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'''Mark Edward Weber''' (b. Portland, Oregon, October 9, 1951) is the director of the [[Institute for Historical Review]],<ref name="IHR">[http://www.ihr.org/other/authorbios.html Institute for Historical Review]</ref> |
'''Mark Edward Weber''' (b. Portland, Oregon, October 9, 1951) is the director of the [[Institute for Historical Review]],<ref name="IHR">[http://www.ihr.org/other/authorbios.html Institute for Historical Review]</ref>. Weber has been associated with the IHR since 1991 and has been the Institute Director<ref>[http://www.ihr.org/about About IHR]</ref> since 1995. For nine years he was editor of the IHR's [[Journal of Historical Review]]. <ref name="IHR" /> |
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*Carlos C. Juerta and Dafna Shiffman-Huerta "Holocaust Denial Literature: Its Place in Teaching the Holocaust", in Rochelle L. Millen. ''New Perspectives on the Holocaust: A Guide for Teachers and Scholars'', NYU Press, 1996, ISBN 0-8147-5540-2, p. 189. |
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*"While denial of the Holocaust's very occurrence had emerged already during the early postwar period, it gained new prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. During this period denial attempted to leave the lunatic fringe and set out for the mainstream in both the United States and Europe, as figures such as Arthur Butz, Bradley Smith, and Robert Faurisson, together with organizations like the Institute for Historical Review, attempted to lend academic credibility to Holocaust Denial." Gavriel D. Rosenfeld "The politics of uniqueness: reflections on the recent polemical turn in Holocaust and genocide scholarship" in David Cesarani, Sarah Kavanaugh. ''Holocaust: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies'', Routledge, 2004, ISBN 0-415-27509-1, p. 376. |
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*"In recent years, Holocaust denial has become a propaganda mainstay of organized racism. It is promulgated by racist groups and by organizations like the Institute for Historical Review (IHR), which publishes the scientific-looking ''Journal of Historical Review''." Kathleen M. Blee. ''Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement'', University of California Press, 2003, ISBN 0-520-24055-3, p. 92. |
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*"The pseudo-scholarly guise of Holocaust deniers is epitomised by the Institute for Historical Review - established in the United States in the late 1970s - and its journal, the ''Journal of Historical Review'', which have provided the core of the more contemporary Holocaust denial movement (Stern 1995)." Lydia Morris. ''Rights: Sociological Perspectives'', Routledge (UK), 2006, ISBN 0-415-35522-2 p. 238 note 1. |
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*"The chief organization promoting Holocaust denial is the Institute for Historical Review, a California organization founded in 1978 by [[Willis Carto]], who also founded the [[extreme right-wing]] [[Liberty Lobby]]." Suzanne Pharr. ''Eyes Right!: Challenging the Right Wing Backlash'', [[South End Press]], 1995, ISBN 0-89608-523-6, p. 252. |
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*"Denial is an international phenomena with deniers active across the globe. This is not an incidental occurrence, but rather is the result of organized international networking. Organizations such as the California-based Institute for Historical Review (IHR) have played the pivotal role in this process by organizing regular international conferences since 1979 in America." Konrad Kwiet, Jürgen Matthäus. ''Contemporary Responses to the Holocaust'', Praeger/Greenwood, 2004, ISBN 0-275-97466-9, p. 141. |
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*"A growing number of white nationalist and white supremacy groups have adopted innocuous-sounding names such as the Euro-American Student Union, the Institute for Historical Review (a Holocaust denial group), ..." Carol M. Swain. ''The New White Nationalism in America: its challenge to integration'', Cambridge University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-521-80886-3, p. 28. |
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*"Since its inception in 1979, the Institute for Historical Review (IHR), a California-based Holocaust denial organization founded by Willis Carto of Liberty Lobby, has promoted the antisemitic conspiracy theory that Jews fabricated tales of their own genocide to manipulate the sympathies of the non-Jewish world." [http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw2000-1/usa.htm Antisemitism and Racism Country Reports: United States], [[Stephen Roth Institute]], 2000. Retrieved May 17, 2007. |
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*"The IHR is the Holocaust-denial group in Costa Mesa that attempts to rewrite the history of World War II in favor of the Axis powers and present nazism in a faborable light. The IHR is sponsored by Willis Carto who also leads the anti-Semitic and quasi-Nazi Liberty Lobby." Russ Bellant, ''Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party'', [[South End Press]], 1991, ISBN 0-89608-418-3, p. 43. |
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</ref> organization based in southern California. |
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| ⚫ | Weber was born in [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]], [[Oregon]] in 1951. After graduating from Jesuit High School in 1969, he studied history in [[Chicago]] at the [[University of Illinois]].<ref name="IHR" /> He continued his studies for two semesters at the [[University of Munich]], and, returning to [[Oregon]], took a B.A. degree in history with high honors from [[Portland State University]]. In graduate school, he continued his study of history at [[Indiana University]], receiving an M.A. degree in [[Modern history|modern]] [[European history]] in 1977.{{reflist}} |
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Weber has been associated with the IHR since 1991 and has been the Institute Director<ref>[http://www.ihr.org/about About IHR]</ref> since 1995. For nine years he was editor of the IHR's [[Journal of Historical Review]]. <ref name="IHR" /> |
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| ⚫ | Weber was born in [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]], [[Oregon]] in 1951. After graduating from Jesuit High School in 1969, he studied history in [[Chicago]] at the [[University of Illinois]].<ref name="IHR" /> He continued his studies for two semesters at the [[University of Munich]], and, returning to [[Oregon]], took a B.A. degree in history with high honors from [[Portland State University]]. In graduate school, he continued his study of history at [[Indiana University]], receiving an M.A. degree in [[Modern history|modern]] [[European history]] in 1977. |
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== See also == |
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* [[Holocaust denial]] |
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==References== |
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== External links == |
== External links == |
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* [http://www.ihr.org Institute for Historical Review] |
* [http://www.ihr.org Institute for Historical Review] |
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* [http://www.adl.org/holocaust/weber.asp Mark Weber:The Professional Denier] |
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* [http://counterknowledge.com/2009/01/holocaust-denier-mark-weber-admits-weve-failed/ Is it all over for Holocaust deniers? Mark Weber admits ‘We’ve failed’] |
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* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=985537394376971987# A "Holocaust" Debate--Mark Weber vs Michael Shermer] |
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* [http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/orgs/american/skeptic-magazine/skeptic-4.html Who Are The Holocaust Revisionists?] |
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Revision as of 13:52, 16 June 2012
Mark Edward Weber (b. Portland, Oregon, October 9, 1951) is the director of the Institute for Historical Review,[1]. Weber has been associated with the IHR since 1991 and has been the Institute Director[2] since 1995. For nine years he was editor of the IHR's Journal of Historical Review. [1]
Weber was born in Portland, Oregon in 1951. After graduating from Jesuit High School in 1969, he studied history in Chicago at the University of Illinois.[1] He continued his studies for two semesters at the University of Munich, and, returning to Oregon, took a B.A. degree in history with high honors from Portland State University. In graduate school, he continued his study of history at Indiana University, receiving an M.A. degree in modern European history in 1977.