APRIL 12, 2004

EDUCATION
Holocaust museums, education grow

STATE BY STATE
• The Association of Holocaust Organizations, a network of organizations and individuals that promote Holocaust programming, awareness, education and research, lists member organizations, including museums, by country and state.
• The Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research offers a directory of Holocaust education organizations that is searchable by state and country (click "continue" at the bottom of the page to get the search prompt).

IN THE NORTHEAST
• James Young is professor of English and Judaic studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He wrote At Memory's Edge: After-images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture (Yale University Press, 2000) and Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust: Narrative and the Consequences of Interpretation (Indiana University Press, 1990). He is also chairman of the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies. Contact 413-545-5872, jeyoung@english.umass.edu.
• Omer Bartov is professor of European history at Brown University in Providence, R.I., and co-editor of In God's Name: Genocide and Religion in the Twentieth Century (Berghahn Books, 2001). Contact 617-868-3831, omer_bartov@brown.edu.
• Susannah Heschel is the Eli Black Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., and co-editor of Betrayal: German Churches and the Holocaust (Fortress Press, 1999). Contact 603-646-3620, susannah.heschel@dartmouth.edu.
• Construction is expected to begin in summer 2004 on a building for the Holocaust Human Rights Center of Maine, which will be on the campus of the University of Maine at August. Read a July 3, 2003, background story posted by MaineToday.com.

IN THE EAST
• Jeffrey Shandler is professor of Jewish studies at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., and author of While America Watches: Televising the Holocaust (Oxford University Press, 2000). Contact 732-932-3572, shandler@rci.rutgers.edu.
• Bjorn Krondorfer, associate professor of religious studies at St. Mary's College of Maryland in St. Mary's City, is active in Holocaust education. He wrote Remembrance and Reconciliation: Encounters between Young Jews and Germans (Yale University Press, 1995) and other books about the Holocaust. He is the director of the International Summer Program on the Holocaust, a monthlong program for Jewish and non-Jewish students from American and European universities. Contact 240-895-4219, bhkrondorfer@smcm.edu.
• Michael N. Dobkowski is professor of religious studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, N.Y., and editor of The Coming Age of Scarcity: Preventing Mass Death and Genocide in the 21st Century (Syracuse University Press, 1998) and other books about the Holocaust. Contact 315-781-3369, dobkowski@hws.edu.
• Yaffa Eliach is an adjunct faculty member of Yeshiva University in New York and author of There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok (Little, Brown & Co., 1998). Contact 212-960-0186.
• New Jersey has a state Commission on Holocaust Education that provides curricula, teacher training and statewide coordination. Contact Paul B. Winkler, executive director, at 609-292-9274, holocaus@doe.state.nj.us.
• Ellen Smith is chief curator at the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia and can comment on Holocaust museum issues. Contact 215-923-3811.

IN THE SOUTHEAST
• Deborah Lipstadt is director of the Institute of Jewish Studies and professor of modern Jewish and Holocaust studies at Emory University in Atlanta. She is author of Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, 1933-1945 (Touchstone Books, 1993) and Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory (Plume, 1994). Contact 404-727-7598, dlipsta@emory.edu.
• David R. Blumenthal is professor of Judaic studies at Emory University in Atlanta and author of The Banality of Good and Evil: Moral Lessons from the Shoah and Jewish Tradition (Georgetown University Press, 1999) and Facing the Abusing God: A Theology of Protest (Westminster John Knox Press, 1993). Contact 404-727-7598, reldrb@emory.edu.
• Joel Marcus is professor of New Testament and Christian origins at Duke University Divinity School and author of Jesus and the Holocaust: Reflections on Suffering and Hope (Doubleday, 1997).Contact 919-660-3562, jmarcus@div.duke.edu.
• Florida has a Commissioner's Task Force on Holocaust Education. It was created after a law requiring the Holocaust to be taught in grades kindergarten through 12 was passed in 1994. District coordinators throughout the state are listed. The site's main page lists six Holocaust organizations it coordinates with.
• Georgia has a state Commission on the Holocaust that provides Holocaust education programs for teachers and students of Georgia's middle and high schools, colleges and universities and the general public. Contact 770-838-3281.

IN THE SOUTH
• Samuel Totten is professor of curriculum and instruction in the College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. He is co-author of Teaching and Studying the Holocaust (Pearson Allyn & Bacon, 2000) and Teaching About the Holocaust: Essays by College and University Teachers (Praeger Publishers, 2004); in addition, he edited Teaching Holocaust Literature (Pearson Allyn & Bacon, 2001) and Working to Make a Difference: The Personal and Pedagogical Stories of Holocaust Educators Across the Globe (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003). Contact 479-575-6677, stotten@uark.edu.
• Steven Leonard Jacobs is associate professor of Judaic studies at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and a contributor to The Encyclopedia of Genocide (ABC-CLIO, 1999) and The Holocaust Now: Contemporary Christian and Jewish Thought (Cummings & Hathaway, 1993). He is also an ordained rabbi. Contact 205-348-0473, sjacobs@bama.au.edu.
• Stephen R. Haynes is associate professor Religious Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn., and a member of the Church Relations Council of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. He wrote Reluctant Witnesses: Jews and the Christian Imagination (Westminster John Knox Press, 1995), Holocaust Education and the Church-Related College: Restoring Ruptured Traditions (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1997) and The Bonhoeffer Phenomenon: Portraits of a Protestant Saint (Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2004). Contact 901-843-3538, haynes@rhodes.edu.
• Gilya Gerda Schmidt is chairwoman of The Fern and Manfred Steinfeld Program in Judaic Studies at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Contact 865-974-6985, gschmidt@utk.edu.
• In 1999 the Alabama Legislature passed an act to establish the Alabama Holocaust Commission, which provides Holocaust education resources to the state, particularly for middle and high school students. Contact chairman Paul J. Filben in Mobile, 251-342-9384.

