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Walter Reich


Walter Reich is Yitzhak Rabin Memorial professor of international affairs, ethics, and human behavior at George Washington University and a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center. He was the director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from 1995 to 1998.

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  1. Response ·

    The Vital Task of Holocaust Memory

    By Walter Reich

    Time and again, Martin Kramer has challenged one widely-embraced orthodoxy or another, both ideological and historical. And, using his incisive reasoning and his finely-honed skills as an expert and d...

    The Vital Task of Holocaust Memory
  2. Editor's Pick ·

    Reflections on Resurgent Anti-Semitism, 75 Years after Auschwitz

    A second Holocaust is unlikely so long as Iran doesn’t get nuclear weapons.

  3. Editor's Pick ·

    Claude Lanzmann’s “Shoah” Memorialized Its Subject in a Way Nothing Else Could

    “The greatest guardian” of Holocaust memory.

  4. Editor's Pick ·

    When Yasir Arafat Almost Came to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

    “One of the dumbest ideas in the annals of U.S foreign policy.”

  5. Response ·

    Holocaust Museums and the Itch to Universalize

    By Walter Reich

    Edward Rothstein’s “ The Problem with Jewish Museums ,” is one of the finest pieces of writing I know not only about Jewish museums but also about “identity museums” of all kinds. With concision and c...

    Holocaust Museums and the Itch to Universalize