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    STEPHEN FEINSTEIN DIED DOING WHAT HE LOVED BEST
    Samuel M. Edelman

    The Cutting Edge
    March 12 2008
    DC

    Tuesday March the 4th Dr. Stephen Feinstein, director of the University
    of Minnesota's Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, died of an
    aortic aneurism that led to cardiac arrest while he was speaking at
    the Jewish Film Festival. Steve was 65. He died doing what he loved,
    what he was passionate about, what consumed him. He died talking
    about the Holocaust. His death leaves us, his family, his colleagues,
    and his friends, his students breathless, bereft, and stunned.

    Steve was such a presence for all of us. He encouraged us; he supported
    us with positive ideas with suggestions of resources with exciting
    collaborations. His research and writing on art and literature of the
    Holocaust, getting recognition of the Armenian Genocide, on Darfur,
    on developing teaching materials on genocide was critical. His emails
    and his sharing of ideas and concerns with colleagues all over the
    world will be missed. He was the ultimate information source. Never
    to see his daily emails again is painful.

    Most important of all was his gentle sense of humor and his smile.

    Steve was working with a group of us from the US and Poland to prepare
    to teach about the Holocaust to Polish teachers this summer.

    His death is an unbelievable loss not only to his wife and children,
    his colleagues, friends and students at the University of Minnesota
    but to all of us struggling to fight against the indifference and
    hate that leads to the greatest scourge of humanity-genocide.

    Samuel M. Edelman, Ph.D. is dean of the College of Arts and Sciences,
    American Jewish University (formerly University of Judaism) and
    Co-director, State of California Center of Excellence for the Study
    of the Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights and Tolerance.
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