Deborah Lipstadt

Lipstadt was born in New York City to a Jewish family, the daughter of Miriam (née Peiman; 1915–2013) and Erwin Lipstadt (1903–1972).[http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?pid=165950910 Miriam Lipstadt obituary] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304064149/http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?pid=165950910 |date=March 4, 2016 }} Retrieved December 16, 2017. Her mother was born in Canada, and her father, a salesman, was born in Germany. Her parents met at their neighborhood synagogue. She has an older sister, Helene, a historian, and a younger brother, Nathaniel, an investor on Wall Street.{{cn|date=September 2024}}

In her youth, she studied at the Hebrew Institute of Long Island, and grew up in Far Rockaway, Queens. She studied with Rabbi Emanuel Rackman at Temple Shaarei Tefillah. Lipstadt spent summers at Camp Massad.{{cn|date=September 2024}}

She spent her junior year of college — which turned out to include the Six-Day War — in Israel, where she stayed as an exchange student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She completed a Bachelor of Arts in American history at the City College of New York in 1969. She then enrolled at Brandeis University where she completed her master's degree in 1972 and then her Ph.D. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies in 1976.Lipstadt, Deborah Esther. [https://media.proquest.com/media/pq/classic/doc/758530521/fmt/prv/rep/300PDF?_s=1FxlX6dmu9ej0KDSgv1XWNvsh5Q%3D "The Zionist Career of Louis Lipsky, 1900–1921"]. Brandeis University Ph.D. Dissertation, 1977. Her doctoral dissertation was entitled "The Zionist Career of Louis Lipsky, 1900–1921".

After receiving her Ph.D., Lipstadt began teaching, first at the University of Washington in Seattle[http://www.hadassahmagazine.org/2006/08/11/profile-deborah-lipstadt/ profile-deborah-lipstadt in Hadassah Magazine, 11 August 2006], retrieved January 19, 2019 from 1974 to 1979, then as an assistant professor at UCLA. When she was denied tenure there, she left in 1985 to be the director of the independent Brandeis-Bardin Institute for two years, during which time she also wrote a monthly column for The Jewish Spectator. Lipstadt then received a research fellowship from the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, during which she studied Holocaust denial, and taught at Occidental College part time.[https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/lipstadt-deborah "Deborah Lipstadt"] Jewish Women's Archive website

Lipstadt then became an assistant professor of religion at Emory University in Atlanta in January 1993, becoming the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies that fall. She helped to create the Institute for Jewish Studies there. She considered teaching as a visiting professor at Columbia University but didn't take the post as she felt at risk and Columbia would use her as a sop to show it was fighting antisemitism when that was not true.{{cite web |title=Deborah Lipstadt: Why I Won’t Teach at Columbia |url=https://www.thefp.com/p/why-i-wont-teach-at-columbia |website=thefp.com |publisher=The Free Press |access-date=2 March 2025}}

In May 2021, Lipstadt was considered for an ambassadorship position at the Office to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism in the Biden administration.{{Cite news|date=April 7, 2021|title=These names are being talked about to be the US anti-Semitism monitor|url=https://www.jta.org/2021/04/07/politics/these-names-are-being-talked-about-to-be-the-us-anti-semitism-monitor|access-date=May 3, 2021|website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|language=en-US}}

On July 30, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Lipstadt for this role.{{cite web |title=President Biden Announces Intent to Nominate and Appoint Leaders to Serve in Key Religious Affairs Roles |url=https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/07/30/president-biden-announces-intent-to-nominate-and-appoint-leaders-to-serve-in-key-religious-affairs-roles/ |website=The White House |date=July 30, 2021 |access-date=March 28, 2022}} Opposition from Senator Ron Johnson, whom she had tweeted was advocating "white supremacy/nationalism", delayed her nomination for many months.{{Cite web|url=https://forward.com/fast-forward/484685/senate-advances-nomination-of-deborah-lipstadt-as-antisemitism-envoy/|title = Senate advances nomination of Deborah Lipstadt as antisemitism envoy| date=March 29, 2022 }} Her initial nomination expired at the end of the year and was returned to President Biden on January 3, 2022.{{cite web |title=PN1165 — Deborah E. Lipstadt — Department of State 117th Congress (2021–2022) |url=https://www.congress.gov/nomination/117th-congress/1165?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22lipstadt%22%2C%22lipstadt%22%5D%7D&s=2&r=2 |website=US Congress |date = January 3, 2022|access-date=March 28, 2022}}

