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FAU Presents "What Have You Done? Wrestling with the Sixth Commandment"

BOCA RATON, FL (January 18, 2006) - Florida Atlantic University's Alan L. Berger, Raddock Family Eminent Scholar Chair in Holocaust Studies and director of the Center for the Study of Values and Violence after Auschwitz presents a free public lecture titled "What Have You Done? Wrestling with the Sixth Commandment." This lecture, the annual May Smith Lecture on Post-Holocaust Christian/Jewish Dialogue, will be held on Tuesday, January 31 at 7:30 p.m. in the University Theatre on FAU's Boca Raton campus, 777 Glades Road, and is free and open to the public.

The lecture, which will examine ethical dilemmas during and after the Holocaust, will be presented by John Roth, the director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights at Claremont McKenna College. In addition to service on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council and the editorial board for "Holocaust and Genocide Studies," he has published hundreds of articles and reviews, and authored, co-authored, or edited more than 40 books including, most recently, "Genocide and Human Rights: A Philosophical Guide; Gray Zones: Ambiguity and Compromise in the Holocaust and Its Aftermath" and "Ethics During and After the Holocaust: In the Shadow of Birkenau." Roth has been visiting professor of Holocaust studies at the University of Haifa, Israel. His Holocaust-related research appointments have included a 2001 Koerner Visiting Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in England, as well as a 2004-05 appointment as the Ina Levine Invitational Scholar at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. In 1988, Roth was named U.S. National Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

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