Holocaust Remembrance Day, marked this year on Thursday, May 1, is an occasion to remember the 6 million Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust. 

 

David Myers, director of UCLA's Center for Jewish Studies, is available to discuss the destruction and loss and the shadow the tragedy still casts over Jewish, American and world culture. A scholar of modern Jewish intellectual and cultural history and the history of Jewish historiography, Myers is the author of "Re-Inventing the Jewish Past: European Jewish Intellectuals and the Zionist Return to History" (1995) and "Resisting History: Historicism and Its Discontents in German-Jewish Thought" (2003) and has edited five books, including "The Jewish Past Revisited: Reflections on Modern Jewish Historians" and "Enlightenment and Diaspora: The Armenian and Jewish Cases." Since 2003, he has served as co-editor of the Jewish Quarterly Review. At UCLA, Myers teaches courses in ancient, medieval and modern Jewish history.

 

Contact UCLA Media Relations Representative Meg Sullivan at (310) 825-1046 or msullivan@support.ucla.edu.