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held hearings on her nomination on February 8, 2022. On March 29, 2022, the committee favorably reported her nomination out of committee. Her nomination was supported by all committee Democrats, as well as senators Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio. It was confirmed by voice vote on March 30, 2022, and she was sworn in on May 3, 2022.{{cite web |title=PN1572 – Nomination of Deborah E. Lipstadt for Department of State, 117th Congress (2021–2022) |url=https://www.congress.gov/nomination/117th-congress/1572?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22lipstadt%22%2C%22lipstadt%22%5D%7D&s=1&r=2 |website=Congress.gov |access-date=August 1, 2022 |date=March 30, 2022}}

Lipstadt was part of the Biden administration team that launched the U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism on May 25, 2023.{{Citation |title=Launch of U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism | date=May 25, 2023 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPt8ZWreEjE |access-date=July 24, 2023 |language=en}}

On October 17, 2023, in a joint statement with Michal Cotler-Wunsh (Israel's antisemitism envoy), published by the U.S. State Department, Lipstadt condemned the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel.{{cite web |title=Joint Statement by SEAS Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt and Israeli Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism Michal Cotler-Wunsh |url=https://www.state.gov/joint-statement-by-seas-ambassador-deborah-lipstadt-and-israeli-special-envoy-for-combating-antisemitism-michal-cotler-wunsh/ |website=United States Department of State |date=October 17, 2023}}

In September 2024, Lipstadt attended the Jewish New Year ceremony at the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. with Israeli Ambassador Michael Herzog, Zioness founder Amanda Berman, and cybertechnology official Anne Neuberger.{{cite web |last=Rod |first=Marc |date=2024-10-01 |title=Ahead of Rosh Hashanah, Michael Herzog calls for Israel to ‘reflect deeply’ on mistakes surrounding Oct. 7 |url=https://jewishinsider.com/2024/10/rosh-hashanah-oct-7-israel-ambassador-michael-herzog/ |access-date=2024-12-29 |website=Jewish Insider}}

{{main|Irving v Penguin Books Ltd}}

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On September 5, 1996, author David Irving sued Lipstadt and her publisher Penguin Books for libel in an English court for characterizing some of his writings and public statements as Holocaust denial in her book Denying the Holocaust.

Lipstadt's legal defense team was led by Anthony Julius of Mishcon de Reya while Penguin's was led by Kevin Bays and Mark Bateman of Davenport Lyons. Both defendants instructed Richard Rampton QC, while Penguin also instructed Heather Rogers as junior counsel. The expert witnesses for the defence included Cambridge historian Richard J. Evans, Christopher Browning, Robert Jan van Pelt, and Peter Longerich.

English libel law places the burden of proof on the defendant rather than the plaintiff. Lipstadt and Penguin won the case using the justification defense, namely by demonstrating in court that Lipstadt's accusations against Irving were substantially true and therefore not libelous. The case was argued as a bench trial before Mr Justice Gray, who produced a written judgment 349 pages long detailing Irving's systematic distortion of the historical record of World War II. The Times (April 14, 2000, p. 23) said of Lipstadt's victory, "History has had its day in court and scored a crushing victory."[http://www.hdot.org/en/trial/index.html Holocaust Denial On Trial: Holocaust Denial and the 2000 Libel Trial in the U.K.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150815102201/http://hdot.org/en/trial/index.html |date=August 15, 2015 }}, a project of The Rabbi Donald A. Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University.

