Professor Alain Goldschläger Director, Holocaust Literature Research Institute, University of Western Ontario; Ontario Chair, League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada (London, ON) Alain Goldschläger studied French Literature at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and received his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto. He is a Professor of French Literature at the University of Western Ontario, where he also directs the Holocaust Literature Research Institute, which contains one of the largest collections of Holocaust survivors’ published accounts. He was president of the Canadian Semiotic Association, president of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association, and National Director of the Canada-Israel Foundation for Academic Exchanges. He is currently Ontario chair of the League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada. A prolific writer and author, he has published Judaïsme et Laïcité (1988), Le Mensonge (1993), Scientific Discourse as Prejudice-carrier (1998), La Shoah: témoignage impossible? (1998), Antisémitisme après la Shoah (2002) and Le complot judéo-maçonnique (2005), set to come out in English translation in 2009. His most recent book is L’Imaginaire juif, on Jewish ethos. Ruth Klein, National Director League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada (Toronto, ON) Ruth Klein is National Director of the League for Human Rights of B'nai Brith Canada, and its Institute of International Affairs, positions in which she spearheads initiatives designed to combat antisemitism, racism and human rights abuses in Canada and abroad. A graduate of the London School of Economics, with a LL.M. from Osgoode Hall Law School, she supervises the many research, education and public policy initiatives of the organization. An adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, Ruth is co-editor of From Immigration to Integration published by the Millennium Bureau of Canada, the Canadian co-contributor to the World Survey of Anti-Semitism published by the Steven Roth Centre for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism at the University of Tel Aviv, and Editor-in-Chief of the League’s Holocaust and Hope Testimonial Series.