Dr. Deborah Lipstadt Talk

The library will present a pre-recorded talk entitled Antisemitism: Here and Now by Dr. Deborah Lipstadt, who is depicted in the movie Denial (2016), on Monday, March 21st, at 2:00pm in the Community Meeting Rooms. This talk was recorded at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Deborah Lipstadt is currently Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She is probably best known for having been sued for libel by David Irving, one of the world’s leading Holocaust deniers. The case, which lasted for six years and was heard in court in a twelve-week trial, resulted in Irving being declared by the court to be “a right wing polemicist,” who engages in antisemitism, racism, and misogyny. That trial was depicted in the 2016 film Denial, which was based on her book History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier. 

Dr. Lipstadt is the author of several other books on the Holocaust, including The Eichmann Trial and Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust. Her most recent book, Antisemitism: Here and Now, provides a captivating analysis of current political trends that bolster prejudice and hostility towards Jews in today’s world.

This program is a lead-up to the library's Americans and the Holocaust exhibition, which is a traveling exhibition from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The exhibition will be at the library from Saturday, March 26 through Friday, May 6. For more information, please visit https://www.marshalltownlibrary.org/americans-and-the-holocaust-exhibition/.