Latest Ushmm Podcast Episodes
Kavian Milani
Voices on Antisemitism - June 05, 2014 16:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDr. Kavian Milani is a practicing member of the Baha'i faith, a physician, and an advocate for human rights. When Milani was growing up in Iran, his father was killed by the regime because of his faith. Today Milani draws on the Baha'i ideals to fight tyranny and to break the cycle of divide and...
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Voices on Antisemitism - May 01, 2014 16:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingRabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks served as chief rabbi of Great Britain and the Commonwealth for 22 years. Now a visiting professor at several universities in the United States and Britain, Sacks discusses the ways in which antisemitism has mutated and evolved over time.
Monika Schwarz-Friesel
Voices on Antisemitism - April 03, 2014 16:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMonika Schwarz-Friesel is a professor of linguistics at the Technical University Berlin. Her recent study---conducted with historian Yehuda Reinharz of Brandeis University---examines thousands of recent letters and emails sent to the Central Council of Jews in Germany and to the Israeli Embassy ...
Petra Gelbart
Voices on Antisemitism - March 06, 2014 17:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBorn in Czechoslovakia, Petra Gelbart is a granddaughter of Romani Holocaust survivors. An ethnomusicologist, musician, and singer, Gelbart uses both her research and her voice to educate and advocate for Holocaust remembrance of Romani victims.
Robert Edsel
Voices on Antisemitism - February 06, 2014 17:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingRobert Edsel's book The Monuments Men is about a group of Allied men and women tasked with saving the cultural and artistic treasures of Europe. Now a Hollywood film, Edsel's book details the extraordinary scale of Hitler's theft, alongside the calculated destruction of Jewish art and culture.
Ho-Keun Choi
Voices on Antisemitism - January 02, 2014 17:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingProfessor Ho-Keun Choi was among the first in South Korea to teach and write about the Holocaust. As a graduate student in Germany, Choi began to view Holocaust education as a way for South Koreans to deal with the tragedies of the Korean War and Japanese rule.
Paul Isaac Hagouel
Voices on Antisemitism - December 05, 2013 17:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn May 2012, the Golden Dawn party received nearly 7% of the popular vote in Greece and gained a toehold in the Parliament. Leveraging fears about the country's ongoing economic crisis and unemployment, Golden Dawn used anti-immigrant and anti-minority rhetoric to gain votes. As a representative...
The Power of Propaganda
Voices on Antisemitism - November 07, 2013 17:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWe're surrounded by propaganda all the time: some of it benign, some of it dangerous. Propaganda was used to devastating effect during the Holocaust and it's worth studying to understand why and how we are vulnerable to propaganda in our everyday lives. This episode is a collage of people discus...
Pinar Dost-Niyego
Voices on Antisemitism - October 03, 2013 16:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingTurkish scholar Pinar Dost-Niyego faces some hurdles when teaching the Holocaust in Istanbul—including Turkey's own history of antisemitism and anti-minority laws. But Dost-Niyego sees change in her students as they begin to connect with the personal stories of Holocaust victims.
Diana Dumitru
Voices on Antisemitism - September 05, 2013 16:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDiana Dumitru found an incredible example of how antisemitism can be dismantled: two territories in Eastern Europe, separated only by a river, shared a legacy of pogroms and violence against Jews. But after WWI, one territory continued a policy of state-sponsored antisemitism, while the other be...
Shankar Vedantam
Voices on Antisemitism - August 01, 2013 16:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingShankar Vedantam has spent a lot of time thinking about the links between science and human behavior. His recent book, The Hidden Brain, challenges us to consider the unconscious biases we may carry, and the ways they steer our behavior.
Aomar Boum
Voices on Antisemitism - July 04, 2013 16:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAomar Boum returned to his native Morocco to study the trend of rising antisemitism there. He conducted interviews with four generations of Muslim Moroccans about their feelings toward Jews. What he found is a noticeable shift toward less interaction and greater hostility.
Arnon Goldfinger
Voices on Antisemitism - June 06, 2013 16:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAfter his grandmother’s death, Arnon Goldfinger stumbled upon evidence of a long-term friendship between his Jewish grandparents and a Nazi officer. In his documentary The Flat, he tries to make sense of this relationship, exploring how silence resides in both victims and perpetrators, and how, ...
Alex Haslam
Voices on Antisemitism - May 02, 2013 16:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSince the Holocaust, social psychologists have asked: Why do people succumb to evil? Theories point to peer pressure and the power of conformity. But Alex Haslam and Steve Reicher reject the idea that people become automatons in a group. Their mock-prison study reveals something more complex abo...
Stephen Mills
Voices on Antisemitism - March 07, 2013 17:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn 2005, Stephen Mills created a dance based on the life of Holocaust survivor Naomi Warren. The work would grow into a community-wide endeavor known as Light / The Holocaust & Humanity Project. A collaboration of artists, institutions, and educators, the work has had far-reaching effects on bot...
