Institute for Global Jewish Affairs – Global Antisemitism, Anti-Israelism, Jewish Studies

"Somehow in Between" - biographical movie about Karl Pfeifer

20 October 2009

The first lecture of the

Ninth Herbert Berman Memorial Series

Tuesday, 20 October 2009, 2 Heshvan 5770, 10:00 AM

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..