Upcoming NY Lecture: Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber, "Israeli Media and the Yemenite Babies Affair" (5/7)
David Shasha
Israeli Media and the Yemenite Babies Affair
Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber
May 7, 2013 8:15pm
92nd Street Y
1395 Lexington Ave (at 92nd St), New York
The Yemenite Babies Affair is the emotionally laden, unresolved story of the alleged kidnapping of hundreds of Yemenite babies upon their arrival in Israel during the 1950s. In analyzing fifty years of public narratives, Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber argues that the media played a major role in how this story was framed—and silenced. Join us as professor Madmoni-Gerber exposes the clash between the European Zionist ideology of unity and the reality of Israel’s diverse society, where at least half of the Jewish population is of Arab descent.
Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber was born and raised in Israel to parents of Yemenite descent. She has a PhD in Communication from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and a Master’s degree in Communication and Journalism from Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She has worked as a journalist in Israel for Yediot Aharonot, Shishi, Hadashot, and Hapatish newspapers and did some research work for the show Uvda on Channel Two. She also worked as a researcher and diversity trainer at Adva Center for Equality of Israeli Society.
Teaching Journalism and Media at Suffolk University, her research interests include the media’s role in shaping the sphere of public discourse, media criticism, media coverage of social and political conflicts, and representation of minorities in the media. Her book, Israeli Media and the Framing of Internal Conflict: The Yemenite Babies Affair, was publish by Palgrave Macmillan in 2009.
http://www.bechollashon.org/events/New_York/2013/March/babies.php
http://www.92y.org/Uptown/Event/Israeli-Media-and-the-Yemenite.aspx
http://www.bechollashon.org/speakers/madmoni-gerber.php
For more information on Professor Madmoni-Gerber's book on the Yemenite Babies Affair called Israeli Media and the Framing of Internal Conflict: