Halina Birenbaum is a Holocaust survivor from Poland. She has gone back many times guiding tours of the death camps and told her story countless times. In a Hebrew language documentary film, “Where Are You Going?,” her son Gilad and Halina follow a mother and son to Poland. Halina is deeply touching. She speaks with
Review of A Democratic Mind: Psychology and Psychiatry with Fewer Meds and More Soul . Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017; and Psychotherapy for a Democratic Mind: Treatment of Intimacy, Tragedy, Violence and Evil. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018. Reviewed by Michael Berenbaum I have known Israel Charny for years and worked with him directly on the Encyclopedia of Genocide. We have fought
ONLY VICTIMS OF THE GAS CHAMBERS CAN GIVE PROOF OF THE GAS CHAMBERS Lyotard [French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist] used the example of Auschwitz and the revisionist historian Faurisson’s demands for proof of the Holocaust to show how the differend operates as a double bind (a dilemma or difficult circumstance from which there is
Professor Shamai Davidson, MD, at the time of his death, Director of the Shalvata Mental Health Hospital and Center, and Associate Director of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem, was one of the three founders of the Institute – together with Eli Wiesel and Israel Charny. Shamai Davidson dedicated himself in particular
Professor Yair Auron, who is the Associate Director of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem, has created and leads a project of a GARDEN OF THE RIGHTEOUS at Nave Shalom which is Israel’s only official Jewish-Palestinian cooperative settlement. The following article in Hebrew, הגן הוא סמל הנכסים המטאפיסיים והרוחניים, by Ruth Almog describes
The Genocide Contagion: How We Commit and Confront Holocaust and Genocide. Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. Awarded SPIRITUALITY AND PRACTICE BOOK AWARD 2016. Click here for discount order form — Special 30% discount available only from author. Click here to see endorsements and reviews. A Democratic Mind: Psychology and Psychiatry with Fewer Meds and More Soul.
Auron, Yair (in press 2017). The Holocaust, Rebirth and the Nakba: Memory and Contemporary Israeli-Arab Relations. Landham, MD: Lexington Press. [Translated from an earlier edition in Hebrew]. אורון, יאיר (2016). הבנאליות של החמלה: על הצלת ילידים יהודים בכפר הצ’ירקסי-מוסלמי בסלניי שבקווקז ב-1942. תל אביב: רסלינג.
NEW BOOK BY ISRAEL W. CHARNY: Charny, Israel W. (2016). The Genocide Contagion: How: We Commit & Confront Genocide — “a book for learning about ourselves BEFORE!” The book has been adopted as a textbook at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. The instructor writes: The text is highly informative. Chapters 1, 2, 3 and
NEWS RELEASE by the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem A new world organization by the name of R 2 L -RIGHT TO LIFE has been proposed by the Genocide Recognition Network in Athens. The Network represents three ethnic organizations of peoples, each of whom has suffered genocide in its history, the Pan-Pontian