Registration is required.
The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
cordially invites you to
The first lecture of the
Ninth Herbert Berman Memorial Series
On Tuesday, 20 October 2009, 2 Heshvan 5770, 10:00 AM
at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 13 Tel Hai Street
We will screen the biographical movie about
Karl Pfeifer
the Austrian Jewish journalist and fighter
against fascism and anti-Semitism
Karl Pfeifer will be present and answer questions following the movie: Zwischen allen Stühlen – Lebenswege des Journalisten Karl Pfeifer(Somehow in Between). The movie has English subtitles. It includes the famous scene where Pfeifer asks the late extreme right wing FPÖ party leader Jörg Haider about his connections to Holocaust deniers. Between 1980 and 1987 Pfeifer was expelled from Hungary four times because of his journalistic activities.
Karl Pfeifer was born in Baden bei Wien, Austria in 1928. In 1938, following the “Anschluss”, he fled with his parents to Hungary. In 1943, he emigrated to Palestine where he volunteered for the Palmach and fought in Israel’s War of Independence. In 1979, he became a freelance journalist and from 1982-95 was the editor of the official monthly publication of the Jewish community in Austria, Die Gemeinde. Based in Vienna, he writes regularly for the American Jewish Committee’s Z-Word, and for the Budapest weekly Hetek. For 15 years Mr. Pfeifer was the Austrian correspondent of Kol Yisrael Reshet Bet..
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We hope you will be able to join us.
RSVP to Tamas Berzi: Tel. 02/561-9281,
Fax 02/561-9112 or email: phas1@jcpa.org
Upcoming Lecture: Abraham Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League, on Sunday, 8 November, 10:00 am