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| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: Denying the Holocaust Deborah E. Lipstadt, 2012-12-18 The denial of the Holocaust has no more credibility than the assertion that the earth is flat. Yet there are those who insist that the death of six million Jews in Nazi concentration camps is nothing but a hoax perpetrated by a powerful Zionist conspiracy. Sixty years ago, such notions were the province of pseudohistorians who argued that Hitler never meant to kill the Jews, and that only a few hundred thousand died in the camps from disease; they also argued that the Allied bombings of Dresden and other cities were worse than any Nazi offense, and that the Germans were the “true victims” of World War II. For years, those who made such claims were dismissed as harmless cranks operating on the lunatic fringe. But as time goes on, they have begun to gain a hearing in respectable arenas, and now, in the first full-scale history of Holocaust denial, Deborah Lipstadt shows how—despite tens of thousands of living witnesses and vast amounts of documentary evidence—this irrational idea not only has continued to gain adherents but has become an international movement, with organized chapters, “independent” research centers, and official publications that promote a “revisionist” view of recent history. Lipstadt shows how Holocaust denial thrives in the current atmosphere of value-relativism, and argues that this chilling attack on the factual record not only threatens Jews but undermines the very tenets of objective scholarship that support our faith in historical knowledge. Thus the movement has an unsuspected power to dramatically alter the way that truth and meaning are transmitted from one generation to another. |
| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: History on Trial Deborah E. Lipstadt, 2006-04-04 In her acclaimed 1993 book Denying the Holocaust, Deborah Lipstadt called putative WWII historian David Irving one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial. A prolific author of books on Nazi Germany who has claimed that more people died in Ted Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick than in the gas chambers at Auschwitz, Irving responded by filing a libel lawsuit in the United Kingdom -- where the burden of proof lies on the defendant, not on the plaintiff. At stake were not only the reputations of two historians but the record of history itself. |
| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: Denial Deborah E. Lipstadt, 2016-09-06 Now a major motion picture starring Rachel Weisz, Timothy Spall and Tom Wilkinson. “A compelling book: memoir and courtroom drama, a work of historical and legal import. ” -- Jewish Week Deborah Lipstadt, author of the groundbreaking Denying the Holocaust, chronicles her six-year legal battle with controversial British World War II historian David Irving that culminated in a sensational 2000 trial in London In her acclaimed 1993 book Denying the Holocaust, Deborah Lipstadt called putative World War II historian David Irving “one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial”, a conclusion that she reached by examining his cunning manipulations of evidence, partisanship to Hitler, persistent exoneration of the Third Reich, and his confirmed celebrity among swelling ranks of anti-Semitic organizations internationally. In 1994, Irving filed a libel lawsuit, not in the U.S. courtroom—where the onus of proof lies on the plaintiff, but in the UK—where the onus of proof lies on the defendant. At stake were not only the reputations of two historians, but the record of history itself. The four-month trial took place in London in 2000 and drew international attention. With the help of a first-rate team of solicitors and historians and the support of her UK publisher, Penguin, Lipstadt won, her victory proclaimed on the front page of major newspapers around the world. Part history, part real life courtroom drama, Denial is Lipstadt’s riveting, blow-by-blow account of the trial that tested the standards of historical and judicial truths and resulted in a formal denunciation of the infamous Holocaust denier. Originally published as History on Trial. |
| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: The Eichmann Trial Deborah E. Lipstadt, 2011-03-15 ***NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST (2012)*** Part of the Jewish Encounter series The capture of SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann by Israeli agents in Argentina in May of 1960 and his subsequent trial in Jerusalem by an Israeli court electrified the world. The public debate it sparked on where, how, and by whom Nazi war criminals should be brought to justice, and the international media coverage of the trial itself, was a watershed moment in how the civilized world in general and Holocaust survivors in particular found the means to deal with the legacy of genocide on a scale that had never been seen before. Award-winning historian Deborah E. Lipstadt gives us an overview of the trial and analyzes the dramatic effect that the survivors’ courtroom testimony—which was itself not without controversy—had on a world that had until then regularly commemorated the Holocaust but never fully understood what the millions who died and the hundreds of thousands who managed to survive had actually experienced. As the world continues to confront the ongoing reality of genocide and ponder the fate of those who survive it, this trial of the century, which has become a touchstone for judicial proceedings throughout the world, offers a legal, moral, and political framework for coming to terms with unfathomable evil. Lipstadt infuses a gripping narrative with historical perspective and contemporary urgency. |
| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: Beyond Belief Deborah E. Lipstadt, 1993-02-08 This most complete study to date of American press reactions to the Holocaust sets forth in abundant detail how the press nationwide played down or even ignored reports of Jewish persecutions over a twelve-year period. |
| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: Antisemitism Deborah E. Lipstadt, 2019-01-29 ***2019 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER—Jewish Education and Identity Award*** The award-winning author of The Eichmann Trial and Denial: Holocaust History on Trial gives us a penetrating and provocative analysis of the hate that will not die, focusing on its current, virulent incarnations on both the political right and left: from white supremacist demonstrators in Charlottesville, Virginia, to mainstream enablers of antisemitism such as Donald Trump and Jeremy Corbyn, to a gay pride march in Chicago that expelled a group of women for carrying a Star of David banner. Over the last decade there has been a noticeable uptick in antisemitic rhetoric and incidents by left-wing groups targeting Jewish students and Jewish organizations on American college campuses. And the reemergence of the white nationalist movement in America, complete with Nazi slogans and imagery, has been reminiscent of the horrific fascist displays of the 1930s. Throughout Europe, Jews have been attacked by terrorists, and some have been murdered. Where is all this hatred coming from? Is there any significant difference between left-wing and right-wing antisemitism? What role has the anti-Zionist movement played? And what can be done to combat the latest manifestations of an ancient hatred? In a series of letters to an imagined college student and imagined colleague, both of whom are perplexed by this resurgence, acclaimed historian Deborah Lipstadt gives us her own superbly reasoned, brilliantly argued, and certain to be controversial responses to these troubling questions. |
| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: The Case for Auschwitz Robert Jan van Pelt, 2016-03-23 From January to April 2000 historian David Irving brought a high-profile libel case against Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt in the British High Court, charging that Lipstadt's book, Denying the Holocaust (1993), falsely labeled him a Holocaust denier. The question about the evidence for Auschwitz as a death camp played a central role in these proceedings. Irving had based his alleged denial of the Holocaust in part on a 1988 report by an American execution specialist, Fred Leuchter, which claimed that there was no evidence for homicidal gas chambers in Auschwitz. In connection with their defense, Penguin and Lipstadt engaged architectural historian Robert Jan van Pelt to present evidence for our knowledge that Auschwitz had been an extermination camp where up to one million Jews were killed, mainly in gas chambers. Employing painstaking historical scholarship, van Pelt prepared and submitted an exhaustive forensic report that he successfully defended in cross-examination in court. |
| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: The Holocaust on Trial D. D. Guttenplan, 2002 The account of a trial in which the very meaning of the Holocaust was put on the stand. |
| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: Holocaust Deborah E. Lipstadt, 2016-07-21 Immediately after World War II, there was little discussion of the Holocaust, but today the word has grown into a potent political and moral symbol, recognized by all. In Holocaust: An American Understanding, renowned historian Deborah E. Lipstadt explores this striking evolution in Holocaust consciousness, revealing how a broad array of Americans—from students in middle schools to presidents of the United States—tried to make sense of this inexplicable disaster, and how they came to use the Holocaust as a lens to interpret their own history. Lipstadt weaves a powerful narrative that touches on events as varied as the civil rights movement, Vietnam, Stonewall, and the women’s movement, as well as controversies over Bitburg, the Rwandan genocide, and the bombing of Kosovo. Drawing upon extensive research on politics, popular culture, student protests, religious debates and various strains of Zionist ideologies, Lipstadt traces how the Holocaust became integral to the fabric of American life. Even popular culture, including such films as Dr. Strangelove and such books as John Hershey’s The Wall, was influenced by and in turn influenced thinking about the Holocaust. Equally important, the book shows how Americans used the Holocaust to make sense of what was happening in the United States. Many Americans saw the civil rights movement in light of Nazi oppression, for example, while others feared that American soldiers in Vietnam were destroying a people identified by the government as the enemy. Lipstadt demonstrates that the Holocaust became not just a tragedy to be understood but also a tool for interpreting America and its place in the world. Ultimately Holocaust: An American Understanding tells us as much about America in the years since the end of World War II as it does about the Holocaust itself. |
| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: Telling Lies about Hitler Richard J. Evans, 2002 Richard J. Evans worked on the historical evidence on behalf of the defence during the Irving libel trial. In Telling Lies about Hitler, the author discusses the importance of historical writing and the social role of historians in such trials. |
| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: Antisemitism Before and Since the Holocaust Anthony McElligott, Jeffrey Herf, 2017-04-03 Divided into five discrete sections, this book examines the issue of Holocaust denial, and in some cases Holocaust inversion in North America, Europe, and the Middle East and its relationship to the history of antisemitism before and since the Holocaust. It thus offers both a historical and contemporary perspective. This volume includes observations by leading scholars, delivering powerful, even controversial essays by scholars who are reporting from the ‘frontline.’ It offers a discussion on the relationship between Christianity and Islam, as well as the historical and contemporary issues of antisemitism in the USA, Europe, and the Middle East. This book explores how all of these issues contribute consciously or otherwise to contemporary antisemitism. The chapters of this volume do not necessarily provide a unity of argument – nor should they. Instead, they expose the plurality of positions within the academy and reflect the robust discussions that occur on the subject. |
| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: Children of the Holocaust Helen Epstein, 1988-10-01 I set out to find a group of people who, like me, were possessed by a history they had never lived. The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Helen Epstein traveled from America to Europe to Israel, searching for one vital thin in common: their parent's persecution by the Nazis. She found: • Gabriela Korda, who was raised by her parents as a German Protestant in South America; • Albert Singerman, who fought in the jungles of Vietnam to prove that he, too, could survive a grueling ordeal; • Deborah Schwartz, a Southern beauty queen who—at the Miss America pageant, played the same Chopin piece that was played over Polish radio during Hitler's invasion. Epstein interviewed hundreds of men and women coping with an extraordinary legacy. In each, she found shades of herself. |
| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: Buried by the Times Laurel Leff, 2005-03-21 Publisher Description |
| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: Lying About Hitler Richard J. Evans, 2008-08-04 In ruling against the controversial historian David Irving in his libel suit against the American historian Deborah Lipstadt, last April 2000, the High Court in London labeled him a falsifier of history. No objective historian, declared the judge, would manipulate the documentary record in the way that Irving did. Richard J. Evans, a Cambridge historian and the chief advisor for the defense, uses this pivotal trial as a lens for exploring a range of difficult questions about the nature of the historian's enterprise. For instance, don't all historians in the end bring a subjective agenda to bear on their reading of the evidence? Is it possible that Irving lost his case not because of his biased history but because his agenda was unacceptable? The central issue in the trial -- as for Evans in this book -- was not the past itself, but the way in which historians study the past. In a series of short, sharp chapters, Richard Evans sets David Irving's methods alongside the historical record in order to illuminate the difference between responsible and irresponsible history. The result is a cogent and deeply informed study in the nature of historical interpretation. |
| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: Denying History Michael Shermer, Alex Grobman, 2023-11-10 Denying History takes a bold and in-depth look at those who say the Holocaust never happened and explores the motivations behind such claims. While most commentators have dismissed the Holocaust deniers as antisemitic neo-Nazi thugs who do not deserve a response, historians Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman have immersed themselves in the minds and culture of these Holocaust revisionists. In the process, they show how we can be certain that the Holocaust happened and, for that matter, how we can confirm any historical event. This edition is expanded with a new chapter and epilogue examining current, shockingly mainstream revisionism. |
| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: The Irving Judgment Gordon Kerr, 2000 Denying the Holocaust by Deborah Lipstadt was originally published in the US in 1993 by The Free Press. It was published in paperback in the UK by Penguin books in 1994. |
| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: Who Will Write Our History? Samuel D. Kassow, 2011-05-18 In 1940, in the Jewish ghetto of Nazi-occupied Warsaw, the Polish historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a clandestine scholarly organization called the Oyneg Shabes to record the experiences of the ghetto's inhabitants. For three years, members of the Oyneb Shabes worked in secret to chronicle the lives of hundereds of thousands as they suffered starvation, disease, and deportation by the Nazis. Shortly before the Warsaw ghetto was emptied and razed in 1943, the Oyneg Shabes buried thousands of documents from this massive archive in milk cans and tin boxes, ensuring that the voice and culture of a doomed people would outlast the efforts of their enemies to silence them. Impeccably researched and thoroughly compelling, Samuel D. Kassow's Who Will Write Our History? tells the tragic story of Ringelblum and his heroic determination to use historical scholarship to preserve the memory of a threatened people. |
| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: Reflections on the Holocaust Julia Zarankin, 2011 |
| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: History on Trial Deborah E. Lipstadt, 2006 |
| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: The Holocaust Laurence Rees, 2017-04-18 n June 1944, Freda Wineman and her family arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the infamous Nazi concentration and death camp. After a cursory look from an SS doctor, Freda's life was spared and her mother was sent to the gas chambers. Freda only survived because the Allies won the war -- the Nazis ultimately wanted every Jew to die. Her mother was one of millions who lost their lives because of a racist regime that believed that some human beings simply did not deserve to live -- not because of what they had done, but because of who they were. Laurence Rees has spent twenty-five years meeting the survivors and perpetrators of the Third Reich and the Holocaust. In this sweeping history, he combines this testimony with the latest academic research to investigate how history's greatest crime was possible. Rees argues that while hatred of the Jews was at the epicenter of Nazi thinking, we cannot fully understand the Holocaust without considering Nazi plans to kill millions of non-Jews as well. He also reveals that there was no single overarching blueprint for the Holocaust. Instead, a series of escalations compounded into the horror. Though Hitler was most responsible for what happened, the blame is widespread, Rees reminds us, and the effects are enduring. The Holocaust: A New History is an accessible yet authoritative account of this terrible crime. A chronological, intensely readable narrative, this is a compelling exposition of humanity's darkest moment. |
| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: The Ruined House Ruby Namdar, 2017-11-07 “In The Ruined House a ‘small harmless modicum of vanity’ turns into an apocalyptic bonfire. Shot through with humor and mystery and insight, Ruby Namdar's wonderful first novel examines how the real and the unreal merge. It's a daring study of madness, masculinity, myth-making and the human fragility that emerges in the mix. —Colum McCann, National Book Award-winning author of Let the Great World Spin Winner of the Sapir Prize, Israel’s highest literary award Picking up the mantle of legendary authors such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, an exquisite literary talent makes his debut with a nuanced and provocative tale of materialism, tradition, faith, and the search for meaning in contemporary American life. Andrew P. Cohen, a professor of comparative culture at New York University, is at the zenith of his life. Adored by his classes and published in prestigious literary magazines, he is about to receive a coveted promotion—the crowning achievement of an enviable career. He is on excellent terms with Linda, his ex-wife, and his two grown children admire and adore him. His girlfriend, Ann Lee, a former student half his age, offers lively companionship. A man of elevated taste, education, and culture, he is a model of urbanity and success. But the manicured surface of his world begins to crack when he is visited by a series of strange and inexplicable visions involving an ancient religious ritual that will upend his comfortable life. Beautiful, mesmerizing, and unsettling, The Ruined House unfolds over the course of one year, as Andrew’s world unravels and he is forced to question all his beliefs. Ruby Namdar’s brilliant novel embraces the themes of the American Jewish literary canon as it captures the privilege and pedantry of New York intellectual life in the opening years of the twenty-first century. |
| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: David Irving's Hitler Eberhard Jäckel, 1993 |
| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: The Holocaust Industry Norman G. Finkelstein, 2024-05-14 A scathing argument against those who exploit the Holocaust for personal and political gain—by a major figure at the center of the Israel-Palestine debate. “The most controversial book of the year.” —Guardian This iconoclastic study was one of the most widely debated books of 2000. Finkelstein indicts with both vigor and honesty those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own personal political and financial gain. This new edition includes updated material discussing the initial reception to the book’s publication. In an iconoclastic and controversial new study, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an interrogation of the place the Holocaust has come to occupy in American culture to a disturbing examination of recent Holocaust compensation agreements. It was not until the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, when Israel’s evident strength brought it into line with US foreign policy, that memory of the Holocaust began to acquire the exceptional prominence it enjoys today. Leaders of America’s Jewish community were delighted that Israel was now deemed a major strategic asset and, Finkelstein contends, exploited the Holocaust to enhance this newfound status. Their subsequent interpretations of the tragedy are often at variance with actual historical events and are employed to deflect any criticism of Israel and its supporters. Recalling Holocaust fraudsters such as Jerzy Kosinski and Binjamin Wilkomirski, as well as the demagogic constructions of writers like Daniel Goldhagen, Finkelstein contends that the main danger posed to the memory of Nazism’s victims comes not from the distortions of Holocaust deniers but from prominent, self-proclaimed guardians of Holocaust memory. Drawing on a wealth of untapped sources, he exposes the double shakedown of European countries as well as legitimate Jewish claimants, and concludes that the Holocaust industry has become an outright extortion racket. Thoroughly researched and closely argued, The Holocaust Industry is all the more disturbing and powerful because the issues it deals with are so rarely discussed. |
| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: From the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to Holocaust Denial Trials Debra R. Kaufman, 2007 In reaction to the Irving v. Penguin/Lipstadt (winter, 2000) trial, the editors of this volume sought to provide a text that moves away from the Holocaust itself to ask broader questions about the stubborn persistence of anti-Semitic invective and historical distortion despite legal verdicts to the contrary, historical correctives and media reportage. In these essays the authors explore the assumptions and methods of their disciplines that limit or enhance the ability of any single approach (historical, legal, or journalistic) to challenge the racism and/or anti-Semitism which underlie the persistence of such forgeries as The protocols of the elders of Zion and the fallacies of Holocaust denial. Teachers of college and graduate courses on the Holocaust are increasingly faced with proliferating print and web based assertions and re-assertions of premises whose veracity have been long since disproved. This text encourages students and professionals to explore through three trial contexts (Protocols of Zion, Eichmann/Nuremberg, and Holocaust denial) the way in which claims related to the fate of Jews in the twentieth century have been made, struggled over, and fixed in the law, in historical canon and in the popular imagination. The Protocols are a forgery and crimes against humanity and genocide against the Jewish people did happen. This volume marks the ways in which we present and re-present the historical facts, the journalism, and the legal proofs that support the truth of those assertions in the face of invective and denial. |
| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: History, Memory, and the Law Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns, 2002-08 DIVHow law uses history and molds memory /div |
| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: The Broken House Horst Krüger, 2021-06-17 'Exquisitely written... haunting... Few books, I think, capture so well the sense of a life broken for ever by trauma and guilt' Sunday Times 'An unsparing, honest and insightful memoir, that shows how private failure becomes national disaster' Hilary Mantel Twenty years after the end of the war, Horst Krüger attempted to make sense of his childhood. He had grown up in a quiet Berlin suburb. Here, people lived ordinary lives, believed in God, obeyed the law, and were gradually seduced by the promises of Nazism. He had been 'the typical child of innocuous Germans who were never Nazis, and without whom the Nazis would never have been able to do their work'. With tragic inevitability, this world of respectability, order and duty began to crumble. Written in accomplished prose of lingering beauty, The Broken House is a moving coming-of-age story that provides a searing portrait of life under the Nazis. |
| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: Jacob the Liar Jurek Becker, 1996 In a Jewish ghetto during World War II, a man manages to raise flagging spirits by circulating rumors of Allied victories and that the ghetto will soon be liberated by the Red Army. At this news, many people who are thinking of suicide decide to live. |
| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: Catherine the Great & Potemkin Simon Sebag Montefiore, 2021-08-04 From the author of The Romanovs: a vivid account of history's most successful political partnership—as sensual and fiery as it was creative and visionary. Catherine the Great was a woman of notorious passion and imperial ambition. Prince Potemkin—wildly flamboyant and sublimely talented—was the love of her life and her co-ruler. Together they seized Ukraine and Crimea, territories that define the Russian sphere of influence to this day. Their affair was so tumultuous that they negotiated an arrangement to share power, leaving each of them free to take younger lovers. But these “twin souls” never stopped loving each other. Drawing on the pair’s intimate letters and on vast research, Simon Sebag Montefiore's widely acclaimed biography restores these imperial partners to their rightful place as titans of their age. |
| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: It Could Happen Here Jonathan Greenblatt, 2022-01-04 “Refreshingly candid . . . Get off Instagram and read this book.” —Sacha Baron Cohen From the dynamic head of ADL, an impassioned argument about the terrifying path that America finds itself on today—and how we can save ourselves. It’s almost impossible to imagine that unbridled hate and systematic violence could come for us or our families. But it has happened in our lifetimes in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. And it could happen here. Today, as CEO of the storied ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), Jonathan Greenblatt has made it his personal mission to demonstrate how antisemitism, racism, and other insidious forms of intolerance can destroy a society, taking root as quiet prejudices but mutating over time into horrific acts of brutality. In this urgent book, Greenblatt sounds an alarm, warning that this age-old trend is gathering momentum in the United States—and that violence on an even larger, more catastrophic scale could be just around the corner. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Drawing on ADL’s decades of experience in fighting hate through investigative research, education programs, and legislative victories as well as his own personal story and his background in business and government, Greenblatt offers a bracing primer on how we—as individuals, as organizations, and as a society—can strike back against hate. Just because it could happen here, he shows, does not mean that the unthinkable is inevitable. |
| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: Franci's War Franci Rabinek Epstein, 2020-03-17 The engrossing memoir of a spirited and glamorous young fashion designer who survived World War ll, with an afterword by her daughter, Helen Epstein. In the summer of 1942, twenty-two year-old Franci Rabinek--designated a Jew by the Nazi racial laws--arrived at Terezin, a concentration camp and ghetto forty miles north of her home in Prague. It would be the beginning of her three-year journey from Terezin to the Czech family camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau, to the slave labor camps in Hamburg, and Bergen Belsen. After liberation by the British in April 1945, she finally returned to Prague. Franci was known in her group as the Prague dress designer who lied to Dr. Mengele at an Auschwitz selection, saying she was an electrician, an occupation that both endangered and saved her life. In this memoir, she offers her intense, candid, and sometimes funny account of those dark years, with the women prisoners in her tight-knit circle of friends. Franci's War is the powerful testimony of one incredibly strong young woman who endured the horrors of the Holocaust and survived. |
| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: The Watchmakers Harry Lenga, Scott Lenga, 2022-06-28 2022 National Jewish Book Award Finalist “Inspiring. Exhilarating. Astonishing. An epic tale of brotherhood, ingenuity, and survival.” —Heather Dune Macadam, International Bestselling author of 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz Told through meticulous interviews with his son, this is an extraordinary memoir of endurance, faith, and a unique skill that kept three brothers together—and alive—during the darkest times of World War II. “A truly extraordinary book.” —Damien Lewis, #1 international bestselling author Harry Lenga was born to a family of Chassidic Jews in Kozhnitz, Poland. The proud sons of a watchmaker, Harry and his two brothers, Mailekh and Moishe, studied their father’s trade at a young age. Upon the German invasion of Poland, when the Lenga family was upended, Harry and his brothers never anticipated that the tools acquired from their father would be the key to their survival. Under the most devastating conditions imaginable—with death always imminent—fixing watches for the Germans in the ghettos and brutal slave labor camps of occupied Poland and Austria bought their lives over and over again. From Wolanow and Starachowice to Auschwitz and Ebensee, Harry, Mailekh, and Moishe endured, bartered, worked, prayed, and lived to see liberation. Derived from more than a decade of interviews with Harry Lenga, conducted by his own son Scott and others, The Watchmakers is Harry’s heartening and unflinchingly honest first-person account of his childhood, the lessons learned from his own father, his harrowing tribulations, and his inspiring life before, during, and after the war. It is a singular and vital story, told from one generation to the next—and a profoundly moving tribute to brotherhood, fatherhood, family, and faith. “Deeply moving.” —Jesse Kellerman, bestselling author “Vivid and compelling.” —Christopher R. Browning, Frank Porter Graham Professor of History Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and author of Ordinary Men |
| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: Shmuel's Bridge Jason Sommer, 2022-03-15 A moving memoir of a son’s relationship with his survivor father and of their Eastern European journey through a family history of incalculable loss. Jason Sommer’s father, Jay, is ninety-eight years old and losing his memory. More than seventy years after arriving in New York from WWII-torn Europe, he is forgetting the stories that defined his life, the life of his family, and the lives of millions of Jews who were affected by Nazi terror. Observing this loss, Jason vividly recalls the trip to Eastern Europe the two took together in 2001. As father and son travel from the town of Jay’s birth to the labor camp from which he escaped, and to Auschwitz, where many in his family were lost, the stories Jason’s father has told all his life come alive. So too do Jason’s own memories of the way his father’s past complicated and impacted Jason's own inner life. Shmuel's Bridge shows history through a double lens: the memories of a growing son’s complex relationship with his father and the meditations of that son who, now grown, finds himself caring for a man losing all connection to a past that must not be forgotten. |
| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: Trials of the Diaspora Anthony Julius, 2012-02-09 The first ever comprehensive history of anti-Semitism in England, from medieval murder and expulsion through to contemporary forms of anti-Zionism in the 21st century. |
| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: Assassins of Memory Pierre Vidal-Naquet, 1992 A collection of articles, most of them published previously. Pp. 143-191 contain the endnotes to the articles. Contents: |
| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: Tía Fortuna's New Home Ruth Behar, 2022-01-25 A poignant multicultural ode to family and what it means to create a home as one girl helps her Tía move away from her beloved Miami apartment. When Estrella's Tía Fortuna has to say goodbye to her longtime Miami apartment building, The Seaway, to move to an assisted living community, Estrella spends the day with her. Tía explains the significance of her most important possessions from both her Cuban and Jewish culture, as they learn to say goodbye together and explore a new beginning for Tía. A lyrical book about tradition, culture, and togetherness, Tía Fortuna's New Home explores Tía and Estrella's Sephardic Jewish and Cuban heritage. Through Tía's journey, Estrella will learn that as long as you have your family, home is truly where the heart is. |
| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: Postmodernism and Holocaust Denial Robert Eaglestone, 2001 Deborah Lipstadt claimed that David Irving was a Hitler partisan wearing blinkers bending and manipulating evidence: the most dangerous spokesperson for Holocaust denial. Irving sued her and her publishers in a high profile case and lost. |
| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: Giving the Devil his Due Michael Shermer, 2020-04-09 Who is the 'Devil'? And what is he due? The Devil is anyone who disagrees with you. And what he is due is the right to speak his mind. He must have this for your own safety's sake because his freedom is inextricably tied to your own. If he can be censored, why shouldn't you be censored? If we put barriers up to silence 'unpleasant' ideas, what's to stop the silencing of any discussion? This book is a full-throated defense of free speech and open inquiry in politics, science, and culture by the New York Times bestselling author and skeptic Michael Shermer. The new collection of essays and articles takes the Devil by the horns by tackling five key themes: free thought and free speech, politics and society, scientific humanism, religion, and the ideas of controversial intellectuals. For our own sake, we must give the Devil his due. |
| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: Unconscionable Crimes Paul C. Morrow, 2020-09-22 The first general theory of the influence of norms--moral, legal and social--on genocide and mass atrocity. How can we explain--and prevent--such large-scale atrocities as the Holocaust? In Unconscionable Crimes, Paul Morrow presents the first general theory of the influence of norms--moral, legal and social--on genocide and mass atrocity. After offering a clear overview of norms and norm transformation, rooted in recent work in moral and political philosophy, Morrow examines numerous twentieth-century cases of mass atrocity, drawing on documentary and testimonial sources to illustrate the influence of norms before, during, and after such crimes. |
| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: Revenge Laura Blumenfeld, 2003-04-02 But ultimately it is a journey that leads her back home - where she is forced to confront her childhood dreams, her parents' failed marriage, and her ideas about family. In the end, her target turns out to be more complex - and in some ways more threatening - than the stereotypical terrorist she'd long imagined.--BOOK JACKET. |
| deborah lipstadt denying the holocaust: Debating the Holocaust Thomas Dalton, 2021-08-18 For the past few decades there has been raging a kind of subterranean debate, one of monumental importance. It is a debate about the Holocaust - not whether or not it happened (this is a meaningless claim), but rather, how it happened, through what means, and to what extent. On the one hand we have the traditional, orthodox view: the six million Jewish casualties, the gas chambers, the cremation ovens and mass graves. On the other hand there is a small, renegade band of writers and researchers who refuse to accept large parts of this story. These revisionists, as they call themselves, present counter-evidence and ask tough questions. Among the issues they raise are these: There is no trace of a 'Hitler order' to exterminate the Jews; key witnesses have either falsified or greatly exaggerated important aspects of their stories; major death camps - Belzec, Chelmno, Sobibor, and Treblinka - have all but vanished; we find little evidence of disturbed earth for mass graves; we find few remains of the millions of alleged victims - neither bones nor ash; mass-gassing with Zyklon-B would be nearly impossible without ventilators and ceiling holes; mass-gassing with diesel engine exhaust is practically impossible, given the low level of carbon monoxide; wartime air photos of Auschwitz show none of the alleged mass-burnings or cremations; the '6 million' number has no basis in fact, and actually traces back decades before the war; trends in Jewish world population strongly suggest less than 6 million lost; and the present number of survivors - currently over 1 million - implies few wartime deaths. The revisionists arrive at a different account. Hitler, they say, wanted to expel the Jews, not kill them. The ghettos and concentration camps served primarily for ethnic cleansing and forced labor, not mass murder. The Zyklon gas chambers did in fact exist, but were used for delousing and sanitary purposes. And most important, the Jewish death toll was much lower than commonly assumed - on the order of 500,000. In this book, for the FIRST TIME EVER, the reader can now judge for himself. Arguments and counter-arguments for both sides are presented, and all relevant facts are laid out in a clear and concise manner. The entire debate is presented in a scholarly and non-polemical fashion. Citations are marked, and facts are checked. READ, and JUDGE FOR YOURSELF. |
Denial: David Irving, and the Complexities of Representing a Holocaust …
Irving’s most controversial moment was the trial he brought against Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt, known today as . Irving versus Penguin Books Limited, Deborah E. Lipstadt. 1. Irving accused Lipstadt (and her book’s publisher) of libelous representation in her book . …
Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt - Congress.gov
7 Mar 2024 · Her numerous, award-winning books include: The Eichmann Trial; Denial: Holocaust History on Trial; Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory; and Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, 1933-1945.
