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DR. DENNIS B. KLEIN
1178 West Laurelton Parkway, Teaneck, NJ 07666. Tel. (201) 783-5393.
Certification
Philosopher practitioner, certified by the American Philosophical Practitioners Association
Current appointment
Visiting scholar, Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University (2023-2024)
Full-time appointments
Kean University Professor emeritus (current)
Kean University Professor of History (1996-2023)
Kean University Director, MA in Holocaust and Genocide Studies (2010-2023)
Kean University Director, Jewish Studies (1998-2023)
Anti-Defamation League, Braun Center for Holocaust Studies and the Hidden Child Foundation, Founding Director (1984-1993)
New York University Dorot Assistant Professor, Department of History (1981-1984)
Sabbatical leave visiting appointments
George Mason University Carter School for Peace & Conflict Resolution visiting scholar (2023)
Columbia University visiting scholar (2014-15)
University College London research fellow, Dept. of Hebrew/Jewish Studies (2006)
Oxford University visiting scholar, Center for Hebrew/Jewish Studies (2006)
Visiting research appointments
CUNY Graduate Center research scholar, Center for Jewish Studies (1995-96)
Harvard University post-doctoral fellow, Center for European Studies (1979-81)
University of Vienna Fulbright dissertation fellow (1974-1975)
BOOKS in the intellectual, cultural, and social history of modern Europe; in the history and psychology of the Jewish people in Europe and America; genocide and transitional justice in comparative perspective; human rights and social innovation
Survivor Transitional Narratives of Nazi Era Destruction: The Second Liberation. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2018/PB 2019. (For a panel discussion, click here)
Societies Emerging from Conflict: The Aftermath of Atrocity (Editor). New York: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
The Genocidal Mind (Editor). New York: Paragon House, 2005.
Dominant and Dormant History (Co-Editor). Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt, 2002.
Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto (in collaboration with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum). Boston: Little, Brown (Bulfinch), l997.
The Holocaust in Books and Films: A Selected Annotated List. New York: Hippocrene, l986.
Jewish Origins of the Psychoanalytic Movement. New York: Praeger, 1981/University of Chicago Press, 1985.
* Recipient of Choice citation, "Outstanding Academic Book”
* A New York Times Book Review "Notable Book"
* Portuguese translation of excerpts in Psicanálise e Judaísm, Editora Fi, 2021.
American Deeds - Jewish Dreams: A Study of the American Jewish Movement, 1916-1955. Waltham, MA: American Jewish Historical Society, 1980.
GENERAL EDITOR
Library of Holocaust Studies (ADL Braun Ctr. for Holocaust Studies)
The End of Innocence: Anne Frank and the Holocaust (1989).
Days of Remembrance: An Observance Guide (in collaboration with the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (l990)
Nazism: A Study of Racial Tyranny (1991)
Justice After Atrocity Online Monthly Newsletter (2019-Present/480 subscribers a/o Jan. 2022)
Associate Editor, State of New Jersey Holocaust Education Curriculum (l996)
Founding Editor and Editor in Chief, Dimensions: A Journal of Holocaust Studies, (1985-2001)
* Recognized by the Chronicle of Higher Education
* Recipient of awards from the International Society of Illustrators (l988) and the Visual Club of New York, a national competition (l995)
Comparative Studies Journal, Series Editor (2003-2014) Ebook: http://facultyseminar.kean.edu/
Contributing Editor
Jewish American History and Culture: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Jack Fischel
and Sanford Pinsker. New York and London: Garland, 1992.
The Blackwell Companion to Jewish Culture: From the Eighteenth Century to
the Present, Ed. Glenda Abramson. Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell, 1989.
SCHOLARLY ARTICLES For links to articles, click here
“Banning Books and the Suppression of Peoples’ Speech” edited by Dennis Klein,
Congress of Nations and States (CNS) Culture and Society/Justice Commission, 2024.
"The Rupture of Relationships: Holocaust Survivors on Complicit Bystanders,” Violence: An International Journal (2023)
“Searching for Humanity After Crimes Against Humanity,” introduction to special issue of Violence: An International Journal (forthcoming, October 2023)
“Proud Boys and U.S. Capitol Police: Rethinking Conflict Dynamics of the January 6th Insurrection” (with Daniel Rothbart), in Conflict Resolution Quarterly, forthcoming
“The Injustice of Negligence: Holocaust Survivors and the Incrimination of Bystanders in the 1960s,” in Justice After Atrocity, edited by Chunhui Peng and Henry Theriault. New York: Routledge, forthcoming.
“The New Pedagogy: The Online Medium and the Bystander Message for Generation Z,” Prism: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators, forthcoming.
“Violence and Violations: Betrayal Narratives in Atrocity Accounts,” in Conceptualizing Mass Violence: Representations, Recollections, and Reinterpretations edited by Navras J. Aafreedi. NewYork: Routledge, 2021.
