Danny Ben-Moshe is a documentary film maker and an associate professor at

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. 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

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survivors in Australia celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of their liberation, which screened on

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in Australia. His 2010 film ''The End of the Rainbow'' was screened on

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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

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& London’s Time Out 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 resulted in the near total eradication of Lithuanian Jews, Lithuanian (Litvaks) and History of the Jews in Poland, Polish Jews in ''Generalbezirk Litauen'' of the ''Reichskommissariat Ostland'' in the Occupation of Lithuania by Na ...

. It received critical acclaim from ''The Australian'' newspaper. It was initially screened on

in Australia. In 2017, Ben-Moshe wrote, produced and directed the documentary ''Shalom Bollywood: The Untold Story of Jews and India's

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''. Ben-Moshe is a Principal Research Fellow at the Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation at

in Melbourne where he specialises in diaspora and transnational studies as well as research on

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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

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in the Australian Capital in 2012. Ben-Moshe has also written widely for newspapers and magazines including ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. He is the co-author with

Dovid Katz Dovid Katz (Yiddish: , also , Hirshe-Dovid Kats, , born 9 May 1956) is an American-born Vilnius-based scholar, author, and educator specializing in Yiddish language and literature, Lithuanian-Jewish culture, and the Holocaust in Eastern Europe. ...

of The Seventy Years Declaration on the Final Solution Conference at Wannsee,Roger Cohen
"The Suffering Olympics"
''The New York Times'', 30 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
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'', 26 February 2013
Saying no to double genocide
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'', 3 March 2012
Lithuania Assaults Holocaust Memory
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'', 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

Publications

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Book chapters

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Books

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

Journal articles

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Non-Academic Publications

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Filmography

;Released Films

References

External links

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Identity FilmsDeacon University, Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ben-Moshe, Danny 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 Jewish film people Jewish Australian academics Jewish Australian writers Writers on antisemitism