Deborah Lipstadt

Last year, the 2016 film “Denial” starring her won the “Best British Film” category of the 2017 British Academy Film Awards. In it, Weisz portrays Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt. The film dramatizes the Irving v Penguin Books Ltd case, in which Lipstadt was sued by Holocaust denier David Irving for ...

(JTA) — Magician David Copperfield was forced to reveal the secret behind one of his most famous tricks in court this week. The 61-year-old illusionist from New Jersey, who is Jewish, is being sued for negligence by a British man who claims to have been injured while taking part in one of his shows at the ...

In it, Weisz portrays Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt. The film dramatizes the Irving v Penguin Books Ltd case, in which Lipstadt was sued by Holocaust denier David Irving for libel. In the landmark ruling from 2000, the High Court of Justice in London ruled that Irving's claim of libel relating to English ...

Last year, the 2016 film “Denial” starring her won the “Best British Film” category of the 2017 British Academy Film Awards. In it, Weisz portrays Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt. The film dramatizes the Irving v Penguin Books Ltd case, in which Lipstadt was sued by Holocaust denier David Irving for ...

Disgraced Republican fundraiser Elliot Broidy used his connections to urge President Trump to play a game of golf with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak. Razak, who is under investigation by American prosecutors for the alleged embezzlement of $3.5 billion, was denied the customary Oval Office ...

Israeli troops shot dead four Palestinians and wounded 12 in renewed unrest on the Gaza-Israel border on Friday as a series of protests in the enclave reached its half-way mark. Some Palestinians brought wire-cutters to cut through the border fence. As the crowd grew, Israeli soldiers called out warnings ...

... showing of Denial at the Desmond Fish Library, corner of Route 403 and 9D on Saturday, April 21, from noon to 4PM. Join us for refreshments and discussions with Rabbi Helaine Ettinger. Denial illustrates the acclaimed writer and historian Deborah Lipstadt's British legal battle to prove the existence […].

Past distinguished speakers in the series included Alan Dershowitz and Jewish History Professor Deborah Lipstadt. Watson will shed light to attendees that, in 1945, Adolf Hitler and the Nazis had a plan to kill thousands of concentration camp prisoners on the "Cap Arcona" ship, as he wrote in his book ...

If you caught David Hare's TV series Collateral — recently recommended on this page — and liked it, check out his 2016 film Denial (March 24th, 8.30pm, Masterpiece) starring Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson and Timothy Spall. It is a dramatic rendering of the real-life case of the historian Deborah Lipstadt, ...

Jewish history professor Deborah Lipstadt discussed her 1996 legal case in Britain involving a libel suit by Holocaust denier David Irving in an Anti-Defamation League lecture that took place at Boca West Country Club. In discussing her personal journey as a Muslim woman and the increasing negative ...

Eminent Holocaust historian, scholar and author Deborah Lipstadt, Ph.D., will be the keynote speaker at Jewish Family & Children's Services 9th annual ... Lipstadt's award-winning book, “Denial: Holocaust History on Trial,” inspired the 2016 big-screen movie of the same name, starring Rachel Weisz and ...

Deborah Lipstadt once wrote: "I am convinced that had there been more Christians like David Wyman in the 1930s and 1940s, the history of this period .... The poignant 'reunion' of the former child refugees, the Israeli general who helped save them, and the American historian whose book made the rescue ...

The historian Deborah Lipstadt saluted the “crazy visionaries” behind Alma at the cross-communal free school's dedication of its permanent home in North London on Sunday. Opened in 2013, the primary prides itself on embrace of diversity, welcoming not only Jews of different strands but several children ...

Lipstadt, Dorot professor of modern Jewish history and Holocaust studies at Emory University, wrote “Denial: Holocaust History on Trial,” chronicling her 10-week trial in London after being sued for libel by David Irving for calling him a Holocaust denier. The judge ultimately ruled in favor of Lipstadt and ...

Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt explained the dangers of Holocaust denial and encouraged students to combat “alternative facts” during a talk ... deniers back to anti-Semitism, explaining that deniers weren't arriving at their conclusions by accident, but rather intentionally working to falsify history.

Deborah Lipstadt once wrote: “I am convinced that had there been more Christians like David Wyman in the 1930s and 1940s, the history of this period .... The poignant 'reunion' of the former child refugees, the Israeli general who helped save them, and the American historian whose book made the rescue ...

It's a pleasure to speak with you once again. DEBORAH LIPSTADT: You're welcome. Thank you for having me, Michel. MARTIN: Well, as a person who teaches this history, were you surprised by the results of the survey? LIPSTADT: I was surprised, I must say that, and I don't surprise easily. I was surprised ...

A new poll reveals big gaps in Americans' knowledge of Holocaust history. NPR's Michel Martin considers the implications with historian Deborah Lipstadt. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: A new poll commissioned by a Jewish organization reveals big gaps in Americans' historical knowledge. According to that ...