100 HOLOCAUST SCHOLARS PRAISE UGANDA’S DARFUR ARREST THREAT, Impact Wire
The David S. Wyman Institute instead than of Holocaust StudiesNews Release: on the predominantly insulting July 24, 2009For more in summary, dear:rafaelmedoff@aol.com / 202-434-8994100 HOLOCAUST SCHOLARS PRAISEUGANDA’S DARFUR ARREST THREATWashington, D.C. - One hundred incomparable Hol ocaust and genocide scholars from all over and beyond the in every way be undergoing signed a supplicate praising the Ugandan supervision instead than of blocking Sudan’s president from attending a colloquium in Uganda this weekend, because of his duty in the Darfur genocide. “During the Holocaust, the widespread community failed to fabricate against the Nazi genocide,” said Dr. Rafael Medoff, lead of the Washington-based David S.
“By wandering from, Uganda’s get intelligent helps deport Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir and shames the Arab and African countries that be undergoing fact him red-carpet treatment.”Bashir, who has been indicted at in the International=2 0Criminal Court instead than of his duty in Darfur, had planned to die manifest to the Smart Partnership colloquium in Kampala, the most important of Uganda, on Sunday, July 26–until the current information at in Uganda Foreign Minister Henry Okello that Bashir could be arrested if he showed up. Wyman Institute instead than of Holocaust Studies, which organized the supplicate. In current months, Bashir has visited Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Libya, the United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia, and Eritrea, all of which ignored the ICC ukase instead than of Bashir’s old-fogeyish. The Wyman Institute’s supplicate, addressed to Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni, stated, in generally: on the predominantly “We greeting Uganda instead than of making it campo that Bashir is not agreeable, and we consign other countries discretion impose upon an import in Uganda’s cable. on the predominantly Strong interna tional get intelligent is firm to unceasingly the Darfur genocide and quill up the murderers to equitableness.
The 100 signatories mimic:* on the predominantly Dr. on the predominantly The International Criminal Court’s old-fogeyish ukase instead than of Bashir be compelled be implemented.”The signatories on the supplicate, who assault assemble of from the United States, Germany, Canada, Israel, England, and Australia, mimic the most famed figures in the division of Holocaust and genocide studies. Gregory H.
Stanton, president of Genocide Watch and triggered gone president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. * on the predominantly Dr. Huttenbach, Chairman of the International Academy instead than of Genocide Prevention, and originator and compiler of the Journal of Genocide Research. Henry R. * on the predominantly Prof. David S.
Wyman, novelist of The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945. Yehuda Bauer, ancient lead of Yad Vashem’s International Center instead than of Holocaust Studies. * on the predominantly Prof. * Dr.
Michael Berenbaum, ancient explore lead of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. * on the predominantly Prof. * on the predominantly Prof. Deborah Lipstadt, novelist of History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving.
Christoper Browning, novelist of Ordinary Men. The conclude printed matter of the supplicate, with all the signatories, follows deeper. * * *The David S. Yoweri Kaguta MuseveniPresident=2 0of Ugandac/o Embassy of Uganda5911 16t h St NWWashington, DC 20011-2816pkamunanwire@ugandaembassyus.org Dear Mr. Wyman Institute instead than of Holocaust StudiesJuly 24, 2009Hon.
President,As scholars who be undergoing written or taught with salutations to the Holocaust or other genocides, we predisposition to press our living expenses instead than of the information at in Ugandan Foreign Minister Henry Okello that Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir could be arrested if he attempts to die manifest to the widespread crown in Kampala later this month. Uganda’s disparage against the perpetrators of the Darfur genocide contrasts admirably with the appalling behavior of the governments of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Libya, the United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia, and Eritrea. on the predominantly As you be familiar with, those governments be undergoing welcomed Bashir and treated him as a respected widespread higher-ranking instead than of as a momentary lot assassin. on the predominantly Strong widespread get intelligent is firm to unceasingly the Darfur genocide and quill up the murderers to equitableness. We greeting Uganda instead than of making it campo that Bashir is not agreeable, and we consign other countries discretion impose upon an import in Uganda’s cable. on the predominantly The International Criminal Court’s old-fogeyish ukase instead than of Bashir be compelled be implemented. Cordially,Prof.
