Today as a part of the Visiting Authors program Deborah Lipstadt will speak about the Holocaust in conjunction with the recently assembled Holocaust exhibit that is opening today for visitation on the second floor of the University of North Georgia Library Technology Center (Dahlonega Campus). She will be speaking in the Hoag Student Center room 318 from 4:30 PM-6:00 PM today, January 22.
Deborah Lipstadt is a professor in the department of religion at Emory University. Her studies are focused on Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies. While at Emory, she created the Institute of Jewish Studies in 1998 and remained its director until 2008. Apart from her academic duties, she has been a consultant for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum where she helped design the American Response to the Holocaust section. She was also a member of the Executive Committee of the Counsel and chaired the Educational Committee and Academic Committee for the Holocaust Museum. From 1996-1999 she was a member of the United States State Department Advisory Committee on Religious Freedom Abroad; during this time she assisted Secretary of State Madeline Albright on the issues of religious persecution abroad.
She has written extensively on the subject of Holocaust trials, deniers, and the American response to the Holocaust. Her books include: Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, 1933-1945 (Touchstone Publishing); Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory (Plume); History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving (Harper Perennial); and The Eichmann Trial (Schocken Books).
