Prof Yehuda Bauer

Yehuda Bauer is Professor Emeritus of History and Holocaust Studies at the Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Faculty of Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and academic adviser to the Yad Vashem Foundation.  Born and raised in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Bauer is fluent in the Czech, Slovak and German languages, Hebrew, Yiddish, English, French and Polish. He has been a visiting professor at Brandeis University, Yale University, Richard Stockton College, and Clark University. He was the founding editor of the Journal for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and served on the editorial board of the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, published by Yad Vashem in 1990.  In recent years, Bauer was the recipient of the Israel Prize, the highest civilian award in Israel. In 2001, he was elected a Member of the Israeli Academy of Science. Currently, he serves as academic adviser to Yad Vashem, academic adviser to the International Task Force for Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research, and senior adviser to the Swedish Government on the International Forum on Genocide Prevention.

Prof Yehuda Bauer will present the first session of 'Holocaust Meaning & Memory Through Film'

Click here to read Yehuda Bauer's recent article:'Remembering the Holocaust accurately'