Danny Ben-Moshe

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Danny Ben-Moshe is a documentary film maker and an associate professor at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia.Faculty List, [http://www.deakin.edu.au/arts-ed/staff/directory.php?username=dannyb "Deakin University Faculty List"], Deakin University He has produced and directed several critically praised documentaries.

Career

In 2001, Ben-Moshe was presented with the Commonwealth Centenary of Federation medal for leadership against and research into racism in Australia.Centenary Medal Citation, [https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1120826 "For service providing leadership through education of, and research into, the impact of racism"], Australian Government, 1 January 2001

These include The Buchenwald BallPaul Kalina, [http://www.theage.com.au/news/tv--radio/the-boys-of-buchenwald/2006/08/08/1154802894069.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1 "The boys of Buchenwald"], The Age, 10 August 2006[https://www.jewishnews.net.au/buchenwald-boys-dance-again/41519 "Buchenwald Boys dance again"]. Jewish News, April 21, 2015 (2006) about Holocaust survivors in Australia celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of their liberation, which screened on SBS Television in Australia.

His 2010 film The End of the Rainbow was screened on ABC Television in Australia, and was about a week in the life of The Rainbow Hotel, an iconic live music venue in Melbourne, and how community spaces and cultural heritage are threatened by property development.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}

His 2011 documentary Carnaby Street Undressed{{Citation|title=Carnaby Street Undressed|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2618150/|access-date=2019-10-08}} was broadcast on the Yesterday Television channel in the UK, was reviewed as pick of the week in The Sunday Times & London’s Time Out awarded it 4 stars.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}

In 2012, Ben-Moshe co-produced, co-directed and was the lead catalyst in the documentary Rewriting History about the emergence of Double Genocide and the rewriting of the history of the Holocaust in Lithuania. It received critical acclaim from The Australian newspaper.Graeme Blundell, [http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/television/lithuanias-lies-and-deception-exposed/story-fncnqfdm-1226473912101 "Lithuania's lies and deception exposed"], The Australian, 14 September 2012 It was initially screened on SBS Television in Australia.

In 2017, Ben-Moshe wrote, produced and directed the documentary Shalom Bollywood:{{Citation|title=Shalom Bollywood: The Untold Story of Indian Cinema|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7558522/|access-date=2019-10-08}} The Untold Story of Jews and India's Bollywood.

Ben-Moshe is a Principal Research Fellow at the Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University in Melbourne where he specialises in diaspora and transnational studies as well as research on antisemitism, Jewish identity and multiculturalism . He is the co-author of the book Israel, the Diaspora and Jewish Identity{{cite book|author1=Danny Ben-Moshe|author2=Zohar Segev|title=Israel, the Diaspora, and Jewish Identity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1bXETKMOI1cC|accessdate=20 March 2013|year=2007|publisher=Sussex Academic Press|isbn=978-1-84519-189-4}} and his major study on comparative diasporas in Australia was launched at Parliament House in the Australian Capital in 2012.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}

Ben-Moshe has also written widely for newspapers and magazines including The Age, The Australian, The Canberra Times, and The Jerusalem Post. He is the co-author with Dovid Katz of The Seventy Years Declaration on the Final Solution Conference at Wannsee,Roger Cohen, [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/31/opinion/the-suffering-olympics.html?_r=0 "The Suffering Olympics"], The New York Times, 30 January 2012Danna Harman, [http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/european-leaders-to-mark-70th-anniversary-of-nazi-wannsee-conference-1.408220 "European leaders to mark 70th anniversary of Nazi Wannsee Conference"], Haaretz, 19 January 2012 and is involved in the ongoing campaign to preserve the truth about the Holocaust and to refute Double Genocide in Lithuania and elsewhere. He has written widely on this in the media.{{Cite web |last=Ben-Moshe |first=Danny |date=2012-03-12 |title=Saying no to 'double genocide' |url=https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/Saying-no-to-double-genocide |access-date=2024-11-26 |website=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Ben-Moshe |first=Danny |date=2011-11-02 |title=Lithuania Assaults Holocaust Memory |url=https://www.jpost.com/Jerusalem-Report/Israel/Lithuania-Assaults-Holocaust-Memory |access-date=2024-11-26 |website=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com |language=en}}

Selected publications

=Media articles=

  • [https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/modern-migrants-loyalty-is-an-asset-to-the-world-20130225-2f1uc.html Modern migrant's loyalty is an asset to the world], The Age, 26 February 2013
  • [https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/Saying-no-to-double-genocide Saying no to double genocide], The Jerusalem Post, 3 March 2012
  • [https://www.jpost.com/Jerusalem-Report/Israel/Lithuania-Assaults-Holocaust-Memory Lithuania Assaults Holocaust Memory], The Jerusalem Report, 7 November 2011
  • [https://www.jpost.com/Jerusalem-Report/Jewish-World/Lithuania-Obfuscates-the-Holocaust Lithuania Obfuscates the Holocaust], The Jerusalem Report, 4 July 2011
  • [https://www.jpost.com/Jerusalem-Report/In-India-Coexistence-Wont-Be-Murdered-Extract In India, Coexistence Won’t be Murdered], The Jerusalem Report, 22 December 2008
  • A Progressive Zionist Dilemma, The Jerusalem Report, 15 February 2010

