Staff

Mindy Escourt Blechman is Assistant Director of Admissions and Coordinator of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Gratz College. She has worked at Gratz since 1999 and has also held the positions of Coordinator of Adult Jewish Studies and Coordinator of Continuing Legal Education. Mindy earned her M.A. in Jewish Studies at Gratz College in 2010, and holds a B.A. in psychology from Temple University. She attended the Young Judaea Year Course-Jerusalem Institute program in Israel and is a graduate of the Gratz College Hebrew High School division. Mindy has worked in formal and informal Jewish...

Paul Finkelman received his B.A. in American Studies from Syracuse University in 1971 and his Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago in 1976.  He was later a Fellow in Law and Humanities at Harvard Law School. He has held a number of endowed chairs as a tenured professor or as a visitor, including the Ariel F. Sallows Chair in Human Rights Law at the University of Saskatchewan, the John Hope Franklin Chair in American Legal History at Duke Law School, and the President William McKinley Distinguished Professor at Albany Law School.   In 2017 he held the Fulbright Chair in Human...