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SUMMARY:Exhibition talk: Conspiracy and Antisemitism: combatting the Protocols of the Elders of Zion 100 years ago and why this remains significant today
DESCRIPTION:In Association with Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism\nA selection of some of the copies of ‘The Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ held in the Library’s collections. \nPart of the Fighting Antisemitism from Dreyfus to Today event series. \nAntisemitism entered the political mainstream in Britain in 1920 when a national newspaper\, the Morning Post\, published 18 long articles loosely based on the forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. This newspaper series was the most prominent expression of a widespread tendency among conservatives at the time\, who repurposed deep-rooted anti-Jewish stereotypes as they reacted to global crisis and the Bolshevik Revolution. The challenge of combatting antisemitism produced significant divisions among Jews who not only disagreed over what the causes of antisemitism were but also argued over whether education or\, indeed\, anything could help improve matters. In this lecture David Feldman explores the appeal of conspiracy theory in these postwar years and the responses of British Jews to the threat they faced. He asks how this history can illumine the challenges we face combatting antisemitism today. \nAbout the speaker:\nDavid Feldman is Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism and Professor at Birkbeck College\, University of London. He joined Birkbeck in 1994 having previously held lectureships at Christ’s College\, Cambridge and the University of Bristol. He specialises in the history of antisemitism\, Jewish history\, the history of migration in modern Britain and the history of racialization. \nDavid provides expertise and advice on antisemitism to a wide range of political\, philanthropic and cultural organisations. His writing on the politics of antisemitism has appeared in The Guardian\, Financial Times\, Haaretz\, History Workshop Online and The Independent. \nEvent guidelines for those joining online:\n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. Please try and join 5 minutes before the event start time and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes). \n3. If you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event. \n4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/exhibition-talk-conspiracy-and-antisemitism/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Exhibition talk: Joe Mulhall: The Rise of the Today’s Far Right
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Library’s Fighting Antisemitism from Dreyfus to Today exhibition events series. \nIn 2017 nearly two billion people lived in countries with radical or far-right governments. This included three of the five most populous countries on earth: the United States under President Donald Trump\, Brazil under President Jair Bolsonaro and India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Meanwhile\, the radical right was and is represented in parliamentary chambers across the continent of Europe. \nSimultaneously we have seen the rise of new transnational far-right movements\, such as the alt-right\, that have embraced the internet and rewritten the manual of far-right activism. Recent years have also seen a wave of far-right terrorism on a scale hard to imagine just a decade ago. \nEven in countries like Britain\, where the traditional far-right remains small\, their politics have entered the mainstream. \nSo how did we get here? \nJoe Mulhall’s dramatic experiences on the front line of anti-fascist activism\, including infiltrating far-right events in both Europe and America\, coupled with his academic research\, will clearly explain the roots of both elected and non-elected far-right movements across the globe and seek to explain how we got here and where we could be headed. \nAbout the speaker:\nDr Joe Mulhall is one of the UK’s leading experts on far-right extremism. Director of Research at the UK’s largest anti-fascism organisation\, HOPE not hate\, his books include Drums in the Distance: Journeys in the Global Far Right\, British Fascism After the Holocaust and The International Alternative Right (Co- Author). He has written for The Guardian\, Independent and New Statesman and appears regularly on broadcast media including the BBC News at Ten\, Radio 4’s Today programme\, The Moral Maze and Channel 4 News\, among others.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/exhibition-talk-joe-mulhall-the-rise-of-the-todays-far-right-2/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Hybrid book talk: Deborah Cadbury: The School that Escaped the Nazis
