Littell, the son of a Methodist minister who also became one, was a towering figure in the study of the Holocaust and genocide. In 1958 at Emory University in Atlanta, he initiated the first U.S. graduate seminar on the Holocaust. Eighteen years later in Philadelphia, as chair of Temple University’s religion department, he started the world’s first doctoral program in Holocaust studies. And in 1998 at Stockton University in Pomona, New Jersey, he and his wife, Marcia Sachs Littell, established the first interdisciplinary master’s program in Holocaust and genocide studies. “Civilian casualties in Gaza — especially the death of children — are tragic,” said Libowitz.

Source: CNN November 03, 2023 20:25 UTC