Deborah Esther Lipstadt ( born Deborah Esther Lipstadt ; born March 18, 1947 , New York , USA ) is an American historian , Holocaust researcher. He is currently a professor at the Institute for Contemporary Jewish History and the Study of the Holocaust at Emory University in Atlanta .
| Deborah Esther Lipstadt | |
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| Deborah Esther Lipstadt | |
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| Date of Birth | March 18, 1947 (72 years old) |
| Place of Birth | New York , USA |
| A country | USA |
| Scientific field | Story |
| Place of work | Institute for Contemporary Jewish History and the Study of the Holocaust at Emory University |
| Alma mater | |
| Known as | Holocaust historian |
| Awards and prizes | Joint Prize (2002) [1] |
| Site | hdot.org |
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Biography
Deborah Lipstadt was born March 18, 1947 in a family of Jewish immigrants from Nazi Germany and grew up in New York [2] . She graduated from City College of New York , received a master's and professor degree from Brandeis University . He works at Emory University.
He is the chairman of the academic committee of the American Holocaust Memorial Museum [3] . In 1994, US President Bill Clinton appointed Deborah Lipstadt to the American Holocaust Remembrance Council, where she served two terms. [4]
Professional Activities
Professor Lippstadt is known for leading a scientific debate with Holocaust deniers . In 1993, she published the book “Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory” dedicated to this issue [5] .
However, despite the ongoing struggle with Holocaust deniers, Deborah Lipstadt does not support the ban on punishment or denial of the Holocaust.
“I am a supporter of such an unpleasant trifle as freedom of speech, and I am very worried when governments restrict it” [6] .
In February 2007, Lipstadt used neologism “soft denial” at the Zionist Association's annual charity banquet in London . Speaking about Jimmy Carter ’s book “ Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid, ” she stated:
"When a former president of the United States writes a book on the Israeli-Palestinian crisis and puts a chronological table at the beginning of the book to help understand the situation, and in this chronology does not contribute anything significant between 1939 and 1947, this is a mild denial." [7]
Later, Lipstadt used this term to connect Holocaust denial with those who recognize the event as a whole, but try to downplay its scope and uniqueness by ignoring significant aspects or incorrect comparisons with other events [8] [9] .
Court with David Irving
In 1996, writer David Irving , to whom a portion of Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory was dedicated, sued Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books in a British court to accuse him of defaming and damaging his scientific and business reputation .
The court attracted much public attention, and not only in the UK [10] . The case lasted several years. As British laws place the burden of proof on the defendant, Lipstadt and the publisher had to convince the court of their innocence. They were able, with the help of a number of leading experts on the history of the Third Reich, to prove that Irving manipulated documents, manipulated historical facts, and his anti-Semitic convictions were the motive for this [11] .
For the first time in history, excerpts from previously unpublished diaries of the Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann were publicly announced at this court [12] .
On April 11, 2000, Judge Gray announced a 333-page verdict. [10] Irving was officially recognized as anti-Semite , racist and apologist by Hitler . All claims of Irving were declared insolvent, he was ordered to pay 3.2 million pounds in compensation for legal costs [13] .
Policy
At the request of President George W. Bush, Deborah Lippstadt represented the United States at an event marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz . In June 2007, George W. Bush included her in the US delegation to the OSCE Conference on Countering Intolerance and Anti-Semitism [14] .
Bibliography
- Deborah E. Lipstadt. Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust 1933-1945. 1993. ISBN 0-02-919161-0 . (eng.)
- Lipstadt D. Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory. - Penguin Books , 2004. - ISBN 978-0-14-024157-0 .
- Deborah E. Lipstadt. History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving. 2005. ISBN 0-06-059376-8 . (eng.)
Links
- Deborah Lipstadt Blog
- Irving vs Lipstadt
- Emory University website
- Happiness and Faith: Judaism on YouTube
Films
- Rachel Weiss in the film Denial , UK - USA, 2016.
Notes
- ↑ Lipstadt wins the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Award
- ↑ What we tell children
- ↑ Who is Dr. Deborah Lipstadt?
- ↑ Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion News & Publications Third Annual Bamberger Memorial Lecture with Deborah E. Lipstadt (11/22/2005) (English) (unavailable link) . Date of treatment June 14, 2008. Archived March 15, 2012.
- ↑ Deborah Lipstadt, Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, Penguin, New York, 1993; London, 1994
- ↑ EU plans to pass controversial law against denial of genocide
- ↑ Quoted by Jonny Paul, “Holocaust Scholar Warns of New 'soft-core' Denial” Archived July 6, 2013. The Jerusalem Post (February 6, 2007 ) .
- ↑ Lipstadt lecture to focus on Holocaust denial, libel suit
- ↑ Denying the deniers: Q & A with Deborah Lipstadt
- ↑ 1 2 One, but fiery passion
- ↑ RJ Evans, Lying about Hitler. History, Holocaust, and the David Irving Trial, Basic Books, New York, 2001 and RJ van Pelt, The case for Auschwitz: Evidence from the Irving Trial, Indiana University Press, 2002. (English)
- ↑ “Eichmann Process” - an article from the Electronic Jewish Encyclopedia
- ↑ $ 3.2 million - for trying to justify Nazism
- ↑ Deborah E. Lipstadt