A Shattered World Jews and Israel After October 7

Michael Berenbaum is a distinguished professor of Jewish studies and director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at the American Jewish University. He is the author and editor of some twenty-five books and was executive editor of the second edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica. In the past, he served as project director overseeing the creation of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and president and CEO of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. Berenbaum has helped create Holocaust and human rights museums on three continents and in some half dozen American cities. His work on One Survivor Remembers and A Call to Remember: The David Schaecter Story have earned Emmy Awards and several films that he has worked on including One Survivor Remembers and The Last Days have won Academy Awards.

Gilbert N. Kahn is a professor of political science at Kean University and a member of the Holocaust and Genocide Master's Program. He was also the director of the political consulting firm, GNK Associates. His publications and research focus primarily on US foreign policy decision-making in the Middle East. Over the past several years Kahn has focused on the character and nature of antisemitism in America and Western Europe, and the extent to which antisemitism influences decision makers as well as how antisemitism manifests itself under the guise of white supremacy. He has been published widely in academic journals including Presidential Studies Quarterly, Studies of Religion, and Jewish-Muslim Encounters. Since 2005 he has been a columnist for a number of Anglo-Jewish publications and author of the blog Kahntentions.