Background
Alan Lewis Berger was born on November 16, 1939, in Highland Park, New Jersey, to Michael Berger, and Ruth (Baum) Berger, a secretary and homemaker.
5801 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, United States
In 1970, Berger, received a Master of Arts from the University of Chicago.
Syracuse, NY 13244
Berger, received a Ph.D. from Syracuse University in 1976.
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This study deals with one particular aspect of worship in corporeality, the telling of tales. It treats the specificity of tales concerning Israel ben Eliezer, the Baal Shem Tov, founder of the Hasidic movement, and the functions as portraying a normalized mysticism; why they told, what perceptions of the cosmos they reveal, and the nature of their audience.
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1977
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A companion volume to Methodology in the Academic Teaching of Judaism (UPA, 1987), this book seeks to address the central issues of human life and meaning in the post-Holocaust world. Though representing a variety of disciplines and religious backgrounds, the authors are united by a fundamental recognition that after the Holocaust, the entire enterprise of being human has been called into serious question. Co-published with Studies in Judaism.
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1988
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As anti-semitism finds new followers and Israel makes peace with old enemies, Jews in the modern world face constantly metamorphosizing relationships. From the eighteenth century to the present, unprecedented opportunities have grown up alongside new challenges for the Jewish people. While modern society is permitting Judaism a place, profound questions over Jewish identity are taking shape.
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1994
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Focusing on the novels and films of daughters and sons of Holocaust survivors, this book sheds light on the relationship between the Holocaust and contemporary Jewish identity. It is the first systematic analysis of a body of work that introduces a new generation of Jewish writers and filmmakers, as well as revealing how the survivors' legacy is shaping-and being shaped by-the second generation.
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1997
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Descendants of Holocaust survivors and perpetrators offer insights into the intergenerational impact of their legacy and the second generation's role in shaping memory of the Shoah. In these personal, and often dramatic pieces, differences surface, but common ground is also revealed.
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2001
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Whether it's a novel, memoir, diary, poem, or drama, a common thread runs through the literature of the Nazi Holocaust - a motif of personal testimony to the dearness of humanity. With that perspective the expert authors of Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature undertake profiling 128 of the most influential first generation authors who either survived, perished, or were closely connected to the Holocaust.
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2002
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Jews and Christians are bound by an intimacy unprecedented in the history of religions; Jesus, Mary, Paul, and the first apostles were Jewish. Theologically, Christianity needs Judaism. But the relationship between the two religions is fundamentally asymmetrical. John Roth succinctly states the theological imbalance: Nothing in Jewish life logically or theologically entails Christian existence. Christian life, however, does depend essentially on Jewish life. Christianity makes no sense, it would not even exist, if the world contained no Jewish history. Given this intimate connection, one might assume that dialogue between the two religions would come naturally. The opposite, however, is the case. Authentic Jewish-Christian dialogue is a new historical phenomenon whose birth is directly related to the horror and shame of the Holocaust. From the ashes of the death camps there emerged an ember of hope.
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2008
Alan Lewis Berger was born on November 16, 1939, in Highland Park, New Jersey, to Michael Berger, and Ruth (Baum) Berger, a secretary and homemaker.
In 1970, Berger, received a Master of Arts from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. from Syracuse University in 1976.
Alan L. Berger occupies the Raddock Family Eminent Scholar Chair for Holocaust Studies, the first Holocaust chair established in the state of Florida, and is Professor of Judaic Studies at Florida Atlantic University where he also directs the Center for the Study of Values and Violence after Auschwitz.
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. While at Syracuse, Berger served as Acting Chair of the Religion Department and Interim Chair of the Fine Arts Department. He also was the Visiting Gumenick Professor of Judaica at the College of William and Mary. Berger has served as co-program chair of the Lessons and Legacies of the Holocaust in 2012. He was series editor of "Religion, Theology, and the Holocaust," Syracuse University Press (1998-2004).
Berger's work Dialogue: Drawing Honey from the Rock of which he is co-author (with David Patterson), was published by Paragon House in 2008. He is co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Jewish American Literature, which Facts on File published in 2009. Trialogue and Terror: Judaism, Christianity and Islam Respond to 9/11 (Cascade Press) appeared in 2012. Post Holocaust Jewish/Christian Dialogue: After the Flood Before the Rainbow was published in 2015. He is co/author of Third Generation Holocaust Representation, Trauma, History, and Memory (under consideration of Northwestern University Press), another book, Elie Wiesel Messenger for Peace is contracted with Routledge Press.
Berger's many articles, essays and book chapters appear in a variety of publications including Modern Judaism, Modern Language Studies, Religion and American Culture, Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Studies in American Jewish Literature, Saul Bellow Journal, Jewish Book Annual, Sociological Analysis, Australian Journal of Jewish Studies, Judaism, Literature and Belief, Shofar, and Encyclopedia of Genocide. Additionally, he has written over fifty encyclopedia entries.
Berger was guest editor for two special issues of the journal Literature and Belief; "Holocaust Rescuers" and "Elie Wiesel." He also served as guest editor for a special issue of the Saul Bellow Journal: "Bellow and the Holocaust," and for the Festschrift issue of Studies in American Jewish Literature honoring Dan Walden. Berger’s reviews have also appeared in leading Jewish periodicals including The Forward, Tikkun, Hadassah Magazine and Midstream.
Berger has lectured on the Holocaust, Jewish American Literature, Theology, and Christian/Jewish Relations throughout America and in Europe, Australia, South Africa, and Israel. Berger has also spoken at Yad Vashem and the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. His classroom lecture on Art Spiegelman’s Maus was shown on C-Span (January, 2014).
Currently he is editor of the new series "Studies in Genocide: Religion, History and Human Rights" for Rowman and Littlefield. Further, he is on the Senior Advisory Board of Studies in American Jewish Literature, and serves on the editorial boards of Literature and Belief, and the Saul Bellow Journal. He has also been a judge for the National Jewish Book Awards in the categories of Autobiography and Fiction, and is on the Readers Committee for The Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics Essay Contest.
(A companion volume to Methodology in the Academic Teachin...)
1988(Descendants of Holocaust survivors and perpetrators offer...)
2001(Whether it's a novel, memoir, diary, poem, or drama, a co...)
2002(Focusing on the novels and films of daughters and sons of...)
1997(As anti-semitism finds new followers and Israel makes pea...)
1994(Jews and Christians are bound by an intimacy unprecedente...)
2008(This study deals with one particular aspect of worship in...)
1977Quotations: "My primary motivation for writing is to share my thoughts and invite readers’ reflections about the meaning of life after Auschwitz. People who have most influenced my own work are Elie Wiesel, Richard Rubinstein, Zygmunt Bauman, and Thane Rosenbaum."
Berger is a member of the American Academy of Religion, Association for Jewish Studies, American Jewish Historical Society, Syracuse University Library Associates. He is also a member and Founding Associate Director of the Association for the Study of Jewish American and Holocaust Literature.
On August 26, 1971, Alan married, Naomi Berger, a marriage and family therapist. They have three sons.