“The Rise of the Bystander as Complicit Historical Actor,” Psyche online magazine, 2020.
“The Negotiable Society,” Societies Emerging from Conflict: The Aftermath of Atrocity, ed. Dennis Klein. New York: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
“Seen and Unseen” in Memory Is Our Home: Loss and Remembering. Edited by Suzanna Eibuszyc. Stuttgart, Ibidem Verlag. 2015. In Polish as Pamięć Jest Naszą Ostoją. Warsaw: Prószyński i S-ka, 2016.
“Rank Contra Freud: Freud’s Frau Doni Dream and the Struggle for the Soul of Psychoanalysis,” The Annual of Psychoanalysis 38 (2015), 40-51.
“Forgive and Remember: Jeffrey M. Blustein’s Forgiveness and Remembrance: Remembering Wrongdoing in Personal and Public Life,” Dialogues of Historical Justice and Memory 43 (2014)
“Violence and Violations: Voices of the Witnesses,” Guest Editor, Historical Reflections/Reflexions Historiques 39, no. 2 (2013).
“Micro-Annihilation,” Guest editor introduction to issue theme, “Violence and Violations: Voices of the Witnesses,” Historical Reflections/Reflexions Historiques 39, no. 2 (2013), 1-6.
“Locality and the Hidden Realities of Genocide,” in Historical Reflections/Reflexions Historiques, 39, no. 2 (2013), 30-39.
“Postscript: Otto Rank’s Reinterpretation of Freud’s 1905 ‘Frau Doni’ Dream.” In E. James Lieberman, Inside Psychoanalysis: The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 2012.
"Mario and the Magician," The Literature of Propaganda. Ed. Thomas Riggs. Vol. 3: Distortions & Delusions. Detroit: St. James Press, 2012.
“Resentment and Recognition: Toward a New Conception of Humanity in Améry’s At the Mind’s Limits.” In On Jean Améry: Philosophy of Catastrophe, ed. Magdalena Zolkos. New York: Lexington Books, 2011, 87-107. Reprinted in The Highest Form of Wisdom: Jewish Studies Presented to Saul S. Friedman on the Occasion of His 75th Birthday. New York: Ktav, 2015 (http://www.ktav.com/index.php/the-highest-form-of-wisdom.html)
“‘Intimate Killing’: Reassessing Genocidal ‘Intent to Destroy’” (with Monique Eckmann), A Contextual View of Genocidal Intent, ed. Paul Behrens and Olaf Jensen. Leicester, UK: School of Law, University of Leicester, 2011.
“Trauma and Forgiveness,” In Proceedings of the 7th Annual Rocky Mountain Disaster Mental Health Conference, ed. George W. Doherty. Laramie, WY: Rocky Mountain Region Disaster Mental Health Institute, Inc., 2009.
“Forgiveness and History: A Reinterpretation of Post-Conflict Testimony.” In Memory, Narrative, and Forgiveness: Perspectives on the Unfinished Journey of the Past, ed. Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, 113-29.
“Freud’s Little Secret: Birthday Musings on ‘The Master’ at 150,” Yale Review. Vol. 95, no. 3. July, 2007.
“The Movies: Notes on the Ethnic Origins of an American Obsession.” In Jews in American Popular Culture. Volume 1. Ed. Paul Buhle. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007.
“Antisemitism: A Modern Canon.” Report of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Oxford, UK: Biddles Ltd., 2006. Reprinted in Representations of Genocide and Resistance, ed. Julia Nevarez, >www.kean.edu/~facsem<, 2006.
“Justice Matters: Legacies of the Holocaust and World War II,” Rev. H-Net Reviews >www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews<, October 23, 2005.
“‘Jewishness’ and the World of ‘Difference’ in the United States,” American Jewish History. Vol. 90, no. 1. March, 2002.
“Creating a New Judaism in America,” Rev. Avi Chai (e-journal) (November 2001)
"Thinking About the Holocaust After a Half Century," German Politics and Society (18,2), Summer 2000.
"Dimensions Magazine: Wrestling with Memory," Encyclopedia of Genocide (Jerusalem: Hebrew University Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide, 1999)
"Holocaust," Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing (London and Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn,1999).
"The Fate of Holocaust Literature," Handbook of Holocaust Literature, ed. Saul Friedman (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993).
"America and the Holocaust," Jewish American History and Culture, ed. J. Fischel and S. Pinsker (New York and London: Garland, 1992).
"Sigmund Freud," "Otto Rank," and "Jews in Psychoanalysis," The Blackwell Companion to Jewish Culture, ed.G. Abramson (Oxford and Cambridge: Basil Blackwell, 1989).
"Marx: Economist, Philosopher, Jew," Rev. Religious Studies Review (1989).
"Foreword," Human Rights Education: The Holocaust (Virginia Department of Education, 1987).
"Freud's Unique Relationship with His Brethren in the Vienna Lodge," International Jewish Monthly (October, 1983).
