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Katharina von Schnurbein
Voices on Antisemitism - November 02, 2016 16:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingKatharina von Schnurbein is the European Commission’s Coordinator on Combating Antisemitism. Von Schnurbein works with EU Member States, the European Parliament, civil society organizations, and academia to strengthen policy responses to antisemitism, as well as to hate crimes and discrimination...
Maziar Bahari
Voices on Antisemitism - October 06, 2016 16:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBorn in Iran, Maziar Bahari is a journalist, filmmaker, and human rights activist. He has made two films on the Holocaust: one about the refugees aboard the St. Louis and, most recently, about Iranian diplomat Abdol Hossein Sardari, who saved Jews in occupied France. Bahari was imprisoned by the...
Sarah Wildman
Voices on Antisemitism - September 01, 2016 16:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSarah Wildman is a journalist and the author of Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind. In her book, Wildman documents a journey to find her grandfather’s girlfriend Valy Scheftel, who stayed behind in Vienna in 1938 when he immigrated to America. The book is a detailed po...
Raya Kalisman
Voices on Antisemitism - August 04, 2016 16:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAs a child of survivors, Raya Kalisman first experienced the Holocaust as a family tragedy, and a deeply personal narrative. As a young teacher, she was among the first generation to bring Holocaust studies to the classroom, as a historical narrative for Israeli students. But ultimately, Kalisma...
Niddal El-Jabri
Voices on Antisemitism - July 07, 2016 16:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAfter a deadly attack on a Copenhagen synagogue in 2015, Niddal El-Jabri felt compelled to act. Inspired by expressions of non-violent solidarity happening as part of the Arab Spring, El-Jabri decided to organize a “peace ring” around the synagogue.
James Loeffler
Voices on Antisemitism - June 02, 2016 16:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJames Loeffler is an associate professor of history and Jewish studies at the University of Virginia. He is a trained pianist, musicologist, and specialist on Jewish classical music. He serves as scholar-in-residence at Pro Musica Hebraica in Washington, DC, and has curated concerts at the Kenne...
Edward Serotta
Voices on Antisemitism - May 05, 2016 16:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingEdward Serotta founded Centropa in 2000 to preserve memories of Jewish life before, during, and after the Holocaust. Centropa has trained thousands of schoolteachers to bring this material into classrooms from Gastonia, North Carolina, to Vilnius, Lithuania. A strong believer in the power of per...
Sara Lipton
Voices on Antisemitism - April 07, 2016 16:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSara Lipton is a professor of history at SUNY Stony Brook. In her book Dark Mirror: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Jewish Iconography, Lipton traces the development and evolution of antisemitic images in Christian art. She explores the way negative imagery can actually fuel a cultural shift toward...
Ambassador Norman Eisen
Voices on Antisemitism - March 03, 2016 17:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingNorman Eisen became known as the “ethics czar” through his work as Special Counsel for Ethics and Government Reform under President Obama. In 2011, Eisen was appointed as the U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic. And today he tells the story of the Ambassador’s residence in Prague, which echoes...
Ilja Sichrovsky
Voices on Antisemitism - February 04, 2016 17:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhen he was only in his mid-twenties, Ilja Sichrovsky started the Muslim Jewish Conference to create a space for Muslims and Jews to discuss stereotypes, misconceptions, and issues that affect both communities. Sichrovsky says that real change begins with listening, and he encourages participant...
Alan Kraut
Voices on Antisemitism - January 07, 2016 17:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAlan Kraut is University Professor of History at American University. He is a specialist in U.S. immigration and ethnic history, and the author of Silent Travellers: Germs, Genes, and the "Immigrant Menace." Kraut offers some context for the politics of fear and xenophobia that often accompany i...
Dervis Hizarci
Voices on Antisemitism - December 03, 2015 17:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDervis Hizarci believes that openness to dialogue is key to his work as an educator. First at the Jewish Museum Berlin and now with KIgA, the Kreuzberger Initiative against Antisemitism, Hizarci works to confront hatred and ignorance, which can breed radicalism and violence.
Despina Stratigakos
Voices on Antisemitism - November 05, 2015 17:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDespina Stratigakos is an architectural historian at the University at Buffalo. Her recent book Hitler at Home examines the efforts of Hitler's interior designer Gerdy Troost to cultivate Hitler's image as both a refined statesman and a man of the people.
Erica Lehrer
Voices on Antisemitism - October 01, 2015 16:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingErica Lehrer founded the Centre for Ethnographic Research and Exhibition in the Aftermath of Violence at Concordia University. In 2013, she curated “Souvenir, Talisman, Toy,” an exhibition of Polish-made figurines depicting Jews. And she is the author of Jewish Poland Revisited: Heritage Tourism...
