Director, Honors Program, University of Michigan – Dearborn, 1983-1986, 1990-present

Assistant Professor of History, Director of Western Culture Program, University of Michigan – Dearborn, 1972-1977

Michigan Council for the Humanities Grant for symposium on "Character Delineation and the Humanities," 1975

Michigan Council for the Humanities Grant for symposium on "The Future of Higher Education in the Humanities: UM-D 25th Anniversary Celebration," 1984

Chairman, "Anne Frank in the World: 1929-45" exhibition University of Michigan - Dearborn host committee, 1986.

Recipient of Distinguished Faculty Award for UM-Dearborn from the Michigan Association of Governing Boards, April 1986.

University of Michigan Research Grant to conduct videotaped survivor interviews, March 1989.

Appointed Faculty Associate at the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) of the Institute for Social Research (ISR), 1995-96, reappointed 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000.

January 1997: Appointed member of the advisory committee of the Case Western Reserve University Samuel Rosenthal Center for Judaic Studies.

November 1998: Recipient of the first annual Benard Maas Foundation Award for Continuity in Jewish Education in the Humanities category.

The Distorted Image: German Jewish Perceptions of Germans and Germany, 1920-1935(Elsevier: New York, Amsterdam, 1975)

"The Writer as Social Critic: Thomas Mann's 'Disorder and Early Sorrow'," Contemporary Literature, Spring, 1980.

"The Alpha and Omega of Psychoanalysis: Reflections on Anna O. and Freud's Vienna,"Psychoanalytic Review, Winter, 1980.

"Arthur Schnitzler and the Fate of Mothers in Fin de Siecle Vienna," Psychoanalytic Review, Spring, 1986.

"Listening for the Silences," Annals of Scholarship, Winter, 1987, Vol. 4, No. 7, 33-51. (This article is an expanded version of the article of the same name that appeared in Witness.)

"Against Silence: Toward A New Language of Holocaust Testimonies," Dimensions. A Journal of the Holocaust, Fall, 1986.

A Holocaust Curriculum: Life Unworthy of Life, (with Betty Ellias and Dr. David Harris) Center for the Study of the Child, Farmington, Michigan, 1987; Glencoe Press, 1992.

"The Problem Of Survivor Discourse: Toward a Poetics of Survivor Testimonies," in Remembering for the Future: Proceedings of the International Conference on the Holocaust held at Oxford May, 1988 (Pergamon Press: London and Oxford, 1989).

Harmony and Dissonance: The Search for Jewish Identity in Detroit, 1914-1967, (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991).

"I Should Cry and Not Tell You Jokes," The Journal of Humanistic Judaism (Spring, 1991).

"Victims Who Survived," in Genocide in Our Time, ed. by Michael Dobkowski (Ann Arbor: Pierian Press, 1992).

"Our Precious Possessions," The Detroit Jewish News (Nov. 1993) on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

"Of Parchment and Ink: Three Survivors’ Reflections on Religion," The Journal of Holocaust Education, Fall, 1997.

"‘Voices’ of Anne Frank," in Carol Rittner, ed., Anne Frank in the World (M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1998).

"Reflections on the ‘Education’ of Children During the Holocaust," a paper delivered at Yale University conference "Searching for Memory and Justice: Holocaust Survivor Testimonies and Apartheid," to be published by Yale University Press, 2000.

"Reflections on the 'Education' of Child Victims Who Survived," Cahier International sur le Temoignage Audiovisuel [International Journal on the Audio-Visual Testimony of Victims of the Nazi Holocaust and Genocide], No. 1, July 1998 (Brussels).

"The Survivors' Search for 'Meaning' in the Holocaust," Cahier International sur le Temoignage Audiovisuel [International Journal on the Audio-Visual Testimony of Victims of the Nazi Holocaust and Genocide], No. 2., Dec. 1998

"Voices, Visions and Silence: Reflections on Listening to Holocaust Survivors," Cahier International sur le Temoignage Audiovisuel [International Journal on the Audio-Visual Testimony of Victims of the Nazi Holocaust and Genocide], No. 4, 1999.