"Jewish Responses to Anti-Semitism in Germany, 1870-1914," Rev. American Historical Review (June, 1981).
"Assimilation and Dissimilation," New German Critique (Winter, 1980).
"Gershom Scholem: Kabbalah and Counter-History," Rev. American Historical Review (February, 1980).
"Germany, Turkey, and Zionism," Rev. Journal of Modern History (June 1980).
"Assimilation and the Demise of the Liberal Political Tradition in Vienna: 1860-1914," Jews and Germans from 1860 to 1933: The Problematic Symbiosis, ed. David Bronsen (Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitaetsverlag, 1979).
Dimensions essays "The Holocaust and Its Impact," (Vol. 1, No.1); "The People Next Door," (Vol. 1, No. 2); "Court Records and the Historical Record," (Vol. 2, No. 1); "In the Shadow of Terror," (Vol. 2, No.2); "Remembering and Forgetting," (Vol. 2, No.3); "Self-Exonerating Memories," (Vol. 3, No.1); "Peripheral Vision," (Vol. 3, No. 2);"The Exceptional Intervention," (Vol. 3, No. 3); "The Past Recaptured," (Vol. 4, No. 1); 3); "The 1990s," (Vol. 5, No. 1); "Scientific Vanity," (Vol. 5, No. 2); "History's Memory Hole," (Vol. 6, No. 1); "The Collective Voice of America," (Vol. 6, No. 2); "The Hidden Child: A New Chapter," (Vol. 6, No. 3); "Rescued from Oblivion" (The Hidden Child, Part II), (Vol. 7, No.1); "A Great Turn: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising After 50 Years," (Vol. 7, No. 2); "A National Drama: The Rescue of Danish Jews, 50 Years Later," (Vol. 7, No. 3); "History Vs. Fiction: Facets of Holocaust Denial," (Vol. 8, No. l); "America's Agony," (Vol. 8, No.2); "The Legacy of Liberation," (Vol. 9, No.1); "The State of Holocaust Education," (Vol.9, No.2);"Defining America: The Roosevelt Era," (Vol.10, No.1); "Totalitarian Science," (Vol. 10, No. 2); "Neutrality and Duplicity" (Swiss Banks), (Vol. 11, No. 1)
National Reports
"Building One Nation: Race, Ethnicity, and Public Policy, Part I: The Jewish-Black Encounter" (co-author), New York: National Jewish Council for Public Affairs, 1999.
"Building One Nation: Race, Ethnicity, and Public Policy, Part II: The Jewish-Latino Encounter" (co-author), New York: National Jewish Council for Public Affairs, 2000.
Newspaper/Television/Radio/Film related to research
"The Will to Forget," New York Times, May 5, 1986.
"Forgetting the Unforgettable," Los Angeles Herald Examiner, May 6, 1986.
"Historical and Cultural Links in Teaching About the Holocaust," St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch, August 24, 1986.
"Nazis' Holocaust Has Gone Public," The Houston Post, April 30, 1987.
"Seeking a Common Viewpoint," Bergen Record (New Jersey), Feb. 10, 2000.
"The Nuremberg Laws," television interview for The History Channel's "History Lost and Found" series; first broadcast: March 2000.
“Rabin: Assassination in Historical and Psychological Perspective,” television interview for Israeli television, 2003.
“Freud and Other Jews,” radio interview for Spectrum Radio (London), 2006.
“Freud and Religion,” radio interview for the BBC World Service (London), 2006
“The New Social Contract,” 6-part series for the Anglo-Jewish wire service Jewish Telegraphic Agency (January-June, 2006)
“Does Citizenship Require Conformity?,” Star Ledger (New Jersey), August 20, 2006.
“Extraordinary Nostalgia,” review essay on Joachim Prinz, Rebellious Rabbi: An Autobiography – The German and Early American Years, in The Forward, February 6, 2008 at https://forward.com/culture/12619/extraordinary-nostalgia/
“Kristallnacht: Reflections on Late Empires,” The Record (New Jersey), November 10, 2011
“Holocaust and Genocide Studies,” SOMA-TV (New Jersey) interview, March 13, 2012 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkRupOU0UV4&authuser=0
“To Combat Syrian Genocide, American Voices Must Be Heard,” Star-Ledger (New Jersey), June 18, 2012
“America's Journey: New Jersey Jews and the Origins of the Motion Picture Industry," first lecture in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection (Newark, NJ) series on Jewish-American culture (Newark, 2013)
“Fighting Our Numbness to World Atrocities,” Star-Ledger (New Jersey),” August 18, 2013
The Power of Dreaming Small (documentary on human rights and Fair Trade), Executive Producer. 2013.
“Unforgettable and Unforgivable: Narratives of Betrayal in Holocaust Survivors’ Memoirs,” radio interview on TLV1 Israeli radio, December 9, 2014, at TLV1 Interview
“The Trump Within – Reminiscences of Weimar,” The Record (New Jersey), March 22, 2016.
“Protest and Prayer to Inspire a 21st-Century Civil Rights Movement,” Jewish Standard, August 16, 2018
“Degrees of Separation to Violence,” The Record, November 3, 2018
“Jews in the Modern World,” Red River Radio interview August 22, 2019
“New Zealand Is Now News – and So Are We,” Jewish Standard, March 29, 2019
“As We Battle Social Justice, Give Anger a Chance,” USA Today network, June 16, 2020.
“Lest We Forget the Bystander,” USA Today network, July 4, 2021.
WORK IN PROGRESS
The Construction of the Complicit Bystander (book)
“The January 6th Insurrection: Rethinking Conflict Dynamics” (Article with D. Rothbart)
“Mitigating Volatility in Conflict Circumstances (A George Mason University-Liberty University Encounter Project)
SCHOLARLY CONFERENCE and ONE-OFF PRESENTATIONS
“Banning Books and the Suppression of Peoples’ Speech,” a report presented to the convening council of the Congress of Nations and States (CNS) (March 2024)
“The Consequences of State-Centric Suppression,” Congress of Nations and States (CNS) Academic Conference (Virtual, 2023)
“What Were Bystanders to Persecution Thinking? A Photographic Essay,” Salve Regina University (Newport, RI, 2023)
“The Centrality of Threat-Perceptions in Protracted Violent Conflict,” George Mason University Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution (Arlington, VA, 2023)
“The Rupture of Relationships: A History of Bystander Incrimination,” George Mason University Modern History Workshop (Fairfax, VA, 2023)
“Noticing, Incriminating, Incorporating: The Evolution of Bystander Construction,” Georgetown University (Washington, DC, 2023)
“Bystanders: The Role of Civil Society in Circumstances of Conflict,” Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University (New York, NY, 2023)
“Solidarity Without Consensus: Re-Imagining Humanity After Atrocities in Transpacific Context” (discussant), Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University (New York, NY, 2023)
“Rethinking Conflict: The Role of Bystanders,” National Trust Network Symposium on Social Cohesion and Security (Virtual, 2022)
“The Origin of Bystander Incrimination in Late 20th Century America,” Salve Regina University (Newport, RI, 2022)
"Holocaust Memory and the Construction of the Complicit Bystander," Society of Jewish Ethics (Remote conference, Costa Mesa, CA, 2022)
“The Rise of the Bystander as Complicit Historical Actor,” Hobart and William Smith Colleges (Geneva, NY, 2022)
“The Invisible Third: The Ascendant Critique of Bystanders and Its Holocaust Subtext in the 1960s,” The North American Chapter for the History of Emotions, George Mason University (Fairfax, VA, 2022)
“Violence and Violations,” Conceptualizing Mass Violence webinar, hosted by Universidad Iberoamericana (Webinar, Mexico City, 2021)
“Atrocity and the Construction of the Complicit Bystander,” Narrating the Holodomor: The Social and Cultural History of Collectivization and Famine in Soviet Ukraine, (Remote conference, Edmonton, 2021)
“Bystanders: Reevaluating Proximity to the Holocaust,” Association of Jewish Studies conference, respondent (San Diego, 2019)
“The Invisible Third: The Ascendant Critique of Bystanders and Its Holocaust Subtext in the 1960s,” Association of Jewish Studies conference (San Diego, 2019) For a précis, click here.
“Victims’ Conceptions of Transitional Societies,” Columbia University Ninth Annual Conference of the Historical Dialogues, Justice, and Memory Network (New York, 2019)
“Witnesses’ Counter-Narratives: Reworking Relationships After Atrocity,” 9/11 Memorial and Museum Mellon Conference (New York, NY, 2019)
“Denial, Standing By, and the Birth of Memory: The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial,” University of North Carolina [accepted not delivered] (Charlotte, NC, 2019)
“Witnesses to Genocide: Bystanders and the Subversion of the Social Contract,” Yale University (New Haven, CT, 2018)
“The Beginning of the Survivor Memoir Tradition: The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial,” 35th Annual Millersville University conference (Millersville, PA, 2018)
“Reimagining Holocaust Education on Campus and in the Community,” Association for Jewish Studies Conference (Washington, DC, 2017)
