Professors: Dr. Lawrence Baron

Professor Baron has served as the Nasatir Professor of Modern Jewish History and as the Director of the Lipinsky Institute for Judaic Studies at San Diego State University since 1988. He is also the founder and current president of the Western Jewish Studies Association. Prof. Baron received his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin and taught at Saint Lawrence University from 1975 until 1988. He authored a book on the German Jewish anarchist, Erich Muehsam, as well as over sixty articles on modern Jewish history. Dr. Baron's current research focuses on the depiction of the Holocaust in recent feature films. He acted as the historical consultant and chapter writer for Sam and Pearl Oliner's The Altruistic Personality: Rescuers of Jews in Nazi Europe, and co-edited the anthologies: Embracing the Other: Psychological, Philosophical, and Historical Perspectives on Altruism, and Martin Buber and the Human Sciences. He serves on the editorial boards of Shofar, an interdisciplinary journal of Jewish Studies, and the Syracuse University Press Series on Religion and the Holocaust. Prof. Baron has presented lectures at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Leo Baeck Institute of New York, the Polish Academy of Sciences, as well as numerous American universities, conferences, synagogues, and churches.

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