Danny Ben-Moshe Explained

Danny Ben-Moshe is a documentary film maker and an associate professor at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia.^[1] 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.^[2] These include The Buchenwald Ball^[3] ^[4] (2006) about Holocaust survivors in Australia celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of their liberation, which screened on SBS Television in Australia.

His 2010 film The End of the Rainbow was screened on ABC Television 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 & 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. It received critical acclaim from The Australian newspaper.^[5] It was initially screened on SBS Television in Australia.

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

Ben-Moshe is a Principal Research Fellow at the Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University in Melbourne where he specialises in diaspora and transnational studies as well as research on antisemitism, Jewish identity and multiculturalism . He is the co-author of the book Israel, the Diaspora and Jewish Identity^[6] 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 Australian, The Canberra Times, and The Jerusalem Post. He is the co-author with Dovid Katz of The Seventy Years Declaration on the Final Solution Conference at Wannsee,^[7] ^[8] 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.^[9] ^[10]

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

Books

The Diaspora and Jewish Identity, Coeditor, Sussex Academic Press, 2007.^[6]

Non-Academic Publications

- Danny Ben-Moshe . Joanne Pyke . August 2012 . Diasporas in Australia : current and potential links with the homeland. Summary report of an Australian Research Council Linkage project into the Italian, Macedonian, Tongan and Vietnamese diasporas . Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University .
Danny Ben-Moshe . Joanne Pyke . Ordan Andreevski . August 2012 . The Macedonian Diaspora in Australia : current and potential links to the homeland. Report of an Australian Research Council linkage project . Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University .
Danny Ben-Moshe . Joanne Pyke . August 2012 . The Vietnamese Diaspora in Australia : current and potential links to the homeland. Report of an Australian Research Council linkage project . Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University .
Danny Ben-Moshe . Joanne Pyke . Loretta Baldassar . August 2012 . The Italian Diaspora in Australia : current and potential links to the homeland. Report of an Australian Research Council linkage project . Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University .
Danny Ben-Moshe . Joanne Pyke . Steve Francis . August 2012 . The Tongan Diaspora in Australia : current and potential links to the homeland. Report of an Australian Research Council linkage project . Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University .
Hurriyet Babacan . Danny Ben-Moshe . August 2008 . Multicultural Affairs in Victoria: a discussion paper for a new policy . Victorian Multicultural Commission .

Filmography

Released Films

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2017	Shalom Bollywood	Writer, Director and Producer
2017	My Mother's Lost Children	Writer and Director	BBC Four
2012	Rewriting History	Codirector, Coproducer, Key protagonist, Cast	SBS Television
2011	Carnaby Street Undressed	Writer, Co-director and Co-producer	Yesterday (TV channel)
2010	The End of the Rainbow	Writer, Director and Producer	ABC Television
2006	The Buchenwald Ball	Co-director and Co-producer	SBS Television

References

Faculty List, "Deakin University Faculty List", Deakin University
Centenary Medal Citation, "For service providing leadership through education of, and research into, the impact of racism", Australian Government, 1 January 2001
Paul Kalina, "The boys of Buchenwald", The Age, 10 August 2006
https://www.jewishnews.net.au/buchenwald-boys-dance-again/41519 "Buchenwald Boys dance again"
Graeme Blundell, "Lithuania's lies and deception exposed", The Australian, 14 September 2012
Book: Danny Ben-Moshe. Zohar Segev. Israel, the Diaspora, and Jewish Identity. 20 March 2013. 2007. Sussex Academic Press. 978-1-84519-189-4.
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
Web site: Ben-Moshe . Danny . 2012-03-12 . Saying no to ‘double genocide’ . 2024-11-26 . The Jerusalem Post JPost.com . en.
Web site: Ben-Moshe . Danny . 2011-11-02 . Lithuania Assaults Holocaust Memory . 2024-11-26 . The Jerusalem Post JPost.com . en.