Historical consultant on the film "Testimony," the final exhibition in the permanent exhibit of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1993.

Working with Erik Austin of ICPSR to construct a Holocaust database for social science research to be housed at ISR.

Served as consultant, lecturer and trainer for the Steven Spielberg Shoah Foundation Visual History Project from October 1994-November, 1995.

Organized, chaired and moderated a special session of the SSHA annual meeting in Washington, D.C., Nov., 1997, on Holocaust survivor oral histories. The session was preceded by a reception and held at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Moderated panel of survivors and psychologist Henry Greenspan as part of the Katz-Newcombe lecture series, November 1997 at the Department of Social Psychology, Ann Arbor.

Presentation for the Michigan Psychoanalytic Association program on psychoanalysis and Holocaust survivors, May 4, 1998 in West Bloomfield, MI.

Presenter and panelist at the SSHA annual meeting in Chicago in November 1998 on "Psychoanalytic Aspects of Listening to Holocaust Survivors."

March, 1999, "Detroit Jews React to the Holocaust: The New Immigrants," at the Wayne State University Cohn-Haddow Center for Jewish Studies conference on "Jews and the Urban Experience," to be published in a special issue of Judaism.

Currently working on an edited volume of essays on Holocaust oral histories with Dr. Henry Greenspan, with essays and proposals from Geoffrey Hartman, Joan Ringelheim, Joanne Rudof, Sara Horowitz, Dori Laub, Henry Krystal, James Young and others. My contribution will be part of the introduction and an essay tentatively titled "Holocaust Survivor Interviews: Breaking and Reconstructing the Silences." Contract with MacMillan Publishers Ltd.

Currently working on a book tentatively titled "The Search for 'Meaning' in the Holocaust" for Greenwood Press, as part of a series edited by John Roth and Carol Rittner.

Keynote speaker for the Michigan Holocaust Memorial Commemoration at the Capitol Building in Lansing, 1990, 1994; keynote speaker at Workmen's Circle Warsaw Ghetto Rebellion Memorial, 1983-87, 1990; keynote for Jewish Community Council Holocaust memorial service, 1993 and for Ann Arbor Holocaust Commemoration, 1993; keynote speaker for Flint Holocaust Memorial, April, 1993.

February 1994: "Reflections on the Rescuers: Seeking Comfort from the Holocaust," paper delivered at the University of Oklahoma on behalf of Thanks to Scandinavia.

February 1995: Panelist with Dr. Henry Krystal and Dr. Emanuel Tanay on the film "Testimony" at the Grosse Pointe Unitarian Church/Jewish Community Council.

March 1995: "Distorted Images: German and Austrian Jews Reflect on post-War Germany and Germans," paper delivered at "Jewish Germans and Austrians in Exile," conference at UM-Dearborn.

April 1995: "Survivors Remember Auschwitz," moderated panel of four victims of the Holocaust who survived Auschwitz at a conference at Millersville University.

October 1996: Presentation on "Voice/Vision: UM-Dearborn’s Holocaust Oral History Collection," at the SSHA Annual Conference.

March 1997: Full day workshop with teachers from the Flint schools on teaching the Holocaust through Life Unworthy of Life.

May 1, 1997: Keynote at the Lansing Holocaust Memorial held in the Capitol Building.

Keynote lecture, "Hidden Eyes and Hidden Hearts: ‘Submerged’ in Holland During the Holocaust," for the photographic exhibition "The Illegal Camera" at the Janice Charach Epstein Gallery in the Jewish Community Center, March 1, 1998.

Wrote text for exhibition on the history of the Jewish Community Council of Detroit, shown at the Detroit Historical Museum, May, 1999.

"Voice/Vision" Holocaust Oral History Archives. The Archives contain some 165 audio and videotaped interviews with Holocaust survivors which are being transcribed and entered on OCLC, an international library network, and the World Wide Web which will make the transcriptions and the tapes available to researchers around the world, 1994-present. Copies of the interviews are also in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Yale Fortunoff Holocaust Survivor Video Archives.