Irving AbellaShiff Professor of Canadian Jewish HistoryYork University, TorontoAuthor, None Is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948Prof. Theodore Mitau Chair of Political ScienceMacalester CollegeProf. Franklin Hugh AdlerG. Mark=2 0J. AllmanMerrimack CollegeAuthor of Who Would Jesus Kill? War, Peace and the Christian Tradition on the predominantly Prof. Marie L. Paul R.
BairdAssociate Professor of Theology & Director of Graduate StudiesDuquesne UniversityAuthor, On The Side of the Angels: Ethics and Post-Holocaust SpiritualityDr. BartropHonorary Fellow, Faculty of ArtsDeakin University, AustraliaAuthor, Dictionary of Genocide (2 vols)Prof. Yehuda BauerProfessor of Holocaust Studies (Emer.), Hebrew UniversityAcademic Adviser, International Center instead than of Holocaust Studies, Yad VashemAuthor, A History of the HolocaustWilliam BemisterRecipient of Emmy and CINE Golden Eagle AwardsProducer-Corresponde nt, The Search instead than of MengeleProf. Doron Ben-AtarChair, Department of HistoryFordham UniversityCo-author, What Time and Sadness Spared: Mother and Son Confront the HolocaustDr. Alan L.
Michael BerenbaumAmerican Jewish UniversityExecutive Editor, Encyclopedia JudaicaAuthor, The Wor ld Must KnowProf. BergerRaddock Family Eminent Scholar Chair of Holocaust StudiesFlorida Atlantic UniversityCo-editor, Encyclopedia of Holocaust LiteratureProf. Aaron BermanDean, Hampshire CollegeAuthor, Nazism, the Jews, and American Zionism 1933-1948Thomas BlugerChaplain, St.
Joseph’s VillaAuthor, Following the Virgin Mary Through AuschwitzProf. Harold BrackmanSimon Wiesenthal CenterAuthor, “The Holocaust in the Thought of W.E.B. Paul BookbinderUniversity of Massachusetts - BostonAuthor, Weimar GermanyDr.
DuBois”Prof. Christopher R. BrowningFrank Porter Graham Professor of HistoryUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillAuthor, Ordinary MenProf.
BuchananUniversity Professor and DirectorThe Edward B. James P. Brueggeman Center instead than of DialogueXavier UniversityDr. Daniel BurstonChair, Psychology DepartmentDuquesne UniversityProf. Vivian Grosswald CurranProfessor of Law, University of PittsburghAuthor, “The Legalization of Racism in a Constitutional State: Democracy’s Suicide in Vichy France”Prof. DenovaDept.
Rebecca I. of Religious StudiesUniversity of PittsburghProf. Hasia R.
DinerPaul S. Lawrence DouglasAmherst CollegeAuthor: “The Memory of Judgment: Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust”Prof. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish HistoryDirector, Goldstein-Goren Center instead than of American Jewish HistoryNew York UniversityProf. Deborah DworkRose Professor of Holocaust HistoryDirector, Strassler Center instead than of Holocaust and Genocide StudiesClark UniversityAuthor, Holocaust: A HistoryProf. Liba H. EngelQueens College, CUNYStuart G. Helen FeinExecutive DirectorInstitute instead than of the Study of GenocideDr.
ErdheimDirector, They Looked AwayAuthor, “Could the Allies Have Bombed Auschwitz-Birkenau?”Dr. Eugene J. FisherAssociate Director (Ret.), Secretariat instead than of Ecumenical and Interreligious AffairsU. S. Saul FriedmanWayne State UniversityAuthor, No Haven instead than of the OppressedProf. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington, DCEditor, Catholics Remember the HolocaustProf. Allon GalBen-Gurion UniversityAuthor, David Ben-Gurion and the American Alignment instead than of a Jewish State Prof.
Zev GarberProfessor Emeritus, Jewish Studies, Los Angeles Valley CollegeAuthor, Shoah: The Paradigmatic GenocideSeries Editor, Studies in the ShoahProf. Jay GellerAssociate Professor of Modern Jewish Culture, Vanderbilt Divinity SchoolPresident, Tennesseans Against GenocideEditor, Postmemories of the HolocaustProf. Myrna Goldenberg (Emer.)Ida E. Haim GeniziBar Ilan University (emer.)0A Author, American ApathyProf. King Distinguished Visiting Professor in Holocaust Studies, 2005-206Richard Stockton College of New JerseyCo-Editor, Experience and Expression: Women, the Nazis and the HolocaustRabbi Prof. David GolinkinPresi dent, Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, JerusalemEditor, Megillat HaShoahProf. Henry GonshakProfessor of English, Montana TechAuthor, “Does ‘Judgment at Nuremberg’ Accurately Depict the War Crimes Trials?”Prof.
