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Aug 16, 2024, 8:24 PM

Can a museum – any museum – ‘eliminate hate?’

Visitors view the eternal flame in the Hall of Remembrance at the US Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC on March 19, 2015. (Eliyahu Parypa via iStock)

True, Holocaust museums are at a crossroads, just not the way Edward Rothstein thinks they are

Feb 1, 2024, 9:45 AM

Lawrence Langer: An Appreciation (1929-2024)

Lawrence Langer (1929–2024) was the foremost scholar of the Holocaust in the field of literature and testimony. The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination (1975), his first work on the Holocaust, was followed by The Age of Atrocity: Death in Modern Literature...

Oct 25, 2023, 4:00 AM

Then and Now

By Michael Berenbaum and Gilbert Kahn -- When they began to operate in the spring 1942, they had a capacity of 800. By the time they were operating at full efficiency in 1943, 2000 Jews could be murdered in each of...

Aug 22, 2023, 7:24 AM

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Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies and Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles, author and Emmy-Award Filmmaker. Former Project Director overseeing the creation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and former President and CEO of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation.