Holocaust historian, Yehuda Bauer, to deliver lecture

Bauer will explore the view of the Holocaust as possibly the most extreme form of genocide, and he will assess comparisons between the Holocaust and recent genocidal situations. Bauer is Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Academic Advisor to Yad Vashem, and a member of the Israel Academy of Science. He is also the Honorary Chairman of the International Task Force on Holocaust Education. He has authored 14 books and some 90 articles on the Holocaust. Bauer's… Show more talk serves as the keynote address at the Strassler Center’s first-ever International Graduate Students' Conference. The conference was collectively envisioned by the Center's Ph.D. candidates to provide a forum for students from around the globe to present original research on the Holocaust and other genocides to an audience of peers and scholars. Their purpose is to foster an international community of future scholars.The mission of the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies reaches beyond the boundaries of the University: to educate professionals of many fields about genocides and the Holocaust; to provide a lecture series free of charge and open to the public; to use scholarship to address current problems stemming from the murderous past; and to participate in the public discussion about a host of issues ranging from the importance of intervention in genocidal situations today to the significance of state-sponsored denial of the Armenian genocide and the well-funded denial of the Holocaust.

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