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Raddock Family Eminent Scholar Chair of Holocaust Studies and Professor of Judaic Studies

Department of English

Email: aberger@fau.edu

Alan L. Berger occupies the Raddock Family Eminent Scholar Chair for Holocaust Studies, the first Holocaust chair established in the state of ³Ô¹ÏÍø, and is Professor of Judaic Studies at ³Ô¹ÏÍø where he also directs the . Berger founded and directed the Holocaust and Judaic Studies B.A. Program at FAU (1998-2005). Prior to this, he was a professor in the Department of Religion at Syracuse University where he founded and directed the Jewish Studies Program. Among his books are Crisis and Convenant: The Holocaust in American Jewish Fiction, Judaism in the Modern World (Editor), and Children of Job: American Second-Generation Witnesses to the Holocaust, (Foreword by Elie Wiesel), the first systematic study of American films and novels of children of Holocaust survivors analyzing the psycho-social and theological legacy of the Holocaust on the second generation. He has lectured on the Holocaust, Jewish American Literature, Theology, and Christian/Jewish Relations throughout America and in Europe, Australia, South Africa, and Israel. He edits a series "Studies in Genocide: Religion, History, and Human Rights" for Rowman & Littlefield.