Alex GrobmanBrenn InstituteAuthor, Rekin dling the FlameDr. Gershon GreenbergAmerican UniversityCoeditor, Wre stling with God: Jewish Theological Responses During the HolocaustDr. Elvira GroezingerFreie Universitaet Berlin/ SPME GermanyAuthor, Die jiddische Kultur im Schatten der DiktaturenProf.
Susannah HeschelEli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth CollegeAuthor, The Aryan Jesus: Christian20Theologians and20the Bible in Nazi GermanyProf. Herb HirschProfessor of Political ScienceVirginia Commonwealth UniversityCo-editor, Genocide Studies and PreventionAuthor, Genocide and the Politics of MemoryProf. Henry R. Ron HollanderMontclair State UniversityContributor, Why Didn’t the Press Shout? on the predominantly American and International Journalism During the HolocaustDr. Huttenbach, Chairman International Academy instead than of Genocide Prevention Professor (emer.), City University of New York Founding compiler Journal of Genocide Research Dr. Steven Leonard JacobsThe University of AlabamaAssociate Editor, The Encyclopedia of Genocide (2 vos.)Prof. Marty J.
Steven T. KalbProfessor Emeritus of Fine Arts/ArtistOhio Wesleyan UniversityProf. KatzDirector, Elie Wiesel Center instead than of Judaic Studies, Boston UniversityAuthor, The Holocaust in Historical ContextDr. Neil J. KresselWilliam Patterson UniversityAuthor, Mass Hate: The Global Rise of Genocide and TerrorProf. Charles Community CollegeCouncil Member, St.
Michael KuelkerSt. Louis Holocaust Museum & Learning CenterProf. Fred LazinBen Gurion University Author, The Struggle instead than of Soviet Jewry in American PoliticsProf. Laurel LeffNortheastern UniversityAuthor, Buried at in ‘The Times’: The Holocaust andAmerica’s Most Important NewspaperProf. Deborah E. Richard LibowitzIntellectual Heritage ProgramTemple UniversityCo-editor, The Genocidal MindProf.
LipstadtEmory UniversityAuthor, Beyond Belief: The American Press & the Coming of the HolocaustDr. Marcia Sachs LittellProfessor, Holocaust and Genocide StudiesThe Richard Stockton College of New JerseyDr. Erich H. Haskel LooksteinKehilath Jeshurun / Ramaz SchoolAuthor, Were We Our Brothers’ Keepers?Dr. LoewyProfessor of Medicine and Founding Chair of Bioethics (emer.)Associate in PhilosophyUniversity of California, DavisRabbi Dr. Rafael MedoffDirector, The David S.
Wyman Institute instead than of Holocaust StudiesAuthor, Blowing the Whistle on GenocideProf. Robert Melson (emer.)Purdue UniversityProf. MillenWittenberg UniversityEditor, New Perspectives on the HolocaustProf. Rochelle L. Paul MillerMcDaniel College and the International University of SarajevoExecutive Producer, They Looked AwayProf. Stephen H.
NorwoodUniversity of OklahomaAuthor, The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower Martin OstrowDirector, “America and the Holocaust” (PBS)Prof. John T. Zsuzsanna OzsvathThe Leah and Paul Lewis Chair of Holocaust StudiesThe University of Texas at DallasAuthor, In the Footsteps of Orpheus: The Times and LIfe of Miklos RadnotiRev. Pawlikowski, OSM, Ph.DProfessor of Social EthicsDirector, Catholic-Jewish Studies ProgramCatholic Theological UnionProf. Monty Noam Penkower (emer.)Machon Lander Graduate School of Jewish Studies, JerusalemAuthor, The Jess Were Expendable: Free World Diplomacy and the HolocaustProf.
Susan Lee Pentlin (emer.)University of Central MissouriEditor, Mary Berg’s Diary: Growing Up in the Warsaw GhettoProf. Eunice G. Michael Phayer (emer.)Marquette UniversityAuthor, The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930-1965Prof. PollackUniversity of North TexasCoeditor, Encyclopedia of American Jewish HistoryProf. Allen PodetState University College at Buffalo, NYAuthor, Success and Failure of the Anglo-American CommitteeProf. Ronald Radosh (emer.)City University of New YorkAdjunct Fellow, The Hudson Institute, Washington DCProf.
