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22 April 2024 • Faculty Dobkowski Serves as Keynote at Finger Lakes Community College By Byron Maddox '26
Dobkowski examined the Israel-Palestine relationship throughout history and discussed current relations through a critical lens.
Professor of Religious Studies Michael Dobkowski delivered the keynote lecture titled “Israel-Palestine Relations: History, Context, & Critical Thinking” at Finger Lakes Community College on Monday, April 15.
The talk hosted by the FLCC Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, was held at 1 p.m. in Stage 14, a conference room in the Student Center wing.
At HWS, Dobkowski holds the John Milton Potter Chair in the Humanities and teaches courses in Jewish Studies and Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He serves as the coordinator of the Holocaust Studies Minor and is a founding member and current co-chair of the Genocide and Human Rights Symposium. His main areas of interest include the American Jewish experience, Holocaust studies, antisemitism and contemporary Jewish thought. He was instrumental in establishing the biennial off-campus program, The March: Bearing Witness to Hope. For 20 years, the March has offered participants a unique experience focusing on important landmarks and historical sites in Germany and Poland that are central to understanding the Nazi period and World War II, culminating in the Holocaust.
Dobkowski is the author, coauthor or editor of more than 10 books including The Tarnished Dream: The Basis of American Anti-Semitism (1979), The Politics of Indifference: Documentary History of Holocaust Victims in America (1982), Jewish American Voluntary Organizations (1986) and Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear States and Terrorism (2007). He has co-written and edited other volumes on the Holocaust, genocide, nuclear weapons and anti-Semitism, including The Coming Age of Scarcity (1998), The Nuclear Predicament: Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century (2000) and On The Edge of Scarcity (2003). His recent work has focused on Judaism and violence, and anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.