Despite her acrimonious history with Irving, Lipstadt has stated that she is personally opposed to the three-year prison sentence Austria imposed on Irving for two speeches he made in 1989, where he claimed there had been no gas chambers at Auschwitz. In Austria, minimizing the atrocities of the Third Reich is a crime punishable with up to 10 years' imprisonment. Speaking of Irving, Lipstadt said, "I am uncomfortable with imprisoning people for speech. Let him go and let him fade from everyone's radar screens ... Generally, I don't think Holocaust denial should be a crime. I am a free speech person, I am against censorship."{{cite web |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10355866 |title=Irving held in Austria over Holocaust comments |author=Paterson, Tony |date=November 18, 2005 |work=The New Zealand Herald |access-date=September 27, 2011}}O'Neill, Brendan. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4578534.stm "Irving? Let the guy go home"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061106105430/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4578534.stm |date=November 6, 2006 }} BBC News, January 4, 2006

In February 2007, Lipstadt warned of "soft-core denial" at the Zionist Federation's annual fundraising dinner in London. Referring to groups such as the Muslim Council of Britain, reportedly she stated: "When groups of people refuse to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day unless equal time is given to anti-Muslim prejudice, this is soft-core denial."Quoted by Jonny Paul, [http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1170359797134&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter "Holocaust Scholar Warns of New 'soft-core' Denial"]. {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130706010413/http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1170359797134&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/Printer |date=July 6, 2013 }} The Jerusalem Post (February 6, 2007). According to Jonny Paul, "She received huge applause when she asked how former United States President Jimmy Carter could omit the years 1939–1947 from a chronology in his book"; referring to his recently published and controversial book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, she said: "When a former president of the United States writes a book on the Israeli–Palestinian crisis and writes a chronology at the beginning of the book in order to help them understand the emergence of the situation and in that chronology lists nothing of importance between 1939 and 1947, that is soft-core denial."

Along the same lines, Lipstadt has criticized the German philosopher and historian Ernst Nolte for engaging in what she calls "soft-core denial" of the Holocaust, arguing that Nolte practices an even more dangerous form of negationism than the Holocaust deniers. Speaking of Nolte in a 2003 interview, Lipstadt stated:

{{blockquote|Historians such as the German Ernst Nolte are, in some ways, even more, dangerous than the deniers. Nolte is an anti-Semite of the first order, who attempts to rehabilitate Hitler by saying that he was no worse than Stalin; but he is careful not to deny the Holocaust. Holocaust-deniers make Nolte's life more comfortable. They have, with their radical argumentation, pulled the center a little more to their side. Consequently, a less radical extremist, such as Nolte, finds himself closer to the middle ground, which makes him more dangerous.[http://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-11.htm "Denial of the Holocaust and Immoral Equivalence"]. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070816010915/http://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-11.htm |date=2007-08-16 }} The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (August 1, 2003).}}

In late 2011, Lipstadt attacked American and Israeli politicians for what she called their invocation of the Holocaust for contemporary political purposes, something she thought mangled history. She rebuked Republican Party presidential candidates for speeches that 'pandered' to the Evangelical constituency, as much as it did to the Republican Jewish Coalition. She also judged Howard Gutman's remarks on causal links between Muslim antisemitism and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict as "stupid". According to Haaretz, "She decried the 'hysteria' and 'neuroses' of many Jews and Israelis who compare the current situation in Europe and in the Middle East to the Holocaust-era":Chemi Shalev,

[http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/top-holocaust-scholar-blasts-holocaust-abuse-by-u-s-israeli-politicians-1.401821 "Top Holocaust scholar blasts 'Holocaust-abuse' by U.S., Israeli politicians"]. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111221045304/http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/top-holocaust-scholar-blasts-holocaust-abuse-by-u-s-israeli-politicians-1.401821 |date=December 21, 2011 }} at Haaretz, December 16, 2011.

{{blockquote|People go nuts here, they go nuts. There's no nuance, there's no middle ground, it's taking any shade of grey and stomping on it. There are no voices of calm, there are no voices of reason, not in this country, not in Israel.Chemi Shalev

[http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/full-interview-with-holocaust-historian-deborah-lipstadt-1.401823 "Full Interview with Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt"]. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111217030704/http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/full-interview-with-holocaust-historian-deborah-lipstadt-1.401823 |date=2011-12-17 }} at Haaretz, December 16, 2011.}}

