Lectures delivered at the International Conference on The Dynamics of Antisemitism in the Second half of the 20th Century

SICSA
The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Papers Presented for Discussion at the

International Conference
on

The Dynamics of Antisemitism in the Second Half of the 20th Century

Jerusalem, June 13-16, 1999

For the abstract of the paper, click on the author's name

Shmuel Almog	The Aging of the Victimized Jew
Dina Porat	Definitions of Antisemitism
Dalia Ofer	The Role of Antisemitism in the Historiography of the Holocaust
Antony Lerman	Antisemitism at the End of the Twentieth Century: The New Context of an Old Prejudice
Irwin Cotler	The United Nations, Israel, Human Rights, and the New Anti-Jewishness
Anthony D. Kauders	Democratization and Antisemitism in Postwar Germany
Gilad Margalit	Political Antisemitism in West Germany: The Case of Gerhard Frey’s Newspapers
Richard Mitten	Jews and Other Victims: The “Jewish Question” and Discourses of Victimhood in Austria
Mordechai Altshuler	Between Governmental and Popular Antisemitism in the Soviet Union, 1945-1953
Theodore H. Friedgut		The USSR, 1945-1991: Transformations of Antisemitism
Daniel Blatman	Jews and Polish Society 1944-1946: Strangers in Their Own Land
Jonathan Judaken	Reflections on the “Jewish Question” in Postwar France
Sander L. Gilman	A Jew in East Germany: Secular Jewish Identity under State Socialism – The Case of Jurek Becker
Rotem Kowner	Engaging Japanese Antisemitism in the 1990s: The Marco Polo Affair
Frank Stern	Visual Representations of the Other - the “Semitic” Gaze from the Screen
Gottfried H.Wagner	Performing Richard Wagner after the Holocaust: A Critical Approach to the Staging of “Nibelung’s Ring”
Leon Volovici	Antisemitic Discourse in Post-Communist Eastern Europe: An Overview
András Kovács	Antisemitism in Present Day Hungary
Raphael Vago	Patterns of Post-Communist Antisemitism in Eastern Europe
Esther Webman	The Holocaust and the “Nakba” ? Recent Developments in the Arab Approach to the Holocaust
Yohanan Manor	The Image of Jews and Judaism in School Textbooks of the Arab Countries
Milton Shain	Muslim Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism in South Africa, 1945-1998
Rainer Erb	Antisemitism in Germany, 1948-1998: Politics, Culture, and Public Opinion
Gulie Ne’eman Arad	The Holocaust and the Discourse of Victimhood in America
Leonard Dinnerstein	The Decline of Antisemitism in the United States after World War II
Sergio I. Minerbi	The Catholic Church’s Attitude toward Antisemitism after World War II
Graciela Ben Dror	The Catholic Church in Latin America: Aspects of Antisemitism, 1965-1995
Yaakov Ariel	Liberal Antisemitism and Conservative Philosemitism? Protestant Attitudes toward Jews
Gershon Nerel	“Verus Israel?”: Jewish Believers in Jesus – A Challenge for the Church
Wolfgang Benz	Denial of the Holocaust in the Growing Distance to the Historic Event. Is There a Chance of Defence?
Robert Wistrich	Historical “Revisionism”: A Contemporary Form of Antisemitism.
Per Ahlmark	How One Persson Made the Difference: Swedish Reactions to the Deniers of the Holocaust in 1989 and 1999.
Florent Brayard	The Reception of the Denial of the Holocaust in France.
Roni Stauber	From Revisionism to Holocaust Denial - David Irving as a Case Study.
Susan Sarah Cohen	The Felix Posen Bibliographic Project on Antisemitism: An Overview.
David Weinberg	The Response of European Jews to Antisemitism in the Immediate Postwar Period.
Simcha Epstein	Patterns of Jewish Response to Antisemitism.
Hadassa Ben-Itto	The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: The Lie that Wouldn’t Die
Claude Klein	Struggling against Racism and Antisemitism: The Legal Approach

International Conference, June 1999