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with Insiders/Outsiders and the Association of Jewish Refugees.\nDeborah Cadbury \nIn 1933\, as Hitler came to power\, schoolteacher Anna Essinger hatched a daring and courageous plan: to smuggle her entire school out of Nazi Germany. Essinger had read Mein Kampf and knew the terrible danger that Hitler’s hate-fuelled ideologies posed to her pupils. She knew that to protect them she had to get her pupils to the safety of England. \nBut the safe haven that Essinger struggled to create in a rundown manor house at Bunce Court in Kent would test her to the limit. As the news from Europe continued to darken\, she rescued successive waves of fleeing children and\, when war broke out\, she and her pupils faced a second exodus. One by one countries fell to the Nazis and before long unspeakable rumours began to circulate. Red Cross messages stopped and parents in occupied Europe vanished. In time\, Anna Essinger would take in orphans who had given up all hope; the survivors of unimaginable horrors. Her school offered these scarred children the love and security they needed to rebuild their lives\, showing them that\, despite everything\, there was still a world worth fighting for.  \nDeborah Cadbury will discuss her book on the school\, which features moving first-hand testimony\, letters\, diaries and present-day interviews. The School That Escaped the Nazis is a dramatic human tale that offers a unique child’s-eye perspective on Nazi persecution and the Holocaust. It is also the story of one woman’s refusal to allow her beliefs in a better\, more equitable world to be overtaken by the evil that surrounded her.  \nWe will also hear from former Bunce Court pupil Ruth Boronow Danson\, supported by her daughter Jacqueline Boronow Danson\, speaking about her memories\, based on her letters from the school. Also Evan Oliner\, the grandson of survivor and former pupil\, Sam Oliner\, will speak about how Bunce Court helped his grandfather. The event will also feature excerpts from the AJR Refugee Voices archive. \nAbout the speaker\nDeborah Cadbury is the author of ten acclaimed books including Queen Victoria’s Matchmaking\, Princes at War\, Chocolate Wars (under option for television drama with Fable Pictures)\, The Dinosaur Hunters\, Space Race\, The Lost King of France and Seven Wonders of the Industrial World\, for which her accompanying BBC series received a BAFTA nomination and which was a Sunday Times bestseller. Before turning to writing full-time she worked for 30 years as a BBC TV producer and executive producer. She has won numerous international awards including an Emmy. \nEvent guidelines for those joining online:\n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. Please try and join 5 minutes before the event start time and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes). \n3. If you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event. \n4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-talk-deborah-cadbury-the-school-that-escaped-the-nazis/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Virtual Panel and Film Talkback: Complicit and The Legacy of the St Louis
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library and the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway\, University of London\, are delighted to host The Legacy of the St Louis Virtual Panel as part of its of Holocaust and Genocide Partnership activities.  This free online event will follow a screening of the documentary film\, Complicit\, and will include the creator and producer of the documentary\, Robert Krakow\, Esq.\, as well as former child refugee passengers on the MS St Louis. \nViewers will have access to view the award-winning documentary beginning on 17 July. During the event\, they will have the opportunity to hear from Mr Krakow and to ask questions and hear reflections from former passengers of the MS St Louis. \nComplicit is a fascinating blend of drama\, survivor interviews\, and actual footage retelling the story of the MS St. Louis\, a German luxury ocean liner\, that set sail from Hamburg\, Germany to Havana\, Cuba in the spring of 1939. The 937 mostly Jewish passengers were attempting to escape Nazi persecution. Turned away by the Cuban government and then thwarted by American and Canadian authorities\, the captain was forced to return the ship and its passengers to Europe where more than 250 passengers perished in death camps. The Hollywood Reporter\, in reviewing the film\, observed that “A shameful piece of WWII history is recounted firsthand” and a critical history lesson—not found in students’ textbooks today—is laid bare by the filmmaker. \nEvent guidelines for those joining online:\n\n  The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.\nPlease try and join 5 minutes before the event start time and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes).\nIf you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event.\nThe event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.\n\nAbout the speakers:\nJudith Steel evaded Nazi persecution in Germany as a child when a French Catholic family took her into their home—an experience that informed her view that love does not always fit within the neat confines of religion. She was the cantor at the New Synagogue in Manhattan.  