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Jewish Scholars Affirm Armenian Genocide
August, 2001

In August 2001, a group of highly distinguished Jewish scholars, both American Jews and Israelis, released a statement affirming the Armenian Genocide and demonstrating their friendship with the Armenian people. "We, the undersigned, are scholars, rabbis, teachers, community leaders, and students of Jewish heritage. As Jews, we share many similarities with the Armenian people.

We were both victims of genocide during the twentieth-century and have survived despite those who would deny us our right to exist. On this year, 2001, which marks the 1700th anniversary of Armenia's adoption of Christianity, we as Jews salute our Armenian friends and their contributions to Western society and culture."
 

Signatories:
(Affiliations are for identification purposes only)

Professor David R. Blumenthal, Rabbi
Jay and Leslie Cohen Professor of Judaic Studies
Emory University, Atlanta, GA 

Leon Botstein
President, Bard College

Prof. Israel W. Charny
Editor-in-Chief, Encyclopedia of Genocide
Executive Editor, Institute on the Holocaust
and Genocide, Jerusalem

Professor Arnold Dashefsky

Deborah Dwork, Director
Center for Holocaust Studies
Clark University
Rose Professor of Holocaust History

Rabbi Joseph H. Ehrenkranz
Executive Director of the "Center for Christian-Jewish
Understanding" Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT

Todd M. Endelman
University of Michigan

Professor Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Israel

Dr. Stephen Feinstein, Director
Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
University of Minnesota

Judith Friedlander

Lawrence J. Friedman
Indiana University

Professor Zev Garber
Los Angeles Valley College
Writer and Editor

Penina Migdal Glazer

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Harvard University

Stephen M. Goldman
Museum Director
Florida Holocaust Museum

Judith S. Goldstein, Ph.D.
Historian

David Gordis, Ph.D.
President, Professor of Rabbinics
Hebrew College

Leonard Grob, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy
Farleigh Dickinson University

Susannah Heschel
Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies
Dartmouth College

Alan Jacobs

Dr. Steven L. Jacobs, Rabbi
Aaron Aronov Chair of Judaic Studies
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL  

Professor Efraim Karsh
Head of Mediterranean Studies
King's College, University of London

Steven Kepnes, Ph.D.
Director of Jewish Studies
Colgate University

Rabbi Jonathan Klein
The Allen and Ruth Ziegler Director of USC Hillel

Michael Lerner

Jonathan Eric Lewis

Robert Jay Lifton
Author of "The Nazi Doctors"
Department of Psychiatry
Harvard University
Deborah Lipstadt, Ph.D.
Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies
Director, Institute for Jewish Studies
Emory University

John Loftus
President
Florida Holocaust Museum

Maud Mandel
Assistant Professor
Modern Jewish History
Brown University

Harold Marcuse
Associate Prof.
UC Santa Barbara

Robert Melson
Purdue University

Nathaniel Mencow
Curator, World War II Musum
Public School System
Worcester, MA

Saul Mendlovitz
Dag Hammarskold Professor of Law
Rutgers Law (Newark)

Sara Messeloff
English Teacher

Ruth W. Messinger
Former Manhattan Borough President
President and Executive Director,
American Jewish World Service

Jennifer M.F. Miller
Lecturer in Medieval History
Emory University

Rabbi Michelle Missaghieh
Temple Israel of Hollywood

Jacqueline Osherow
Rabbi Sanford Ragins

Thane Rosenbaum
Novelist and human rights law professor

Laurie Rothstein
Development Director, Armenia Tree Project
Armenian Assembly of America

Joshua Rubenstein

Richard E. Rubenstein
Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution
George Mason University

Jonathan Sarna
Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American
Jewish History, Brandeis University

Robert Seltzer
Hunter College of the
City University of New York

Gerald Sorin
Distinguished University Professor and Director of Jewish Studies, SUNY, New Paltz

Shelly Tennembaum
Clark University

Rabbi David A. Teutsch, President
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College

Rabbi Lennard R. Thal
Vice President
Union of American Hebrew Congregations

Judy Schwartz
Los Angeles Public High School Teacher

Lawrence D. Wasser
Executive Director
Florida Holocaust Museum

Jeremy Zwelling
Department of Religion
Wesleyan University

 

 

 

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