Israel Charny

Israel W. Charny (1931 – 14 December 2024) was an Israeli psychologist and genocide scholar. He was a world renowned genocide expert.Israel Charny Speaks to Rapt Audience at University of Michigan-Dearborn, Armenian Reporter, The He is the editor of the two-volume Encyclopedia of Genocide.Peres stands accused over denial of 'meaningless' Armenian Holocaust by Robert Fisk - The Independent He is executive director of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem.On Armenian Genocide, Politics Trumps TruthWorking to Make a Difference: The Personal and Pedagogical Stories of Holocaust Educators Across ... - Page 132 by Samuel Totten - History He was born in New York City.

An affiliate of the Institute for the Study of Genocide, the International Association of Genocide Scholars was founded in 1994 by Israel Charny and other historians.Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity - Page 277 by Dinah Shelton
He  has been devoted to the study of the Holocaust and genocide since the mid 1960s. His first publication on the subject which appeared in Jewish Education in 1968 was "Teaching the Violence of the Holocaust: A Challenge to Educating Potential Future Oppressors and Victims for Nonviolence."

Charny died on 14 December 2024 in Jerusalem at the age of 93.Pioneering genocide scholar Dr. Israel Charny dies aged 93

 References 

 Publications 
Encyclopedia of Genocide
Genocide: a critical bibliographic review
The Widening Circle of Genocide
Century of Genocide Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts
"A Classification of Denials of the Holocaust and Other Genocides", Journal of Genocide Research 2003, 5(1), pp. 11–34.

 Other websites 
Biography of Israel Charny
List of books by Israel Charny

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