Sentences with phrase «holocaust studies professor»

Although she's been acting steadily since graduating from Cambridge University, Weisz's portrayal of a Holocaust Studies professor in «Denial» in 2016 was, as far as she knows, her first Jewish character on screen.

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Essentially a four - hander, the true - life film stars Rachel Weisz as Deborah E. Lipstadt — a Jewish - American professor in Holocaust studies who in 1993 published «Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory».

Lipstadt, an American historian and professor (early in her career, she was a faculty member in the University of Washington's Jewish Studies department), was sued for libel in 1996 by British author and Holocaust denier David Irving (Timothy Spall).

Although to say that the study of the Holocaust is a matter for historians might seem intuitively true, I have maintained at various workshops and meetings about Holocaust education (where I am often among the minority as an English professor) that the flexibility of the English / language arts (ELA) classroom well suits this complex topic.

At issue were a number of assertions in» Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory,» a book first published in 1993 in the United States by Deborah E. Lipstadt, a professor of modern Jewish and Holocaust studies at Emory University in Atlanta.

«We face a threat that is nearly unique in its scope and danger (setting aside for the moment the threat of nuclear holocaust),» Professor Smithey wrote, quoting the McGlade - Ekins study.