“Witnesses: ‘Maybe Again,’” Columbia University Seventh Annual Conference of the Historical Dialogues, Justice, and Memory Network (New York, 2017)
"Abandonment: The Refugee Crisis, 1938/2017," University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, 2017)
“Why Holocaust Survivors Didn’t Forgive (or Did They?),” Temple Tifereth Israel (Cleveland, 2017) at http://ttti.org/resources/2013-09-16-17-34-57/hartzmark-room-live-streaming-2 (Click and click again at “previous broadcasts.” Scroll down and then to 5/26/17 (start at 24:00) and 5/27/17 (start at 11:40)
“Moral Survival After Atrocity,” Mass Violence and Memory conference via Skype (New Delhi, India, 2016)
“Longing and Belonging: Betrayal Narratives in Holocaust Witnesses’ Accounts,” Association for Jewish Studies Conference (San Diego, 2016)
"Betrayal: Reading Survivors' Accounts Against the Grain," CUNY Graduate Center (New York, 2016)
“Can Societies Move Forward After Mass Violence?,” Ethical Culture Society (Teaneck, 2016)
“The Renegotiated Society,” plenary talk at the 34th Annual Millersville University conference (Millersville, PA, 2016)
“Deep Transitions,” Rutgers University Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights symposium, “Reflections in the Aftermath of War and Genocide,” (Newark, NJ, 2015)
“Forbidden Films,” Berkshire Jewish Film Festival (Lenox, 2015)
“Intimate Killing: Witnesses’ Counter-Narratives of Betrayal and Forgiveness,” International Network of Genocide Scholars conference (Cape Town, 2014)
"The Hard Power of Forgiveness: Reassessing Holocaust Survivors' Memoirs," South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation and University of Cape Town Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (Cape Town, 2014)
“The World Is Not the Same: Narratives of Betrayal in Holocaust Survivors’ Accounts,” Tel Aviv University (Tel Aviv, 2014) at TLV1
“Betrayal in Historical Context: The Shoah and the Conceptual Revision of Forgiveness,” International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem (Jerusalem, 2014)
“Aftermath: Genocide Memory in Poland,” Berkshire Jewish Film Festival (Lenox, 2014)
“Negotiating the Holocaust: Exploring Witnesses’ Accounts in Comparative Perspective,” Annual Scholars Conference (Los Angeles, 2014)
“Post-Traumatic Repair,” New York University (New York, 2014)
“Witnesses and the Hidden Realities of Genocide,” 33rd Annual Millersville University Conference (Millersville, PA, 2014)
“The Poverty of Reason: Thomas Mann’s ‘Mario and the Magician,’” Thinking Publicly: A Conference on Public Intellectuals (Drew University, 2013)
"The Genocidal Encounter: Thoughts on Betrayal and the Human Community," Psychology and the Other conference (invited speaker – respondent: Kitty J. Millet, San Francisco State University) (Cambridge, MA, 2013)
“The Stakes of Holocaust Education: Three Questions,” Scholar’s Conference think tank (Los Angeles, 2013)
"From Below: What Witnesses Tell Us About Human Rights Protections," Adam Mickiewicz University – Graduate Program in Human Rights and Democratisation (Poznan, Poland, 2012)
"Violence and Violation: The Voices of the Witnesses,” Adam Mickiewicz University - Department of Hebrew, Aramaic and Karaite Studies (Poznan, Poland, 2012)
“The Kovno Ghetto ‘From Within’ and ‘From Below.’” Association for Jewish Studies conference (Washington, DC, 2011)
“‘Intimate Killing’: Reassessing Genocidal ‘Intent to Destroy,’” A Contextual View of Genocidal Intent conference (Leicester, UK, 2011)
“Betrayal: Recognition and Non-Recognition in the Traumatic Encounter,” Psychology and the Other conference – dedicated session with Marilyn Charles (Austen Riggs Center) as respondent (Cambridge, MA, 2011)
“Victims of Proximate Assault: Re-Reading Post-Traumatic Testimonies,” Lorry I. Lokey Lecture at Portland State University (Portland, 2011). (Start at 2:35)
“Creating Another America: Jews in the Early Motion Picture Industry,” Association for Jewish Studies (Boston, 2010)
“Holocaust Pedagogy in the University Setting,” Chair and presenter, Association for Jewish Studies (Boston, 2010)
“Jewish-American Dream-Making in the Early Motion Picture Industry,” Wayne State University (Detroit, 2010).
