Dr. Deborah Lipstadt joins us as the keynote speaker for this year’s Charles Grossman Memorial Lecture, organized by the Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning at Temple Emanu-El.
TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2012 • 7 PM • FREE
O 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? (Learn more about Dr. Lipstadt »)
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