Hasan Sarbakhshian and Parvaneh Vahidmanesh
Voices on Antisemitism - February 07, 2013 17:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHasan Sarbakhshian and Parvaneh Vahidmanesh gathered stories and photographs from Iran's dwindling Jewish population for their book Iranian Jews. The effort would eventually cause them to flee Iran, their homeland, for the United States.
Kathleen Blee
Voices on Antisemitism - January 03, 2013 17:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingProf. Kathleen Blee has written several books about racism and the Ku Klux Klan. Blee looks in particular at ways the KKK was able to infiltrate mainstream America in the 1920s, by focusing its membership efforts on moderates, not extremists—a strategy repeated by the Nazis shortly thereafter.
Rita Jahanforuz
Voices on Antisemitism - December 06, 2012 17:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIranian-born Rita Jahanforuz is one of the biggest pop stars in Israel. With the release of her recent album, sung almost entirely in her native Farsi, Rita is developing a fan base in Iran as well, despite the fact that her music is banned there. Although she does not consider herself a politic...
Edward T. Linenthal
Voices on Antisemitism - November 01, 2012 16:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingEdward Linenthal believes memorials serve a complex and important role in society, to help us mourn and remember, but also to encourage a dynamic engagement with history.
Colbert I. King
Voices on Antisemitism - October 04, 2012 16:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingPulitzer Prize-winning columnist Colbert King has a reputation for direct and plainspoken commentaries. In a recent column, King expressed frustration with what he calls the "tepid" international response to state-sponsored antisemitism in Iran.
Jamel Bettaieb
Voices on Antisemitism - September 06, 2012 16:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJamel Bettaieb teaches German to high-school students, which affords him an opportunity that is rare in Tunisia: to teach about the Holocaust. An active participant in Tunisia's recent revolution, Bettaieb strives to be an agent of change in the Muslim world, pushing back against propaganda, ant...
Jeremy Waldron
Voices on Antisemitism - August 02, 2012 16:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJeremy Waldron calls the topic of hate speech a “hardy perennial” and one we must continue to revisit. In his book The Harm in Hate Speech, Waldron examines First Amendment legal protections and considers the damage inflicted on society by hate speech.
Mehnaz Afridi
Voices on Antisemitism - July 05, 2012 16:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBorn in Pakistan and a practicing Muslim, Mehnaz Afridi has studied Judaism and Jewish history, interviewed Holocaust survivors, and visited Dachau to pay respect and pray. Now she works to inspire her students to take interest in other faiths and cultures as well.
Fariborz Mokhtari
Voices on Antisemitism - June 07, 2012 16:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn his book, Fariborz Mokhtari brings to light the story of Abdol Hossein Sardari, sometimes called "the Iranian Schindler" for his efforts to save Jews during World War II. Mokhtari hopes to encourage new conversations about the Holocaust and about Iran.
Maya Benton
Voices on Antisemitism - May 03, 2012 16:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMaya Benton is working to establish the Roman Vishniac Archive at the International Center of Photography. Vishniac's photos include some of the most well-known images of Jewish life in Eastern Europe. The archive also includes thousands of unpublished images that show the tremendous diversity o...
Vanessa Hidary
Voices on Antisemitism - April 05, 2012 16:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn her signature poem "Hebrew Mamita," Vanessa Hidary addresses antisemitic stereotypes in her direct, no-nonsense style. In this piece, she unpacks insult-as-compliment antisemitism, and the subtle ways that oppression can get under your skin.
Pardeep Kaleka
Voices on Antisemitism - April 04, 2012 16:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn the wake of his father's murder by a white supremacist at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, Pardeep Kaleka has become a powerful voice against hate crime and violence. Kaleka helped found the organization Serve 2 Unite, which brings together young people from different religious and cultural back...
Dr. Michael A. Grodin
Voices on Antisemitism - March 01, 2012 17:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDr. Michael Grodin has written about Nazi doctors and the ways patients were systematically dehumanized and tortured. He believes we need to beware of the subtle ways that medical ethics can be subverted in the name of research and public health.
David Draiman
Voices on Antisemitism - February 02, 2012 17:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAs frontman for the multi-platinum hard-rock band Disturbed, David Draiman writes songs that are often personal and political. As a kid, he was drawn into occasional fistfights over anti-Jewish remarks. As an adult, he addresses Holocaust denial and antisemitism in his song "Never Again."
Vidal Sassoon
Voices on Antisemitism - January 05, 2012 17:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAlthough Vidal Sassoon has stopped cutting hair himself—he jokes that no one wants an 84-year-old stylist—he maintains a strong pride in his Jewish identity, a robust sense of political activism, and a vigilance toward antisemitism.
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