Alain Goldschlager

Alain Joseph Goldschläger (born 1946), is a professor at the University of Western Ontario (London, Canada). He holds a PhD from the University of Toronto. He specializes in French language and literature, literature of the Shoah and testimonial writing.

He is the grandson of Isabelle Blume, a Belgian socialist parliamentarian and later communist activist.

Career Goldschläger is the Director of the Holocaust Literature Research Institute (HLRI), which he founded in 1996. The institute works closely with other Canadian universities and their libraries. Since 2018, Goldschläger began assisting the University of Toronto in expanding their collection on the Shoah and testimonies, in collaboration with the HLRI.

Goldschläger played an important role in the creation of the "General Romeo Dallaire Summer Institute" founded by Romeo Dellaire. He taught there from 2003 to 2006, on the Holocaust and genocide. He was also a member of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO including the sub-Committee on Culture the sub-Committee on the Status of Women (1986-1989). Since 2009 he is chair of the National Task Force on Holocaust Education. He was a Canadian delegate to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (Oslo, 2009) and Canadian delegate to the Holocaust Era Assets Conference (Prague, 2009).

Community involvement Goldschläger was the president of the Canadian Semiotic Association (1981–1983) while being one if its founder members in 1971. He was briefly president of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association (1985–1987) and a member of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities (1981–1988). Goldschläger has been the Director of the Canada-Israel Foundation for Academic Exchanges (1988–2003), which assist in bettering the lives of Jewish people in the Greater Toronto Area, Israel and around the world.

Since 2004 he has also been president of the League for Human Rights of B'nai B'rith, Ontario. Since 2014, he has served as a juror for the Canadian Jewish Literacy Awards.