From past atrocity to modern justice: The Holocaust’s living legacy.
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THURSDAY, 2:00-3:30pm (ET) April 16 - 30, 2026
“The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated.”
— Justice Robert H. Jackson, Chief U.S. Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials,
opening statement, November 21, 1945
Course Description:
Led by Dr. Amon—an expert in genocide law, a former investigator of ISIS war crimes, and a scholar who served at the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague—this three-part series explores the Holocaust as both a historical rupture and a living force shaping Jewish identity and global justice today. Marking 80 years since the Nuremberg Trials, we’ll trace the long arc of antisemitism, uncover the often-overlooked Sephardi and Mizrahi stories of the Shoah, and examine how the world’s response to Nazi crimes gave rise to modern international law. As we face a new era of rising antisemitism and fading eyewitness testimony, this series invites us to confront the past with clarity and moral courage.
THURSDAY, 2:00 - 3:30pm (ET)
Dr. Isaac Amon is an attorney and counselor at law, Adjunct Professor at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, and Director of Academic Research at Jewish Heritage Alliance, an educational platform dedicated to promoting the legacy of Sefarad, or Iberian Jewry. He was a Legal Fellow at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Legislative Director at the Missouri Department of Corrections, and an ISIS war crimes investigator. In Summer 2024, he was a scholar in-residence at Oxford University through the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP). The grandson of Ashkenazi, Sefardi, and Mizrahi immigrants to the United States in the 20th century, he often speaks on the law, international criminal justice, and Jewish memory, including antisemitism, the Inquisition, and the Holocaust.
