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Deborah Lipstadt to speak on

This series highlights mission-based programs and projects that are supported by “Anti-Semitism Here and Now”
The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee. Funding for these initiatives is de-
rived from the Annual Campaign. The series helps to explain where your generous By Gayle Guynup
dollars are spent and features certain initiatives that enrich the lives of Jews living Established 1971 his year’s Community Lecture, their legacy was riding tism Here and Now, was pub-
in Sarasota-Manatee, local projects with area partners, and overseas programs that PUBLISHER hosted by The Jewish Fed- on me.” lished in January 2019. The
support the social and humanitarian needs of Jews in Israel and around the world. The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee Teration of Sarasota-Manatee, Lipstadt’s TED talk book is written in the form
The Larry & Mary Greenspon
Your generous support is found in our Overseas Granting Cycle. See the Family Campus for Jewish Life will feature Dr. Deborah Lipstadt, who about the trial has re- of a series of letters between
article below for more information. Klingenstein Jewish Center has written and taught about the Ho- ceived close to 1.2 a college student, Abigail,

580 McIntosh Road locaust for 40 years. The event, held million views, and the and a well-intentioned, non-
Sarasota, FL 34232-1959 at the Sarasota Municipal Auditorium movie Denial, star- Jewish law school professor,
Phone: 941.371.4546 (801 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota) at ring Rachel Weisz and Joe. The questions raised in
Fax: 941.378.2947 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 25, Tom Wilkinson, with the letters are based on actual
E-mail: jewishnews@jfedsrq.org will address “Anti-Semitism Here and a screenplay by David questions that she has been
Website: www.jfedsrq.org Now,” which is also the title of Lip- Hare, tells the story Deborah Lipstadt asked about anti-Semitism.
Published Monthly stadt’s most recent book. Thank you to of the historic legal battle. The film is Lipstadt, who defines anti-Semi-
Volume 50, Number 1 our lead sponsor, Hannah and Norman based on Lipstadt’s book, History on tism as “not the hatred of people who
January 2020 Weinberg, and our gold sponsor, Alle- Trial: My Day in Court with a Holo- happen to be Jews,” but rather, “the
52 pages giant Private Advisors. caust Denier (Harper Collins 2006), hatred of people because they are
USPS Permit No. 167 Lipstadt, the Dorot Professor of recently reissued as Denial (Harper Jews,” said that Anti-Semitism Here

February 2020 Issue Deadlines: Holocaust Studies at Emory University Collins 2016). Denial will be shown and Now examines the state of anti-
Editorial: December 26, 2019 in Atlanta, is the author of six books as part of the Just Reel Film Series Semitism today. “When I first began to
Advertising: December 27, 2019 and numerous articles, and is widely on Tuesday, January 14 at 7:00 p.m. write the book, some people asked why
known because of the libel lawsuit Visit jfedsrq.org/justreel to register. I was writing it. As time progressed,
CHANGE OF ADDRESS: brought against her in 1996 by David Lipstadt grew up in New York City, those people stopped asking why I was
Change of address inquiries can be Irving for having called him a Holo- first on the upper West Side and then in writing it. Now those same people are
sent to Paula Ivory-Bishop caust denier. After a 10-week trial in Queens, in a Modern Orthodox family. asking for an updated version, though
at pibishop@jfedsrq.org London (in 2000), the judge found for She said she first became immersed in the book has only been out for less than
or call 941.371.4546 x0 Lipstadt, and found Irving to be a neo- the Holocaust when she was a student one year.”
PRESIDENT Nazi who “perverts history and engag- in Israel in 1966 and 1967. Her other books include Holo-
Randon Carvel es in racist and anti-Semitic discourse.” “When I first arrived, survivors caust: An American Understanding,

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER The Daily Telegraph in London de- were everywhere. I felt the impact of and The Eichmann Trial. Lipstadt was
Howard Tevlowitz scribed the trial as having “done for the the Holocaust. I was also in Israel dur- an historical consultant to the United
new century what the Nuremberg tribu- ing the Six-Day War and that had a big States Holocaust Memorial Museum,
SENIOR DIRECTOR OF nals or the Eichmann trial did for earli- impact on me,” she said. “But the great- and has held a Presidential appoint-
COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING er generations.” According to The New est impact came when I began teaching ment to the United States Holocaust
Marty Katz York Times, the trial “put an end to the in 1975. Students desperately wanted a Memorial Council (from Presidents
pretense that Mr. Irving is anything but course on the Holocaust. I taught it and Clinton and Obama). She was asked by
MANAGING EDITOR
Ted Epstein a self-promoting apologist for Hitler.” was asked by students what their par- President George W. Bush to represent
Lipstadt said that the trial took over ents and grandparents knew during the the White House at the 60 anniversary
th
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