In the same interview, she argued that "If anti-Semitism becomes the reason through which your Jewish view of the world is refracted, if it becomes your prism, then it is very unhealthy. Jewish tradition never wanted that." She said "You listen to Newt Gingrich talking about the Palestinians as an 'invented people'—it's out-Aipacking AIPAC, it's out-Israeling Israel". On a visit to London in September 2014, Lipstadt criticized the Israeli government and said that the government had "cheapened" the memory of the Holocaust by using it to justify war.{{cite news|title=Israel government has 'cheapened' memory of the Holocaust – Lipstadt speaks out|date=September 11, 2014|last=Gulliver|first=John|newspaper=Camden New Journal|location=London|url=http://www.camdennewjournal.com/israel-government-has-%E2%80%98cheapened%E2%80%99-memory-holocaust-%E2%80%93-lipstadt-speaks-out|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140914025140/http://www.camdennewjournal.com/israel-government-has-%E2%80%98cheapened%E2%80%99-memory-holocaust-%E2%80%93-lipstadt-speaks-out|archive-date=September 14, 2014}} She has also rejected the view that Israeli military actions during the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict constituted a genocide.{{cite news|title=To call Gaza a genocide is a distortion of history|date=September 17, 2014|last=Lipstadt|first=Deborah|newspaper=Camden New Journal|location=London|url=http://www.camdennewjournal.com/letters/2014/sep/call-gaza-genocide-distortion-history|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141214091359/http://www.camdennewjournal.com/letters/2014/sep/call-gaza-genocide-distortion-history|archive-date=December 14, 2014}}

Lipstadt returned to the theme of soft-core Holocaust denial in The Atlantic when responding to the Trump administration's statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2017, which was condemned for the absence of a specific mention of Jews, as the principal victims of the Holocaust or of antisemitism itself.{{cite news|last=Marcotte|first=Amanda|url=http://www.salon.com/2017/01/31/donald-trumps-dance-with-the-devil-did-white-house-mean-to-wink-at-holocaust-deniers/|title=Donald Trump's dance with the devil: Did White House mean to wink at Holocaust deniers?|work=Salon|date=January 31, 2017|access-date=January 31, 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170131110128/http://www.salon.com/2017/01/31/donald-trumps-dance-with-the-devil-did-white-house-mean-to-wink-at-holocaust-deniers/|archive-date=January 31, 2017}}{{cite news|last=Beaumont|first=Peter|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/31/deborah-lipstadt-historian-donald-trump-advisers-soft-holocaust-denial|title=Historian Deborah Lipstadt accuses Trump advisers of 'soft Holocaust denial'|work=The Guardian|date=January 31, 2017|access-date=January 31, 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170131150849/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/31/deborah-lipstadt-historian-donald-trump-advisers-soft-holocaust-denial|archive-date=January 31, 2017}} "The Holocaust was de-Judaized. It is possible that it all began with a mistake. Someone simply did not realize what they were doing. It is also possible that someone did this deliberately."{{cite news|last=Lipstadt|first=Deborah|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/the-trump-administrations-softcore-holocaust-denial/514974/|title=The Trump Administration's Flirtation With Holocaust Denial|work=The Atlantic|date=January 30, 2017|access-date=January 31, 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170130234458/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/the-trump-administrations-softcore-holocaust-denial/514974/|archive-date=January 30, 2017}}

In February 2019, Lipstadt resigned her membership in the Young Israel synagogue movement because its national council president defended Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's facilitation of a merger between the Bayit Yehudi party and the extremist Otzma Yehudit party.{{Cite news|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/deborah-lipstadt-resigns-from-synagogue-over-defense-of-israeli-extreme-right/|title=Deborah Lipstadt resigns from synagogue over defense of Israeli extreme right|last=Sales|first=Ben|website=www.timesofisrael.com|language=en-US|access-date=February 27, 2019}}

In October 2019, Lipstadt had a letter to the editor published in The New York Times, prompted by the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Peter Handke, in which she wrote that the Nobel Committee awarded Handke a platform "he does not deserve" and that "the public does not need him to have", adding that such a platform could convince some that his "false claims must have some legitimacy".{{cite news |author1=Lipstadt, Deborah E. |author-link1=Deborah E. Lipstadt |title=Opinion: Peter Handke, an Undeserving Nobel Laureate |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/opinion/letters/peter-handke-nobel.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=May 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191018195004/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/opinion/letters/peter-handke-nobel.html |archive-date=October 18, 2019 |language=en |date=October 18, 2019 |quote=Dissenting, Mr. Stephens contends that art and politics are separate realms. Decry the artist’s politics but treasure his artistry. Mr. Stephens ignores the immense platform or megaphone the Nobel committee has awarded Mr. Handke. There will be those who will be convinced that his false claims must have some legitimacy, simply because he is a Nobel winner.}}

