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Helen Fein

Helen Fein

American sociologist (1934–2022)

Helen Fein (September 17, 1934[1] – May 14, 2022) was a historical sociologist and professor who specialized in genocide, human rights, collective violence and other issues.[2] She was an author and editor of four books and monographs, an associate of the International Security Program (Harvard University),[3] and a founder and first president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. Fein was the executive director of the Institute for the Study of Genocide (City University of New York).[4] She died on May 14, 2022 at the age of 87.[5]

Definition of antisemitism

In The persisting question: sociological perspectives and social contexts of modern antisemitism, Fein wrote:

I propose to define antisemitism as a persisting latent structure of hostile beliefs towards Jews as a collectivity manifested in individuals as attitudes, and in culture as myth, ideology, folklore, and imagery, and in actions — social or legal discrimination, political mobilization against the Jews, and collective or state violence — which results in and/or is designed to distance, displace, or destroy Jews as Jews.[6]

Publications

  • Genocide Watch, 1992.
  • Genocide: A Sociological Perspective, 1993
  • Accounting for Genocide, 1979
  • Human Rights and Wrongs, 2007

References

  1. [1]
    Kay, Ernest (1989). International Who's who of Professional and Business Women. Melrose Press. ISBN 978-0-900332-98-2.
  2. [2]
    Deidre Butler, "Holocaust Studies in the United States", Jewish Women's Archive
  3. [3]
    "Biography at Harvard University site". Archived from the original on 2016-08-10. Retrieved 2009-09-25.
  4. [4]
    Crimes of War project, magazine, 2003 Archived 2010-06-04 at the Wayback Machine
    - Helen Fein Archived 2019-05-13 at the Wayback Machine, Holocaust Memorial Museum
  5. [5]
    "In Memoriam of Helen Fein". The ISG. Retrieved 2022-06-26.
  6. [6]
    Fine, Helen, ed. (1987). The persisting question: sociological perspectives and social contexts of modern antisemitism. Berlin: de Gruyter. p. 67. ISBN 978-3-11-010170-6.


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