Michael Feuer, at The Blogs

Michael Feuer

Educator and policy analyst

Apr 7, 2021, 2:16 PM

The half-baked hazards of simplifying the Holocaust

The author's father, German Jewish internee Otto Feuer of Buchenwald Concentration Camp, is interviewed following the camp's liberation by the US army in April 1945. (Screenshot)

Efforts to 'confront' the Shoah have led to junk science, distortions, and erasure of the historical record. And no, my father didn't have 'survivor syndrome'

Nov 24, 2019, 11:26 PM

Gordis v. Shulevitz: An Open Letter

Dear Daniel and Judith, I’ve known you for many years, and have admired greatly your contributions to Jewish life and literature. So in friendship I take the liberty to share some reactions to your recent exchange (here and here). You...

Sep 7, 2017, 3:29 AM

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What is it about The New Yorker?

Errors and omissions in David Remnick's critique of the Fauda TV series reflect a larger anti-Israel pattern

Apr 15, 2015, 8:00 PM

“Confronting” the Shoah

This is a slightly modified version of a speech I gave one year ago, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, before a group of approximately 250 military and civilians at the US Army National Guard Readiness Center, in Arlington, Virginia. When I...

About Me

Michael Feuer is Dean and Professor of Education Policy at the George Washington University, past co-chair of the Collaborative for Applied Studies in Jewish Education, Chair of the Advisory Group on Evaluation and Strategy of the Jewish Agency, immediate past-president of the National Academy of Education, and nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. This essay is based on a speech he gave at the US Army National Guard Readiness Center, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2014)

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