In September 2024, she came under criticism by CAIR over a joke made about the 2024 Lebanon pager explosions.{{Cite news |last=Hooper |first=Ibrahim |date= |title=CAIR Urges Biden Admin to Fire U.S. Antisemitism Envoy Lipstadt Over 'Joke' Praising Israeli Terror Attacks on Lebanese Civilians |url=https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-urges-biden-admin-to-fire-u-s-antisemitism-envoy-lipstadt-over-joke-praising-israeli-terror-attacks-on-lebanese-civilians/ }}

In January 2025, Lipstadt said in Brussels: "We are at an inflection point. Antisemitism is becoming increasingly normalized...[antisemitic comments] are freely heard on streets of some of our leading Western democracies in many countries, including this country."{{cite web |date=2025-01-16 |title=Online Press Briefing with Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt |url=https://2021-2025.state.gov/brussels-media-hub/releases/2025/01/online-press-briefing-with-special-envoy-to-monitor-and-combat-antisemitism-ambassador-deborah-lipstadt/ |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=United States Department of State}}

In April, Lipstadt expressed her partial agreement with activist deportations in the second Trump presidency.{{Cite web |last=Cohen |first=Benyamin |date=2025-04-15 |title=Student protesters being deported are not ‘martyrs and heroes,’ says former antisemitism envoy |url=https://forward.com/news/712297/students-deported-ice-antisemitism-deborah-lipstadt/ |access-date=2025-04-19 |website=The Forward |language=en}}

After the publication of Denying the Holocaust in June 1993, Lipstadt received the 1994 National Jewish Book Award. Already a consultant to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, President Bill Clinton appointed her in 1994 to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. In 1997, Lipstadt received the Emory Williams teaching award for excellence in teaching.{{Cite web|url=http://www.emory.edu/PROVOST/facultydevelopment/awards/emorywilliamsteaching.php|title=Emory Williams Teaching Award|publisher=Emory University|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090604175700/http://www.emory.edu/PROVOST/facultydevelopment/awards/emorywilliamsteaching.php|archive-date=June 4, 2009|url-status=dead|access-date=April 8, 2011}} She is also a recipient of the Albert D. Chernin Award from the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, which is given to "an American Jew whose work best exemplifies the social justice imperatives of Judaism, Jewish history and the protection of the Bill of Rights, particularly the First Amendment." Previous recipients of the Award include Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Alan Dershowitz.[http://religion.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/lipstadt-deborah.html "Deborah E. Lipstadt"] Emory College of Arts and Sciences website Lipstadt was awarded the 2005 National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category for History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/awards/national-jewish-book-awards/past-winners?category=30757|title=Past Winners|website=Jewish Book Council|language=en|access-date=January 21, 2020}} and the 2019 National Jewish Book Award in Education and Jewish Identity for Antisemitism: Here and Now.{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/awards/national-jewish-book-awards/past-winners?category=30752|title=Past Winners|website=Jewish Book Council|language=en|access-date=January 21, 2020}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Jewish-Book-Council-announces-2019-National-Jewish-Book-Awards-Winners-614601|title=Jewish Book Council announces 2019 National Jewish Book Awards Winners|newspaper=The Jerusalem Post | Jpost.com|access-date=January 21, 2020}}

Lipstadt has received honorary doctorates from a number of institutions, including Ohio Wesleyan University, John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York, Yeshiva University, and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, among others.

