Alvin Hirsch Rosenfeld (born 1938) is an American professor and scholar who has written about

the Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...

, and the

new antisemitism New antisemitism is the idea that a new form of antisemitism has developed in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, tending to manifest itself as anti-Zionism and criticism of the Israeli government. The concept is included in some definitions ...

. He holds the Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies at

Indiana University Indiana University (IU) is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Indiana. Campuses Indiana University has two core campuses, five regional campuses, and two regional centers under the administration of IUPUI. *Indiana Universit ...

, and is the Director of the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism. Rosenfeld earned his PhD from

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

in 1967.

Books

*''A Double Dying: Reflections on Holocaust Literature,'' (

Indiana University Press Indiana University Press, also known as IU Press, is an academic publisher founded in 1950 at Indiana University that specializes in the humanities and social sciences. Its headquarters are located in Bloomington, Indiana. IU Press publishes 140 ...

, 1980; paperback ed., 1988; German, Polish, and Hungarian editions). . * ''Imagining Hitler'' (Indiana University Press, 1985; Japanese-language translation). . * ''The End of the Holocaust,'' (Indiana University Press, 2011; German, Hebrew, Hungarian, and Polish translations). . * ''Deciphering the New Antisemitism'' (Indiana University Press; 2015). . * ''Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism: The Dynamics of Delegitimization'' (Indiana University Press; 2019).

Notable articles

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Progressive Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism ''"Progressive" Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism'' is a 2006 essay written by Alvin Hirsch Rosenfeld, director of Indiana University's Center for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and professor of English and Jewish Studies. It was pu ...

American Jewish Committee The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is a Jewish advocacy group established on November 11, 1906. It is one of the oldest Jewish advocacy organizations and, according to ''The New York Times'', is "widely regarded as the dean of American Jewish org ...

. 2006

References

Living people American male writers American book editors Jewish American academics Indiana University faculty Brown University alumni Scholars of antisemitism Historians of the Holocaust New antisemitism 1938 births {{US-academic-bio-stub