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Monique Mogyoros

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Jun 25, 2026, 2:34 PM

Mamdani’s ‘monsters’: A warning sign for democracy?

Lev Radin, Shutterstock

Can America's fragile experiment withstand the political antisemitism Hannah Arendt saw as a warning sign of democratic decline?

Nov 17, 2024, 4:09 PM

The Warning of 1939

Since 1945 the world has struggled to understand why Germany followed the Nazis into the Holocaust. What gave an ideology the parasitic dissemination and backing of armed forces seventeen million strong? With the rapid increase in worldwide antisemitism and...

Sep 18, 2024, 11:00 PM

An ode to antisemitism

Antisemitism is a shapeshifter. History has taught us that. It is visionary, creative, trailblazing, brilliant and clever. It is manipulative, calculating, cunning, and slick. It is furtive, picking up old tropes with generational presence and gravitas and repackaging, reprogramming...

Oct 29, 2023, 1:01 PM

Footsteps of Genocide

Buchenwald survivors arrive in Haifa, July 15, 1945. (public domain)

Herman Kempinsky (later changed his name to Zeiring) refused to face the camera when he gave his Holocaust testimony to Claude Lanzmann, the French filmmaker best known for his nine-and-a-half-hour film Shoah, a film of oral Holocaust testimony...

May 14, 2023, 8:51 PM

A Case for Holocaust Education in the Fight Against Antisemitism

Reverend Makota Otsuka, Chairman of the Holocaust Education Center in Fukuyama, Japan, has devoted his life to teaching the Holocaust in a country with no considerable Jewish population and no history of a Jewish community being destroyed. After a chance...

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About Me

Monique lives in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania, with her family. She earned her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and is the co-founder of the Yeshiva University Emil A. and Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. She currently teaches Holocaust and antisemitism studies at Yeshiva University.