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; Autobiographies

• History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier (2005),{{cite book |last=Lipstadt |first=Deborah E. |title=History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier |publisher=ECCO |location=New York |year=2005 |isbn=0-06-059376-8 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/historyontrialmy00lips }} memoir

; Biographies:

• The Zionist Career of Louis Lipsky, 1900–1921 (1982),{{cite book |last=Lipstadt |first=Deborah E. |title=The Zionist Career of Louis Lipsky, 1900–1921 |publisher=Arno Press |location=New York|year=1982 |isbn=978-0405140860}} Lipstadt's dissertation as a book, written in 1976
• Golda Meir (2023){{Cite web |last=Spiro |first=Amy |date=15 August 2023 |title=How should Golda Meir be remembered? Deborah Lipstadt weighs in |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-should-golda-meir-be-remembered-deborah-lipstadt-weighs-in/ |website=timesofisrael}}{{Cite web |last=Durns |first=Sean |date=2023-09-07 |title=Golda Meir: Israel's Matriarch - Providence |url=https://providencemag.com/2023/09/golda-meir-israels-matriarch/,%20https://providencemag.com/2023/09/golda-meir-israels-matriarch/ |access-date=2023-11-26 |website=providencemag.com |language=en-US}}{{Cite news |last=Knight |first=John |date=2023-09-29 |title=Portraits of Life in Statecraft and Invention |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/29/books/review/flee-north-scott-shane-golda-meir-deborah-lipstadt-the-mysterious-case-of-rudolf-diesel-douglas-brunt-the-sister-sung-yoon-lee.html |access-date=2023-11-26 |issn=0362-4331}}

; History:

• An Outline of American Zionist History 1759–1948 (1971){{cite book |last=Lipstadt |first=Deborah E. |title=An outline of American Zionist history 1759–1948 |date=1971 |publisher=Brandeis University, Waltham (Mass) |isbn= }}
• Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, 1933–1945 (1985){{cite book |last=Lipstadt |first=Deborah E. |url=https://archive.org/details/beyondbeliefthea00lips|url-access=registration |title=Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, 1933–1945 |publisher=Free Press |location=New York |year=1986 |isbn=0-02-919161-0}}
• Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory (1993){{cite book |last=Lipstadt |first=Deborah E. |title=Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory |publisher=Plume |location=New York |year=1993 |isbn=0-452-27274-2 }}
• The Eichmann Trial (2011){{cite book |last=Lipstadt |first=Deborah E. |title=The Eichmann Trial |publisher=Nextbook Press/ Schocken |location=New York |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-8052-4260-7}}
• Holocaust: An American Understanding (2016){{cite book |last1=Lipstadt |first1=Deborah E. |title=Holocaust: An American Understanding |date=2016 |publisher=Rutgers University Press |isbn=9780813564777}}
• Antisemitism: Here and Now (2018){{cite book |last1=Lipstadt |first1=Deborah E. |title=Antisemitism: Here and Now |date=2019 |publisher=Schocken |isbn=9780805243376 }}

• Actress Rachel Weisz portrayed Lipstadt in Denial (2016),[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7zSR7BGbuQ History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180416014404/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7zSR7BGbuQ |date=April 16, 2018 }} a film based on her 2005 book History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving, directed by Mick Jackson.{{cite web|title=Denial – Full Cast & Crew|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4645330/fullcredits|website=imdb.com|access-date=November 25, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616190446/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4645330/fullcredits|archive-date=June 16, 2016}}{{cite web|title=No Denying Deborah Lipstadt's Voice|url=http://jewishtimes.com/53541/no-denying-deborah-lipstadts-voice/news/|website=jewishtimes.com|date=October 27, 2016|access-date=October 27, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161028152658/http://jewishtimes.com/53541/no-denying-deborah-lipstadts-voice/news/|archive-date=October 28, 2016}}

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• {{Official website}}
• [http://religion.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/lipstadt-deborah.html Deborah Lipstadt] Faculty biography at Emory University.
• [http://lipstadt.blogspot.com/ Deborah Lipstadt's blog].
• [https://www.ushmm.org/confront-antisemitism/antisemitism-podcast/deborah-lipstadt Voices on Antisemitism Podcast] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181118091514/https://www.ushmm.org/confront-antisemitism/antisemitism-podcast/deborah-lipstadt |date=November 18, 2018 }} Deborah Lipstadt interview and transcript from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (2007)
• [http://www.hdot.org/ Holocaust Denial on Trial], a project of the [http://www.js.emory.edu/ Rabbi Donald A. Tam Institute for Jewish Studies] at Emory University.
• [https://www.theguardian.com/irving/ David Irving case], report by The Guardian.
• [http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/lipstadt-deborah Deborah Lipstadt in Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia].
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