# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-berenbaum
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:37:17.235Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-berenbaum"
name: "Michael Berenbaum"
slug: "michael-berenbaum"
description: "Michael Berenbaum is an American scholar, professor, rabbi, writer, and filmmaker, who specializes in the study of the Holocaust. He served as deputy director of the President's Commission on the Holocaust (1979–1980), Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1988–1993), and Director of the USHMM's Holocaust Research Institute (1993–1997)."
tagline: "American scholar, author, historian and rabbi (born 1945)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1945-07-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.97
  momentum:             0.1109989909182644
  historical:           8.102738666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0073491/"
    handle:    "nm0073491"
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Berenbaum"
    title: "Michael Berenbaum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%85"
    title: "مايكل برنباوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Berenbaum"
    title: "Michael Berenbaum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Berenbaum"
    title: "Michael Berenbaum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%84_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%85"
    title: "مایکل برنباوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Berenbaum"
    title: "Michael Berenbaum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%9C_%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%A0%D7%91%D7%90%D7%95%D7%9D"
    title: "מייקל ברנבאום"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Berenbaum"
    title: "Michael Berenbaum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1926953"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/7493"
    title: "Michael Berenbaum"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump