Morgenthau

1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

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This Father’s Day program pays tribute to three generations of men in the Morgenthau family — an American Jewish dynasty whose continual fight for justice has brought them to the forefront of the most dramatic events of the past hundred years. From fighting for international action against the genocide of Armenians on the cusp of WWI, through the efforts to rescue Jews during the Holocaust despite American political obstruction, and on to the struggle to reduce street crime and pioneer the prosecution of white collar corruption in New York City, the trajectory of the three Morgenthau generations epitomizes the American experience and the lasting value of public service.

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THE SCHEDULE

⇒ June 17-20, watch the film Morgenthau on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register.

⇒ Sunday, June 19 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of guests.  A link will be provided to all who register.

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SEE THE TRAILER

MEET THE PANEL

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Dr. Rafael Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and the author of more than 20 books about the Holocaust, Zionism, and American Jewish history, including the first scholarly book about the Bergson Group, A Race Against Death, which he coauthored with the late David Wyman. Dr. Medoff has taught Jewish history at Ohio State University, Purchase College of the State University of New York, and elsewhere, and is a Fellow of the Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research at Bar-Ilan University.

Dr. Pamela Steiner is the great-granddaughter of Henry Morgenthau, Sr. She is a psychologist and Senior Fellow at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health. Her work aims to contribute to improving relationships among Armenians, Turks and Azerbaijanis by identifying and understanding collective traumas from decades of unresolved conflicts. She has also done conflict resolution work with Germans and Jews and Israelis and Palestinians. Her work appears in Collective Trauma and the Armenian Genocide: Armenian, Turkish and Azerbaijani Relations Since 1839. 

Dr. Mordecai Paldiel led the Righteous Among the Nations Department at Yad Vashem from 1982-2007. His books include The Path of the Righteous, Sheltering the Jews, Saving the Jews, Diplomat Heroes of the Holocaust, Saving One’s Own: Jewish Rescuers During the Holocaust and The Righteous Among the Nations. He has taught at Yeshiva University and Touro College and serves on the Board of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. Thanks to his efforts, there is a square named for Aristides de Sousa Mendes and a street named for Raoul Wallenberg, both in Jerusalem. He is on the B’nai Brith committee honoring Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust.

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Registration for this program is closed.

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