Prominent Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer's legacy

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Prominent Holocaust historian Prof. Yehuda Bauer died Friday at the age of 98. Bauer helped shaped the way people around the world study and learn about the Holocaust. Over the course of his almost century-long life, Bauer published over 40 books on the Holocaust and antisemitism, with a focus on Jewish reactions to both. His early research focused on Jewish organized resistance to the Nazi regime, but in his later work, he addressed larger questions of antisemitism and the Holocaust’s historical significance. In recent decades, Bauer became involved in policy toward antisemitism. He played an important role in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance since its inception in 1998, and helped draft the organization’s controversial yet popular Working Definition of Antisemitism.Reporter Arieh O’Sullivan spoke with Dr. Robert Rozett, senior historian in the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem, about Bauer’s legacy. (photo: Yonatan Sindel/flash90)

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