Steven Leonard Jacobs (born January 15, 1947) is an American historian, Professor of the

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(Aaron Aronov Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies). He is specialized in Genocide and Holocaust Studies, Religion, History of Judaism, and Politics in the

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. Jacobs is a member of the

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and has served as First Vice-President and Secretary-Treasurer on the board of the organisation.

Books

Steven Leonard Jacobs was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. He received his B.A. from

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; and degrees from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. He has taught at

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, Mobile;

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, Birmingham-Southern College,

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, Homewood, Alabama; the

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and

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, Huntsville. Jacobs is a member of the Board of Advisors of Alabama Holocaust Commission, The Center for American & Jewish Studies,

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, Waco, International Editor of The Papers of

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, Secretary-Treasurer of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, a member of International Advisory Board of the Centre for Comparative Genocide Studies,

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and other organizations.

Bibliography

* Shirot Bialik: A New and Annotated Translation of Chaim Nachman Bialik's Epic Poems (1987); *

's Thoughts on Nazi Genocide: Not Guilty? (1992); * Contemporary Christian and Contemporary Jewish Religious Responses to the Shoah (2 volumes, 1993); * Rethinking Jewish Faith: The Child of a Survivor Responds (1994);Books by Steven L. Jacobs
/ref> * The Meaning of Persons and Things Jewish: Contemporary Explorations and Interpretations (1996); * The Holocaust Now: Contemporary Christian and Jewish Thought (1997); * The Encyclopedia of Genocide (2 volumes, 1999, Associate Editor); * Pioneers of Genocide Studies (2002, Co-editor); * The Biblical Masorah and the Temple Scroll: An Orthographical Inquiry (2002); * Dismantling the Big Lie: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (2003); * Post-Shoah Dialogues: Re-Thinking Our Texts Together (2004). * Confronting Genocide: Judaism, Christianity, Islam (2009). * Lemkin On Genocide(2012, Co-author & Editor).

References

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