Acclaimed Author And Holocaust Historian To Speak At Manhattan College

RIVERDALE, N.Y. – Dr. Deborah Dwork, the Rose professor of Holocaust studies and modern Jewish history at Clark University, will deliver a lecture at Manhattan College on Tuesday, Nov. 7 at 7:30 p.m. in Smith Auditorium as part of the Holocaust Resource Center’s visiting scholar series.

Dwork’s lecture Auschwitz and the Holocaust: Converging Courses is free and open to the public.

The recipient of many academic honors, Dwork is the founding director of Clark University’s Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. She has published several acclaimed books, including Children With A Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe (1991), and is the co-author of Holocaust: A History (2002) and Auschwitz: 1270 to the Present (1996).

Auschwitz, co-authored with Robert Jan van Pelt, received the National Jewish Book Award in 1996. Their next work Flight From the Reich: A History of Jewish Refugees is due out in 2007.

Established in 1996, the goal of the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies is to educate professionals of various fields about genocide and the Holocaust, and to engage the world by providing an educated voice in public forums. The center is dedicated to teaching, research and public service while educating the next cadre of Holocaust historians.

Dwork has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies. She often serves as a guest teacher throughout the United States at every level of the American education system, and at teacher workshops to further Holocaust education.

The mission of Manhattan College’s Holocaust Resource Center is to promote Catholic-Jewish dialogue and to educate people about the Holocaust and its significance to the present. The primary audiences are the College community, the neighborhood, and current and future teachers in the surrounding area.

For more information about this event, please contact Dr. Jeff Horn, associate professor of history and associate director of the Holocaust Resource Center at Manhattan College, at (718) 862-7129 or jeff.horn@manhattan.edu.

Members of the media who would like to cover the event can call Scott Silversten at (718) 862-7232 or e-mail scott.silversten@manhattan.edu. Manhattan College is located at West 242nd Street near Broadway in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, one mile from the Westchester County line and accessible by MTA subway line 1.

Founded in 1853, Manhattan College is an independent, Catholic, coeducational institution of higher learning offering more than 40 major programs of undergraduate study in the areas of arts, business, education, engineering and science, along with graduate programs in education and engineering. For more information about Manhattan College, visit www.manhattan.edu.