Alex Grobman~Jewish Sightseeing

Articles in San Diego Jewish World

2007-09-20—The parable of the carpenter
2007-08-28—A eulogy for Rabbi Judah Nadich, chaplain who interceded for Jews in displaced person's camp
2007-07-15—Shuckburgh theorom: 'Moderates are always at a discount'
2007-07-13—Why numbers matter in discussing the Shoah
2007-07-07—The myth of American Jewish silence during the Holocaust
2007-07-06—Arab rhetoric often sounds very familiar
2007-07-05—Rationalizing the irrational: the excuse Jews make to avoid acknowledging Arab hatred
2007-07-04—Rabbi Abraham Klausner was a chaplain whom Holocaust survivors called 'one of us'

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Biography

Alex Grobman is an historian with an MA and Ph.D. in contemporary Jewish history from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is president of the Institute for Contemporary Jewish Life, a think tank dealing with historicaland contemporary issues affecting the Jewish community. He is a contributing editor for Together, a publication of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants. He is a member of the academic board of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and a contributor to the Encyclopedia Judaica and the Partisan website.

Dr. Grobman established the first Holocaust center in the U.S. under the auspices of a Jewish Federation in St. Louis, Missouri and served as its first director. He also served as director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angles where he was the founding editor-in chief of the Simon Wiesenthal Annual, the first serial publication in the United States focusing on the scholarly study of the Holocaust. Dr. Grobman edited Genocide: Critical Issues of the Holocaust, a companion to the Center's Academy Award winning film Genocide. The book can be found on the Simon Wiesenthal Center website.

Dr. Grobman is the author of Rekindling the Flame: American Jewish Chaplains and the Survivors of European Jewry, 1944-1948, and editor of In Defense of the Survivors: The Letters and Documents of Oscar A. Mintzer AJDC Legal Advisor, Germany, 1945-46. His book with Michael Shermer, Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened, and Why Do They Say It? was published by University of California Press in Berkeley in 2000. In 2002, it was published in Italian and in paperback. In 2007, it will be published in Greek.

He has also edited three guides for educators: Anne Frank in Historical Perspective, Those Who Dared: Rescuers and Rescued, and a guide to Schindler's List. "Holocaust Denial: A Global Survey - 2003, 2004,2005, 2006" were written with Dr. Raphael Medoff. In April 2004, he and Rabbi Jack Bemporad, Professor of Interreligious Studies at the Vatican's Angelicum University in Rome, wrote an analysis of Mel Gibson's The Passion of Christ.

Battling For Souls: The Vaad Hatzala Rescue Committee in Post-War Europe was published by KTAV in 2004.

Nations United: How The UN Is Undermining Israel and The U.S.was published in November 2006 by Balfour Books.

He trains students how to respond to Arab propaganda on American campuses. One student who worked with him for three years became president of Harvard Students For Israel. Another became active at Yale University and is in Harvard graduate school this year. Other students are at Yeshiva University and Columbia.