13 Facts About Michael Berenbaum

Michael Berenbaum served as deputy director of the President's Commission on the Holocaust, Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Director of the USHMM's Holocaust Research Institute.

Michael Berenbaum, who is Jewish, graduated from Queens College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967 and received his doctorate from Florida State University in 1975.

Michael Berenbaum attended The Hebrew University, the Jewish Theological Seminary and Boston University.

Michael Berenbaum received Rabbinic ordination by Rabbi Yaakov Rabin at the age of 23.

Michael Berenbaum held teaching posts at Florida State University, Yale University, Georgetown University, Wesleyan University, George Washington University, the University of Maryland, College Park, and American University, and is currently a Professor of Jewish Studies at the American Jewish University.

Michael Berenbaum is the author and editor of eighteen books, including After Tragedy and Triumph, a study of the state of American Jewry in the early 1990s, as well as The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust, and Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp.

Michael Berenbaum co-edited After The Passion is Gone: American Religious Consequences, an examination of the social impact of the film After the Passion is Gone, with Shawn Landres.