34. Abandoning Ancient Enmity and Seeking Covenantal Partnership: The
Relationship between Judaism and Christianity
Irving Greenberg
35. Learning through Dialogue: The Work of the ICCJ from Seelisburg to the
Present
John T. Pawlikowski, OSM
Appendix A: An Address to the ChurchesTen Points of Seelisberg
International Conference of Christians and Jews (August 1947)
Appendix B: Address to International Council of Christians and Jews
Pope Francis (June 30, 2015)
36. Replacing the Teaching of Contempt for Jews: Jules Isaac and Historical
Truths about Jesus and the Jewish People of His Time
Norman C. Tobias
Appendix A: Eighteen Points to Rectify Christian Teaching about Jews and
Judaism (1947)
Jules Isaac
Appendix B: Memorandum on Private Audience of Jules Isaac with Pope John
XXIII, June 13, 1966
Cardinal Loris Francesco Capovilla
37. Repenting for Sins against Jews and Harvesting Fruits of Mutual
Respect: International Dialogue between Jews and Catholics after Vatican II
Cardinal Kurt Koch
Appendix: Pope Francis to Executive Committee, World Jewish Congress
(November 22, 2022)
Pope Francis
38. Repudiating the Teaching of Contempt for Jews and Ending a Catholic
Mission to Convert Jews: Nostra Aetate and the Jubilee Statement on
Conversion
Noam E. Marans
39. Sustaining a Quiet Revolution: Popes and Jews since the Shoah
Dennis B. McManus
40. Confronting Racial Antisemitism and Rejecting Contempt for Jews: Reform
of Catholic Preaching and Teaching about Jews
Eugene J. Fisher
41. Establishing an Enduring Friendship: Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum and Cardinal
Johannes Willebrands
Judith Hershcopf Banki
42. Doing the Will of Our Father in Heaven: Orthodox Jewish Statements on
Jewish-Christian Relations
David Rosen
43. Rereading Dabru Emet and Its Successors: Jewish Statements on Christians
and Christianity
David Fox Sandmel
Appendix: Reading Dabru Emet and Its Successors: Jewish Statements on
Christians and Christianity
National Jewish Scholars Project (September 20, 2000)
44. Gathering the Fruits of a Half-Century on Reflection on the Shoah: The
Annual Scholars Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches
Marcia Sachs Littell
45. Attending to Complicity, Identity, and the Integrity of And: The Annual
Scholars Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches
Henry F. Knight
46. Repairing a Damaged Relationship: A Half-Century of Jewish-Lutheran
Dialogue
Darrell Jodock and Emily Soloff
Poem: Night Voices
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
47. Rethinking the Current Goal of Jewish-Christian
Relations: Reconsideration Rather Than Reconciliation
Amy-Jill Levine
48. Moving beyond Holy Wars: Interreligious Dialogue as a Tool for Forging
Sustainable Peace
Christoffer H. Grundmann
49. Creating Spiritual Remedies for Our Social Pathologies: Reflections of a
Religious Peacebuilder
Yehezkel Landau
50. Rejecting Revenge and Preserving Our Humanity: My Journey from the
Parents Circle to a Treatise on Peace
Yitzhak Frankenthal
Poem: Mending Wall
Robert Frost
51. Healing a Mothers Broken Heart: Letters to My Son and the Family of His
Assassin
Robi Damelin
52. Expanding Dialogue among Jews, Christians, and Muslims: A Step Closer to
Human Fraternity, World Peace, and Living Together
Cardinal Michael Fitzgerald, M.Afr.
53. Evaluating Jewish-Muslim Relations in the Middle Ages: Golden or
Ghastly?
Reuven Firestone
54. Outing White Supremacy as a Threat to Jews and Muslims: Strategies for
Confronting a Common Enemy
Salam Al-Marayati
55. Challenging Group Bias: Benefits of Contact and Dialogue among Jews,
Christians, and Muslims
Faisal Kutty
56. Educating Muslims about the Shoah: Memory and Meaning in Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam
Mehnaz M. Afridi
57. Knowing a Person by Her Actions to Help Others: The Discovery of the
Prophet in His People
Ingrid Mattson
58. Striving for Justice and Protecting Human Life: The Universality of
People-Centered Human Rights
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim
Photos: Building and Maintaining Beautiful Bridges: Brooklyn Bridge and
Golden Gate Bridge
Stained Glass: Stained Glass: Rainbow Shabbat
The Holocaust Project: From Darkness into Light
Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman
Part Six. Remembering for Our Future: The Shoah
Photos: Piercing the Darkness and Seeing Beyond the Shadows of the Shoah
Judy Glickman Lauder
Yellow Star, Theresienstadt
Railroad Tracks from Warsaw to Treblinka, Poland
Arbeit Macht Frei, Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany
Shoes, Auschwitz
Majdanek Death Camp, Poland
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland
Chimneys
Poem: O The Chimneys!
