Steven L. Jacobs: Featured Speaker at LeFrak Holocaust Conference 2009

Ethel LeFrak Holocaust Education Conference 2009 (Updates and Links)

Dr. Steven Leonard Jacobs from the University of Alabama, has acted as Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Aaron Aronov Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Alabama since 2001. He specializes in Biblical Studies, translation and interpretation of various texts, including the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Holocaust and Genocide Studies. In the past, he has taught at Spring Hill College in Mobile, the University of Alabama at Birmingham and at Huntsville, and Calhoun Community College.

Dr. Jacobs received his Bachelor’s from PennState University, and his BHL, MAHL, DHL, DD, and rabbinic ordination from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. In addition to teaching, Dr. Jacobs has published a long list of works. Some of them include Dismantling the Big Lie, Post-Shoah Dialogues, In Search of Yesterday, and most recently, Confronting Denocide: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, published in 2009. He is also the associate editor of the 2-volume work, The Holocaust Now: Contemporary Christian and Jewish Thought, for which he solicited ten Christian scholars and ten Jewish scholars for their responses to the Shoah, including two of our featured speakers, Dr. Michael Berenbaum and Rev. John T. Pawlikowski.

Dr. Jacobs is also involved in many civic organizations, including the Alabama Holocaust Commission. He is on the board of Advicors for The Center for American & Jewish Studies at Baylor university in Waco, Texas. He is International Editor for the Papers of Raphael Lemkin, and he is on the International Advisory Board of the Centre for Comparative Genocide Studies at Macquarie University in New South Wales, Australia. Dr. Jacobs serves on the editorial boards for “Studies of the Shoah,” Univeristy Press of America in Lanham, Maryland, as well as for Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History and Science in Monkton, Maryland.

Dr. Jacobs will share his presentation entitled, “The Holocaust and Genocide: What’s in a Name?” on Monday October 26 at 1:50 p.m. in Cecilian Hall.