Alex Grobman is an American historian.
"Holocaust revisionism deconstructed," Feb. 4, 2006, Josh Bains, Jerusalem Post.

Biography

Grobman grew up in

Camden, New Jersey Camden is a city in and the county seat of Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Camden is part of the Delaware Valley metropolitan area and is located directly across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At the 20 ...

, the son of a pharmacist and a synagogue secretary. He earned his PhD at the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

. Grobman's book ''Denying History'' has been described as serving to "remind us the past is not entirely negotiable" that, "Good historians can uncover and explain the past with provisional certainty - if they account for personal and cultural bias, and that it can be established beyond any reasonable doubt that 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; ...

was real. According to

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". . . Shermer and Grobman do more than just refute ridiculous allegations. They also use the example of Holocaust denial literature to examine free speech issues, the psychology of right-wing extremists, and the role of biases in historical research." Grobman is

Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

Books

*''Rekindling the Flame: American Jewish Chaplains and the Survivors of European Jewry, 1944-1948.'' 1993 *''

Denying History ''Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It?'' is a 2002 book about Holocaust denial by Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman with collaboration of Arthur Hertzberg. Reviews ''Publishers Weekly'' gave the book a p ...

: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened, and Why Do They Say It?'', with Michael Shermer, 2000 *''Battling For Souls: The Vaad Hatzala Rescue Committee in Post-War Europe,'' 2004 *''Nations United: How The UN Undermines Israel and the West'' 2006 *''The Palestinian Right to Israel,'' 2010

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Grobman, Alex 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers Living people American Jews Year of birth missing (living people) Writers from Camden, New Jersey Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni 20th-century American male writers Historians from New Jersey