=Publications=

  • {{Citation

| last=Ben-Moshe

| first = Danny

| contribution=Holocaust Denial in Australia

| title=Analysis of Current Trends in Antisemitism, 25

| year=2005

| publisher=The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism

| pages=2–49

}}

  • {{Citation

| last=Ben-Moshe

| first = Danny

| contribution=One Nation and the Australian far right

| title=Patterns of Prejudice Volume 35, Issue3

| year=2001

| publisher=Routledge

| pages=24–40

}}

  • {{Citation

| last=Ben-Moshe

| first = Danny

| contribution=The Demidenko/Darville Controversy

| title=Without Prejudice

| year=1996

}}

=Book chapters=

  • {{Citation

| last=Ben-Moshe

| first = Danny

| contribution=Holocaust Denial

| title=Contemporary Reflections on the Holocaust

| year=2004

| publisher=Prager Greenwood

| pages=139–176

}}

  • {{Citation

| last=Ben-Moshe

| first = Danny

| contribution=Australian Holocaust Denial

| editor-last=Wistrich

| editor-first=Robert

| title=Lying about the Holocaust

| year=2004

| publisher=University of Nebraska Press

| pages=139–176

}}

  • {{Citation

| last=Ben-Moshe

| first = Danny

| contribution=Israel and the Australian Jewish Vote

| title= Jews and Australian Politics

| date = 2009

| editor-last=Brahm Levey

| editor-first=G

| editor2-last=Mendes

| editor2-first=P

| publisher= Sussex Academic Press

| isbn = 978-1-85109-873-6

| pages=127–142

}}

  • {{Citation

| last=Ben-Moshe

| first = Danny

| contribution=The End of Unconditional Love: the Future of Zionism in Australian Jewish Life

| title=New Under the Sun: Jewish Life in Australia

| editor-last=Landau

| editor-first=M

| editor2-last=Wolski

| editor2-first=N

| editor3-last=Fagenblat

| editor3-first=M

| publisher= Black Inc

| pages=108–125

| year =2006

}}

=Books=

  • The Diaspora and Jewish Identity, Coeditor, Sussex Academic Press, 2007.

=Journal articles=

  • {{Citation |last=Ben-Moshe |first=Danny |contribution=The Place of Israel and Jewish Peoplehood in Jewish Education in the Diaspora: An Australian Case Study |title=Paths in pluralistic Jewish education |editor-last=Chamo |editor-first=Nurit |editor2-last=Dror |editor2-first=Yuval |year=2012 |publisher=Tel Aviv. School of Education, Tel Aviv University, Ramot Publishing and MOFET |pages=165–204}}
  • {{Citation

| last=Ben-Moshe

| first = Danny

| contribution= The Nature and Extent of Israeli Films in Diaspora Jewish Film Festivals.

| title= Association for Israel Studies, 26th Annual Conference

| year=2010

| publisher= University of Toronto

}}

  • {{Citation

| last=Ben-Moshe

| first = Danny

| contribution= Jewish Diaspora Engagement with Israel

| title= Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture, Volume 1

| editor-last=Ehrlich

| editor-first=M. Avrum (Mark Avrum)

| year=2009

| publisher= ABC-CLIO

| isbn = 978-1-85109-873-6

| pages=340–345

| location = Santa Barbara, Calif.

}}

  • {{Citation

| last=Ben-Moshe

| first = Danny

| contribution=The Impact of the Al-Aqsa Intifada on Israel-Diaspora Relations

| title= Israel Studies Forum. Vol. 19. No. 3.

| year=2004

| publisher=Berghahn Journals

}}

  • {{Citation

| last=Ben-Moshe

| first = Danny

| contribution=Post-Zionism in the Oslo era and the implications for the diaspora.

| title= Israel Affairs 10.1-2.

| year=2004

| pages=313–336

}}

=Non-Academic Publications=

  • {{Citation

| last=Ben-Moshe

| first = Danny

| contribution=Australia's Grim Fairy Tales

| title=Eye on The Media

| editor-last=Bar-Ilan

| editor-first=David

| publisher= Jerusalem Post

| year=1993

}}

  • {{Cite report

| author = Danny Ben-Moshe

| author2 = Joanne Pyke

|date=August 2012

| title = Diasporas in Australia : current and potential links with the homeland. Summary report of an Australian Research Council Linkage project into the Italian, Macedonian, Tongan and Vietnamese diasporas

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| title = The Tongan Diaspora in Australia : current and potential links to the homeland. Report of an Australian Research Council linkage project

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|date=August 2008

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Filmography

;Released Films

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2017

|Shalom Bollywood

|Writer, Director and Producer

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2017

|My Mother's Lost Children

|Writer and Director

|BBC Four

2012

| Rewriting History

| Codirector, Coproducer, Key protagonist, Cast

| SBS Television

2011

| Carnaby Street Undressed

| Writer, Co-director and Co-producer

| Yesterday (TV channel)

2010

| The End of the Rainbow

| Writer, Director and Producer

|ABC Television

2006

| The Buchenwald Ball

| Co-director and Co-producer

|SBS Television

References