She attended the 2009 70th Anniversary St. Louis passengers reunion in Miami Beach and signed Senate Resolution 111 which was accepted into the Treasures Vault of the National Archives.  Senate Resolution 111 was passed unanimously in May 2009 and acknowledged the importance of learning the lessons of the saga of the St. Louis.  Judith appears in the documentary film COMPLICIT\, which has been touring the US and internationally since 2014.  Judith together with Sonja Geismar and Eva Wiener participated in Canada’s apology ceremony in November 2018 where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addressed the passengers in the House of Commons and offered his heartfelt apology for Canada’s refusal to grant safe haven to the passengers aboard the SS St. Louis. \nSonja Geismar In May 1939\, Sonja’s parents\, paternal grandparents\, two great aunts\, and another great aunt with her husband were passengers on the St. Louis. In Havana harbor\, she remembers waving to cousins who came to see their grandparents who unfortunately went to Belgium and met their fate in a gas chamber.  Sonja and her parents went to  England  and when  their quota numbers were reached\, they sailed into New York harbor on February 11th 1940.  Sonja became a high school social studies teacher. Years later she changed the direction of her career by returning to graduate school for her second Master’s degree. She became a high school librarian in an inner city school and after ten years became head librarian.  Sonja together with Eva Wiener\, participated in the mission to Jerusalem where they told their stories at the Knesset\, Yad Vashem and Hebrew University. \nEva Wiener was born in Berlin during the rise of Hitler.  To escape the Nazis\, her parents were able to book passage on the St. Louis for its ill-fated voyage to Havana\, Cuba.  When the ship was forced to return its passengers to Europe\, Eva and her parents were among the fortunate ones to be accepted into the quota for England.  They immigrated to the United States in May of 1946. Eva was employed as a Budget Analyst at Fort Monmouth\, an installation of the U. S. Department of Defense. While at the Fort she was instrumental in establishing a yearly program commemorating the Holocaust.  This program grew to become the most successful program of its kind for a military installation.  She has been Past President of the Monmouth County Chapter of B’nai Brith Women and the Gibor Zimel Resnick Chapter of American Friends of Magen David Adom.  In November of 2006 Eva was honored by being the recipient of the Eishet Chayil (Woman of Valor) awarded by the Central New Jersey Women’s Branch for Conservative Judaism.  In 2012 Eva was selected by her synagogue as the Woman of the Year.  In May of 2012 Eva also received a “Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition” for “invaluable service to the community” presented to her by Congressman Frank Pallone\, Jr. \nJohn Shilling spent the first five years of his life moving as far away as possible from the storm better known as WWII and the Holocaust.  John was born in Prague\, spent his preschool years in Holland and Ecuador\, and first and second grade in Orlando\, Florida before moving to New York.  He graduated from Forest Hills High School\, Queens College\, and Columbia University College of Dental Medicine and practiced general dentistry on Long Island in Copiague and lived in Melville NY.  He was in the Medical Corp as a dentist in the Air Force from 1962 to 1964. Since his retirement he has had the opportunity to share his family’s story of emigration with High School students and with organisations interested in stories and experiences such as his. \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-panel-and-film-talkback-complicit-and-the-legacy-of-the-st-louis/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Genocide,HGRP,Refugees
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion: Antisemitism Today
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Natasha Lehrer\, Daniel Trilling\, Olga Grjasnowa \nChair: Jo Glanville \n© Blake Ezra \nPart of the Library’s Fighting Antisemitism from Dreyfus to Today exhibition events series. \nIn this event\, the panel\, all contributors to a recent volume\, Looking for an Enemy: 8 Essays on Antisemitism (Jo Glanville ed.