AHC interview with Herbert Chanoch Kelman.

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Part 10:00:23-0:04:59 Growing up in Vienna0:05:00-0:09:46 Impact of the “Anschluss”0:09:46-0:13:11 Life in Antwerp0:13:12-0:15:26, 1:29:29-1:32:15 Emigration route to New York0:15:53-0:18:43, 1:16:00-1:19:49 Religion and Zionism0:18:44-0:23:55 College and peace activities0:24:00-0:29:34 Political activism0:29:35-0:33:30, 1:00:07-1:02:57 Interest for social psychology0:33:30-0:35:58 U.S. citizenship0:35:59-0:42:25 Postdoctoral fellowship at John Hopkins University0:42:35-0:48:32 Peace research involvement0:48:55-0:52:25 Conscientious objector status0:52:32-1:00:06, 1:09:29-1:10:14 Civil rights work and congress of racial equality1:03:35-1:07:34 Fellowship at Stanford University1:07:38-1:09:18 Wife Rose B. Kelman1:10:20-1:12:38 Job at National Institute of Mental Health1:12:45-1:17:43 The Journal of Conflict Resolution1:17:45-1:19:50 Lecturer on social psychology at Harvard1:19:50-1:24:53 Fellowship at Institute for Social Research in Oslo1:24:54-1:27:09 First time back in Austria1:27:09-1:44:29 Visiting professor at Wirtschaftsuniversität WienPart 20:00:01-0:03:35, 1:35:12-1:38:24 Austria’s dealing with its NS-past0:03:36-0:04:51, 0:06:40-0:07:25, 0:11:15-0:13:02, 1:12:09-1:13:17 Apartments in Vienna0:04:51-0:06:40, 1:22:54-1:28:59 Recollections of “Kristallnacht”0:07:26-0:11:15, 0:13:03-0:16:07 Involvement in an exhibition in Vienna0:16:47-0:24:51 Professor of psychology and research psychologist at the University of Michigan0:25:05-0:39:57 Work on Israeli–Palestinian conflict0:39:57-0:44:24 Austrian Institute for International Affairs0:44:27-1:09:25 Herbert C. Kelman Institute for Interactive Conflict Transformation1:10:22-1:12:08 Parents Lea (née Pomeranz) Kelman and Leo Kelman1:13:22-1:14:10 Sister Esther Kelman1:14:12-1:15:55 About the name Chanoch1:19:50-1:22:53 Anti-Semitism1:32:18-1:35:08 How war shaped identity1:38:25-1:40:41 Final messageJanuary 18-19, 2018.Herbert C. Kelman was born on March 18, 1927 in Vienna, Austria. He grew up with his parents and his older sister in a culturally religious home and was part of religious Zionist youth movements. The family lived in an apartment in Weißgerberlände in Vienna’s third district. Herbert attended elementary school and went to the Zwi-Perez-Chajes-Schule for a short time. Due to the “Anschluss”, the family moved to an apartment in Schmelzgasse in the second district in June 1938, where they lived until they got visas to Belgium. In late March 1939 they first took a train to Germany, then a plane to Brussels and finally another plane to Antwerp. While waiting for visas to the US, Herbert and his sister went to school in Antwerp for a year. At the end of March 1940, the family went to France by train to board a ship in St. Nazaire, which brought them to New York on April 8, 1940.After having finished high School in Brooklyn, Herbert went to Brooklyn College and to the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. He received his master’s degree and Ph.D. in Psychology from Yale University. He did post-doc studies at John Hopkins University for three years, followed by a fellowship at Stanford University. He then worked at the National Institute of Mental Health for two years, was a lecturer on social psychology at Harvard University from 1957 to 1962 and did another fellowship at the Institute for Social Research in Oslo. After this he was Professor of psychology and a research psychologist at the University of Michigan. In 1994 he was a visiting professor at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien and several times after a visiting scholar at the Austrian Institute for International Affairs.As an interdisciplinary social scientist, who published books such as “International Behavior: A Social-psychological Analysis”, Kelman was president of several professional associations and recipient of many Austrian and American awards. He became Honorary President of the Herbert C. Kelman Institute for Interactive Conflict Transformation, which focuses on peace building in international and intra-societal conflicts such as the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.Austrian Heritage Collectio