International Institute for Holocaust Research

Podcast Lecture Series
►Dr. David Silberklang-
The Allies and the Holocaust

►Professor Walter Zwi Bacharach-
-The Holocaust Reflected Through Personal Experience
-The Protocols-Fueling Antisemitic Myths

►Dr. Robert Rozett-
Contemporary Antisemitism

►Prof. Michael J. Bazyler-
Holocaust Denial Laws and Other Legislation Criminalizing Promotion of Nazism

From Recent Symposium: “Holocaust Denial: Paving the Way to Genocide” Denial: Paving the Way to Genocide:
►Prof. Yehuda Bauer-
Some Thoughts on Radical Islam

►Yigal Carmon-
The Role of Holocaust Denial in the Ideology and Strategy
of the Iranian Regime

From Recent Conference: 60 Years Marking the Nuremberg Trials:
►Michael Marrus-
Different Perspectives: Lawyers and Historians Looking at the Holocaust

►Lisa Yavnai-
Vengeance or Justice? Trials of Kapos

►Hanna Yablonka-
The Eichmann Trial: The Jewish Nuremberg?

►Serge Klarsfeld-
The Primary Role of the Trials: Informing the French People About the Fate of the Jews in France

Contemporary Antisemitism

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Traditional forms of antisemitism never died out after the Holocaust and have continued to flourish, especially since the dawn of the 21st century. In the countries of the former Communist bloc, such ideas are commonplace and are frequently combined with blaming Jews for the suffering imposed on those countries during the Communist era. In many Western countries, the political far left has also adopted antisemitic ideas, especially as part of their extreme anti-Israel stance regarding the conflict in the Middle East. As a result strange bedfellows have emerged, like neo-Nazis and anti-globalization activists, who find common ground in antisemitism.

In the Arab/Muslim world, classical Western antisemitsm appeared in the late 19th and early 20th century. These ideas combined with negative images about the Jews taken from the Koran, and especially after the Six Day War in 1967, this type of antisemitism gained ground as part of the explanation for Israel’s victory and as part of a general rejection of the West. Holocaust Denial, which began in the West, has emerged as a mainstream idea in much of the Arab/Muslim world, as well.

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Dr. Robert Rozett

Dr. Robert Rozett is Director of the Library at Yad Vashem, in Jerusalem and has “ministerial” responsibility for the Visual Center in the Yad Vashem Museum complex. His book, Approaching the Holocaust, Texts and Contexts, was published by Valentine Mitchell in 2005. He is the co-editor of The Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, New York: Facts on File in Association with Yad Vashem, 2000, was the associate editor of the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, New York: Macmillan, 1990 and he is the co-editor of The Holocaust: Frequently Asked Questions, Yad Vashem and the Knesset, 2005. He has published scholarly articles about the Holocaust in Hungary, rescue and resistance during the Holocaust, and the historiography of the Holocaust, as well as book reviews and opinion pieces in the popular press. He is currently researching the Hungarian Jewish Labor Battalions on the Eastern Front during the Holocaust, and he is the advisor to the Israeli cable television’s History Channel for a series of programs they are broadcasting about the Holocaust.

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