{"id":4140,"date":"2020-11-15T16:38:32","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T16:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=4140"},"modified":"2020-11-15T16:38:32","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T16:38:32","slug":"lipstadt-joins-adl-in-condemning-yad-vashem-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2020\/11\/15\/lipstadt-joins-adl-in-condemning-yad-vashem-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Lipstadt Joins ADL in Condemning Yad Vashem Post"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/religion.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/lipstadt-deborah.html\">Deborah E. Lipstadt<\/a>, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies and Associated Faculty in the History Department,\u00a0was  recently quoted in an article in <em>The Atlanta Jewish Times<\/em>. The piece discusses Lipstadt&#8217;s opposition to the controversial nomination of former far-right politician and military commander Effi Eitam to head Yad Vashem, Israel\u2019s official memorial to the victims of the Shoah or Holocaust. Read the excerpt below along with the full article: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantajewishtimes.timesofisrael.com\/adl-and-lipstadt-condemn-yad-vashem-post\/\">ADL and Lipstadt Condemn Yad Vashem Post<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>\u201cYad Vashem is one of the jewels in the crown of Israeli institutions,\u201d said Deborah Lipstadt, Emory University Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies. She said that, given Eitam\u2019s \u201cfringe views, views that separate and divide rather than unite,\u201d his nomination is a \u201ccolossal mistake.\u201d She told the AJT that she plans to voice her opposition to the controversial nomination.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deborah E. Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies and Associated Faculty in the History Department,\u00a0was recently quoted in an article in The Atlanta Jewish Times. The piece discusses Lipstadt&#8217;s opposition to the controversial nomination of former far-right politician and military commander Effi Eitam to head Yad Vashem, Israel\u2019s official memorial to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-public-scholarship","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}