Background
Tanay was born in Vilna but the family soon moved to Miechow, a small community just south of KrakóWest His mother, Betty Tenenwurzel, was both a physician and dentist and his father, Bunim Tenenwurzel, was a dentist.
Tanay was born in Vilna but the family soon moved to Miechow, a small community just south of KrakóWest His mother, Betty Tenenwurzel, was both a physician and dentist and his father, Bunim Tenenwurzel, was a dentist.
He survived by being hidden in the Catholic monastery of Mogila in Krakow, Poland. They were liberated in January 1945 in Budapest. He immigrated to the United States after World World War World War II He did his psychiatric residency at Elgin State Hospital in Elgin, Illinois.
Tanay was Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Wayne State University Medical School in Detroit, Michigan.
Tanay died on August 5, 2014, following a lengthy battle with prostate cancer. He was 86.
A fictional report "A German"s View on Islam" falsely attributed to Doctor Tanay is often quoted in relation to Islamist terrorism.</ref>
Emanuel Tanay - March 16, 1987, Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive.
"The Religious roots of the Holocaust," Emannuel Tanay, in Holocaust scholars write to the Vatican," Harry J. Cargas, educated, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998, pp. 85. ff. Tanay, Emanuel.
"A man without a country".
Retrieved 2010-2008-13. Virginia Technical Mass Murder: A Forensic Psychiatrist"s Perspective, Emanuel Tanay, Doctor of Medicine, J Am Academy Psychiatry Law 35:2:152-153 (2007). Emanuel Tanay on LinkedIn (public page)
Emanuel Tanay Obituary.