April 20: Hillel hosts historian
Hillel hosts renowned historian Lipstadt for Holocaust Education Week
7:57 a.m., April 15, 2016--University of Delaware Hillel will bring world-renowned professor, historian and author Deborah Lipstadt to campus for its annual Holocaust Education Week.
Lipstadt will present a lecture at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 20, in Loudis Hall of the Amy E. du Pont Music Building. The event is free and open to the public.
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Lipstadt is an American historian and author who teaches modern Jewish and Holocaust studies at Emory University.
The author of Denying the Holocaust and The Eichmann Trial, Lipstadt studies contemporary use of Holocaust references in politics and Jewish history.
Denying the Holocaust is 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.
Lipstadt is also the author of History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier, which chronicles her exoneration by a British court in a sensational libel trial.
She served two terms on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, was a historical consultant to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and helped design the section of the Museum dedicated to the American Response to the Holocaust.
She was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, on which she served two terms. She was a member of its Executive Committee of the Council and chaired the Educational Committee and Academic Committee of the Holocaust Museum.
Lipstadt has been called upon by members of the United States Congress to consult on political responses to Holocaust denial.