Dr. Webman

Book Presentation with Dr. Esther Webman

Moderator: Dr. Matthias Küntzel

In her book From Empathy to Denial. Arab Responses to the Holocaust, London 2009 Meir Litvak and Esther Webman characterized in detail for the first time and the Holocaust discourse in the Arabic speaking world in 1945 according to the present.

The range of Arab Holocaust reception ranges from sympathy for the Jewish fate to the denial or justification of the Holocaust, from the equation of Nazism and Zionism to the parallelization of the Holocaust with the expulsion of the Palestinians ("Nakba").

The current changes in the Arab world gives to the issue of Arab Holocaust Reception new weight.

2010 From Empathy to Denial was the most important new publication on the Middle East with the gold medal of the "Washington Institute for Near East Policy" category.

With this event, the book was first presented in Germany.

Dr. Esther Webman works as a historian at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle East and African Studies and at the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism at Tel Aviv University Zeev Vered and directs the Desk for the Study of Tolerance and Intolerance in the Middle East.

Dr. Matthias Küntzel is a political scientist and journalist in Hamburg, Germany and member of SPME

Location: Robert-Koch-reading room, Dorotheenstr. 96, 10 117 Berlin

Information:  groups.google.com/group/spme-deutschland

Organizer: SPME Scholars For Peace In The Middle East