Fred Rosenbaum, the founder and director emeritus of Lehrhaus Judaica, is an award-winning educator, teacher and the author (with Eva Libitzky) of Out on a Ledge: Enduring the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and Beyond, several other memoirs co-authored with Holocaust and as well as Cosmopolitans: A Social and Cultural History of the Jews of the San Francisco Bay Area, among others. He is currently serving on the New Lehrhaus Board of Directors.