Danny Ben-Moshe - Biography

Danny Ben-Moshe is a documentary film maker and an Associate Professor at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia. He coproduced and codirected the documentary "The Buchenwald Ball" (2006) and recently completed the documentary "The End of the Rainbow" (2009) about a week in the life of the iconic live music venue in Melbourne, The Rainbow Hotel. He is currently completing the documentary "Shalom Bollywood: The Untold Story of Jews and Bollywood".

Danny is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Strategic Economic Studies at Victoria University where he specialises in diaspora studies. He is the coauthor of the book "Israel, the Diaspora and Identity". He has also been published internationally on subjects like anti-semitism, holocaust denial, and racism. He has also written a large number of non-academic publications in newspapers and magazines including The Age, The Australian, The Canberra Times, and The Jerusalem Post. He holds a degree in law and a Doctorate in Philosophy.

Danny has worked in Jewish public policy for the British-Israel Public Affairs Centre in Israel and the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation Commission in Australia.

Danny is currently based in London working on film projects and is a research fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.

He received a Commonwealth Centenary of Federation medal for leadership against and research into racism in Australia.

Selective publications

Racism, anti-Semitism and Holocaust Denial

Journal Articles

• 'Holocaust Denial in Australia', Analysis of Current Trends in Antisemitism 25, Jerusalem, SICSA, 2005.
• 'One Nation and the Rise of the Racist-Right in Australia', Patterns of Prejudice, Vol. 35 No. 3 July 2001.
• 'The Demidenko/Darville Controversy', Without Prejudice, No.9 June 1996.

Book Chapters

• 'Holocaust Denial', Contemporary Reflections on the Holocaust, Prager Greenwood, USA, 2004.
• 'Australian Holocaust Denial' in Lying About the Holocaust, University of Nebraska Press, 2004.
• 'Triangle of Hate: The relationship between anti-Jewish, anti-Asian, and anti-Indigenous racism in Australia' Sticks and Stones: * Writings and Drawings of Hatred, Institute of Criminology Press, Sydney (forthcoming).

Israel-Diaspora Relations

Books

• World Jewry and Identity, Editor,Israel, Sussex Academic Press, 2007.

Journal Articles

• 'The Impact of the Al-Aqsa "Intifada" on Israel-Diaspora relations',Israel Studies Forum, Vol. 19, No. 3, Fall 2004.
• 'The Implications of Post-Zionism for the Diaspora', Israel Affairs, Vol. 10, No. 1&2, Autumn/Winter 2004.

Australian Jewry

Book Chapters

• 'Israel and the Australian Jewish Vote', Jews and Australian Politics, Sussex Academic Press, 2005.
• 'The End of Unconditional Love: the Future of Zionism in Australian Jewish Life', New Under the Sun: Jewish Life in Australia, Black Inc., 2006.

Non-Academic Publications

• 'Australia's Grim Fairy Tales' in Eye on The Media, Editor David Bar-Ilan, Jerusalem Post 1993

Film

• The Buchenwald Ball, SBS Television Australia.

Awards and nominations

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

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