[12] A new volume of poetry, Burning Psalms: Confronting Adonai after Auschwitz, is to be published by Ben Yehuda Press on January 27, 2025, which coincides with International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.

From 1972 until 1975, he was an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Jewish Studies at the City University of New York and assisted Professor Elie Wiesel in his courses on Holocaust literature and Hasidism.

He is multilingual, has broad experience in European, Middle Eastern, and South American legal, commercial, and political issues, and has conducted sensitive negotiations with senior government officials at both national and municipal levels.

In his opening address at the first international conference of children of Holocaust survivors in New York in May 1984, he commented that human rights abuses alongside the persistence of anti-Semitism "serve to remind us that Jews are never the only victims of the world's evil and venality."

Pointing out that "we are even confronted by the terrifying phenomenon of Jewish would-be terrorists on the West Bank who strive to implement the racist philosophy expounded by fanatics such as Meir Kahane," the American-born member of the Israeli parliament who promoted a virulently anti-Arab policies, he concluded that "it is not enough for us only to commemorate the past.

Sixty years after the liberation of Belsen, anti-Semitism remains a threat, not just to the Jewish people but to civilization as a whole, and Holocaust deniers are still allowed to spread their poison.

... Sixty years after the crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau stopped burning our families, innocent men, women and children are murdered in a horrific genocide in Darfur.

Sixty years after the surviving remnant of European Jewry emerged from the inferno of the twentieth century, government-sponsored terrorists continue to seek the destruction of the State of Israel which arose out of the ashes of the Shoah.

[34]In the spring of 1985, Rosensaft was an outspoken critic of President Ronald Reagan's decision to pay homage to fallen German World War II soldiers, including members of Hitler's Waffen-SS, at the military cemetery at Bitburg during a state visit to Germany.

[37] Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel wrote in his memoirs that Rosensaft was "one of the very few to strongly oppose President Reagan in the Bitburg affair.

[41] In the winter of 2002, Rosensaft sharply attacked the Jewish Museum in New York for trivializing the Holocaust in its exhibition, "Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art," by including a display of six lifelike busts of the Auschwitz SS doctor Josef Mengele and such works as "Prada Deathcamp" and the "Giftgas Giftset" of poison gas canisters packaged with Chanel, Hermes and Tiffany& Co.

[42] "For a Holocaust survivor to hear that a bust of Mengele is on display at the Jewish Museum will at the least cause nightmares," Rosensaft told Alan Cooperman of The Washington Post.

"[43] In 2009, he called on Pope Benedict XVI to publicly condemn the bishop Richard Williamson, a member of the Society of Saint Pius X and a Holocaust denier.

"[47] "In late March," reported James Barron of The New York Times on July 26, 2010, Rosensaft wrote to the Maryland attorney general, Douglas F. Gansler, alleging "possible fraud and/or misrepresentation" by Save a Torah.

[53] In a June 4, 2012 Huffington Post article[54] in which he defended President Obama's reference to "a Polish death camp" at a Presidential Medal of Freedom presentation as "an innocent phraseological error," Rosensaft, citing a publication of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, wrote that "thousands of Polish political, religious and intellectual leaders were also killed by the Germans during World War II" alongside millions of Jews, and that "Between 70,000 and 75,000 non-Jewish Poles are estimated to have perished at Auschwitz alone.

More often, he animates the words with simmering anger as they voice frustration toward perpetrators, bystanders, and even God.”[58] Micah Zevin wrote in Booklist, that Rosensaft's “memoiristic poems infiltrate the readers' minds with evocative, lyrical lines flowing one into another like the chanting of bible passages or a lament,” forcing readers “to travel to a past they've never experienced, and to become immersed, alongside the author, in faith, doubt, and pain while offering tribute to the fallen.”[59] Michael Oren, former Israeli ambassador to the United States, described Poems Born in Bergen-Belsen as “an important resource for students of the Holocaust, for educators, and spiritual leaders.