Nelly Sachs
59. Seeing within and beyond Shadows: A Memoir of a Personal Journey
Judy Glickman Lauder
60. Seeing Darkness and Light through a Camera Lens: Judy Glickman Lauders
Images of the Shoah
Michael Berenbaum
Multi-Media Art: The Holocaust Project: From Darkness into Light
Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman
Treblinka/Genocide, Detail
Wall of Indifference, Detail
Bones of Treblinka
A. Historical and Scientific Research
61. Studying the Holocaust: Why It Still Matters
Christopher R. Browning
62. Committing Makeshift Murder: The Disorganized Holocaust
Peter Hayes
63. Heeding Warnings from Holocaust History: The Perils of Fake News and
Statelessness
Timothy Snyder
64. Resisting Forced Labor in Warthegau and Galicia: A Tale of Two
Cemeteries
Martin C. Dean
65. Opposing and Protesting: Forgotten Individual Jewish Resistance in Nazi
Germany
Wolf Gruner
66. Meeting Himmler: Norbert Masurs Negotiation of the Release of Jewish
Women from Ravensbrück
Stanley A. Goldman
67. Confronting Evil: Ilya Ehrenburg and the Holocaust
Joshua Rubenstein
Poem: Kol Nidre
Abraham Sutzkever
68. Navigating Broad Seas and Difficult Straits: Michael Berenbaums Passage
from Tikkun Olam to Grey Zones
Jonathan Petropoulos
69. Honoring the Righteous Among the Nations: Yad Vashems Department of the
Righteous
Irena Steinfeldt
70. Searching for Goodness and Supporting Courage: The Jewish Foundation for
the Righteous
Stanlee J. Stahl
71. Saving Jewish Lives with Schutzpasses and Protected Houses: Carl Lutzs
Rescue Operation in Budapest
Susanne M. Reyto
72. Honoring Heroic Courage to Care: Lessons to Learn from Raoul Wallenberg
Irwin Cotler
73. Granting Visas for Life: Courageous and Righteous Diplomats
Eric Saul
74. Confronting a Mixed Record: The Italians and the Holocaust
Susan Zuccotti
75. Heeding Dangers of Holocaust Distortion in Eastern Europe: The Case of
Lithuania
Efraim Zuroff
76. Collaborating with Germany in the Final Solution: The Shoah in
Bulgarian-Occupied Greece
Paul Isaac Hagouel
77. Remembering an Orphan of Holocaust Studies: The Romaniote Jews of
Ioannina
Marcia Haddad Ikonopoulos
78. Listening to Sounds from Silence: Healing the Trauma of Child Holocaust
Survivors
Robert Krell
79. Hoping that A Remnant Shall Return: Survival of Displaced Persons
Abraham J. Peck
80. Discovering Memories My Parents Never Spoke Of: Silence, Nachas, and
Resilience in the Life of a Second-Generation Survivor
Rosalie Berger Levinson
81. Healing an On-Going Trauma: Burdens of the Second Generation
Klara Firestone
82. Opening a New Frontier in Holocaust Studies: New Approaches to Geoscience
and Archaeology
Richard A. Freund
83. Finding the Mass Graves of Jews Killed by Bullets: The Work of YahadIn
Unum
Patrick Desbois
B. Ethical, Philosophical, and Theological Reflections
84. Clarifying Shoah Historiography: Jewish Religious and Theological
Reflections
Zev Garber
85. Comparing Genocides: An Opportunity to Learn to Care about Humanity
Israel W. Charny
86. Defining Genocide and Preventing Future Genocides: Never Again for Any
Ethnic Group
Carol Rittner, RSM
87. Holding Important Issues in Tension: Uniqueness, Integration, and
Historical Context
Omer Bartov
88. Paying Attention to Antisemitism Today: Are Twenty-Nine Million Reasons
Enough?
