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Research
The Center will consider sponsoring projects in a variety of disciplines, such as history, political science, psychology, sociology, economics, literature, and the arts. The Center has published monographs on such subjects as nationalism and antisemitism, the roots of Christian antisemitism; images of Jews in literature and the arts; Jewish perceptions of and responses to antisemitism; the extreme Right and neo-Nazism in Western Europe; intellectuals and antisemitism; and post-communist antisemitism in Russia and Eastern Europe.
Inquiries regarding possible research proposals should be directed to Head of Research, at the address below, or via email.
The Vidal Sassoon International Center
for the Study of Antisemitism (SICSA)
SICSA Research updated and cumulative list
Look at our research proposals by year: 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 other research
Projects approved by the Academic Committee for the academic year 2008
Dr. Samuel Salzborn (University of Giessen) On the Political Theory of Antisemitism. An Empirical-Theoretical Attempt to Integrate Socio-Scientific Analytical Strategies and Methods
Dr. Pawel Maciejko (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Ritual Murder and Witchcraft Accusations in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania
Prof. Amy Elman (Kalamazoo College) Antisemitism in an Integrated Europe: Governance & Virtual Redress
Felix Posen Fellowships
Alessandro Cifariello (Universitá di Roma Tor Vergata) Judeophoby and Anti-nihilistic Russian Novel in the Last Part of the 19th Century
Aleksandra Gliszczyńska (University of Adam Mickiewicz) Legal Aspects of Fighting Anti-Semitism
Anna Ayana Novikov (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Jewish National Self Visions: Freemasons and B’nai-B’rith Members between “Duetschland” and “Polska” in the Inter-War Period
Sophie Roberts (University of Toronto) French Colonialism, Algerian Jews and the Limits of Citizenship: French Antisemitism, Social Change and the Jews of Algeria, 1870-1944
Maya Siminovich (Carlos III University, Madrid) How the Spanish Press Refers to Israel (and its otherness): 1948-2004
Abe Sweiry (Lancaster University) Contemporary Antisemitism in Britain
Second Year
Emmanuel Debono (Institut d'Etudes Politique de Paris) LICA - Ligue Internationale contre l'antisémitisme (1928-1940)
Sariel Birnbaum (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) דמות היהודים במדיות אודיו-ויזואליות בעולם הערבי
Projects approved by the Academic Committee for the academic year 2007
Dr. Marlène Laruelle Euphemizing Antisemitism: Conspiracy Theories in Russia's New Academic Disciplines
Dr. Catherine Poujol Les Juifs et l’Eglise de France dans l’immédiat après-guerre. Combats contre l’antisémitisme traditionnel (1944-1953).
Dr. Dov Stuchinsky 'למען בני האומה העברית': שנאת ישראל ואפולוגטיקה נוצרית חדשה באיבריה בראשית העת החדשה
Dr. Claudia Ursutiu “Jewish Question” in the Romanian Parliament (1866-1919)
Second Year
Prof. Joanna Tokarska Bakir Blood-Libel Myths of Sandomierz
Dr. Heidemarie Wawrzyn Nazis in the Holy Land, 1933-1945
Felix Posen Fellowships
Julia Anspach Antisemitism in the German Heimatfilm after 1945
Sariel Birnbaum דמות היהודים במדיות אודיו-ויזואליות בעולם הערבי
Lucian Butaru The Racial Component of the Romanian Antisemitic Discourse until World War II
Hana Klamková From Anti-Jewish Feelings to Antisemitism: Building a Racial Slovak State (1939-1945)
Wiede Wiebke The Business of Discrimination; Sales Volume and Sales Conditions of Racist and Antisemitic Publications in the Weimar Republic.
