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Deborah Aron is the Registrar at Gratz College. Ms. Aron’s career has combined her interests in Jewish communal service and Jewish education. Her undergraduate degree is from Brandeis University in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies. She received her Masters in Social Work from Wurzweiler School of Social Work of Yeshiva University with a specialization in group work, and was a Senior Educator Fellow at the Melton Institute of Hebrew University’s School of Education.
Her early clinical experience was in serving families experiencing chronic or terminal illness, and, in particular...
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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...
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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...
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Josey G. Fisher, Director of the Holocaust Oral History Archive and Instructor in Holocaust & Genocide Studies at Gratz College, has graduate degrees in both clinical social work and Jewish studies and has focused her interdisciplinary background on Holocaust research and education for over 30 years. She received her BA and MSW from the University of Pittsburgh and her Masters in Jewish Studies with a major in Modern European Jewish History from Gratz College. Her course offerings include “Teaching the Holocaust” and “Children of the Nazi Era”. In addition, she is an adjunct faculty...
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