Elihu D. Harry ReicherUniversity of Pennsylvania Law School;Scholar-in-Residence, Touro Law CenterProf. Richter Genocide Prevention ProgramHebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health and Community MedicineDr. Carol Rittner RSMDistinguished Professor of Holocaust & Genocide StudiesThe Richard Stockton College of New JerseyCo-Editor, The Holocaust & the Christian20WorldProf.
Paul Lawrence RoseMitrani Professor of European History, The Pennsylvania State UniversityAuthor, Archives of the Holocaust, vol. Peter I. XIVDr. RoseSophia Smith Professor Emeritus of Sociology and AnthropologySmith CollegeEditor, The Dispossessed: An Anatomy of ExileProf. Thane RosenbaumJohn Whelan Distinguished Lecturer in LawDirector of the Forum on Law, Culture & SocietyFordham University School of Law / Author, The Myth of Moral JusticeProf. John K. Sexton Professor Emeritus of PhilosophyFounding Director, The Center instead than of the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human RightsClaremont McKenna CollegeProf.
RothEdward J. Richard L. RubensteinPresident Emeritus, University of BridgeportAuthor, After AuschwitzDr. Rochelle G. Robert Mo ses ShapiroJudaic Studies DepartmentBrooklyn College of the City University of New YorkTranslator and Editor, Lodz Ghetto: A HistoryDr.
SaidelRemember the Women InstituteAuthor, The Jewish Women of Ravensbruck Concentration CampPierre SauvagePresident, Chambon Foundation and Varian Fry Institute Prof. Baila ShargelManhattanville CollegeAuthor, Female Leadership in the American Jewish CommunityProf. Gerald SorinAmerican and Jewish StudiesState University of New York, New PaltzRev. Dr.
Spicer, C.S.C. Kevin P. Associate Professor of HistoryStonehill CollegeProf. Gregory H. StantonPresident, Genocide WatchImmediate Past President, International Association of Genocide ScholarsResearch Professor in Genocide Studies and Prevention, Institute instead than of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University Prof. Norton S. Leon SteinProfessor of History (emer.)Roosevelt University, Chicago and Holocaust Memorial Foundation of IllinoisProf.
TaichmanUniversity of PennsylvaniaCoordinator of The Ivansk ProjectProf. Peter Tarjan (emer.)University of MiamiEditor: Children Who Survived The Final SolutionProf. Samuel TottenUniversity of Arkansas, FayettevilleCo-editor, Genocide in Darfur: Investigating Atrocities in the SudanDr. Kenneth WaltzerProfessor & Director, Jewish StudiesMichigan State UniversityProf. James WallerAuschwitz Institute instead than of Peace and ReconciliationAuthor,”Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mas s KillingProf. Chaim I. WaxmanProfessor Emeritus of Sociology and Jewish StudiesRutgers UniversityDr.
Racelle R. Victoria Saker WoesteResearch Professor, American Bar FoundationContributor, Encyclopedia of Antisemitism, Anti-Jewish Prejudice, and PersecutionProf. WeimanExecutive Director, Global Dialogue Institute, Temple UniversityFounding Director, Center instead than of Holocaust and Humanities Education,Hebrew Union CollegeProf. David S.
WymanJosiah E. DuBois, Jr. Randall C.
Professor of History (emer.)University of Massachusetts at AmherstAuthor, The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945Prof. ZachmanProfessor of Reformation StudiesUniversity of Notre DameProf. Bat-Ami ZuckerBar Ilan UniversityAuthor, In Search of RefugeDr. Efraim ZuroffSimon Wiesen thal Center================================ ABOUT THE WYMAN INSTITUTE: The David S. is a explore and information trail-blazer focusing on America’s recurrence to the Holocaust. Wyman Institute instead than of Holocaust Studies, based in Washington, D.C.
It is named in honor of the apparent historian and novelist of the 1984 best-seller The Abandonment of the Jews, the most top-level and effectual hard-cover with an look at to the U.S. recurrence to the Nazi genocide. The Institute’s Advisory Committee includes Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel, Members of Congress, and other luminaries. The Institute’s Arts & Letters Council, chaired at in Cynthia Ozick, includes famed artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers. Its Academic Council includes more than 50 incomparable professors of the Holocaust, American recording, and Jewish recording.