JCC Association Elects Holocaust Expert New Scholar-In-Residence
JCC Association proudly announces that Dr. Deborah E. Lipstadt will be its scholar-in-residence for the next two years. Dr. Lipstadt is Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where she directs the Institute for Jewish Studies. Her book History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving is the story of her libel trial in London against David Irving who sued her for calling him a Holocaust denier and right-wing extremist. The trial was described by the Daily Telegraph (London) as having “done for the new century what the Nuremberg tribunals or the Eichmann trial did for earlier generations.” The judge found David Irving to be a Holocaust denier, a falsifier of history, a racist, an anti-Semite, and a liar. Her legal battle with Irving lasted approximately five years. According to The New York Times, the trial “put an end to the pretense that Mr. Irving is anything but a self-promoting apologist for Hitler.”
The JCC Association scholar-in-residence teaches JCC Association board members and staff at different gatherings, including board meetings, leadership retreats, and the JCCs of North America Biennial. The program exists thanks to the generosity of Leonard and Syril Rubin of Boca Raton, Florida and Tenafly, New Jersey. Previous scholars include Rabbis Reuven Kimmelman and Joseph Telushkin. Dr. Lipstadt inaugurates her tenure at the May meeting of the JCC Association Board of Directors.
In addition to History on Trail, Dr. Lipstadt has also written Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, the first full length study of those who attempt to deny the Holocaust. It was the subject of simultaneous front page reviews in The New York Times and The Washington Post. The book has been published in Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. Another of her books, Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, examines how the American press covered the news of the persecution of European Jewry between the years 1933 and 1945, and addresses the question, What did the American public know and when did they know it?
An outstanding scholar of the Holocaust, Dr. Lipstadt consulted to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and helped design the section dedicated to the American response to the decimation of European Jewry. She has been called upon by members of the United States Congress to consult on political responses to Holocaust denial. She has taught at UCLA and Occidental College in Los Angeles. She received her B.A. from City College of New York and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Brandeis University. From 1996 through 1999, Dr. Lipstadt served as a member of the United States State Department Advisory Committee on Religious Freedom Abroad. In this capacity she, together with a small group of leaders and scholars, advised Secretary of State Madeline Albright on matters of religious persecution abroad.
JCC Association
is the leadership network of, and central agency for the Jewish
Community Center Movement, which is comprised of more than
350 JCC, YM-YWHA and camp sites in the U. S. and Canada. JCC
Association offers a wide range of services and resources
to strengthen the capacity of its affiliates to provide educational,
cultural, social, Jewish identity-building, and recreational
programs to enhance the lives of North American Jews of all
ages and backgrounds. Additionally, the movement fosters and
strengthens connections between North American Jews and Israel
as well as with world Jewry. JCC Association is also a U.S.
government accredited agency for serving the religious and
social needs of Jewish military personnel, their families,
and patients in VA hospitals through JWB Jewish Chaplains
Council.
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