“Traumatic Betrayal and Its Vicissitudes,” Columbia-Presbyterian Clinic Grand Rounds (New York, 2010)
“Victims of Local Assault and Narratives of Recognition in Post-Traumatic Testimonies,” German Studies Association (Oakland, 2010)
“Transnational Historiography of the Holocaust: A Roundtable on Jeffrey Herf's Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World,” German Studies Association (Oakland, 2010)
“The Future of Holocaust Education,” Yeshiva University (New York, 2010)
“Living with Genocide: Expressions of Forgiveness in Post-Traumatic Testimonies,” Keynote Address, 29th Annual Millersville University Conference (Millersville, PA., 2009)
“Witnesses, Narratives and Counter-Narratives: Re-Reading Simon Wiesenthal and Jean Améry,” CUNY Graduate Center (New York, 2009)
“Forgiveness in Holocaust Survivor Testimonies,” University of Wyoming (Laramie, 2008)
“Forgiveness and Trauma,” Rocky Mountain Disaster Mental Health Association (Laramie, WY, 2008)
“The Secret Life of Forgiveness: Re-Reading Holocaust Survivor Memoirs,” Association for Jewish Studies (Washington, DC, 2008)
“‘Deep Memory’ Testimony: Origins of Forgiveness,” Creativity and Madness Conference (Santa Fe, 2008)
“The Present Moral Climate of Forgiveness.” Two-Part Seminar, Lakeside (Ohio) Chautuaqua Forum (2008)
“70 Years Later: Kristallnacht and the Question of Forgiveness,” Ocean Community College Holocaust Commemoration keynote (Ocean, NJ, 2008)
“Evidence of Forgiveness in Texts That Deny It,” University of Colorado (Boulder, 2007)
“The Jewish Subculture in the Nascent U.S. Film Industry,” Center for Jewish History (New York, 2007)
“Seeking Another Paradigm for ‘Deep Memory’: Forgiveness in Holocaust Survivor Testimonies,” featured paper in dedicated session, Social Science History Association (Chicago, 2007)
“The Holocaust and the Question of Forgiveness,” Truth and Reconciliation Commission 10th Anniversary Conference on “Memory, Narrative, and Forgiveness,” University of Cape Town (Cape Town, South Africa, 2006)
“The Return of Repressed Memory: Freud and Other Jews at the Genesis of Psychoanalysis,” The Wiener Library (London, 2006)
“Antisemitism: A Modern Canon,” Oxford University Yarnton Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (Oxford, UK, 2006)
“Jews and Jersey: Origins of the Motion Picture Industry,” University of Kent (Kent, UK, 2006)
“Freud and Judaism: Some Observations on Denial, Distortion, and Illumination,” Anna Freud Centre (London, 2006)
“Freud's Struggle with Judaism,” Leo Baeck College (London, 2006)
“The Conversion Fantasy in Modern Jewish History,” European Studies Centre of St. Antony's College, Oxford University (Oxford, UK, 2006)
“The Hand of Compassion: Portraits of Moral Choice During the Holocaust,” Social Science History Association (Portland, OR, 2005)
”Befangenheit ist das normale: German/Jewish and Jewish/German Relations Today,” Moderator, Association for Jewish Studies (Chicago, 2004)
“Jan Gross’s Neighbors: An Assessment,” Social Science History Association (Chicago, 2004)
“Rethinking the Holocaust Without Lessons,” Social Science History Association (Baltimore, 2003)
“’Deep Anxiety and Other Urges Behind Holocaust Studies,” Social Science History Association” (St. Louis, 2002)
“Survivalism and the Rise of Popular Interest in the Holocaust Era,” Graduate Center, City University of New York (New York, 2002)
“The Media, the Holocaust, and Human Rights,” Keynote Address dedicating Monroe Community College Holocaust and Human Rights Center (Rochester, 2002)
“Revolution, War, Genocide: Competing Narratives,” University of Rochester (Rochester, 2002)
“The Holocaust, the Media, and Human Rights,” Manhattanville College (Purchase, NY, 2002)
“The ‘Recovered Memory’ Movement,” Ctr. for Jewish Studies (New York, 2001)
“Freud and Moses,” A Two-Day Seminar, The Jewish Theological Seminary of America (New York, 2001)
“Freud: The Jew Within and Without,” Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute (Chicago, 2001)
“Returning Home: The Decline of ‘Lessons’ in Holocaust Inquiry,” Social Science History Association (Chicago, 2001)
“Cutting Edge in Holocaust Scholarship,” Moderator, 31st Annual Scholars Conference (Philadelphia, 2001)
"A Generation of Memory," Keynote Address, Association of Holocaust Organizations (Kansas City, 2000)
"Rethinking Jewish Studies," Association for Jewish Studies (Boston, 2000)
"American Jewish Exceptionalism: New Considerations,” Annual Joshua L. Trachtenberg Memorial Lecture (Teaneck, NJ, 2000)
"The Myth of the Hidden Jew," Association for Jewish Studies (Boston, 1998)
"The Perilous Quest for Pure Art," "Remembering and Forgetting the Holocaust," and "The Kovno Ghetto." Three-Part Seminar, Lakeside (Ohio) Chautuaqua Forum (1998)
"Kristallnacht and Other Relentless Memories," Fairleigh Dickenson University (New Jersey, 1997)
"Denial, Evasions, and Malaise" and "Forgiveness and the Future," Two-Part University President’s Lecture, Kean University (Union, NJ, l996)
"The Holocaust and Modern Memory" and "Rethinking the Human Condition." Two-Part Seminar, Lakeside (Ohio) Chautuaqua Forum (l995)
"The Holocaust: A History of Memory," Graynor Memorial Lecture (Columbus, 1994)
"The Rewriting of Modern Jewish History, 1890-1990," Tulane University (New Orleans, 1993)
"The Role of Memory," Moderator, Wittenberg University (Springfield, OH, 1993)
"Medical Ethics and the Third Reich," Moderator, Boston College (Boston, 1993)
"Patterns of Coercion: The Sonderlager," Moderator, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, DC, 1993).
