75th Anniversary of Kristallnacht Special Lecture by Deborah Lipstadt

The UConn Center for Judaic Studies and the Doris and Simon Konover Chair of Judaic Studies presents a free special lecture to mark the 75th Anniversary of Kristallnacht: “Holocaust Denial: A New Form of Anti-Semitism” presented by guest speaker Deborah Lipstadt.

Please join us for a SPECIAL LECTURE on Monday, November 11th, beginning at 7:30pm, to mark the 75th Anniversary of Kristallnacht.  The Lecture is titled “Holocaust Denial: A New Form of Anti-Semitism”and will be presented by Deborah Lipstadt, Internationally Recognized Scholar, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University.

Professor Deborah Lipstadt is the author of numerous books and scholarly articles and is an internationally respected historian of the Holocaust. She has been at the forefront of efforts to confront and respond to revisionist accounts of the Nazi genocides. Professor Lipstadt first came to wider public attention when she and the publisher of her book, Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory (1993), were sued for libel by the British historian David Irving. In a celebrated court case, Lipstadt’s attorneys brought forth irrefutable evidence of the atrocities of the Shoah, soundly defeating Irving’s accusations that Lipstadt’s depiction of him as a Holocaust-denier was false and libelous. Lipstadt went on to write a riveting memoir of the trial, History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving (2005). In 2011 she published the award-winning The Eichmann Trial.

Admission is free but seating is limited.

Those wishing to attend must pick up a ticket for the event from one of the following sponsoring locations:
 Center for Judaic Studies, University of Connecticut
 Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies, University of Hartford
 Mandell Jewish Community Center of Greater Hartford
 Congregation Beth Israel
 Beth David Synagogue
 Bruyette Athenaeum at the University of Saint Joseph

This lecture is also supported by the Archdiocese of Hartford, the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Hartford, the Greater Hartford Rabbinic Association, the Development Corporation for Israel, the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford, the University of Hartford’s Greenberg Center or Judaic Studies, and the Greater Hartford Jewish Federation. For further information, please contact UConn’s Center for Judaic Studies at 860-486-2271 or by email: judaicstudies@uconn.edu.