Robert Michael (historian)


Robert Michael was a Professor Emeritus of European History at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

Books

Antisemitism and the Church Fathers chapter in Marvin Perry and Frederick Schweitzer’s’ Jewish-Christian Encounters Through the Centuries: Symbiosis, Prejudice, Holocaust, Dialogue
Antisemitism: Did the Holocaust have its origins in the anti-Semitism of the nineteenth century? History in Dispute, Vol. 11: The Holocaust
“Antisemitism: Did the Holocaust have its origins in the antisemitism of the nineteenth century?” in History in Dispute, Vol. 11: The Holocaust, ed. Tandy McConnell. ”
“Sub Species Aeternitatis: Teaching After Teaching,” Chronicle of Higher Education
“Kishinev, 1903-2003,” Menorah Review
“Peter Bertocci,” Boston University College of Arts and Sciences
“Emeritus,” Chronicle of Higher Education Review
“The Present and Future of the Internet for Scholars,” On Campus
“Antisemitism and the Church Fathers,” chapter in Marvin Perry and Frederick Schweitzer, Jewish-Christian Encounters Through the Centuries: Symbiosis, Prejudice, Holocaust, Dialogue.
“Religious Antisemitism and American Immigration Policy During the Holocaust,” Australian Journal of Jewish Studies vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 9–40.
“Christian Antisemitism, Adolf Hitler, and the Holocaust”, Menorah Review, pp. 2–5.
“Christian Antisemitism, Adolf Hitler, and the Holocaust”, Menorah Review
“Facts and Fallacies About Jewish-Christian Relations,” Menorah Review
“In the Lifeboat Together: American Protestants and Jews,” Menorah Review
“Christian Theological Antisemitism: Jewish Values Turned Upside-Down,” Menorah Review, pp. 3–5.
“Christian Antisemitism and Richard Wagner: A Reexamination,” Patterns of Prejudice.
“Puzzling Over Evil,” Judaica Book News, pp. 29–30, 32.
“Dreyfus and French Catholicism,” Menorah Review, Virginia Commonwealth University, pp. 3–5.
“Theologia Gloriae and Civilt Cattolica’s Attitudes Toward the Jews of the Holocaust,” Encounter: Creative Theological Scholarship, Vol. 50, No. 2, Spring, 1989, pp. 151–66.
“Theological Myth, German Antisemitism, and the Holocaust: The Case of Martin Niemoeller,” reprinted in Michael Marrus, ed., The Nazi Holocaust.
“Review of Exile in the Fatherland: Martin Niemoeller’s Letters,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies: An International Journal, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 229–31.
“The Persistence of Theologia Gloriae in Modern Antisemitism: Voltaire, Wagner, Hitler,” Remembering for the Future: Jews and Christians During and After the Holocaust, Vol. 1, pp. 720–35.
“Theological Myth, German Antisemitism, and the Holocaust: The Case of Martin Niemoeller,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies: An International Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 105–22.
“Luther, Luther Scholars, and the Jews,” Encounter, pp. 339–56.
“The Holocaust in Night and Fog,” Cineaste, pp. 36–7.
“The Holocaust in Historical, Moral, and Theological Perspective,” Encounter: Creative Theological Scholarship, pp. 259–70.
“The Foreign Policies of the Radical Party, 1933-1939,” Third Republic/Troisieme Republique, pp. 1–92.
“Confronting and Transcending the Holocaust: Is It Possible?” Judaica Book News, pp. 23–8.

Other Publications

“Surviving the Holocaust” and “Martyrdom & Resistance as a Guide to History of the Holocaust,” in Harvey Rosenfeld and Eli Zborowski, eds., A Legacy Recorded, pp. 86–89, 146-149.
“Good and Evil,” Liberal Judaism, 1 Jan. 94.
“Review of Memory Offended,” Martyrdom and Resistance, pp. 2, 4.
“America’s, Britain’s Failure to Rescue Jews,” Martyrdom and Resistance, pp. 7, 15.
“State Department Said No to Rescue... But Only When It Concerned Jews,” Martyrdom and Resistance, pp. 3, 12.
“American Literary Antisemitism: Twentieth Century,” in Midstream, pp. 27–29.
“The Miracle of Jewish Resistance,” Martyrdom and Resistance, pp. 7, 12.
“The Jews in Medieval Art,” New England Historical Association Bulletin
“British Government Attitudes Toward Jewish Immigration During the Holocaust,” Martyrdom and Resistance
“The Jew as Antihero: Christian Images of the Jew in Medieval Art,” Proceedings of the Seventh Medieval Forum
“Theological Myth, Christian Antisemitism, and The Merchant of Venice,” Martyrdom and Resistance
“America and the Holocaust,” Midstream
“American Antisemitism and the Holocaust,” The South African Jewish Spectator Annual
“Theological Myth, Christian Antisemitism, and the Holocaust” Midstream
“German and American Antisemitism During the Holocaust: A Theological Interpretation,” The Jewish Review
“The Holocaust: Some Reflections,” National Catholic Reporter
“Surviving the Holocaust: Some Reflections,” Martyrdom and Resistance
“Hostile Myths, German Christian Antisemitism,” Martyrdom and Resistance
“Parallels Between Medieval and Modern Antisemitic Myths,” Proceedings of the Fourth Medieval Forum
“The Theological Causes of the Holocaust,” Martyrdom and Resistance
“The Terrible Flaw of Night and Fog,” Martyrdom and Resistance

Reviews

Egal Feldman, Dual Destinies: The Jewish Encounter with Protestant America,” Martyrdom and Resistance, 2-3.
Michael Dobkowski and Isidor Wallimann, eds., Radical Perspectives on the Rise of Fascism in Germany, 1919-1945,” Revue Etudes Internationales , 885-87.
Collection de Droit International, le Proces de Nuremberg:Consequences et Actualisation, Revue Etudes Internationales.
Robert Herzstein, Roosevelt & Hitler:Prelude to War, Martyrdom and Resistance
Gottfried-Karl Kindermann, Hitler’s Defeat in Austria, 1933-1934: Europe’s First Containment of Nazi Expansionism,” Revue Etudes Internationales, Vol. 20, no. 4, 914-16.
“A Bibliography of Jewish-Christian Relations,” Judaica Book News.
Charles Maier, The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity,” Shofar: Journal of Jewish Studies, Vol. 7, No. 3, Spring 1989, Purdue University Jewish Studies pp.101-4.
Arno Mayer, Why Did the Heavens Not Tremble, The International Society for Yad Vashem: Martyrdom and Resistance, 2, 14.
Stanislav J. Kirschbaum and Anne C. R. Roman, eds., Reflections on Slovak History,” Revue Etudes Internationales, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 744–6.
Positions
Contributing Editor Menorah Review 1989-2009
VCU Center for Judaic Studies