[61]Reviewing the book in the National Catholic Register, Peter Jesserer Smith wrote: With a passion reminiscent of Dylan Thomas's poetry, Rosensaft confronts God with the full force of human emotion — in sadness, anger, fury, defiance and desolation, Rosensaft evokes in this poetry the tradition of the Psalms' raw and emotional conversation with God, while inverting the common expectation of certain Psalms people read for comfort.

[62]In a September 2021 interview with Al Jazeera, Menachem Rosensaft explained why he writes poetry: Aesthetic sensitivities and considerations must yield to the undeniable absolute evil that sparked and perpetrated the genocide of European Jewry, requiring us to absorb and try to come to terms with the unprecedented, the unfathomable and, above all, the inexplicable.

[63]Rosensaft’s second book of poetry, Burning Psalms: Confronting Adonai after Auschwitz, is to be published by Ben Yehuda Press on January 27, 2025, which coincides with International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.

“With a gift for expressing even the most hidden thoughts and feelings, his psalms give voice to the horrors and trauma that haunt children of Holocaust victims and survivors.

Burning Psalms is one of the most powerful Jewish expressions of our day.”[65] Through poetry, Rosensaft evokes the voice of his older brother, Benjamin, his mother’s son, who perished in a gas chamber at the age of five-and-a-half.

Kirkus Reviews described Burning Psalms as a “haunting reimaging of the Book of Psalms,” stating,“In these pages, responding to all 150 Psalms individually, the author balances his mastery of Jewish theology with a raw writing style that is unafraid to question, lash out at and lament God’s seeming passivity in the face of evil.”[66] A BookLife review called Burning Psalms “searing lamentations on divine silence and abandonment during Holocaust” and stated that Rosensaft’s “hauntingly sparse poetic style is as contemporary as the key question is ancient: How could a compassionate god permit the chosen people to face such darkness?”[67] In addition, in a powerful coda, Rosensaft’s latest book reaches beyond the Holocaust to commemorate the 1995 genocide of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica, the Hamas terrorist group’s slaughter of innocents in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and the subsequent tragic suffering of both Israeli and Palestinian children in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

"[70] In December 1988, he was one of five American Jews in Stockholm, Sweden, who met with Yasir Arafat and other senior leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization, resulting in the PLO's first public recognition of Israel.

"[72] A year later, in an open letter to Arafat also published in Newsweek, he voiced his dismay at the fact that the Palestinian leader had done nothing to move the peace process forward since the Stockholm meeting.

[75]He also responded to and criticized denialist arguments, particularly underlining those made by Steven T. Katz, Efraim Zuroff, Yehuda Bauer, and William Schabas, in a long essay titled "Ratko Mladić’s Genocide Conviction, and Why it Matters", written by Rosensaft and published by Tablet magazine on a day Ratko Mladić was found guilty of "genocide, extermination, murder, and other crimes against humanity and war crimes" at the ICTY, and sentenced to life imprisonment.

[76] To one of the most important and the most often repeated denialists' arguments – number, intent, and combination of these two, depending on occasion and context – Rosensaft responded with meticulous deconstruction of judicial activity, and with analysis of key convictions.

"[76] In July 2021, Rosensaft wrote a detailed critique of the report issued by the purportedly “independent” Republika Srpska-appointed commission headed by the Israeli academic Gideon Greif that concluded that the slaughter of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica did not constitute a genocide.

[77] “As the son of two survivors of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen who were deeply committed to transmitting to future generations evidence of the crimes perpetrated against European Jewry during the Holocaust,” Rosensaft wrote, I am especially appalled by the report’s shameless manipulation of the truth.

It is a document that deserves to be consigned to the dustbin of history, used only to demonstrate the moral failing of individuals — the proverbial “useful idiots,” as it were — who engage in genocide denial and distortion.

To assert such a grotesque and wholly unconscionable equivalence would suggest a delusional mindset, one that perversely places a perceived slight to one’s outsized, but evidently hyper-fragile, ego in the same category and on the same level as mass murder.”[81]