Emanuel Tanay
Emanuel Tanay | |
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| Born | March 5, 1928 Wilno, Poland |
| Died | August 5, 2014 (aged 86) |
| Occupation | physician, psychiatrist |
Emanuel Tanay (March 5, 1928 – August 5, 2014) was a Polish-American physician, a forensic psychiatrist, and a Jewish Holocaust survivor.
Early life[]
Tanay was born in Wilno, Poland on March 5, 1928 but the family soon moved to Miechow, a small community just north of Kraków.[1] His mother, Betty Tenenwurzel, was both a physician and dentist and his father, Bunim Tenenwurzel, was a dentist. He survived by being hidden in the Catholic monastery of Mogila in Kraków, Poland.[2]
In 1943 Tanay escaped from occupied Poland with his mother and sister to Slovakia and then Hungary. They were liberated in January 1945 in Budapest.[3] He immigrated to the United States after World War II. He did his psychiatric residency at Elgin State Hospital in Elgin, Illinois.
Career[]
Tanay was Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Wayne State University Medical School in Detroit, Michigan.[4][5]
Death[]
Tanay died on August 5, 2014, following a lengthy battle with prostate cancer. He was 86.[6]
Books[]
- American Legal Injustice: Behind the Scenes with an Expert Witness. 2010, Jason Aronson.
- Passport to Life: Autobiographical Reflections on the Holocaust. 2004, Forensic Press.
- The Murderers: 1976, Bobbs-Merrill.
Hoax[]
A fictional report "A German's View on Islam" falsely attributed to Dr. Tanay is often quoted in relation to Islamist terrorism.[7][8]
External links[]
- Dr. Emanuel Tanay: Interview with holocaust survivor, expert on genocide, author of Passport to Life on YouTube
References[]
- ^ [1] Emanuel Tanay - March 16, 1987, Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive.
- ^ "The Religious roots of the Holocaust," Emannuel Tanay, in Holocaust scholars write to the Vatican," Harry J. Cargas, ed., Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998, pp. 85. ff.
- ^ Tanay, Emanuel. "A man without a country". Archived from the original on 2010-05-28. Retrieved 2010-08-13.
- ^ [2] Virginia Tech Mass Murder: A Forensic Psychiatrist's Perspective, Emanuel Tanay, MD, J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 35:2:152-153 (2007).
- ^ [3] Emanuel Tanay on LinkedIn (public page)
- ^ Emanuel Tanay Obituary
- ^ "A German's View on Islam". Snopes.com. Retrieved 2021-07-13.
- ^ ""A German's View on Islam" by Dr. Emanuel Tanay-Fiction!". archive.ph. 2014-11-23. Retrieved 2021-07-13.
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