Michael Berenbaum

Books

The Vision of the Void: Theological Reflections on the Works of Elie Wiesel (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1979). Paperback edition, 1987. Reprinted as Elie Wiesel: God, The Holocaust, and the Children of Israel (West Orange: Behrman House, 1994).

Report to the President, President's Commission on the Holocaust (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1979).

Editor, From Holocaust to New Life (New York: American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, 1985). 

Co-editor with John Roth, Holocaust: Religious and Philosophical Implications (New York: Paragon Books, 1989.

After Tragedy and Triumph: Modern Jewish Thought and the American Experience (Cambridge University Press, 1990).

Editor, A Mosaic of Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis (New York University Press, 1990). Published simultaneously in the United Kingdom by I.B. Tauris.

The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust (New York: Little Brown and Company, 1993). Second Edition (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006).

Co-editor with Israel Gutman, Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994).

Co-editor with Betty Rogers Rubenstein, What Kind of God? Essays in Honor of Richard L. Rubenstein (Lanham: University Presses of America, 1995).

Witness to the Holocaust: An Illustrated Documentary History of the Holocaust in the Words of Its Victims, Perpetrators and Bystanders (New York: Harper/Collins, 1997).

Co-editor with Abraham Peck, The Holocaust and History: The Known, The Unkown, the Disputed, and the Re-examined (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998).

Co-editor with Michael Neufeld, Bombing of Auschwitz: Should the Allies Have Attempted It? (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000; paperback University of Kansas Press, 2003).

A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors  (New York: Bullfinch Press, 2003).

Martyrdom: The Psychology, Politics and Theology of An Idea. Rona Fields, Coilin Owens, Valérie Rosoux, and Michael Berenbaum with Reuven Firestone (Boulder: Greenwood Press, 2003).

Co-Editor with J. Shawn Landres, After the Passion is Gone: American Religious Consequences (Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2004.).

Editor, Murder Most Merciful: Essays on the Ethical Conundrum Occasioned by Sigi Ziering’s The Judgment of Herbert Bierhoff (Lanham, MD: University Presses of America, 2005).

Editor. Not Your Father’s Antisemitism: Antisemitism in the Early 21st Century (St. Paul, MN: Paragon Books, 2008).

Co-author with Yitzhak Mais, Memory and Legacy: The Shoah Narrative of the Illinois Holocaust Museum (Skokie: Publications International, 2009).

Co-editor with Mitchel Malkus, Many Rooms in God’s Palace: Essays in Honor of the 36th Anniversary of the Library Minyan (Los Angeles: Temple Beth Am, 2010).

The Jews in Macedonia During World War II (Skopje: The Macedonian Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2012).

Co-editor with Marcia Littell and Richard Libowitz, Remembering for the Future: Armenia, Auschwitz and Beyond (St. Paul, MN: Paragon Books, 2016)

Awards

• Doctor of Humane Letters (Honoris Causa) — College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho (May 16, 2015).
• Doctor of Humane Letters (Honoris Causa) — Gratz College, Menloe Park, PA. (May 15, 2011).
• Doctor of Humane Letters (Honoris Causa) — Denison University, Granville, Ohio (May 14, 2000).
• Doctor of Divinity (Honoris Causa) — Nazareth College of Rochester (May 15, 1995).
• Dartmouth Award, American Library Association for Best Reference Work on 2006, awarded to the Encyclopaedia Judaica [not the individual] 2007.
• Emmy Award: Best Informational Program 1995 — One Survivor Remembers: The Gerda Weisman Klein Story, co-producer.
• Cable Ace Award: Best Educational or Instructional Special or Series — One Survivor Remembers: The Gerda Weisman Klein Story, co-producer.
• Simon Rockower Memorial Award in Jewish Journalism for Distinguished Editorial Writing —  American Jewish Press Association, First Place, 1986.
• Simon Rockower Memorial Award in Jewish Journalism for Distinguished Commentary Writing — American Jewish Press Association, Second Place, 1986.
• Simon Rockower Memorial Award in Jewish Journalism for Distinguished Coverage of the Arts — American Jewish Press Association, 1987.

 Museum Exhibits

• Project Director, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. (1988-1993).
• Guest Curator, "America and the Holocaust: The Crucible of Witness," an exhibit at the National Museum of American Jewish History.
• Historical Consultant, National Museum of American Jewish History (2001 - ).
• Consultant, National Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio (2001-2002).
• Curator, the Memorial Museum at Belzec Death Camp, (2004).
• Conceptual Developer and Curator, development of the exhibition at the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie, Illinois; (2003- 2009).
• Conceptual Consultant, Memoria y Tolerancia, Mexico City. (2004- )
• Consultant, Holocaust Exhibition, Chapman University, (2006).
• Consultant, Holocaust Memorial, Richard Stockton College, (2009).
• Conceptual Developer, Kleinman Family Holocaust Education Center, NY (2009 – ).
• Conceptual Developer, Holocaust Memorial Museum of Macedonia, Skopje, Macedonia (2009 – ).
• Conceptual Developer, Dallas Holocaust Museum and Education Center (2012 - ) .
• Consultant, Special Exhibition, “Unlocking the Gates of Auschwitz” National Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OH (January 27, 2015).
• Conceptual Developer, Holocaust Museum Houston (2014-2015).
• Conceptual Developer, Interactive APP, including 6 films and 5 audio programs and content, Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach (2015).
• Conceptual Developer, Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation (2012-2017).
• Curator, “Auschwitz: Not So Far Away, Not So Long Ago,” a joint project of the Auschwitz Museum and Musealia, Madrid, Spain (December 2017).