Sam Ponczak
Voices on Antisemitism - September 03, 2015 16:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSam Ponczak was only two years old when World War II broke out in Poland, and for many years he didn’t think of himself as a Holocaust survivor. But later in life, when asked to speak to schoolchildren about his experiences, Ponczak began to embrace his story of survival as part of the important...
Miriam Isaacs
Voices on Antisemitism - August 06, 2015 16:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMiriam Isaacs was born to Holocaust survivors in a displaced persons camp in Germany. Trained as a linguist, she taught Yiddish for many years at the University of Maryland. More recently, she has been translating the Stonehill Jewish Song Collection, housed here at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial M...
Floriane Hohenberg
Voices on Antisemitism - July 02, 2015 16:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFloriane Hohenberg worked for many years for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe on human rights and diversity issues and especially on antisemitism, racism, and xenophobia. Today, she helps governments to collect data and statistics on antisemitism and to develop teaching m...
Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi
Voices on Antisemitism - June 04, 2015 16:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAs a young man at the American University of Beirut in the 1960s, Mohammed Dajani was a student activist and a member of Fatah, fighting for Palestinian liberation. But his hardline views softened after the death of his parents, who were each, in turn, cared for by Israeli doctors and emergency ...
Daniel Owen
Voices on Antisemitism - May 07, 2015 16:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDaniel Owen is a photojournalist who spent two years documenting the life, culture, and celebrations of the Jewish community of Oradea, Romania. The Jewish population there has dwindled from a high of 30,000 in the 1940s—or one third of the population of the city—to only a few hundred today.
Robert Örell
Voices on Antisemitism - April 03, 2015 16:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingRobert Örell got involved with the Swedish white power movement in his early teens. Now he works as director of Exit Sweden, the very organization that helped him leave neo-Nazism behind. Since 1998, Exit has helped hundreds separate from white supremacist gangs. Today, they are looking into way...
Confronting Hatred: 70 Years after the Holocaust
Confronting Hatred: 70 Years after the Holocaust - March 30, 2015 14:00 ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWe hear from a former skinhead, an imam, a prosecutor for the Rwandan genocide trials; people speaking from many perspectives, including heavy metal singer David Draiman, filmmaker Errol Morris, and Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel. The documentary examines the ways ...
Maud Mandel
Voices on Antisemitism - March 05, 2015 17:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMaud Mandel is a professor of history and Judaic studies, as well as the Dean of the College at Brown University. She wrote a book called Muslims and Jews in France: History of a Conflict, and here she offers some context for the January 2015 shootings in Paris, at the offices of the satirical m...
Mo Asumang
Voices on Antisemitism - February 05, 2015 17:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMo Asumang is a German filmmaker who confronts racism and antisemitism in the most literal way: she talks with people, face to face. She attends nationalist parades and anti-immigration rallies in Germany. She meets with white supremacists in the American South. She walks up to strangers with he...
Glenn Kurtz
Voices on Antisemitism - January 01, 2015 17:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA few years ago, Glenn Kurtz discovered a reel of film in the closet of his parents' home in Florida. Only three minutes long, the footage shows his grandfather's hometown of Nasielsk, Poland, in 1938. The clip has become surprisingly important—both historically and personally.
Margit Meissner
Voices on Antisemitism - December 04, 2014 17:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMargit Meissner decided—at the age of 80—that it was time to write a book about her experience as a Holocaust survivor. In the 12 years since, she has shared her story with many visitors to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, where she now volunteers as a guide.
Imam Khalid Latif and Rabbi Yehuda Sarna
Voices on Antisemitism - November 06, 2014 17:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingRabbi Yehuda Sarna and Imam Khalid Latif are co-founders of the ‘Of Many’ Institute for Multifaith Leadership at New York University. They teach a course together and lead service trips to cultivate cooperation and dialogue among students from different faiths.
Wendy Lower
Voices on Antisemitism - October 02, 2014 16:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWendy Lower is the John K. Roth Professor of History at Claremont McKenna College. Her book Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields examines how ordinary women participated in the Holocaust, and also how their participation has been systematically downplayed since the war.
Gregory Spinner
Voices on Antisemitism - September 04, 2014 16:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingGregory Spinner began reading comics as a kid, but discovered serious and profound stories in graphic art that are anything but childish. At Skidmore College, he teaches graphic novels in his courses, and recently co-curated an exhibit there with Rachel Seligman called: “Graphic Jews: Negotiatin...
David Nirenberg
Voices on Antisemitism - August 07, 2014 16:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDavid Nirenberg is a professor of history at the University of Chicago. His book Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition examines the durability and usage of anti-Jewish sentiments throughout history.
Iván Fischer
Voices on Antisemitism - July 03, 2014 16:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIván Fischer has received a lot of attention around the world for his recent opera "The Red Heifer," based on a 19th-century blood libel case. The opera has been polarizing in Hungary, where antisemitism and anti-Roma sentiments are on the rise.
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