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6B February 2020 JEWISH HAPPENINGS

COMMUNITY LECTURE

Tuesday, February 25, 2020 Human Trafficking Awareness Program

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ANTISEMITISM

HERE AND NOW

Featuring Professor Deborah Lipstadt

Dr. Deborah e. LipstaDt,
Dorot professor of Holocaust
Studies at Emory University
in Atlanta, has published and
taught about the Holocaust
for close to 40 years. The au-
thor of six books and numer-
ous articles, she is probably most widely known be-

cause of the libel lawsuit brought against her in 1996
by David Irving for having called him a Holocaust “Our monthly Jewish-themed
denier. Irving was then arguably the world’s leading film series focuses on real slices
denier. of life we can all relate to.”
– ROSANN BLACK
Her TED talk about the trial has received close to
1.2 million views. The movie DENIAL, starring Ra-
chel Weisz and Tom Wilkinson with a screenplay WARSAW: A CITY DIVIDED People of the Book: Ariel Burger

by David Hare, tells the story of this legal battle. It is Tuesday, February 11, 2020 • 7:00 pm
based on her book HISTORY ON TRIAL: MY DAY This film sheds new light into the Nazi process of division and
resettlement, culminating in nearly destroying Warsaw and in the
IN COURT WITH A HOLOCAUST DENIER (Harp- deaths of thousands. By interweaving the past with the present,
er Collins 2006) and recently reissued as DENIAL it affirms the importance —and the difficulty— of remembering.

(Harper Collins 2016). The film was nominated for Special guest: Howard Chandler, Classroms Without
Borders, survivor Auschwitz and Buchenwald camps
a BAFTA award as one of the best British films of Beatrice Friedman Theater on The Larry & Mary
the year. Greenspon Family Campus for Jewish Life
582 McIntosh Rd, Sarasota, FL
Professor Lipstadt’s book, ANTISEMITISM HERE
AND NOW, was published in January, 2019. In addi- BOYCOTT THIS!
tion to an American edition, the book will be published Tuesday, March 3, 2020 • 6:30 pm
in the UK, Germany, Czech Republic, and Israel. She Viewers join comedian Brad Stine on a journey in search of truth
that takes him across the US and Israel, learning first-hand how,
has also written HOLOCAUST: AN AMERICAN UN- if successful, the BDS movement would destroy the livelihoods of
DERSTANDING (Rutgers, 2016) which explores how thousands of Palestinian families.

America has understood and interpreted the Holocaust Special guest: Producer Laurie Cardoza-Moore with Q&A

since 1945. Beatrice Friedman Theater on The Larry & Mary
Greenspon Family Campus for Jewish Life
582 McIntosh Rd, Sarasota, FL
ASK DR. RUTH
“LIPSTADT’S SWEEP ING, Tuesday, April 7, 2020 • 1:00 pm

ACCES SI BLE EDU CA TION As her 90th birthday approaches, Dr. Ruth Westheimer reflects on
her painful past. A survivor of the Holocaust, her career path leads
her to the forefront of the sexual revolution, making her America’s
ON MOD ERN most famous sex therapist.

ANTI -SEMITISM 2019 Critics’ Choice Documentary Award:
Most Compelling Living Subject of a Documentary,
IS A WEL COME Ruth Westheimer
Beatrice Friedman Theater on The Larry & Mary
START ING POINT Greenspon Family Campus for Jewish Life
582 McIntosh Rd, Sarasota, FL
IN DIRE TIMES.” DEAR FREDY

– Lauren Krouse Tuesday, May 19, 2020 • 1:00 pm “Moses Elias Levy: Where Jewish History
Jewish Book Council Fredy Hirsch was born in Germany, a proud Jew and openly gay and Black History Meet”
man. He was 19 years old when the Nuremberg Laws were
published—he fled from Germany to the Czech Republic. When he
arrived in Auschwitz, Fredy did not succumb to despair. This film
combines interviews, archival materials and animation which tell
the story of his amazing life.
CHAIR: BETTE ZARET Houston Film Critics Society Award Grand Jury Prize,

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