Carol Rittner | |
---|---|
Born | 1943 (age 79–80) |
Academic background | |
Education | Immaculata University PhD, 1978, Pennsylvania State University |
Thesis | Institutional purposes for staff development in higher education. (1978) |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Stockton University |
Notable works | The Courage to Care |
Carol Rittner (born 1943) is an American nun and Holocaust historian. She is a Distinguished Emerita Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Dr. Marsha Raticoff Grossman Professor of Holocaust Studies at Stockton University.
Rittner was born in 1943 and raised in Camp Hill,Pennsylvania,to a Catholic mother and Protestant father. [1] She graduated from Bishop McDevitt Catholic High School and College Misericordia (now,Misericordia University. [2] Rittner later earned her Doctor of Education from Pennsylvania State University. [3]
In 1984,Rittner organized an international conference on the theme "Faith in Humankind:Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust" for the Holocaust Memorial Council. [4] A few years later,she produced a film titled The Courage to Care which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject). [5] The documentary focused on three Christians who rescued Jews during the Holocaust. [6] From 1986 until 1990,Rittner was the director of the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity before leaving to become president of Mercyworks. [7] Between 1994 and 1995,she was the Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Professors of Holocaust Studies at Stockton University. [8] After her visiting professorship ended,she was invited to stay as the Dr. Marsha Raticoff Grossman Professor in Holocaust Studies. [2]
In 2000,she co-edited "The Holocaust and the Christian World:Reflections on the Past,Challenges for the Future" which examined Christian identity after Auschwitz. [9] [10] A few years later,she received the 2010 Sister Rose Thering Award from the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education. [11]
Rittner was also a contributor to The Jewish Quarterly Review . [12] In 2013,she published Rape as a Weapon of War &Genocide through Paragon Publishing. [13] She also produced the film Sisters alongside director Robert Gardner which focused on the lives of five nuns. [14] Rittner retired from teaching in 2015. [2]
Elie Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer,professor,political activist,Nobel laureate,and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books,written mostly in French and English,including Night,a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.
Stockton University is a public university in Galloway Township,New Jersey. It is part of New Jersey's public system of higher education. It is named for Richard Stockton,one of the New Jersey signers of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. Founded in 1969,Stockton accepted its charter class in 1971. At its opening in 1971,classes were held at the Mayflower Hotel in Atlantic City;the campus in Galloway Township began operating late in 1971. Nearly 10,000 students are enrolled at Stockton and it is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.
Yehuda Bauer is a Czech-born Israeli historian and scholar of the Holocaust. He is a professor of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
John Seymour Conway was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of British Columbia,where he taught for almost 40 years. His work focused on the role of the Vatican and German churches during the Holocaust;on 20th-century Christian–Jewish relations;and on the Holocaust in Hungary and Slovakia.
Rose Thering was a Roman Catholic Dominican religious sister,who gained note as an activist against antisemitism,educator and a professor of Catholic-Jewish dialogue at Seton Hall University in New Jersey.
Gratz College is a private Jewish college in Melrose Park,Pennsylvania. The college traces its origins to 1856 when banker,philanthropist,and communal leader Hyman Gratz and the Hebrew Education Society of Philadelphia joined to establish a trust to create a Hebrew teachers college. Gratz is a private liberal arts college located in a suburban setting and is primarily a commuter campus with online courses.
Elliot R. Wolfson Wolfson earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in philosophy at Queens College of the City University of New York,and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Near Eastern and Judaic studies from Brandeis University,where he trained under the supervision of Alexander Altmann.
Michael Phayer is an American historian and professor emeritus at Marquette University in Milwaukee and has written on 19th- and 20th-century European history and the Holocaust.
Paul R. Bartrop is an Australian historian of the Holocaust and genocide. From August 2012 until December 2020 he was Professor of History and Director of the Center for Judaic,Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Florida Gulf Coast University,Fort Myers,Florida. Between 2020 and 2021 he was an honorary Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of New South Wales,Canberra. In April 2021 he became Professor Emeritus of History at Florida Gulf Coast University,and in 2022 he became an honorary Principal Fellow in History at the University of Melbourne. During the academic year of 2011-2012 he was the Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.
Nechama Tec is a Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. She received her Ph.D. in sociology at Columbia University,where she studied and worked with the sociologist Daniel Bell,and is a Holocaust scholar. Her book When Light Pierced the Darkness (1986) and her memoir Dry Tears:The Story of a Lost Childhood (1984) both received the Merit of Distinction Award from the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. She is also author of the book Defiance:The Bielski Partisans on which the film Defiance (2008) is based,as well as a study of women in the Holocaust. She was awarded the 1994 International Anne Frank Special Recognition prize for it.
John King Roth is an American-based author,editor,and the Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College (CMC) in Claremont,California. Roth taught at CMC from 1966 through 2006,where he was the founding director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust,Genocide,and Human Rights,which is now the Mgrublian Center for Human Rights. Best known for his contributions to Holocaust and genocide studies,he is the author or editor of more than fifty books. In 1988,he was named the U.S. National Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education,and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Holocaust studies,or sometimes Holocaust research,is a scholarly discipline that encompasses the historical research and study of the Holocaust. Institutions dedicated to Holocaust research investigate the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary aspects of Holocaust methodology,demography,sociology,and psychology. It also covers the study of Nazi Germany,World War II,Jewish history,religion,Christian-Jewish relations,Holocaust theology,ethics,social responsibility,and genocide on a global scale. Exploring trauma,memories,and testimonies of the experiences of Holocaust survivors,human rights,international relations,Jewish life,Judaism,and Jewish identity in the post-Holocaust world are also covered in this type of research.
Barbara Harff is professor of political science emerita at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis,Maryland. In 2003 and again in 2005 she was a distinguished visiting professor at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. Her research focuses on the causes,risks,and prevention of genocidal violence.
Gabriel Wilensky is an American author,software developer and entrepreneur. He was born in Uruguay,where his Eastern-European grandparents had emigrated to before the Second World War. He is the author of the book Six Million Crucifixions (2010),which traces the history of antisemitism in Christianity and the role it played in the Holocaust.
Susannah Heschel is an American scholar and the Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. The author and editor of numerous books and articles,she is a Guggenheim Fellow and the recipient of numerous awards,including four honorary doctorates. Heschel's scholarship focuses on Jewish and Christian interactions in Germany during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is the daughter of Abraham Joshua Heschel,one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers of the 20th century.
Ewa Kurek is a Polish historian specializing in Polish-Jewish history during World War II. She has been associated with the far-right,and her revisionist views regarding the Holocaust in Poland has been widely categorized as indicative of antisemitism and Holocaust denial.
Doris Leanna Bergen is a Canadian academic and Holocaust historian. She is the Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Toronto,the only endowed chair in Canada in Holocaust history. Bergen is also a member of the Academic Advisory Committee of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2018.
Paul Mojzes is an academic who is professor emeritus of Religious Studies at Rosemont College.
Alan L. Berger is an American scholar,writer and professor of Judaic Studies and Holocaust studies from the Florida Atlantic University. He occupies the Raddock Family eminent scholar chaired of the Holocaust Studies at Florida Atlantic University and director Center for the Study of Values and Violence. He is best known for Judaism educations,Abrahamic religions challenges and scholar of Holocaust studies.
Rochelle G. Saidel is an American writer and researcher. She founded the Remember the Women Institute in 1997 and currently serves as its executive director.
She was executive producer of ``Courage To Care,' which in 1986 was nominated for an Academy Award in the Short Documentary category