Danny Ben-Moshe
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Danny Ben-Moshe is a documentary film maker and an Associate Professor at Victoria University
in Melbourne
, Australia
. He coproduced and codirected the documentary "The Buchenwald Ball" (2006) and recently completed the documentary "The End of the Rainbow" (2009) about a week in the life of the iconic live music venue in Melbourne, The Rainbow Hotel. He is currently completing the documentary "Shalom Bollywood: The Untold Story of Jews and Bollywood".
Danny is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Strategic Economic Studies at Victoria University where he specialises in diaspora studies. He is the coauthor of the book "Israel, the Diaspora and Identity". He has also been published internationally on subjects like anti-semitism
, holocaust denial
, and racism
. He has also written a large number of non-academic publications in newspapers and magazines including The Age
, The Australian
, The Canberra Times
, and The Jerusalem Post
. He holds a degree in law and a Doctorate in Philosophy.
Danny has worked in Jewish public policy for the British-Israel Public Affairs Centre in Israel and the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation Commission in Australia.
Danny is currently based in London working on film projects and is a research fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.
He received a Commonwealth
Centenary of Federation medal for leadership against and research into racism in Australia.
Book Chapters
Journal Articles
Non-Academic Publications
Film
Victoria University, Australia
Victoria University is a multi-sector tertiary institution based in Melbourne, Australia with 10 campuses.VU offers qualifications in higher education, vocational education , and short courses...
in Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. He coproduced and codirected the documentary "The Buchenwald Ball" (2006) and recently completed the documentary "The End of the Rainbow" (2009) about a week in the life of the iconic live music venue in Melbourne, The Rainbow Hotel. He is currently completing the documentary "Shalom Bollywood: The Untold Story of Jews and Bollywood".
Danny is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Strategic Economic Studies at Victoria University where he specialises in diaspora studies. He is the coauthor of the book "Israel, the Diaspora and Identity". He has also been published internationally on subjects like anti-semitism
Anti-Semitism
Antisemitism is suspicion of, hatred toward, or discrimination against Jews for reasons connected to their Jewish heritage. According to a 2005 U.S...
, holocaust denial
Holocaust denial
Holocaust denial is the act of denying the genocide of Jews in World War II, usually referred to as the Holocaust. The key claims of Holocaust denial are: the German Nazi government had no official policy or intention of exterminating Jews, Nazi authorities did not use extermination camps and gas...
, and racism
Racism
Racism is the belief that inherent different traits in human racial groups justify discrimination. In the modern English language, the term "racism" is used predominantly as a pejorative epithet. It is applied especially to the practice or advocacy of racial discrimination of a pernicious nature...
. He has also written a large number of non-academic publications in newspapers and magazines including The Age
The Age
The Age is a daily broadsheet newspaper, which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854. Owned and published by Fairfax Media, The Age primarily serves Victoria, but is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and...
, The Australian
The Australian
The Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia from Monday to Saturday each week since 14 July 1964. The editor in chief is Chris Mitchell, the editor is Clive Mathieson and the 'editor-at-large' is Paul Kelly....
, The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times newspaper was founded in 1926 in Canberra, Australia by Arthur Shakespeare.It was the second paper to be printed in the city, the first being The Federal Capital Pioneer. The paper was sold to the Fairfax group in the 1960s by Arthur Shakespeare on the condition that it continue...
, and The Jerusalem Post
The Jerusalem Post
The Jerusalem Post is an Israeli daily English-language broadsheet newspaper, founded on December 1, 1932 by Gershon Agron as The Palestine Post. The daily readership numbers do not approach those of the major Hebrew newspapers....
. He holds a degree in law and a Doctorate in Philosophy.
Danny has worked in Jewish public policy for the British-Israel Public Affairs Centre in Israel and the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation Commission in Australia.
Danny is currently based in London working on film projects and is a research fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.
He received a Commonwealth
Commonwealth
Commonwealth is a traditional English term for a political community founded for the common good. Historically, it has sometimes been synonymous with "republic."More recently it has been used for fraternal associations of some sovereign nations...
Centenary of Federation medal for leadership against and research into racism in Australia.
Racism, anti-Semitism and Holocaust Denial
Journal Articles- 'Holocaust Denial in Australia', Analysis of Current Trends in Antisemitism 25, Jerusalem, SICSA, 2005.
- 'One Nation and the Rise of the Racist-Right in Australia', Patterns of Prejudice, Vol. 35 No. 3 July 2001.
- 'The Demidenko/Darville Controversy', Without Prejudice, No.9 June 1996.
Book Chapters
- 'Holocaust Denial', Contemporary Reflections on the Holocaust, Prager Greenwood, USA, 2004.
- 'Australian Holocaust Denial' in Lying About the Holocaust, University of Nebraska Press, 2004.
- 'Triangle of Hate: The relationship between anti-Jewish, anti-Asian, and anti-Indigenous racism in Australia' Sticks and Stones: * Writings and Drawings of Hatred, Institute of Criminology Press, Sydney (forthcoming).
Israel-Diaspora Relations
Books- World Jewry and Identity, Editor,Israel, Sussex Academic Press, 2007.
Journal Articles
- 'The Impact of the Al-Aqsa "Intifada" on Israel-Diaspora relations',Israel Studies Forum, Vol. 19, No. 3, Fall 2004.
- 'The Implications of Post-Zionism for the Diaspora', Israel Affairs, Vol. 10, No. 1&2, Autumn/Winter 2004.
Australian Jewry
Book Chapters- 'Israel and the Australian Jewish Vote', Jews and Australian Politics, Sussex Academic Press, 2005.
- 'The End of Unconditional Love: the Future of Zionism in Australian Jewish Life', New Under the Sun: Jewish Life in Australia, Black Inc., 2006.
Non-Academic Publications
- 'Australia's Grim Fairy Tales' in Eye on The Media, Editor David Bar-Ilan, Jerusalem Post 1993
Film
- The Buchenwald Ball, SBS Television Australia.
Awards and nominations
- 2001 - Commonwealth Centenary of Federation medal for leadership against and research into racism in Australia.