The Robert and Pamela Jacobs Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Life and Culture:

Yehuda Bauer, “Holocaust / Genocide / Today”

Monday, April 27, 2009, 4:30PM

Memorial Hall, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Yehuda Bauer is Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Academic Adviser of Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial Institute in Jerusalem, and Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.  He is also the Honorary Chairman of the International Task Force on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research.  He has been engaged in research on the Holocaust and antisemitism for almost five decades.  Bauer has authored several books and some 90 articles on the Holocaust.  Since the mid-nineties, he has also been involved in research on genocide generally, and especially on the genocides of the Armenians, on Rwanda, and recently on Darfur.  He has been centrally involved, as initiator and academic adviser, in inter-governmental conferences on Holocaust education and genocide prevention, that included efforts to at least try and impact on the international scene on these issues.  In 1998, Bauer was the recipient of the Israel Prize, the highest civilian award in Israel.

This event is also sponsored by the Dean's Office of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts, the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, and the Office of Jewish Affairs at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

A reception will follow. This lecture is free, open to the public, and wheelchair accessible.

For more information, please contact Mary Lysakowski in the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies Office at the University of Massachusetts Amherst at judaic@judnea.umass.edu or 413-545-2550.