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THE EICHMANN
TRIAL IN CONTEXT
Menachem Rosensaft
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 • 6:30 PM
MENACHEM ROSENSAFT will discuss how Israel’s prosecution of Adolf Eichmann fits into the overall framework of Nazi war-criminal trials since World War II. The Eichmann Trial is the most prominent of numerous prosecutions brought by Israel under its 1950 “Nazi and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law.”
MENACHEM Z. ROSENSAFT is general counsel of the World Jewish Congress, adjunct professor of Law at Cornell Law School, lecturer in law at Columbia Law School and distinguished visiting lecturer at Syracuse University College of Law. The son of two Nazi concentration camp survivors, Mr. Rosensaft was born in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp in 1948.
ARGENTINA: A NAZI PARADISE? THE CASE OF EICHMANN
Dr. Alfredo Borodowski
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 • 6:30 PM
BORN AND RAISED in Buenos Aires, Rabbi Alfredo Borodowski will discuss the political and cultural environment in Argentina that made it possible for Eichmann to find refuge there. He also will share personal stories about being Jewish in Buenos Aires.
RABBI ALFREDO BORODOWSKI is executive director of the Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning. Prior to joining the Skirball staff, he served as executive director of the Shalom Hartman Institute for North America. He was ordained as a rabbi by the Seminario Rabinico Latinoamericano and is a graduate of the Melton Senior Educators Program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He teaches at the Jewish Theological Seminary’s rabbinical and graduate schools and has served as a pulpit rabbi for more than a decade. He has written extensively in academic and popular journals, and his book Isaac Abravanel on Miracles, Creation, Prophecy and Evil was published in 2003.HISTORY WRITTEN, HISTORY RE-WRITTEN:
ON AMERICA, THE HOLOCAUST AND PLAYING THE BLAME GAME
Deborah Lipstadt
Charles Grossman Memorial Lecture, Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 • 7 PM
NO TOPIC RELATED to the Holocaust excites more passion and debate than the part played by President Roosevelt’s administration and the American Jewish community in responding to the persecution and murder of European Jewry. Did they sit idly by while European Jews were murdered, or did they do as much as they were able, given the political realities of the time?
PROFESSOR DEBORAH LIPSTADT will explore the possibility that this debate is being used, in great measure, as a foil for contemporary issues facing the Jewish community. Is this historical argument as much about the present as it is about the past? Is history being used, or is it being abused to further contemporary goals?
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