Marvin Hier Biography
- Title:
- Dean and Founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and The Museum of Tolerance
- Position:
- None Found to the question "Is a Two-State Solution (Israel and Palestine) an Acceptable Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?"
- Reasoning:
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No Position found
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Dean and Founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and The Museum of Tolerance
- Jewish Rabbi
- Founder of Moriah, the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s film division
- Received two Academy Awards: Co-producer, The Long Way Home, 1997; Co-producer and Co-writer, Genocide, 1981
- French President Francois Mitterand made him a Chevalier in the Ordre National du Merite, 1993
- Met with German Chancellor Helmut Khohl after the fall of the Berlin Wall, to discuss German reunification and “German memory.”
- Education:
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- Rabbinic Ordination from the Rabbi Jacob Joseph Theological Seminary, New York
- Other:
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- Liberation, producer and co-writer, (the first production of Moriah Films), 1994
- Echoes That Remain (a documentary on pre-World War II European Jewish life), 1990