Danny Ben-Moshe

Danny Ben-Moshe is a documentary film maker and an Associate Professor[1] at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. Danny has produced and directed several critically praised documentaries. These include The Buchenwald Ball[2] (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.

His 2011 documentary Carnaby Street Undressed was broadcast on the Yesterday Television channel in the UK and was reviewed as pick of the week in The Sunday Times and got four stars in London’s Time Out.

In 2012 Danny coproduced, codirected 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 was reviewed in the Australian newspaper as “one of those documentaries that is so compelling and so confronting it leaves you stunned, a little breathless".[3] Initially screened on SBS Television in Australia it is now screening at special events around the world.

Danny is currently completing the documentary Shalom Bollywood: The Untold Story of Jews and Bollywood.

Danny 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 anti-semitism, Jewish identity and multiculturalism . He is the co-author of the book Israel, the Diaspora and Jewish Identity[4] and his major study on comparative diasporas in Australia[5] was launched at Parliament House in the Australian Capital in 2012.[6]

Danny has also written widely for newspapers and magazines including The Age,[7]The Australian, The Canberra Times, and The Jerusalem Post.[8][9]

Danny is the co-author of The Seventy Year Declaration on the Final Solution Conference at Wannsee,[10][11] and is involved in the ongoing campaign to preserve the truth about the Holocaust and to refute Double Genocide in Lithuania and elsewhere. Danny has written widely on this in the media.

Selected publications

Racism, Anti-Semitism, Holocaust Denial & Double Genocide

Media articles

Publications

Book Chapters

Israel-Diaspora Relations

Media articles

Books

Journal Articles

Australian Jewry

Book Chapters

Non-Academic Publications

Diasporas and multiculturalism

Filmography

Released Films
Year Film Role Notes
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
Films in Development

Shalom Bollywood: the Untold Story of Jews and Bollywood

Awards and nominations

• 2001 - Commonwealth Centenary of Federation medal for leadership against and research into racism in Australia.[15]

References

  1. Faculty List, "Deakin University Faculty List", Deakin University
  2. Paul Kalina, " The boys of Buchenwald ", The Age, 10 August 2006
  3. Graeme Blundell, "Lithuania's lies and deception exposed", The Australian, 14 September 2012
  4. 1 2 Danny Ben-Moshe; Zohar Segev (2007). Israel, the Diaspora, and Jewish Identity. Sussex Academic Press. ISBN 978-1-84519-189-4. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
  5. Associate Professor Danny Ben-Moshe, Deakin University Dr Joanne Pyke, Victoria University, "Diasporas in Australia: Current and Potential Links with the Homeland", Australian Research Council Linkage Project, 2012
  6. Media Release, "Migrants key to bridging culture and trade", Victoria University, 22 August 2012
  7. 1 2 Danny Ben-Moshe, " Modern migrant's loyalty is an asset to the world ", The Age, 26 February 2013
  8. 1 2 Danny Ben-Moshe, " Lithuania Assaults Holocaust Memory’", The Jerusalem Report, 11 February 2011
  9. 1 2 Danny Ben-Moshe and Ralphy Jhirad, " In India, Coexistence Won’t be Murdered", The Jerusalem Report, 12 August 2008
  10. Roger Cohen, "The Suffering Olympics", The New York Times, 30 January 2012
  11. Danna Harman, "European leaders to mark 70th anniversary of Nazi Wannsee Conference", Haaretz, 19 January 2012
  12. Danny Ben-Moshe, " Saying no to ‘double genocide’", The Jerusalem Post, 18 January 2012
  13. Danny Ben-Moshe, " Lithuania Obfuscates the Holocaust’", The Jerusalem Report, 4 July 2011
  14. Danny Ben-Moshe, A Progressive Zionist Dilemma’", The Jerusalem Report, 15 February 2010
  15. Centenary Medal Citation, "For service providing leadership through education of, and research into, the impact of racism", Australian Government, 1 January 2001

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