Author of The Eichmann Trial to Present 32^nd Annual Leo Camp Memorial Lecture

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October 24, 2011

Reading, Pa. – Author Deborah Lipstadt, Ph.D., will be the featured speaker for the 32nd Annual Leo Camp Memorial Lecture at Albright College on Sunday, November 13, 2011, at 3 p.m.  The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held in Memorial Chapel.

The lecture is co-sponsored by Albright College and the Jewish Federation of Reading.

Lipstadt is the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University in Atlanta where she directs the Institute for Jewish Studies. She is the author of several books including her most recent, The Eichmann Trial (Nextbook/Schoken, 2011), which chronicles the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. Her book, History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2005) tells the story of her five-year libel trial in London against David Irving who sued her for calling him a Holocaust denier and right wing extremist.

Lipstadt was an historical consultant to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and helped design the section of the Museum dedicated to the American Response to the Holocaust. She was appointed by President Clinton to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council and has been called upon by members of the United States Congress to consult on political responses to Holocaust denial. She was recently reappointed to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council by President Obama.

The Leo Camp Memorial Lectures were established at Albright by the Jewish Federation of Reading as a lasting tribute to Leo Camp, humanitarian and respected business and community leader in Reading. The lectures are presented annually to explore topics of significance in Jewish culture that add to the enrichment of the entire Reading community.

For more information about the event or disabled assistance, please contact the Holocaust Resource Center at Albright College at 610-921-7214.  Memorial Chapel is located on the Albright College campus at 13^th & Bern Streets, Reading, Pa.

Founded in 1856, Albright College is a nationally ranked, private college with a rigorous liberal arts curriculum with an interdisciplinary focus. The College’s hallmarks are connecting fields of learning, collaborative teaching and learning, and a flexible curriculum that allows students to create an individualized education. More than half  of students have dual/individualized majors in as many as 200 different combinations annually. Albright enrolls about 1,660 undergraduates in traditional programs, another 800 adult students in accelerated degree programs, and 100 students in the master’s program in education. Albright College is located in Reading, Pennsylvania, about 60 miles west of Philadelphia.