The Sam & Sarah Kerzner and Joseph Kerzner Holocaust Memorial Institute Lecture

The greatest land war in Europe since World War II has raised the prospect of nuclear war. Whatever the conclusion of the conflict, the world has experienced a watershed moment.

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Presented by Beth Tzedec, Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda, The Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto and the Beth Tzedec Men's Club

Professor Berk is a professor of History at Union College in Schenectady, New York, former chair of the Department of History, Director of the Program in Russian and Eastern European Studies and faculty advisor to the Jewish Student Organization. He is the author of Year of Crisis, Year of Hope: Russian Jewry and the Pogroms of 1881-1882 (Greenwood Press, 1985) and is currently writing Our People Are Your People: American Jewry and the Struggle for Civil Rights 1954-1965. 

In 1996, Professor Berk received the prestigious Holocaust Memorial Award from the Holocaust Survivors and Friends Education Center for his "years of dedication to understanding and education as a worldwide lecturer and spellbinding speaker on the lessons of the Holocaust and its meaning for today". In 2010, he was designated an Israel Hero for his defence and advocacy of the State of Israel by JERNY the Jewish Educational Resources of New York.