• Executive Director, Encyclopaedia Judaica, Second Edition, 22 Volume Set of the monumental 1972 work that is now consists of 16 million words published in 22 volumes; more than 6 million words have been added and 14,000 articles have been reworked for the new edition.
     -  Jewish Ledger
    -  JTA
    -  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

  • The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust As Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Second Edition (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006)

  • Murder Most Merciful: Reflections on the Ethical Conundrum Occasioned by Sigi Ziering play The Trial of Herbert Bierhoff (Latham, MD: University Presses of America, 2005).

  • After The Passion Is Gone: American Religious Consequences by J. Shawn Landres, Michael Berenbaum (Altamira Press, 2004)

 
  • A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of its Survivors (Little Brown & Co, 2003)
  • Co-editor with Michael Neufeld, The Bombing of Auschwitz: Should the Allies Have Attempted It?
    (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000).
  • Co-editor with Abraham Peck, The Holocaust and HIstory: The Known, The Unknown, the Disputed, and the Reexamined (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998).
  • Witness to the Holocaust: An Illustrated Documentary History of the Holocaust in the Words of its Victims, Perpetrators and Bystanders
    (New York: Harper/Collins, 1997).
 
  • Co-editor with Betty Rodgers Rubenstien, What Kind of God? Essays in Honor of Richard L. Rubenstien
    (Lantham: University Presses of America, 1995).
  • Co-editor with Israel Gutman, Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994).
  • The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust (New York: Little Bro wn and Company, 1993).
 
  • Editor, A Mosaic of Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis (New York University Press, 1990). Published simultaneously in the United Kingdom by I.B. Tauris.
  • After Tragedy and Triumph: Modern Jewish Thought and the American Experience (Cambridge University Press, 1990).
  • Co-editor with John Roth, Holocaust Religious and Philosophical Implications (New York: Paragon Books, 1989).
 
  • Editor, From Holocaust to New Life (New York: American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, 1985).
 
  • Report to the President, President's Commission on the Holocaust
    (Washington, D.C. : Government Printing Office, 1979).
  • The Vision of the Void: Theological Reflections on the Works of Eli Wiesel (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1979). Paperback edition, 1987. Reprinted as Elie Wiesel: God, The Holocaust, and the Children of Israel (West Orange: Behrman House, 1994).