Raz Segal

Raz Segal
רז סגל‎
Academic background
Education	Bar-Ilan University (BA) Tel Aviv University (MA) Clark University (PhD)
Academic work
Discipline	Historian
Institutions	Stockton University
Main interests	Genocide studies

Raz Segal (Hebrew: רז סגל) is an Israeli historian residing in the United States who is Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Endowed Professor in the Study of Modern Genocide at Stockton University, where he also directs the Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies program.[1][2] He has written multiple books about the Holocaust in Carpathian Ruthenia, based on analysis of primary and secondary sources in Hebrew, English, German, Yiddish and Hungarian.[3]

Positions

Further information: Palestinian genocide accusation and Gaza genocide

In the context of the Israeli–Hamas war, Segal has described Israel's complete blockade—which included the denial of water, food, power, and fuel to the civilian population of the Gaza Strip—as a "textbook case of genocide" and connected it to the Nakba, the expulsion of Palestinians during the establishment of Israel in 1948.[4][5] According to Segal, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are actively engaged in three genocidal actions: acts of killing, infliction of severe bodily harm, and implementation of measures strategically designed to destroy Palestinian existence. As evidence, he cites the IDF's strategy of total warfare, destroying mass swathes of Gaza and imposing a strict blockade of essential goods.[6]

Segal's accusations of genocide caused the cancellation of a job offer from the University of Minnesota for him to lead the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. The recission was the result of a campaign led by the pro-Israel group Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas and the resignation of two of the center's board members in opposition to Segal's selection.[7][8]

Works

• Segal, Raz (2013). Days of Ruin: The Jews of Munkács During the Holocaust. Yad Vashem. ISBN 978-965-308-428-5.[9]
• Segal, Raz (2016). Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence, 1914–1945. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-9897-6.[10][11][12][13][14][15][16]

References

1. "Holocaust & Genocide Studies - Graduate Studies | Stockton University". stockton.edu. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
2. Kiernan, Ben; Lower, Wendy; Naimark, Norman; Straus, Scott (31 January 2023). The Cambridge World History of Genocide: Volume 3, Genocide in the Contemporary Era, 1914–2020. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-80627-5.
3. Sonia Smith: Segal, Raz. Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence, 1914-1945. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016. 211 pp. $65.00. (9780804796668). AJL Reviews, Association of Jewish Libraries, February/March 2017
4. Segal, Raz (13 October 2023). "A Textbook Case of Genocide". Jewish Currents. Archived from the original on 25 November 2023. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
5. "Hamas attack evokes memories of the Holocaust for many Jews". NBC News. 20 October 2023. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
6. Burga, Solcyré (13 November 2023). "Is What's Happening in Gaza a Genocide? Experts Weigh In". Time. Archived from the original on 25 November 2023. Retrieved 24 November 2023.
7. Hicks, Maggie (17 June 2024). "A Holocaust Scholar Called Israel's Actions in Gaza 'Genocide.' It Cost Him a Job Offer". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Archived from the original on 18 June 2024.
8. "Historian Raz Segal Loses Academic Job Offer for Saying Israel Is Committing Genocide". Democracy Now!. 18 June 2024.
9. Láníček, Jan (2013). "Days of Ruin: The Jews of Munkács during the Holocaust". East European Jewish Affairs. 43 (2): 223–226. doi:10.1080/13501674.2013.813134. S2CID 161739295.
10. Review by Anna Hamling, Revista Universitaria de Historia Militar (RUHM) Vol. 6/12/ 2017, pp. 283 - 350© ISSN: 2254-6111
11. "Raz Segal, "Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown and…". New Books Network. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
12. "Kubátová on Segal, 'Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence, 1914-1945' | H-Nationalism | H-Net". networks.h-net.org. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
13. Beorn, Waitman Wade (2018). "Raz Segal. Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence, 1914–1945. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016. Pp. 232, maps". Austrian History Yearbook. 49: 325–326. doi:10.1017/S0067237818000498. S2CID 150332881.
14. "Frydel on Segal, 'Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence, 1914-1945' | H-War | H-Net". networks.h-net.org. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
15. Kerenji, Emil (2018). "Raz Segal. Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence, 1914–1945". The American Historical Review. 123 (2): 657–658. doi:10.1093/ahr/123.2.657.
16. Láníček, Jan (2018). "Raz Segal, Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence 1914–1945". European History Quarterly. 48 (2): 385–386. doi:10.1177/0265691418765637ag. S2CID 149777757.