Series: Voices on Antisemitism

Produced by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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Voices on Antisemitism, a podcast series of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, features a broad range of perspectives about antisemitism and hatred today. Join us every other week to hear a new program.

Antisemitism is a barometer for the general health of a society -- when hatred of Jews flourishes, other human rights are in danger. Today, the world is witnessing a troubling resurgence of antisemitism. In light of the many moral failures that made the Holocaust possible, we must remain alert to the potential consequences of antisemitism, hatred, and all forms of bigotry.

Voices on Antisemitism is a podcast series of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Join us every other week to hear a new perspective on the continuing threat of antisemitism and hatred in our world today. To learn more about antisemitism, and to contribute your thoughts to our series, please visit our Web site at http://www.ushmm.org/. At that site, you can also listen to Voices on Genocide Prevention, the Holocaust Memorial Museum's podcast series on contemporary genocide. Hide full description

Antisemitism is a barometer for the general health of a society -- when hatred of Jews flourishes, other human rights are in danger. Today, the world is witnessing a troubling resurgence of antisemitism. In light of the many moral failures that made the Holocaust possible, we must remain alert to the potential consequences of antisemitism, hatred, and all forms of bigotry. Voices on Antisemitism is a podcast series of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Join us every other week to hear a new perspective on the continuing threat of antisemitism and hatred in our world today. To learn more about antisemitism, and to contribute your thoughts to our series, please visit our Web site at http://www.ushmm.org/. At that site, you can also listen to Voices on Genocide Prevention, the... Show full description


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In 1940, Tracy Strong left the relative safety of America to help students displaced by the war in Europe to continue their studies. While uncomfor...

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As a senior in high school, Rebecca Dupas took part in a program sponsored by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, called Bringing the Lessons Home....

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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum mourns the tragic death of Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns, who died heroically in the line of duty on Jun...

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Sadia Shepard's book The Girl from Foreign documents her travels to India to connect with the tiny Jewish community there and to unlock her family'...

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Gregory Gordon helped to prosecute the landmark "media" cases in Rwanda–where hate speech, broadcast over the radio, was directly linked to the gen...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2009
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Samia Essabaa was born in France to Moroccan and Tunisian parents. A Muslim, shaped by both Arabic and French culture, Essabaa often feels she can ...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2009
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In 1996, David Pilgrim established the Jim Crow Museum at Ferris State University in Michigan. As the university's Chief Diversity Officer and a pr...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2009
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Sayana Ser was born in Cambodia in 1981, two years after the fall of dictator Pol Pot. Today, Ser works to help her country heal from that genocide...

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Since 1987, Christopher Leighton has served as the Executive Director of the Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies in Baltimore. A Presbyteria...

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Actor Daniel Craig is perhaps most famous for his portrayal of Agent 007 in the James Bond movies. But his latest film, Defiance, is based on the t...

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When Helen Jonas speaks of SS officer Amon Goeth, her voice still bears traces of the horrors she witnessed as his house servant at the Plaszow Con...

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Concerned about a rise in racism and violence, Alexander Verkhovsky examines how interethnic conflict is fostered and spread throughout his native ...

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Nechama Tec believes it's important to examine the Holocaust from many different angles. In her work, she looks at the places where antisemitism an...

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In 2006, while still a teenager, Harald Edinger left his home in Austria to work at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. During his 14 mont...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2009
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In Plantations and Death Camps: Religion, Ideology, and Human Dignity, Beverly Mitchell looks at the history both of the Holocaust and of slavery i...

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Music afforded Martin Goldsmith's parents some measure of shelter in Nazi Germany. For a brief period, they could practice their art and perform fo...

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Tad Stahnke believes that discrimination can exist in any society, and affect any individual. Everyone has an interest—and a responsibility—to conf...

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Antony Polonsky has learned that there are no simple answers to the large questions of history, no single view of the past. Any view of history mus...

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Johanna Neumann speaks with gratitude and affection of the family who rescued her during the Holocaust. Yet her fondness for them exists alongside ...

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As a lawyer defending victims of South Africa's apartheid government, Albie Sachs was harassed, jailed without trial and eventually driven into exi...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2009
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