\, 2021)\, will consider the situation with respects to antisemitism in various countries in Europe today. More than 75 years after the Holocaust\, antisemitism is on the rise again on the left as well as the far right. Our speakers have expertise on antisemitism in France\, Britain and Germany\, and amongst the topics that they will consider are recent manifestations of antisemitism in these countries; the connections that current day antisemitism has with antisemitism in the past\, and the reasons why antisemitism persists. \nAbout the speakers:\nOlga Grjasnowa’s debut novel Der Russe ist einer\, der Birken liebt was awarded the Klaus Michael Kühne Prize\, the Hermann Lenz Grant and the Anna Seghers Prize. Her novels Die juristische Unschaerfe einer Ehe\, Gott ist nicht schuechtern and Der verlorene Sohn followed in 2014\, 2017 and 2020. All her books have been dramatised for the stage and translated into a total of 15 languages. \nNatasha Lehrer is a writer\, translator and editor. Her journalism and book reviews have appeared in the Guardian\, the Observer\, the Times Literary Supplement\, The Nation\, Haaretz\, and Fantastic Man\, among others. Her full-length translations include Suite for Barbara Loden\, by Nathalie Léger (Les Fugitives / Dorothy) Memories of Low Tide\, by Chantal Thomas (Pushkin Press)\, Chinese Spies\, by Roger Faligot (Hurst)\, and A Call for Revolution\, by the Dalai Lama (Rider). \nDaniel Trilling is and award-winning journalist and author. He has recently been short-listed for the 2022 Orwell Journalism Prize. His latest book\, Lights in the Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe\, won Italy’s inaugural Libri contro la Fame (“Books against Hunger”) literary prize and was shortlisted for the 2019 Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing. Trilling is also currently a regular contributor to The Guardian’s Long Read and Opinion sections and writes for the London Review of Books\, among other publications. \nEvent guidelines for those joining online:\n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. Please try and join 5 minutes before the event start time and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes). \n3. If you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event. \n4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/panel-discussion-antisemitism-today/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Antisemitism on Social Media
DESCRIPTION:Antisemitism on Social Media https://www.routledge.com/Antisemitism-on-Social-Media/Hubscher-Mering/p/book/9781032059693\, published in March 2022 by Routledge\, is a book for all who want to understand this phenomenon. \nThe interdisciplinary volume addresses how social media with its technology and business model has revolutionised the dissemination of antisemitism and how this impacts not only victims of antisemitic hate speech but also society at large. The book gives insight into case studies on different platforms such as Twitter\, Facebook\, TikTok\, YouTube\, and Telegram. It also demonstrates how social media is weaponized through the dissemination of antisemitic content by political actors from the right\, the left\, and the extreme fringe\, and critically assesses existing counter-strategies. \nAbout the speakers:\nEditors \nMonika Hübscher is a PhD Candidate at the Haifa Center for German and European Studies at the University of Haifa\, Israel\, and Research Associate at the project “Antisemitism and Youth” at the University of Duisburg-Essen\, Germany.  She researches and lectures on antisemitism\, hate speech and disinformation on social media\, and social media literacy. \nSabine von Mering\, Ph.D. is Professor of German and Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies\, a core faculty member with the Environmental Studies Program\, and Director of the Center for German and European Studies (CGES) at Brandeis University in Waltham\, Massachusetts\, USA. Her prior co-edited volumes include Right-Wing Radicalism Today: Perspectives from Europe and the US with Timothy Wyman-McCarty (2013)\, Russian-Jewish Emigration after the Cold War: Perspectives from Germany\, Israel\, Canada\, and the United States with Olaf Gloeckner and Evgenija Garbolevsky (2006). \nContributing Authors: \nJakob Guhl is a Manager at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD)\, London\, UK. His research focuses on the far-right\, Islamist extremism\, hate speech\, disinformation and conspiracy theories. He is a frequent commentator on German radio and broadcast. He has been invited to present his research about online hate to the German government. \nArmin Langer\, Ph.D. is a Visiting Research Scholar at the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University in Waltham\, MA\, USA. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the Humboldt University of Berlin and rabbinic ordination by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia. He is author of two monographs\, editor of an anthology and several articles on antisemitism\, Islamophobia\, integration and migration in Europe\, including “The eternal George Soros: rise of an antisemitic and Islamophobic conspiracy theory\,” in A continent of conspiracies (Routledge\, 2021) and “Dog-whistle politics as a strategy of the US American alt-right\,” in Nationalism and Populism (De Gruyter\, 2022). \nThis will be an online only event. \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/antisemitism-on-social-media/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
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