Yehuda Bauer
89. Taking Alarm at American Nazis in a Virginia College Town: Racist and
Antisemitic Ideology, Rhetoric, and Symbols at the Charlottesville Rally
Deborah E. Lipstadt
Poem: Prayer for the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh
Alden Solovy
90. Coming to Terms with the Holocaust: Appearances and Truths in Germany
Günther Jikeli
C. Diplomatic, Legal, and Political Issues
91. Abandoning Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany: Evian, Kristallnacht, and
the SS St. Louis
Stuart E. Eizenstat
92. Recalling Nuremberg at Seventy-Five: The Greatest Criminal Trial in
Modern History
Michael Bazyler
Poem: A Wagon of Shoes /
Abraham Sutzkever
93. Remembering an Elided Ally: Soviet Contributions to the International
Military Tribunal
Francine Hirsch
94. Looming Larger Than Life: Benjamin Ferencz and the Nuremberg War Crimes
Trials
Hilary Earl
95. Learning from the Nuremberg Trials: Ongoing Lessons for Our World
Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella
96. Seeking Compensation for Slave and Forced Labor in World War II: A
History
Deborah Sturman
97. Blocking Claims for Restitution of Nazi-Looted Art: Judicial Abandonment
of Federal Policy in World War II
Jennifer Anglim Kreder
98. Finding Hope for Restitution of Nazi-Looted Art?: The Holocaust
Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2016
Raymond J. Dowd
99. Digitizing the Nazi Theft of European Jewish Culture: The Jewish Digital
Cultural Recovery Project
Deidre Berger and Wesley Fisher
100. Probing the Provenance of Nazi-Confiscated Art and Achieving Harmonious
Resolution of Conflicts: The Washington Principles and the Terezķn
Declaration
Richard Aronowitz and Eileen Brankovic
D. Memorials and Museums: Research Centers and Archives of Survivor
Testimony
Photos: Building a Living Museum, Learning Names, and Inviting Bystanders to
Become Upstanders
101. Probing What the Holocaust Has to Do with America: The United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum
Chaim Potok
102. Connecting with the Conscience of Museum Visitors: The Ethical
Orientation of the USHMM
Ralph Appelbaum and Paul Williams
103. Telling the Story, Getting It Right: The Permanent Exhibition of the
USHMM and the Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection
Raye Farr
104. Constructing Virtual Tombstones: The Photo Archive of the USHMM
Judith Cohen
105. Advancing Study and Teaching of the Holocaust: The Research Center of
the USHMM
Wendy Lower
106. Struggling to Preserve Memories: The Creation of the USHMM
Edward Tabor Linenthal
107. Making the Most Lethal Nazi Death Camp Unforgettable: The Construction
of the Belzec Memorial
Andrew Baker
108. Building a Living Museum in the Balkans: The Memorial of the Jews of
North Macedonia
Edward McGlynn Gaffney
Appendix: Museums and Exhibitions Curated, Designed, or Developed by Michael
Berenbaum
109. Reflecting on Loss, Memorial Art, and the Spaces in Between: The Berlin
Denkmal and New York Citys 9/11 Memorial
James E. Young
110. Giving Voice to Holocaust Survivors: Interviewers of the Shoah
Foundation
Karen Jungblut and Ari C. Zev
111. Preserving Survivor Testimony and Expanding Horizons of Holocaust
Education: USC Shoah Foundations Visual History Archive® and Documentary
Films
June Beallor
112. Domesticating Holocaust Memory: House and Home at the USHMM and USC
Shoah Foundation
Oren Baruch Stier
113. Thinking Oral Historically: Persons, Places, and Events in Holocaust
Testimony
Michael Nutkiewicz
E. Creative Arts: Poetry and Painting
Poets Poems
Frantiek Bass Garden of Roses, Like a Boy in Bloom
Dietrich Bonhoeffer Night Voices
Paul Celan Deathfugue
Paul Celan Nocturnally Pouting
Hannah Daniel They Sat in the Back
Pavel Friedmann The Butterfly
Pavel Friedmann Terezķn
Robert Frost Mending Wall
Jacob Glatstein I Have Never Been Here Before
Hirsh Glick Quiet, the Night is Full of Stars
James Weldon Johnson Lift Every Voice and Sing
Robert Krell god
Primo Levi Shema
Dan Pagis Written in Pencil in the Sealed Boxcar
Eva Pickovį Fear
Miklós Radnóti Root
Nelly Sachs Chorus of the Rescued
Nelly Sachs O! The Chimneys!
