Michael Berenbaum is a writer, lecturer, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and the historical development of films. He is also an adjunct professor of theology at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles. He is the author and editor of 12 books, scores of scholarly articles and hundreds of journalistic pieces. Of his book, After Tragedy and Triumph, Raul Hilberg said, "All those who want to read only one book about the condition of Jewry in 1990 would do well to choose Michael Berenbaum…In his description of contemporary Jewish thought, he sacrifices neither complexity nor lucidity."

His other work includes The World Must Know, Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp, A Mosaic of Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis, The Vision of the Void: Theological Reflections on the Works of Elie Wiesel, and Witness to the Holocaust: An Illustrated Documentary History of the Holocaust in the Words of Its Victims, Perpetrators, and Bystanders.

In film, his work as co-producer of One Survivor Remembers: The Gerda Weissman Klein Story was recognized with an Academy Award, an Emmy Award and the Cable Ace Award. He was the historical consultant on The Shoah Foundation's documentary, The Last Days, which won an Academy Award for the best feature length documentary of 1998. In 2001, Berenbaum was a historical consultant or chief historical consultant for HBO's Conspiracy, recently nominated for 10 Emmy awards, for NBC's Uprising, and the History Channel's The Holocaust: The Untold Story, which won the CINE Golgen Eagle Award and a Silver Medal at the US International Film and Video Festival. He was also Executive Producer, writer and historian for a film entitled Desperate Hours on the Holocaust in Turkey. For his work in journalism, he won the Simon Rockower Memorial Award of the American Jewish Press Association three times in three different categories during a two-year period.

[Davidson Distinguished Lecture Series]