Dr. Alex Grobman is an historian with an MA and Ph.D. in contemporary Jewish history with a major in the Shoah from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is president of the Brenn Institute, a think tank dealing with historical and contemporary issues affecting the Jewish community.

Dr. Grobman established the first Holocaust center in the US 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. With Rabbi Daniel Landes, Dr. Grobman edited Genocide: Critical Issues of the Holocaust, a companion to the Center’s Academy Award winning film Genocide.

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 latest book Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened, and Why Do They Say It? published by University of California Press in Berkeley was used to refute David Irving at the Lipstadt/Irving trial. He has also edited three academic guides: Anne Frank in Historical Perspective, Those Who Dared: Rescuers and Rescued, and Schindler’s List.

Dr.Grobman has just completed a book on the Vaad Hatzala in the post-war period 1946-1949.

Topics:

American Jewish Chaplains and the Remnants of European Jewry
Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It?
Those Who Dared: Rescuers and Rescued
Other Topics on Request

Contact:

Dr. Alex Grobman
Telephone (201) 227-1440
E-mail at Agrobman@nj.rr.com