"Holocaust Reverberations," 92nd Street Y (New York, 1992).
"Freud and the Jews of Vienna," Sarah Lawrence College (New York, 1991).
"November 9th in German Memory," Graduate Center, City University of New York (New York, 1990).
"When 'The Holocaust' Went Public," Moderator, Association for Jewish Studies (Boston, 1989).
"Near-Sighted Visions of Redemption: The Case of Freud," 92nd Street Y (New York, 1989).
"Remembering and Forgetting," Keynote Address, Eight Annual Millersville University Conference (Millersville, PA., 1989).
"Where Do We Go From here?" Symposium on Austrians and Jews (New York, 1988).
"The Will to Forget," Keynote Address, Kent State University (Cleveland, 1987).
"Jewish Renewal and Intellectual Awakening in the Psychoanalytic Movement," University of Chicago (Chicago, 1986).
"The Burden of the Holocaust," CUNY Graduate Center (New York, 1986).
"The Isolation of Holocaust Studies in the Academic Curriculum," Yale University (New Haven, 1984).
"Biographical Evidence in the Mentor-Protégé Relationship," New York Institute for the Humanities (New York, 1984).
"Der Künstler and Early Revisions of Freudian Libido Theory," Conference on the Occasion of Otto Rank's Centennial, Hunter College (New York, 1984).
"Important Trends in Modern Jewish History," Cycle of Annual Lectures, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (New York, 1981, 1982, 1983).
"Jewish Self-Images and Creativity in the Psychoanalytic Movement," Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass. 1981).
"A Psychology of Jewish Survival in Modern Times," Queens Coll.(New York, 1981)
"Nazi Propaganda," respondent, Int'l Soc. of Political Psychology (Boston, 1980).
"The History and Literature of the Holocaust," respondent, Western Association of German Studies (Stanford University, 1979).
"Psychoanalytic Nonrationality During World War I, "Symposium on Germany in Cultural and Historical Perspective (Michigan State University, 1979).
"Psychologizing the Revolt Against Liberal Culture," Council for European Studies Conference (Washington, D.C., 1979)
"Jewish Particularism and Universalism in the Psychoanalytic Movement: Assessment and Reassessment," Ohio Academy of History (Columbus, OH, 1978).
"Generational Revolt and Psychological Regeneration in Turn-of-the-Century Vienna," American Historical Association (San Francisco, 1978).
"The Prefiguring of the Psychoanalytic Movement: Freud and the B'nai B'rith," Association for Jewish Studies (Boston, 1977).
VIRTUAL SOLO and PANEL TALKS
“Public School and the Community: Reexamining the Relationship,” Trust Network Stakeholder meeting, August 9, 2022
Teaneck International Film Festival panelist, “My Name is Sara,” November 2021 (Winner Audience and Juried Award Best Feature – click here for the panel talkback)
“Survival and Resilience,” panel moderator in recognition of the international day of commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, January 31, 2021
“When Did Bystanders Lose Their Innocence” (2020)
HONORS AND GRANTS
Honors
“16 over 61” Award conferred by The Forward and the JCC Manhattan (2021)
Who’s Who “Lifetime Achievement Award” (2019)
Who's Who in the World (current)
Who's Who in the East (current)
Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities (current)
Who’s Who Among Executives and Professionals (current)
Who’s Who Among American Teachers and Educators (current)
Dictionary of International Biography (current)
Directory of American Scholars (current)
Consulting partner, The Trust Network (current)
Senior Fellow, New Jersey Center for History, Politics, and Policy (2012)
Phi Kappa Phi Honorary Society, inducted 2009
Scholar in Residence, Ivry Prozdor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of
America (2003-2009)
Alumni (High School) "Hall of Fame," inducted, 1998
State of New York Yavner Award for Distinguished Contributions to
Education About the Holocaust and Other Violations of Human Rights
(1987)
Phi Beta Kappa (1970)
Kean University Honors
2013 Distinguished Service (Presidential Excellence Award for Distinguished Service)
2010 Teacher of the Year (Presidential Excellence Award for Distinguished Teaching)
2008 Research Mentor of the Year
Grants
CUNY Center for the Humanities grant for “Trauma and Testimony” seminar (CUNY Graduate Center, Chair) (2009-10)
Visiting Research Fellow (University College London, 2006)
Resident Scholar (Oxford University, 2006)
Fulbright Senior Specialist finalist for research and program collaboration in the United Kingdom (2005)
Jewish Continuity grant for Jewish affairs programming (2000)
Heart Grant for faculty lecture series (2000) (2010) (2011) (2012)
Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture fellowship (1984-85)
National Endowment for the Humanities grant for summer research (1984)
National Academy of Education Spencer Award for research (1984)
Fulbright-Hays Fellowship (University of Vienna, 1974-1975)
HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION, PUBLICATIONS, AND ADMINISTRATION
Director, Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies (2011-Present)
Director, Jewish Studies Program, Kean University (1998-Present)
Chair, Faculty Seminar on Comparative Cultures, Kean Univ. (1999-Present)
Editor in Chief, Dimensions: A Journal of Holocaust Studies (l985-2001)
Senior Consultant, United States Holocaust Museum (1996-1998)
Founding Director, Academic Affairs Department/AZM (1993-95)
*Created and directed an association of U.S. faculty
*Directed a national program of academic seminars at 13 universities
*Organized national conferences on economic policy, international
relations, the "new Zionism," and the multiethnic society
Founding Director (1984-1993)
ADL Braun Center for Holocaust Studies
ADL The Hidden Child Foundation
*Developed publications: Monographs and occasional papers;
bibliographies and catalogues; and educational guides to video
cassettes and films
*Organized public events, including the international Janusz Korczak
Literary Competition, a Critical Issues symposium series; conferences
(international conference on the Hidden Child, Jerusalem, etc.); and
teacher-training workshops
*Directed Visiting Fellows and Scholars in Residence programs
Conference/Seminar/Lecture Series Chair
“The Search for Humanity After Atrocity,” Kean University conference (2022)
“Large-Scale Violence and Its Aftermaths: The United States and the World,” Kean University conference (2017)
Human Rights Seminar, Bergen County, NJ, Ethical Culture Society (2013-16)
“Trauma and Testimony Seminar,” CUNY Graduate Center’s Center for the Humanities (2008-2010)
“The Genocidal Mind,” 32d Annual Scholars Conference, Newark, NJ (2002)
"International Conference on the Hidden Child," ADL, Jerusalem (1993)
At Kean University – visiting scholars series (except as noted)
“Genocide Denial and Prevention” (2019)
“Is Intolerance Respectable Again?” (2018)
“Societies Emerging from Conflict: The Aftermath of Atrocity,” international seminar (2018)
“The Memory Hole” (2017)
“Disruption and Responsibility” (2016)
“Justice After Atrocity?,” international seminar (2015)
“Post-Conflict Reconciliation and Escalation” (2014)
“Responding to Genocide” (2013)
“Engaging Unconventional Wars” (2012)
“Truth and Reality in Representations of the Holocaust” (2011)
“Thinking Jewish in American Culture” (2010)
“Negotiating Adversity” (2009)
“Historical Perspectives & Public Policy: How Old Rules Fare in a New World Order” (2009)
“The Bystander in a Post-Holocaust World” (2008)
“The Victim and the Question of Forgiveness” (2007)
“A Time for Reflection: The Past Recalled and Reconsidered” (2006)
“Flash Points in Contemporary Jewish Life” (2005)
“Politics, Religion, and Art” (2004)
“Cultures of Tolerance and Intolerance” (2003)
“Crisis and Creativity in Jewish Politics” (2002)
“The Shaping and Reshaping of Contemporary Jewish Life” (2001)
“Unexpected Encounters: Jewish and Western Cultures at the Crossroads” (2000)
“The Jewish Vision: A Journey Through Our Time” (1999)
“After Auschwitz: A Nation and the World at the Millennium” (1999)
PROFESSIONAL ADVISORY APPOINTMENTS
Trade and University Publishers
University of Chicago Press
New York University Press
Wayne State University Press
International Universities Press
Holmes & Meier
Continuum Books
Routledge
The Free Press
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Bloomsbury
MIT Press
Government
U.S. Environment Protection Agency U.S. Dept. of Education
U.S. Department of Defense N.Y. Dept. of Education
U.S. Department of Justice N.J. Dept. of Education
National Advisory Boards
Congress of Nations and States Commissions, 2022-2024 (Commissioner)
Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought (Board of Consulting Editors)
Prism: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators (Ed. Board)
Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) Program Directors
NJ Jewish Studies University Faculty Advisory Committee
National Catholic Institute for Holocaust Studies (Academic Advisory Board)
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Education Committee
National Jewish Book Awards judge
Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture (Doctoral and Fellowship proposals)
Voluntary Leadership
Teaneck Board of Education elected trustee (committee chair: policy; community relations – Board liaison to the municipal council)
Teaneck Memorial to African Enslavement and the Holocaust (education co-chair)
North Jersey Committee on Black and Jewish coalition-building, funded by the NJ Council for the Humanities (co-chair)
New Jersey Human Relations Council Executive Committee
Jewish Community Relations Council (intergroup relations co-chair)
Board of Trustees, Adult Education Committee co-chair, and Social Justice Committee co-founder, Congregation Beth Sholom, Teaneck, NJ
Fair Trade Teaneck (founding chair)
The Trust Network (consulting partner)
EDUCATION AND DEGREES
Harvard University, Post-Doctoral Fellow (1979-1981)
University of Rochester, Ph.D. (1978).
University of Vienna, Fulbright Dissertation Fellow (1974-1975)
University of Rochester, M.A. (1972).
Hobart College, B.A., cum laude (1970)
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