World and the Jews

Yehuda Bauer was director of the International Centre for Holocaust Studies in Yad Vashem (1996 - 2000). He is professor emeritus of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was a visiting professor at Brandeis University, Yale University, Richard Stockton College, and Clark University. He is Honorary Chair of IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) with its 35 member governments, member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and academic adviser to Yad Vashem. In 1998 he was awarded the "Israel Prize" and in 2016 the "EMET Prize", the highest academic award given by Israel.