Nationality Canadian Name Alain Goldschlager | ||
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Full Name Alain Joseph Goldschlager Books The Conspiracy Revealed: Jews, Freemasons, Illuminati, Building History: Art, Memory and Myth | ||
Alain Joseph Goldschläger, born in 1946, is a professor at the University of Western Ontario (London, Canada). He holds a PhD from the University of Toronto (1975). He specializes in French language and literature, literature of the Shoah and testimonial writing.
Biography
Goldschläger is the Director of the Holocaust Literature Research Institute, which he founded in 1996. He was the president of the Canadian Semiotic Association (1981–1983) while being one if its founder members in 1971, president of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association (1985–1987) and a member of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities (1981–1988). Director of the Canada-Israel Foundation for Academic Exchanges (1988–2003), since 2004 he has also been president of the League for Human Rights of B'nai B'rith, Ontario.
Goldschläger played an important role in the creation of the General Romeo Dallaire Summer Institute on the teaching of the Holocaust and Genocide where he taught for three years (2004–2006). He was also a member of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO including the sub-Committee on Culture the sub-Committee on the Status of Women. Since 2009 he is chair of the National Task Force on Holocaust Education. He wasCanadian delegate to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (Oslo 2009) and Canadian delegate to the Holocaust Era Assets Conference (Prague 2009).