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Help us continue to serve Holocaust educators at a time when the call to Remember is more critical than ever. Your donation to the Fish Center will allow us to foster the next generation of educators and scholars and keep the memories of the Holocaust’s victims and survivors alive.

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On the Anniversary of October 7

We present a limited issue of Prism to mark October 7th. It contains works written by our students who accompanied us on our study abroad in Israel in July 2024. This issue is intentionally spare and brief in recognition of and respect for those who feel that a commemoration is not appropriate while this war is ongoing and our hostages are still not home. The families and friends of those kidnapped and those murdered have not had a chance to grieve; this atrocity is not over for them. The war is not over for Israel. October 7th, with its aftermath, is not over for any of us. And as Ayala Metzger, the daughter-in-law of murdered hostage Yoram Metzger, said, “During the Holocaust, there were no ceremonies.”

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Help us continue to serve Holocaust educators at a time when the call to Remember is more critical than ever. Your donation to the Fish Center will allow us to foster the next generation of educators and scholars and keep the memories of the Holocaust’s victims and survivors alive.

Lit candles

The Emil A. and Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Lit candles

The Emil A. and Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Poppies in the Israeli South

On the Anniversary of October 7

We present a limited issue of Prism to mark October 7th. It contains works written by our students who accompanied us on our study abroad in Israel in July 2024. This issue is intentionally spare and brief in recognition of and respect for those who feel that a commemoration is not appropriate while this war is ongoing and our hostages are still not home. The families and friends of those kidnapped and those murdered have not had a chance to grieve; this atrocity is not over for them. The war is not over for Israel. October 7th, with its aftermath, is not over for any of us. And as Ayala Metzger, the daughter-in-law of murdered hostage Yoram Metzger, said, “During the Holocaust, there were no ceremonies.”
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Help us continue to serve Holocaust educators at a time when the call to Remember is more critical than ever. Your donation to the Fish Center will allow us to foster the next generation of educators and scholars and keep the memories of the Holocaust’s victims and survivors alive.
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Committed to Education

The Fish Center is committed to what must be the foundation of Holocaust education: the focus on the Jewish perspective and experiences: the systematic destruction of Jews, Jewish communities, and Jewish culture, and the actions of the Jews as they responded and resisted. Only through this lens will the study of the Holocaust avoid universalization, distortion, and trivialization.

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Committed to Education

The Fish Center is committed to what must be the foundation of Holocaust education: the focus on the Jewish perspective and experiences: the systematic destruction of Jews, Jewish communities, and Jewish culture, and the actions of the Jews as they responded and resisted. Only through this lens will the study of the Holocaust avoid universalization, distortion, and trivialization.
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The Center

The Emil A. and Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies strives to build a cadre of professionals and lay leaders who are committed to Holocaust Education and Remembrance, and ready to meet the challenges that the field is facing. As survivors pass away and awareness of the subject in public memory fades, it is the responsibility of the next generations to explore, research and teach the history of the Holocaust, confront Holocaust deniers and distorters, and combat antisemitism both in the U.S. and globally.

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Online and Around the World

Our programs are designed to suit students’ academic and professional needs, offering synchronous online through Live Virtual Classroom, asynchronous online, and study abroad formats. We also offer generous scholarships, convenient payment options, and financial aid for students.

With courses spanning a multitude of academic fields to foster a robust and multi-faceted understanding, the Fish Center is dedicated to the study of the Shoah from a perspective steeped in the history, culture, religion, and spiritual life of the Jewish civilization annihilated by the Nazis and their collaborators.

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Student Resources

Student life at the Fish Center is supplemented with a variety of resources and services provided by the University. From essentials like calendars, registration, information technology, and financial aid to the important daily details like digital libraries and Canvas, this section provides you with invaluable resources that will make your life easier.

Resources for Current Students

In the News

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Godwin's Law Is Our New Reality | Opinion

Read Director Pilnik's take on Internet culture, and the siren's call of calling the opposition side nazis and comparing leaders to Hitler.

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Godwin's Law Is Our New Reality | Opinion

Godwin's law, short for Godwin's law (or rule) of Nazi analogies, is an Internet adage asserting that "as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1."

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Concerning Trends in Holocaust Education

Read Director Dr. Shay Pilnik's Op-Ed on the Times of Israel blog on a growing trend in Holocaust Studies in schools.

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Concerning Trends in Holocaust Education

 

 
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Active In the Community

Read "Educating the Educators about the Holocaust," about a daylong educational seminar in partnership with HHREC in White Plains. By Lois Roman.

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Active In the Community
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Godwin's Law Is Our New Reality | Opinion

Read Director Pilnik's take on Internet culture, and the siren's call of calling the opposition side nazis and comparing leaders to Hitler.

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Godwin's Law Is Our New Reality | Opinion

Godwin's law, short for Godwin's law (or rule) of Nazi analogies, is an Internet adage asserting that "as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1."
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Modern Orthodox Jews Should Be Trailblazers in Holocaust Education

"Modern Orthodox Jews have a unique potential and pressing obligation to endow the Holocaust with a sense of sacred, intrinsic Jewish content, intervening in an inter-denominational discourse that would otherwise continue to drift away from its original Jewish context."

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Modern Orthodox Jews Should Be Trailblazers in Holocaust Education
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Concerning Trends in Holocaust Education

Read Director Dr. Shay Pilnik's Op-Ed on the Times of Israel blog on a growing trend in Holocaust Studies in schools.

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Concerning Trends in Holocaust Education

 

 
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Never Forget, But Never Dilute

Read "Never Forget, But Never Dilute: Rethinking How We Teach the Holocaust" By: Dr. Shay Pilnik at Tablet

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Never Forget, But Never Dilute
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Never Again, But How? The Fish Center Story

“With the increase in anti-Semitism around the world, I realized the imperative of making sure there is never again another Holocaust."

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Never Again, But How? The Fish Center Story

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