A Sheffield Hallam University thesis
While Deborah Lipstadt’s historical research concentrated on the ideological and anti-Semitic roots of Holocaust denial, the Irving v. Penguin trial in contrast, sought to deconstruct Irving’s denial from a different perspective.
From Books to the Web: A Comparative Analysis of Holocaust …
Deborah Lipstadt’s book, Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, published in 1993, is described to by Richard Evans as “the most thorough study of the deniers.”13 In her book, Lipstadt discusses the origins of …
Book Reviews 157 - JSTOR
Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, by Deborah Lipstadt. New York: Free Press, 1993. 271 pp. $22.95. The recent stir of negative opinion and the theft of campus pers at Brandeis University because of the placement of a Holocaust. advertisement by Bradley Smith suggests the heights that Holocaust. have achieved.
Teacher’s Discussion Guide to Accompany Denial
OVERVIEW OF FILM. Denial recounts Deborah E. Lipstadt’s legal battle for historical truth against British author David Irving who sued her and her publisher Penguin Books in an English court for libel after she declared him a Holocaust denier in her 1993 book Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory.
Deborah E. Lipstadt: The Eichmann Trial - Springer
Deborah E. Lipstadt’s The Eichmann Trial offers a valuable condensed account of what by now is the subject of voluminous analysis. Lipstadt, professor of modern Jewish history and Holocaust studies at Emory University, has made significant contributions to Holocaust denial literature. In Beyond Belief, she examined the unconscio-
Judicialising history or historicisng law: reflections on Irvingv ...
Abstract. In 2000, David Irving brought a libel action against Professor Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books focusing on allegedly defamatory allegations in her book Denying the Holocaust associating him with the Holocaust revisionist movement. The case concluded in …
Deborah E. Lipstadt
Holocaust denial all over the world. One of Prof. Lipstadt’s most prominent public battles was against British historian David Irving, who in 1998 brought a libel suit against her for calling him a Holocaust denier. She took action to expose Irving’s lies and racist ideas. The UK Supreme Court eventually ruled that Irving was a Holocaust ...
Deborah Lipstadt Denying The Holocaust Copy
Denying the Holocaust Deborah E. Lipstadt,1993 The author shows how, despite witnesses and evidence to the contrary, this irrational idea has not only continued to gain adherents but has become an internationally organized movement.
research Guide for Holocaust Denial - Learning for Justice
Holocaust Denial on trial. www.holocaustdenialontrial.org. Informational site centered on the transcripts of the David Irving v. Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt libel trial of January 2000 and the reports filed for the defense by many eminent Holocaust historians.
free speech. Yet Shermer and Grobman do not repeat much of …
2. Deborah Lipstadt, Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory (New York: Penguin Books, 1993). Although Lipstadt's book was groundbreaking, especially in raising public consciousness about the Holocaust denier movement, accounts of …
Tall Tales of Genocide An Argumentative and Comparative …
“other side” of a legitimate revisionist debate, historian Deborah Lipstadt, when writing her book on Holocaust denial during the late 1980s and early 1990s, could note that the comments directed at her were constantly of the type: “Why are you wasting your time on those kooks?”3 She has
America and the Holocaust - JSTOR
Deborah E. Lipstadt AMERICA AND THE HOLOCAUST In recent years the topic of Allied rescue and refugee policy during the Holocaust has become a matter of growing scholarly and moral interest. In the decade since Modern Judaism first began publication, we have witnessed a veritable explosion of research on this topic. While much of
Holocaust inversion and contemporary antisemitism.
By inverting reality and morality, and by recklessly spreading accusations of bad faith, Holocaust Inversion prevents us identifying the changing nature of contemporary antisemitism and is an obstacle to marshalling active resistance to it.
Denying The Holocaust The Growing Assault On Truth …
Denying The Holocaust The Growing Assault On Truth Denying the Holocaust Deborah Lipstadt,2012-12-18 The denial of the Holocaust has no more credibility than the assertion that the earth is flat Yet there are those who insist that the death of six million Jews in Nazi concentration camps is nothing but a hoax perpetrated
Deborah Lipstadt Denying The Holocaust (book)
Deborah Lipstadt is a renowned historian who has dedicated her career to combating Holocaust denial. To claim she denies the Holocaust is not only factually incorrect but deeply harmful and disrespectful to the victims and survivors of this horrific event. It's important to understand the context of Lipstadt's work: She is a leading expert on ...
