Sklare Distinguished Scholar the holocaust after fifty years

Abstract

Every year, since 1994, the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry (ASSJ), with the gracious support of his family, has named as the Sklare Distinguished Scholar someone who has made a significant contribution to the social scientific study of Jewry. In recognition of the award, the Scholar has delivered an address to the annual meeting of ASSJ to which noted members of the Association have responded. The address and the comments have been published inContemporary Jewry. Illness, however, prevented this year’s Scholar, Celia Heller, from presenting her address. In lieu of the address, this year we present remarks made on the occasion of naming Professor Heller the Sklare Distinguished Scholar by William B. Helmreich, who was to discuss Professor Heller’s talk, but who instead commented on his own works dealing, as Professor Heller was to, with the Holocaust.