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  • Welcome to Alan L. Berger
  • Nancy E. Krody, for the editors

We are pleased to welcome Alan Berger as an Associate Editor of J.E.S. He has taught Judaic Studies at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton since 1995. Holder of the Raddock Family Eminent Scholar Chair for Holocaust Studies, he also directs the Center for the Study of Values and Violence after Auschwitz. He taught previously at Syracuse (NY) University, 1973–95, where he founded their Jewish Studies program in 1980. During 1988–89, he was a visiting associate professor in Judaic studies at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA. He has taught short-term courses in several institutions, chaired professional meetings, and lectured abroad over the years—especially in the area of Holocaust studies. He holds a B.A. from Upsala College, East Orange, NJ; an M.A. from the University of Chicago Divinity School; and a Ph.D. in humanities (1978) from Syracuse University. He also studied at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, 1970–72.

Dr. Berger is author, co-author, or editor of sixteen books, most recently Third Generation Holocaust Representation: Trauma, History, Memory (co-authored with Victoria Aarons, Northwestern University Press, 2016), and he has written more than two dozen book chapters, thirty journal articles, and dozens of encyclopedia entries. His many reviews and review articles have appeared in several academic journals. He and his wife Naomi Berger co-edited Second Generation Voices: Reflections by Children of Holocaust Survivors and Perpetrators (Syracuse University Press, 2001), which won the B’nai Zion National Media Award in 2002.

Editor of a series on Studies in Genocide for Roman & Littlefield since 2006, and of the Religion, Theology, and the Holocaust series for Syracuse University Press, 1998–2004, he has lectured widely across the United States and served as scholar-in-residence or delivered endowed lectures on several occasions, as well as keeping an active schedule of popular lectures in community settings. Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, awarded him a Doctor of Letters Honoris Causa in 1999. [End Page 156]

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