Knowledge
Sharing knowledge is crucial to our mission. Browse work and wisdom from our organization and community.
Featured
Interview Ai WeiWei
Humanity in Action is pleased to share a 32 minute video of an hour-long conversation on the role of art and organizations like Humanity in Action in upholding civil democracies and humanity in our current, turbulent times with Judith Goldstein and the renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei at his studio in Berlin.
All Knowledge and Resources
-
Gay Homeless Youth and their Lives on the Streets of New York City
-
“Change or Die”? Gentrification in Brooklyn
Thirty years ago, New York was a dying city. Today after much economic change, decreased crime and eventual rise in costs of living in Manhattan, the highly paid young professionals (yuppies) began to turn their eyes to the other side of the East River: to Brooklyn.
-
Harlem’s Little Senegal: A Shelter or a Home? A Conversation with Senegalese Immigrants in New York City
-
The Politics & Efficacy of Bilingual & ESL Education in New York City: Exploring the Challenges of English Language Learners
-
It is not Pretty Woman: Rethinking Sex Work Stereotypes
-
One Home One Dream: Exploring Tibetan Diaspora in New York City
Senior Fellows Kinga Brudińska, Chloé Choquier, and Michael Keller discuss the unique community of Tibetans in New York.
-
Religion and Human Rights in Europe
Europeans may continue to use terms like “human rights” and human dignity,” which are rooted in the Christian values of their civilization, but few of them could give a coherent account of why they continue to believe in such things.
-
The Myth of Anne Frank
People know that Anne as well as her sister and mother were exterminated but for many readers Anne’s story ends with the hope that “people are really good at heart."
Humanity in Action Press
Discover our international Humanity in Action publications:
Shifting Paradigms: Humanity in Action Senior Fellows on Policy and Pluralism Across Borders
Shifting Paradigms is a volume of diverse articles on cross-border policy and pluralism written by Humanity in Action Senior Fellows.
Two Trees in Jerusalem
Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen in her touching account "Two Trees in Jerusalem" tells about the resistance of her parents, Donata and Eberhard Helmrich, against the horrors of National Socialism.
Transatlantic Perspectives on Diplomacy and Diversity
Recognizing the intensification of transnational conflicts that both violently divide and intimately link our global communities, this book is a collection of diverse essays, which tackle international relations and migration.
Humanity in Action: Collected Essays and Talks
Humanity in Action: Collected Essays and Talks is an anthology of written works by Judith Goldstein, the Founder and Executive Director of Humanity in Action. In this collection, Goldstein explores the central themes of Humanity in Action and its educational programming: human rights, the Second World War and the Holocaust, diversity, religious freedom, race relations, civil society and the arts.
Civil Society and the Holocaust: International Perspectives on Resistance and Rescue
In 2013, Humanity in Action Denmark held a conference in Copenhagen to mark the 70th anniversary of the flight and rescue of Danish Jewry. This book was published in association with the “October 1943” conference. The anthology examines how European societies dealt with the knowledge of the Nazi persecution of Jews in very different ways before, during and after the Holocaust.
Reflections on the Holocaust
The first book published by Humanity in Action, Reflections on the Holocaust is a collection of essays from Humanity in Action Fellows, Senior Fellows, Board members and lecturers from 1997 to 2010.