Nelly Sachs People of the Earth
Nelly Sachs What Secret Cravings of the Blood
Eva Schulzovį Evening in Terezķn
Alden Solovy Prayer for the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh
Abraham Sutzkever Burnt Pearls
Abraham Sutzkever How?
Abraham Sutzkever Kol Nidre
Abraham Sutzkever A Wagon of Shoes
Elie Wiesel Who Are You?
114. Searching for Language Beyond Words: Holocaust Poetry
Lawrence L. Langer
115. Defying Violence against Children: Poetry and Painting in the Terezķn
Ghetto
Lori R. Weintrob
116. Embracing Refugees of the Passover, the Shoah, and Our Own Times: Marc
Chagalls Exodus and the Crucified Jesus
Zac Koons
117. Listening with Love: My Fathers Visual and Narrative Memory
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
118. Demanding ActionNot Pity: The Holocaust Art of Arthur Szyk
Irvin Ungar
F. Music
119. Rescuing Music Composed in Concentration Camps: The Institute for
Concentrationary Musical Literature (ICML)
Francesco Lotoro
Appendix: Two Songs Composed in Concentration Camps
120. Preserving and Performing Jewish Music: The Los Angeles Jewish Symphony
Noreen Green
Appendix: Dachaulied (Dachau Song), Lyrics by Jura Soyfer, Music and English
Translation by Herbert Zipper
G. Cinema and Theater
121. Making Holocaust Films: Michael Berenbaums Cinematic Career
Lawrence Baron
Appendix: Filmography of Michael Berenbaum
122. Documenting a Complicated Story: Empty Boxcars and the Shoah in Bulgaria
and Its Occupied Territories
Edward McGlynn Gaffney
123. From Cursing Jews for the Death of Jesus to Blessing Our Brothers and
Sisters: The Revised Oberammergau Passion Play
Leonard J. Swidler
124. Searching for Ideas with Consequences: Illustrations of Holocaust
Insights from Cinema and Theater
John K. Roth
125. Honoring Persons with Courage to Care and Rejoicing in the Survival of
the Persons They Rescued: A Photo Essay on Rescuers and Survivors
The Editors
Poem: Shema
Primo Levi
Part Seven. Schmoozing with the Mishpacha: Letters from the Family and an
Afterword
126. Thanking Our Saba
Jeremy and Hannah Grinblat
127. Wondering How My Abba Does It
Mira Leza Berenbaum
128. Trading Insider Information on Best Dad Ever
Joshua Boaz Berenbaum
129. Honoring My Courageous Father
Philip Lev Bayer-Berenbaum
130. Appreciating My Favorite (and Only) Father-in-Law
Tal Grinblat
131. Sharing Spiritual Lessons from my Fathers Life: Reflections on Parshat
Reeh on Abbas 75th Birthday
Ilana Berenbaum Grinblat
132. Celebrating Michael
Melissa Patack
133. Rereading an Afterword: Things "The World Must (Still) Know"
Michael Berenbaum
Contributors
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Michael Berenbaum is a rabbi who lives for the healing of the world, a participant in interreligious dialogue, a teacher who learns most from his students, a scholar who revised an entire encyclopedia, a historian of the Shoah who seeks truths embedded in other genocides, an interviewer who empowered thousands of survivors to speak of their unbearable pain, a builder of museums that are living memorials, and a filmmaker who tells stories that move our hearts and souls.
Edward McGlynn Gaffney is a frequent contributor to the ASCHC. He formed a group of experts to offer historical guidance to Federal and State courts in cases involving claims of Nazi-looted art. He is producer-director of Empty Boxcars (a documentary on the Shoah in Bulgaria and occupied territories in Greece and North Macedonia) and Holy Land: Common Ground (a documentary on Israelis and Palestinians searching for peace).
Marcia Sachs Littell is Emeritus Professor at Stockton University, where she founded Americas first master of arts degree in Holocaust and genocide studies in a public university. Littell has written and edited dozens of books and articles and organized numerous conferences, workshops, and teacher training programs on the Holocaust. Engaged in interfaith work on the Shoah for decades, she is the immediate former president of the ASCHC.
Michael Bazyler is the 1939 Law Scholar in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies at Chapman University School of Law. He has written many books relating to law and the Holocaust, including Holocaust Justice: The Battle for Restitution in America's Courts (2003) and Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust (2014).
