Building Bridges Among Abraham’s Children - A Celebration of Michael Berenbaum

"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"--

List of contents

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 Berenbaum’s 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 One’s 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 
Eugène 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 30–31)
Burton L. Visotzky 

11. Marking Jewish Identity in a Famous Memoir: Page One of Elie Wiesel’s 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 Matthew’s 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 God’s 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 God’s Name in Public Fora: Rabbis Protesting on the Streets, in Congress, and in a Cemetery against Genocide, Racism, and Modern Warfare, 1943–1968 

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 Friendship—Auschwitz, 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 Churches—Ten 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 Mother’s 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-Na’im

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 Lauder’s 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 Masur’s 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 Berenbaum’s Passage from Tikkun Olam to Grey Zones 
Jonathan Petropoulos

69. Honoring the Righteous Among the Nations: Yad Vashem’s 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 Lutz’s 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 Yahad—In 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 / א פור פון שיכלעך
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 Terezín 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 City’s 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 Foundation’s 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
František 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 “Terezín”
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 Picková “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 Schulzová “Evening in Terezín”
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 Terezín Ghetto 
Lori R. Weintrob 

116. Embracing Refugees of the Passover, the Shoah, and Our Own Times: Marc Chagall’s Exodus and the Crucified Jesus
Zac Koons

117. Listening with Love: My Father’s Visual and Narrative Memory
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 

118. Demanding Action—Not 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 Berenbaum’s 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 Father’s Life: Reflections on Parshat Re’eh on Abba’s 75th Birthday
Ilana Berenbaum Grinblat

132. Celebrating Michael 
Melissa Patack

133. Rereading an Afterword: Things "The World Must (Still) Know"
Michael Berenbaum

Contributors
Copyright Notices and Permissions
Index

About the author

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 America's first master of arts degree in Holocaust and genocide studies. 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).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Michael Bazyler (Editor), Edward McGlynn Gaffney (Editor), Marcia Sachs Littell (Editor), Jeffrey Herbst (Foreword), Richard L. Rubenstein (Foreword)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 13.08.2024, delayed
• EAN: 9798887195780
• ISBN: 979-8-88719-578-0
• No. of pages: 970
• Illustrations: farbige Illustrationen
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; RELIGION / Judaism / History, History of Religion, The Holocaust, Interfaith relations, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust