NEVER AGAIN IS NOW Podcast

Leon Saltiel has a Ph. D. in contemporary European history from the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki, and his book THE HOLOCAUST IN THESSALONIKI was the winner of the 2021 Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research. He is the World Jewish Congress representative at the UN Geneva and UNESCO and the coordinator on countering antisemitism.   The World Jewish Congress's sit...

Jessica Durlacher is a literary critic, columnist and bestselling author from The Netherlands. Her father is the sociologist and writer Gerhard Durlacher, who survived the Auschwitz concentration camp. In 2005 she was a co-professor at University of California Berkeley of the course titled "Anne Frank and After." She and her husband Leon de Winter were approached by the Anne Frank Fund in Basel, S...

Julie Brill lives in Bedford, Massachusetts, and is at work on a memoir that seeks to tell the story of her Serbian family in the context of the largely untold history of the Holocaust in Serbia. She volunteers in middle schools and high schools to share her family’s Holocaust story. In addition to Kveller, her work has been featured in Alma, the Forward, and the Globe Post. Julie is a lactation c...

Johannes Houwink ten Cate was born in 1956 and is professor emeritus of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He has published extensively oh the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands and the persecution of the Jews. He is the author, co-author, editor and co-editor of more than 15 academic books and reports. His latest American book, "The Secret Diary of Arnold Douwes: Rescu...

A special podcast for International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, 2022: Evelyn Markus is a co-host of this podcast and an activist against antisemitism. In addition to being a psychologist, she is featured in the documentary NEVER AGAIN IS NOW. She is a Dutch Jew and the daughter of Holocaust survivors. In 2006 she immigrated to the U.S. because of the rising antisemitism in Europe. She...

Michal Bilewicz is an Associate Professor of Psychology and the Director of the Center for Research on Prejudice at the University of Warsaw, Poland. His main research interests concern reconciliation, antisemitism, dehumanization, and linguistic social psychology. From 2005 to 2006 he was a Fulbright scholar at the New School for Social Research in New York. In 2015 he received the National Scien...

Elie Alyeshmerni was born and raised in a Jewish family in Iran. During his high school years he studied in the United States. After his degree in linguistics from University of Minnesota he made a career in the U.S. in education, as a co-author of a linguistic college textbook, as an award-winning head of various Jewish schools and as a college instructor in Hebrew language. Currently Elie is the...

Dr. Shlomo Fischer is a sociologist and a senior staff member of the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI -- http://jppi.org.il/) in Jerusalem. He  has taught in the Department of Education at Hebrew University and is a founder of Yesodot --  Center for Torah and Democracy (www.yesodot.org.il). His research is about religious groups, class and politics in Israel and the sociology of the...

Israeli-based Emily Schrader is an expert in digital activism and a columnist for the Jerusalem Post. She has written for numerous other publications, and she specializes in fighting antisemitism, misogyny and oppressive regimes.

Daniel Varnagy, the son of Holocaust survivors, is a full professor at the Department of Economic and  Administrative Sciences at the Social Sciences and Humanities Division of the Simon Bolivar University in Caracas, Venezuela. His research is in political culture, social capital, ethics, and strategic and financial planning.

Rabbi Shimon Kutnovsky-Liak was born and raised in Israel in a traditional Zionist family from the Soviet Union. He has a college degree in international relations and Judaism, and since 2006 he has worked with Jewish communities in the U.S. and Russia. In 2018 he moved to Latvia to rebuild the Jewish community in Jurmala. He is the chairman of this community and a board member of the Council of J...

Sergio Zigelbaum js an attorney and associate professor of law at the Argentine University of Enterprise (UADE), University of Buenos Aires, and the Palermo University, Argentina. He is a board member at Argentina’s biggest Jewish organization, Sociedad Hebraica Argentina, that promotes the continuity of Judaism and the love for Israel through social, sports and cultural activities. Sergio develop...

Manya Brachear Pashman hosts PEOPLE OF THE POD -- an AJC podcast about global affairs through a Jewish lens. As a longtime religion reporter for the Chicago Tribune, she helped chronicle two papal transitions from Rome, progress and pitfalls of interfaith dialogue, and the emerging role of religion in American politics. She also served as president of the Religion News Association. Manya earned a...

Lela Casey is a mother of three children living in Bucks County, PA. Being raised by a fiery Israeli mother and a gentle farmer in the middle of nowhere lent her a unique perspective on Judaism. Besides contributing to Kveller, she is the editor of WisdomDaily.com -- a division of Clal.org (founded by Auschwitz survivor Elie Wiesel.) She holds degrees from both Penn State University and Rhode Isla...

Attorney Kenneth Marcus is the founder and chairman of the LOUIS D. BRANDEIS CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS UNDER LAW, a national organization begun in 2011 to fight antisemitism on college campuses in America utilizing law and public policy. He has served as staff director of the United States Commission on Civil Rights and as the head of the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights. He is a...

David Hirsh is a senior lecturer in sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and the author of the book CONTEMPORARY LEFT ANTISEMITISM, published in 2017, in which he provides a sociological understanding of contemporary antisemitism.

Hungarian-born Rabbi Zsolt Balla was appointed in June 2021 as the first Jewish chaplain to the German armed forces since World War I, when nearly 100,000 Jews fought for Germany in the conflict between 1914 and 1918. He is also a community rabbi of Leipzig and a state rabbi of Saxony.

Rich Brownstein is a lecturer on Holocaust film at Yad Vashem’s International School for Education in Jerusalem and the author of the new book HOLOCAUST CINEMA COMPLETE: A HISTORY AND ANALYSIS OF 400 FILMS, WITH A TEACHING GUIDE. His website is at www.holocaustfilms.com/

Katharina von Schnurbein was appointed as the first European Commission Coordinator on Combatting Antisemitism in December 2015. The European Commission is the highest executive body of the European Union. As coordinator, Katharina Von Schnurbein acts as the contact point for Jewish communities and relevant organizations while contributing to the development of the European Commission's strategy t...

Lenny Giteck has more than 30 years’ experience as a writer and editor for magazines and newspapers. He is the founder of Project Star of David -- a Jewish communications organization -- and the publisher and editor of its three websites: AntisemitismExposed.org , AmazingJews.org , AmazingIsraelis.org

Lesley Kleiff is a law and human rights professor at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK and Haifa University in Israel. She is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism -- https://www.jcajournal.com/ -- and has editorial roles at other academic journals on antisemitism. She is also an advisory board member at the Louis Brandeis Center for Human Rights under Law. In additio...

Moshe Dann is a historian, writer and journalist who is originally from New York and moved to Israel in the 1980s. There he is a research associate at the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies, a policy center devoted to promoting the shared values of Israel and the United States including Zionism. Moshe Dann is also a freelance columnist for the Jerusalem Post and writes op-eds  in various...

Rabbi Andrew Baker is the director of international Jewish affairs for the American Jewish Committee. In this position he engages with Jewish communities throughout the Diaspora and with their concerns. Rabbi Baker is also the personal representative of the chair-in-office on combating antisemitism of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. In these roles, Rabbi Baker has been a p...

Aaron Webman, now the head of business development at a software company in Austin, Texas, is organizing individuals against antisemitism on the internet. He is a driving force behind the podcast JOE LONSDALE: AMERICAN OPTIMIST at www.americanoptimist.com

Alexa Smith gives presentations to high school students on how to speak up against antisemitism on college campuses inspired by her own antisemitic experiences at the University of Michigan and her efforts to speak up there.  Contact Alexa Smith at alsmich@umich.edu   From Alexa Smith as background information for the discussion of this podcast:   The title of the mandatory talk was...