Yanky Fachler
About Yanky Fachler
Yanky Fachler is chair of the Jewish Historical Society of Ireland. He has a regular slot, Word in Edgeways, on early-morning Irish radio. He delivered 250 Zoom lectures during COVID and is the author of several books, including Kaleidoscope: 100 Characters Who Helped Shape the Irish Jewish Community; Jewish Letchworth: A Microcosm of the Jewish Communal Experience; The Vow: Rebuilding the Fachler Tribe After the Holocaust; and 6 Officers, 2 Lions and 750 Mules.
Yanky’s lectures (10)
Date
Title
8 January
Ireland and Israel: The Demise of an Uneasy Diplomatic Relationship
4 February
A Thriving Nazi Party in Palestine: The Story of the German Templers
18 March
I Saw Five Ships Sail By: Israel’s Response When France Refused to Deliver Five Paid-for Missile Boats
8 May
The Lunatic Express: Bridge over the River Tsavo
22 May
Reading Gaol and Devil’s Island
1 July
Israel and Ireland: Descent into the Antisemitic Cesspool
7 July
The Real Inglorious Bastards
22 July
Ireland’s State-Sponsored Human Rights Abuses
14 August
When Jabotinsky Didn’t Meet Trotsky