LITERATURE + LECTURES

Holocaust Museum Houston presents "The New Antisemitism: How New? How Dangerous? A Serious Threat or An Overreaction," with Deborah Lipstadt, Tuesday, January 17, 2012, 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM at the Emery/Weiner School, 9825 Stella Link Road, Houston, TX 77025.

Dr. Deborah Lipstadt  (pictured) is the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University in Atlanta. She is the author of "The Eichmann Trial," and 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 Irving to be a Holocaust denier, a falsifier of history, a racist, an anti-Semite and a liar.

Her legal battle with Irving lasted approximately five years. According to the New York Times, the trial "put an end to the pretense that Mr. Irving is anything but a self-promoting apologist for Hitler."

She has taught at UCLA and Occidental College in Los Angeles. She received her bachelor's degree from City College of New York and her master's and doctorate from Brandeis University. Lipstadt is frequently called upon by the media to comment on a variety of matters. She has appeared on CNN, Sixty Minutes, Today Show, Good Morning America, NPR’s Fresh Air, the BBC, and the Charlie Rose Show and is a frequent contributor to a variety of newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and the New York Times.

Lipstadt’s appearance is part of the Kosberg Wilkenfeld Distinguished Lectures and generously underwritten by the Kosberg Charitable Foundation Trust and Dolores and the late Buddy Wilkenfeld.