Deborah Lipstadt, outspoken scholar of Holocaust denial, speaking in Minn. Oct. 26-27

Deborah Lipstadt, author of "The Eichmann Trial and History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier," will speak about Holocaust denial at two events in Minnesota this month.

Lipstadt will speak at the University of Minnesota’s Coffman Union at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 26. She will address Holocaust denial as a new form of anti-Semitism and the 1961 trial of Nazi Adolph Eichmann.

She will also speak at St. Cloud State University at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27 at the Ritsche Auditorium, in a talk titled “Anti-Semitism: How New? How Bad?”

Both events are free and open to the public.

While in Minnesota, Lipstadt will also visit classrooms at SCSU, speak at synagogue services and a Jewish Community Relations Council interfaith lunch, and meet with various leaders in the faith and academic communities.

Lipstadt is Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University in Atlanta. Her most recent book, "The Eichmann Trial," was credited in the New York Times for “recovering the event as a gripping legal drama, as well as a hinge moment in Israel’s history and in the world’s delayed awakening to the magnitude of the Holocaust.” Her earlier book "History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier" is the story of her libel trial in London against David Irving, who sued her for calling him a Holocaust denier and right-wing extremist. The trial was described by the Daily Telegraph, London, as having “done for the new century what the Nuremberg tribunals or the Eichmann trial did for earlier generations.” The judge found David Irving to be a Holocaust denier, a falsifier of history, a racist, an anti-Semite and a liar.

Her book "Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory" 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.

The book has been published in Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.

Lipstadt is available to talk to the media on the following topics:

• History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving, where Lipstadt will analyze the major issues involved in her lawsuit in London and link them to the rise of “new anti-Semitism"
• Holocaust Denial: A New Form of Anti-Semitism
• The “New” Anti-Semitism: How New? How Bad?
• “In Every Generation They Wish to Destroy Us”: Anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism as factors in Jewish Identity
• The American Campus: A Hotbed of Anti-Semitism?
• The Eichmann Trial

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