Jack R. Fischel

Biography

Jack R. Fischel is the author of The Holocaust (Greenwood, 1998) and Historical Dictionary of the Holocaust (Rowman & Littlefield, 1999) and coauthor of The Holocaust and Its Religious Impact (Praeger, 2004). He is professor emeritus of history at Millersville University in Pennsylvania where he taught for thirty-seven years.

See Work

Summer 2008

Questioning the Good War

By Jack R. Fischel
Winter 2007

The Crimes of My Enemy

By Jack R. Fischel
CRITICISM / Spring 2006

The War in Iraq

By Jack R. Fischel
CRITICISM / Winter 2006

Genocide In Rwanda

By Jack R. Fischel

It is more than sixty years since the end of World War II, when the world became aware of the Holocaust, the Third Reich’s conscious decision to murder every Jewish man, woman, and child in German-occupied Europe. The Nazi state-sponsored...

CRITICISM / Summer 2005

The New Anti-Semitism

By Jack R. Fischel

What is new about the “new” anti-Semitism, according to a spate of recent books, including Dershowitz’s, is that the hatred of Jews has been cloaked behind a virulent anti-Zionism which holds the Jewish people everywhere responsible for the...

CRITICISM / Fall 2004

Face-to-Face with Terror: Jessica Stern’s Terror in the Name of God

By Jack R. Fischel

The American people came face-to-face with the realities of worldwide terrorism following September 11. Although the United States only a few years before had been shocked by our own homegrown terrorists who perpetrated the Oklahoma City...

Autumn 1999

“A Definable Jewish Character”

By Jack R. Fischel
Spring 1996

The Rise of Neoconservatism

By Jack R. Fischel
ESSAYS / Spring 2002

The Road to September 11

By Jack R. Fischel

Historians looking back at the tragic events of September 11 will discover the roots of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon originating in three episodes that occurred in 1979. The first event was the Iranian...

Summer 1996

An All-American Iconoclast

By Jack R. Fischel