Michael Beren­baum is direc­tor of the Sigi Zier­ing Insti­tute: Explor­ing the Eth­i­cal and Reli­gious Impli­ca­tions of the Holo­caust, Amer­i­can Jew­ish Uni­ver­si­ty, Los Ange­les. He played a lead­ing role in the cre­ation of the Unit­ed States Holo­caust Memo­r­i­al Muse­um, Wash­ing­ton, DC, and the con­tent of its per­ma­nent exhi­bi­tion. Beren­baum is also a rab­bi, the author of numer­ous books, and exec­u­tive edi­tor of the twen­ty-two vol­ume Ency­clopae­dia Judaica, 2nd edi­tion (2006).