INSTITUTE ON THE HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE of the International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING, INTERVENTION AND PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE Founding Members: ISRAELW. CHARNY June 20, 1995 SHAMAI DAVIDSON (deceased) ELIE WIESEL Executive Director: Prof ISRAEL W CHARNY Tel Aviv University Dear Members of the Council of the Tel 03-425385 Tel 02-720424 Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide Council: Archbishop SHAHE AJAMIAN Jerusalem AVRAHAM AVIHAI, Ph.D. Jewish Agency, Jerusalem Enclosed you will find an announcement of many changes in the Prof. YEHUDA BAUER Intl. Center Study Antisemitism Council that went into effect January 1, 1995. This announcement Hebrew University, Jerusalem will appear as an insert page in the 10th Anniversary Issue of Prof. ALAN BERGER Syracuse University Internet on the Holocaust and Genocide which is currently in press. Prof. MAXWELL T COHEN Attorney. Friend & Associate of late Prof Raphael Lemkin, N.Y. A new letterhead for the Institute which incorporates these changes NORMAN COUSINS is currently being prepared. University California, Los Anpaies Prof VLADIMIR DEDUER Genocide Committee, Serbian Academy We are especially pleased to welcome new members of the Council as Sciences & Arts. Yugoslavia well as to express our appreciation to all members of the Council IARTIN ENNALS international Alert for your identification with the Institute and support of our work. London, England HELEN FEIN, Ph.D. Institute Study of Genocide. John We are also very pleased to enclose for you a major review of the Jay College Criminal Justice, NY Institute's HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE which has VARTAN GREGORIAN, Ph.D. Brown University. Providence, R.I. just been published (the offical date of the review is 1994 for DAVID HAWK reasons of the journal's lateness, but in fact the issue has just Cambodia Documentation Commiss., N.Y appeared) in the British Journal of Holocaust Education. As you will Prof RICHARD HOVANNtSIAN University California. Los Angeles see, the reviewer is unstinting in his praise in the course of FUMIKATSU INOUE providing a detailed analysis of many aspects of the database. You Auschwitz Memorial Pavilion Kurose, Hiroshima Province, Japan will enjoy knowing the story that the development of the database Prof. LEO KUPER constituted an extremely difficult task for us, and the fact is we University California, Los Angeles suffered a serious breakdown of the computer system at an advanced GERARD J LIBARtDlAN, Ph.D. Zoryan Institute, Cambridge, MA stage of the project, but we succeeded in bringing the project to Rev FRANKLIN H. LITTELL, Ph.D. successful completion. (Special appreciation is due to Marc I. Hamlin Institute. Philadelphia, PA Sherman, M.L.S., Director of the Holocaust and Genocide Bibliographic JAMES MACE, Ph.D. U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine Database for his extraordinary devotion to rebuilding the database Washington, D.C. through many selfless days and nights of hard work.) SHIMON REDLICH, Ph.D. Rabb Center Holocaust & Redemption Studies. Ben Gurion Univer., Beer Sheva In this connection, we are also very glad to advise all Members of Prof RONALD SANTONI Denison University the Council that the database will be made available to you personally Granville, OH at the lowest price of $175 (on the green sheet per the category Prof ROGER W SMITH College of William and Mary defined as Contributing Editors to the Database and Distinguished Williamsburg. VA Scholars in the Database). However, please be sure to respect that Prof SAMUEL TOTTEN University of Arkansas such orders cannot be transferred to any institutional library. Fayettevtlle, AR of ELIE WIESEL iston University ston, MA SIMON WIESENTHAL Director. Dokumentations- zentrum, Vienna P.O. Box 1031 1, 91 102 JERUSALEM, ISRAEL, Telephone 972-2-720424 FAX: 972-2: 720424; TELEX: 26144, BXJM IL, EXT 7118; BITNET: IHGJ @ TAUNOS 2 - As you know, with the publication of the last issue that we have produced of Internet on the Holocaust and Genocide, we have transferred future publication of Internet to the Centre for Comparative Genocide Studies at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. What will be the continuing activities of our Institute in Jerusalem? Here are some of our major activities: 1. Continuation of the HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE. This project needs long-term financing, and we are interested in linking the database to a larger institutional context which would become co-developer and publisher of the database. 2. Research conference and project towards new means of combatting denials of the Holocaust and genocide in the world. Preparation of further vo lumes in our encyclopedic series, Genocide: A Critical Bibliographic Review. The third and latest volume, The Widening Circle of Genoci de was published recently and has just earned the commendation o f the distinguished social psychologist, M. Brewster Smith who wro te in Contemporary Psychology that it is "an essential resource fo r those who regard the potentiality for genocide as a major chall enge to their discipline and to the human disciplines generally." (A flyer for the book is enclosed for your personal and/or instituti onal order.) A. We are in negotiations with a major publisher who has asked us to prepare a special text for college students. Please note that by choice, our Council is mainly a group of distinguished scholars of genocide rather than a group of business leaders and philanthropists. We value your professional support and counsel, but we will also welcome any assistance you can give us towards generating funds for our Institute's work. (I am pleased to convey to you once again that I personally receive no salary for my work in the Institute, and that many of our professionals similarly contribute much to all of their efforts at no cost.) We look forward to working together on behalf of new developments in "understanding, intervention and prevention of genocide." Sincerely, Israel W. Charny, Ph_£^? Executive Director Encls. INSTITUTE ON THE HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE of the International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING, INTERVENTION AND PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE NEW APPOINTMENTS TO INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF INSTITUTE: The Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem is proud to announce new appointments of the following distinguished scholars of Holocaust and genocide to its International Council effective January 1, 1995. ROUBEN ADALIAN, Ph.D. Prof. KURT JONASSOHN Director of Research Professor of Sociology Armenian Assembly of America Concordia Univesity, Montreal, QC, Canada Washington, D.C. DAVID M. KRIEGER, Ph.D. MICHAEL BERENBAUM, Ph.D. President, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Director Santa Barbara, CA United States Holocaust Research Institute U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Prof. ROBERT JAY LIFTON, M.D. Washington, D.C. Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology P0VAHAKN N. DADRIAN The City University of New York Director at John Jay College of Criminal Justice Genocide Study Project-Guggenheim Foundation Conesus, N.Y. Rabbi Dr. STEVEN JACOBS Rabbi, Temple B'nai Sholom Prof. MARJORIE HOUSEPIAN DOBKIN Editor, The Papers of Dr. Raphael Lemkin Barnard College Huntsville, AL Columbia University, N.Y. Prof. ERIC MARKUSEN Prof. MICHAEL N. DOBKOWSKI Professor of Sociology & Social Work Professor and Chair Southwest State University, Marshall, MN Dept. of Religious Studies Hobart & William Smith Colleges Prof. ROBERT MELSON Geneva, N.Y. Professor of Political Science Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Prof. RICHARD FALK Albert G. Milbank Professor of Prof. RJ. RUMMEL International Law & Practice Professor of Political Science Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI Prof. HERBERT HIRSCH KUMAR RUPESINGHE, Ph.D. Professor of Political Science Secretary General, International Alert Virginia Commonwealth University London, England Richmond, VA Prof. Dr. ALEX P. SCHMID P^IRVING LOUIS HOROWITZ Research Director PIOOM- H»Pah Arendt Distinguished Professor The Interdisciplinary Research Program on of Sociology and Political Science Root Causes of Human Rights Violations Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J. Leiden University, The Netherlands P.O. 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