Denying the Holocaust
We offer Deborah Lipstadt's book, Denying the Holocaust -- The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, 1993, Penguin in relation with a trial due to take place in the first days of 2000 in London, where British historian David Irving is suing Mrs. Lipstadt
COMBATING HISTORY’S BIGGEST LIE: HOLOCAUST DENIAL IN …
Deborah Lipstadt knows the danger first-hand. Holocaust Deniers around the globe rose up in support of the lawsuit in the United Kingdom by disgraced historian and Holocaust Denier David Irving, to destroy her career.
wrote that was published in 1993, called Denying the Holocaust: …
wrote that was published in 1993, called Denying the Holocaust: the Growing Assault on Truth and Memory. It was an attempt to explicate who the true Holocaust deniers were, their modus operandi, and the impact they were having. It was not an attempt to answer them, because I
Denial: David Irving, and the Complexities of Representing a Holocaust ...
Irving’s most controversial moment was the trial he brought against Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt, known today as . Irving versus Penguin Books Limited, Deborah E. Lipstadt. 1. Irving …
Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt - Congress.gov
7 Mar 2024 · Her numerous, award-winning books include: The Eichmann Trial; Denial: Holocaust History on Trial; Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory; and …
A Sheffield Hallam University thesis
While Deborah Lipstadt’s historical research concentrated on the ideological and anti-Semitic roots of Holocaust denial, the Irving v. Penguin trial in contrast, sought to deconstruct Irving’s …
From Books to the Web: A Comparative Analysis of Holocaust …
Deborah Lipstadt’s book, Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, published in 1993, is described to by Richard Evans as “the most thorough study of the …
Book Reviews 157 - JSTOR
Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, by Deborah Lipstadt. New York: Free Press, 1993. 271 pp. $22.95. The recent stir of negative opinion and the theft of …
Teacher’s Discussion Guide to Accompany Denial
OVERVIEW OF FILM. Denial recounts Deborah E. Lipstadt’s legal battle for historical truth against British author David Irving who sued her and her publisher Penguin Books in an …
Deborah E. Lipstadt: The Eichmann Trial - Springer
Deborah E. Lipstadt’s The Eichmann Trial offers a valuable condensed account of what by now is the subject of voluminous analysis. Lipstadt, professor of modern Jewish history and …
Judicialising history or historicisng law: reflections on Irvingv ...
Abstract. In 2000, David Irving brought a libel action against Professor Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books focusing on allegedly defamatory allegations in her book Denying the …
Deborah E. Lipstadt
Holocaust denial all over the world. One of Prof. Lipstadt’s most prominent public battles was against British historian David Irving, who in 1998 brought a libel suit against her for calling him …
Deborah Lipstadt Denying The Holocaust Copy
Denying the Holocaust Deborah E. Lipstadt,1993 The author shows how, despite witnesses and evidence to the contrary, this irrational idea has not only continued to gain adherents but has …
research Guide for Holocaust Denial - Learning for Justice
Holocaust Denial on trial. www.holocaustdenialontrial.org. Informational site centered on the transcripts of the David Irving v. Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt libel trial of January …
free speech. Yet Shermer and Grobman do not repeat much of …
2. Deborah Lipstadt, Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory (New York: Penguin Books, 1993). Although Lipstadt's book was groundbreaking, especially in …
Tall Tales of Genocide An Argumentative and Comparative …
“other side” of a legitimate revisionist debate, historian Deborah Lipstadt, when writing her book on Holocaust denial during the late 1980s and early 1990s, could note that the comments …
America and the Holocaust - JSTOR
Deborah E. Lipstadt AMERICA AND THE HOLOCAUST In recent years the topic of Allied rescue and refugee policy during the Holocaust has become a matter of growing scholarly and moral …
Holocaust inversion and contemporary antisemitism.
By inverting reality and morality, and by recklessly spreading accusations of bad faith, Holocaust Inversion prevents us identifying the changing nature of contemporary antisemitism and is an …
Denying The Holocaust The Growing Assault On Truth …
Denying The Holocaust The Growing Assault On Truth Denying the Holocaust Deborah Lipstadt,2012-12-18 The denial of the Holocaust has no more credibility than the assertion that …
Deborah Lipstadt Denying The Holocaust (book)
Deborah Lipstadt is a renowned historian who has dedicated her career to combating Holocaust denial. To claim she denies the Holocaust is not only factually incorrect but deeply harmful and …
Denying the Holocaust
We offer Deborah Lipstadt's book, Denying the Holocaust -- The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, 1993, Penguin in relation with a trial due to take place in the first days of 2000 in …
COMBATING HISTORY’S BIGGEST LIE: HOLOCAUST DENIAL …
Deborah Lipstadt knows the danger first-hand. Holocaust Deniers around the globe rose up in support of the lawsuit in the United Kingdom by disgraced historian and Holocaust Denier …
wrote that was published in 1993, called Denying the Holocaust: …
wrote that was published in 1993, called Denying the Holocaust: the Growing Assault on Truth and Memory. It was an attempt to explicate who the true Holocaust deniers were, their modus …
