Danny Ben-Moshe is a documentary film maker and an associate professor at
Deakin University
Deakin University is a public university in Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1974, the university was named after Alfred Deakin, the second Prime Minister of Australia.
Its main campuses are in Melbourne's Burwood suburb, Geelong Waurn Ponds, ...
in
Melbourne
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, Australia.
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.
These include ''The Buchenwald Ball'' (2006) about
Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...
survivors in Australia celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of their liberation, which screened on
SBS Television
The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) is an Australian hybrid-funded public service broadcaster. About 80 percent of funding for the company is derived from the Australian Government. SBS operates six TV channels ( SBS, SBS Viceland, SBS World ...
in Australia.
His 2010 film ''The End of the Rainbow'' was screened on
ABC Television ABC Television most commonly refers to:
*ABC Television Network of the American Broadcasting Company, United States, or
*ABC Television (Australian TV network), a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia
ABC Television or ABC ...
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, was reviewed as pick of the week in
The Sunday Times
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& London’s
Time Out
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Time
* Time-out (sport), in various sports, a break in play, called by a team
* Television timeout, a break in sporting action so that a commercial break may be taken
* Timeout (computing), an enginee ...
awarded it 4 stars.
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
The Holocaust in Lithuania resulted in the near total destruction of Lithuanian (Litvaks) and Polish Jews, living in ''Generalbezirk Litauen'' of ''Reichskommissariat Ostland'' within the Nazi-controlled Lithuanian SSR. Out of approximately 208 ...
. It received critical acclaim from ''The Australian'' newspaper. It was initially screened on
SBS Television
The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) is an Australian hybrid-funded public service broadcaster. About 80 percent of funding for the company is derived from the Australian Government. SBS operates six TV channels ( SBS, SBS Viceland, SBS World ...
in Australia.
In 2017, Ben-Moshe wrote, produced and directed the documentary ''Shalom Bollywood: The Untold Story of Jews and India's
Bollywood
Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language. The popular term Bollywood, is a portmanteau of "Bombay" (fo ...
''.
Ben-Moshe is a Principal Research Fellow at the Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation at
Deakin University
Deakin University is a public university in Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1974, the university was named after Alfred Deakin, the second Prime Minister of Australia.
Its main campuses are in Melbourne's Burwood suburb, Geelong Waurn Ponds, ...
in Melbourne where he specialises in diaspora and transnational studies as well as research on
anti-semitism
Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. A person who holds such positions is called an antisemite. Antisemitism is considered to be a form of racism.
Antis ...
,
Jewish identity
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and multiculturalism . He is the co-author of the book ''Israel, the Diaspora and Jewish Identity''
and his major study on comparative diasporas in Australia was launched at Parliament House in the Australian Capital in 2012.
Ben-Moshe has also written widely for newspapers and magazines including ''
The Age
''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Austral ...
'', ''
The Australian
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'', ''
The Canberra Times
''The Canberra Times'' is a daily newspaper in Canberra, Australia, which is published by Australian Community Media. It was founded in 1926, and has changed ownership and format several times.
History
''The Canberra Times'' was launched in ...
'', and ''
The Jerusalem Post
''The Jerusalem Post'' is a broadsheet newspaper based in Jerusalem, founded in 1932 during the British Mandate of Palestine by Gershon Agron as ''The Palestine Post''. In 1950, it changed its name to ''The Jerusalem Post''. In 2004, the paper w ...
''. He is the co-author of The Seventy Year Declaration on the Final Solution Conference at Wannsee,
[Roger Cohen]
"The Suffering Olympics"
''The New York Times'', 30 January 2012[Danna Harman]
"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.
Selected publications
Media articles
* Modern migrant's loyalty is an asset to the world, The Age, 26 February 2013*
* Saying no to double genocide, The Jerusalem Post, 3 March 2012
* Lithuania Assaults Holocaust Memory, The Jerusalem Report, 7 November 2011
* Lithuania Obfuscates the Holocaust, The Jerusalem Report, 4 July 2011
* In India, Coexistence Won’t be Murdered, The Jerusalem Report, 22 December 2008
* A Progressive Zionist Dilemma, The Jerusalem Report, 15 February 2010
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* The Diaspora and Jewish Identity, Coeditor, Sussex Academic Press, 2007.
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Filmography
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References
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Identity FilmsDeacon University, Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation*
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Australian Jews
Australian documentary filmmakers
Academic staff of the Victoria University, Melbourne
Academic staff of Deakin University