IN THE MIDWEST
• Tania Oldenhage is assistant professor at Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio, and author of Parables for Our Time: Rereading New Testament Scholarship After the Holocaust (Oxford University Press, 2002). Contact 330-829-6808, oldenhat@muc.edu.
• The Rev. John Pawlikowski is professor of social ethics and director of the Catholic-Jewish Studies Program at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago and has written many articles about the Holocaust. Contact 773-753-5353, jtmp@ctu.edu.
• J. Michael Phayer is professor emeritus at Marquette University in Milwaukee and has written about the Holocaust. Contact 410-730-3346, michael.phayer@marquette.edu.
• Rabbi Peter J. Haas is director of the Samuel Rosenthal Center for Judaic Studies and Abba Hillel Silver Professor of Jewish Studies at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He has written about the Holocaust. Contact 216-368-2741, pjh7@cwru.edu.
• James F. Moore is a theology professor at Valparaiso University in Indiana and author of Post-Shoah Dialogues: Re-Thinking Our Texts Together (University Press of America, 2004) and Toward a Dialogical Community: A Post-Shoah Approach to Christian Theology (University Press of America, 2004). Contact 219-464-5457, James.Moore@valpo.edu.
• Michael L. Morgan is professor of philosophy and Jewish studies at Indiana University at Bloomington and author of Beyond Auschwitz: Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought in America (Oxford University Press, 2001). Contact 812-855-9206, morganm@indiana.edu.
• Stephen Feinstein is director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Contact 612-626-2235, feins001@umn.edu.
• Thomas Heilke is associate professor of political science at the University of Kansas at Lawrence and wrote the Holocaust entry in the Encyclopedia of American Religion and Politics for 2003. Contact 785-864-9037, heilke@ukans.edu.
• Rabbi Michael Alan Signer is professor of Jewish thought and culture at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. He is editor of Humanity at the Limit: The Impact of the Holocaust Experience on Jews and Christians (Indiana University Press 2000). Contact 574-631-7625, Michael.A.Signer.1@nd.edu.
• Gordon Mork is professor of history at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. He teaches about the Holocaust and wrote the chapter "Teaching the Holocaust in a Multicultural Society: Experiences in the USA" in Shadow of the Holocaust (The Russian Holocaust Library, 1998). Contact 765-494-4138, gmork@sla.purdue.edu.

IN THE SOUTHWEST
• Marc H. Ellis is professor and director of the Center for American and Jewish Studies at Baylor University in Waco and author of Israel and Palestine Out of the Ashes: The Search for Jewish Identity in the Twenty-First Century (Pluto Press, 2003) and books about the Holocaust. Contact 254-710-1510, marc_ellis@baylor.edu.
• Robert H. Abzug is Oliver H. Radkey Regents Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin and author of America Views the Holocaust: A Brief Documentary History (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000) and Inside the Vicious Heart: Americans and the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps (Oxford University Press, 1987). Contact 512-475-7240, zug@mail.utexas.edu.
• Leonard Dinnerstein is professor of history at the University of Arizona in Tucson and author of Antisemitism in America (Oxford University Press, 1994) and America and the Survivors of the Holocaust: The Evolution of a United States Displaced Persons Policy, 1945-1950 (Columbia University Press, 1986). Contact 520-626-9064, dinnerst@u.arizona.edu.
• Fred Zeidman is a chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and a businessman in Houston, Texas. He notes that every one of his predecessors has been a Holocaust survivor and that, with survivors aging, it was time for a new generation step forward in leadership. He has also been involved with the Holocaust Museum Houston. Contact 713-622-7710.

IN THE WEST/NORTHWEST
• Saul Friedlander is professor of history at the University of California at Los Angeles and author of several books about the Holocaust. Contact 310-825-3678, friedlan@history.ucla.edu.
• Dr. John Roth is Edward J. Sexton Professor of Philosophy and director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, Calif. He is author of Holocaust Politics (Westminster John Knox Press, 2001) and co-author of Approaches to Auschwitz: The Holocaust and Its Legacy (Westminster John Knox Press, 2003). Contact 909-607-2891, john.roth@claremontmckenna.edu.
• The Northwest Center for Holocaust Education is a project at Western Washington University, begun in September 1998, to assist educators in the design and implementation of Holocaust and genocide-related studies. Contact 206-441-5747.