LEADING HISTORIAN OF THE HOLOCAUST

TO SPEAK AT OU ON ‘RETHINKING THE HOLOCAUST'

NORMAN – Yehuda Bauer, widely acclaimed as one of the world’s leading Holocaust historians, will speak on “Rethinking the Holocaust” in a free public lecture Wednesday, Oct. 4, at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Timberdell Road and Chautauqua Avenue on the University of Oklahoma Norman campus.

“Dr. Yehuda Bauer is one of the founders of the discipline of Holocaust studies, and one of its foremost scholars. He has greatly deepened our understanding of why the Holocaust occurred and of Jews’ resistance to the annihilation campaign,” said Stephen H. Norwood, OU professor of history and Judaic studies. “He has pioneered in reconstructing the dynamics of Jewish ghetto and partisan resistance against the Nazis and their sympathizers.”

Bauer’s talk, set for 7:30 p.m. in the museum’s Great Hall, is sponsored by the Judaic Studies Program and Department of History in the OU College of Arts and Sciences.

Bauer is the author of numerous books on the Holocaust, including The Holocaust in Historical Perspective, A History of the Holocaust, Jewish Reactions to the Holocaust, American Jewry and the Holocaust, Out of the Ashes, and The Jewish Emergence From Powerlessness. He examines such key issues as the relationship between the Holocaust and the establishment of Israel and how another Holocaust can be prevented.

Bauer, who fought in the Israeli War of Independence (1948), was the founder and chairman of the Department of Holocaust Studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, and currently is professor emeritus there. He established and was the longtime editor of the Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and served as the historical advisor to the film Shoah. Bauer is the academic adviser to the International Task Force on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research.