Second Year
Ana-Maria Barbulescu Jews and Christians in the First Six Centuries of the Common Era. An Analysis on Identity Construction, Alterity and the Relationship with the Other
Omhani Naïja Sionisme, Antisionisme et judéophobie en Tunisie
Projects approved by the Academic Committee for the academic year 2006
Dr. Yitzhak Dana (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) המלומדים הנרדפים: יהודים ולא-יהודים בחקר העולם הקלאסי בגרמניה במאה ושלושים השנים האחרונות (1870-2000) – רצף ושינוי (The Persecuted Scholars: Jews and non-Jews in the Study of Classical Antiquity in Germany in the Last Hundred and Thirty Years (1870-2000) – Continuity and Change)
Dr. Małgorzata Domagalska (University of Lodz) Anti-Semitic Popular Novel in Poland at the Beginning of 20th Century
Dr. Semion Goldin (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) יחסן של התנועות הלאומיות באימפריה הרוסית בסוף המאה ה-19-תחילת המאה ה-20 ל"שאלה היהודית" – ניתוח השוואתי (The Attitude of the National Movements in the Russian Empire at the End of the 19th Century to the "Jewish Question" – A Comparative Analysis)
Prof. Susan Mc'Reynolds (Northwestern University, Chicago) For Those Who Can See: Messianic Anti-Westernism and Anti-Semitism through the Prism of Dostoevsky
Pilot Project
Dr. Vincenzo Pinto (Independent Scholar) The Cultural Code of Italian Anti-Semitism. From the fin-de-siécle to the Second World War
Prof. Efraim Sicher (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) & Prof. Linda Weinhouse (The Community College of Baltimore County) Under Post-Colonial Eyes: The Figure of the "Jew" in Postmodernist Fiction
Prof. Yaakov Ariel (The University of North Carolina) Philosemites or Antisemites?: Evangelical Christians and Jews
Second Year
Dr. Nelly Las (Independent Scholar) הפמיניזם מול השיח היהודי העכשווי: היבטים בלתי-צפויים של גילויי אנטישמיות (Feminist Vs. Current Jewish Discourse: Unpredictable Aspects of Antisemitic Manifestations) Second Year
Felix Posen Fellowships
Ana Maria Barbulescu (Bucharest University) Jews and Christians in the First Six Centuries of the Common Era. An Analysis on Identity Construction, Alterity and the Relationship with the Other
Emmanuel Debono (Institut d'Etudes Politique de Paris) LICA - Ligue Internationale contre l'antisémitisme (1928-1940)
Omhani Naïja (Université Lumière Lyon 2 – C.N.R.S.) Zionism, Anti-Zionism and Judeophobia in Tunisia (North Africa)
Flora Cassen (New York University) “Looking Jewish:” The Jewish Badge in Renaissance ItalySecond Year
Second Year
Prof. Brian Horowitz (USA) Russian-Jewish Interaction, 1880-1913: Cultural Cooperation in an Epoch of Antisemitism
Felix Posen Fellows who have attained their doctoral degreesGöran Adamson (London School of Economics and Political Science), The Sudden Post-1968 Rise of the Austrian Freedom Party, Four Hypotheses
Semion Goldin (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Russian Jewry under Tsarist military rule during World War I
Annette Seidel-Arpaci (University of Leeds) Minority Experience and Self-Positioning against the Background of "Vergangenheits-bewälitgung" and Renationalization in Germany
New Research Projects Dr. Agnieszka Friedrich (The University of Gdańsk, Poland) Antisemitic Journalism in “Rola” from 1883 to 1909
Dr. Albert Kaganovitch (Independent Researcher, Israel) היחסים בין יהודים לבין מוסלמים באסיה התיכונה מאמצע המאה ה-19 עד סוף המאה ה-20 (Jews-Muslims Relations in Middle Asia from the mid Nineteenth Century to the End of the Twentieth Century)
Dr. Susanne Terwey (Humbold University Berlin) The British Jews’ Great War
Dr. Heidemarie Wawrzyn (Hebrew University) Nazis in the Holy Land, 1933-1945
New Felix Posen Fellows
Flora Cassen (New York University) “Looking Jewish:” The Jewish Badge in Renaissance Italy
Laura Katharina Jockusch (New York University) “Collect and Record! Help to Write the History of the Latest Destruction!” Jewish Historical Commissions in Europe, 1943-1953
Jerzy Mazur (Brandeis University) Jews in Ruthenia in 14th-16th Centuries. An Example of the Jewish-Christian Relations in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Poland
Raluca Dana Rus (Babeş-Bolyai University) The Conflict in the Middle East in the View of the Romanian Public Opinion, between 1989-2000
Annette Seidel-Arpaci (University of Leeds) Minority Experience and Self-Positioning against the Background of “Vergangenheitsbewältigung” and Renationalization in Germany
Second Year
Clemens Heni (Freie Universität Berlin) Henning Eichberg – a Völkischer Beobachter in the FRG: A Generator of Political Culture in between German Nationalist Revenge, ‘Volkich’ Anti-Universalism, Capitalistic Totality and Antisemitism (working title)
José David Lebovitch Dahl (European University Institute, Florence, Italy) The Image of “the Jew” in La Civiltà Cattolica 1850-1949
New Research Projects
Dr. Yaakov Ariel (The University of North Carolina, USA) Christian Evangelical Attitudes toward the Jews
Dr. Matthias Kuntzel (Independent Researcher, Germany) European Roots of Antisemitism in Current Islamic Thinking -Pilot Project
Dr. Joanna Tokarska-Bakir (University of Warsaw, Poland) Blood Libel Myths of Sandomierz
Second Year Dr. Florin Lobont (West University, Timisoara, Romania) Modernization and Antisemitism in Modern Romania: Continuities and Changes in Political Action and Culture
Dr. Vadim Rossman (Independent Researcher, USA) Antisemitism and Sinophobia in the 19th Century -Pilot Project
New Felix Posen Fellows David Lebovitch-Dahl (European University Institute, Italy) The Image of the Jew in “La Civiltá Cattolica” 1850-1949
Linda Maizels (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) תגובות חינוכיות לאנטישמיות בקמפוסי מכללות ואוניברסיטאות בארה"ב (Educational Responses to Antisemitism in College and University Campuses in the USA)
Rivka-Orli Rahimian The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) האנטישמיות באיראן בתקופת הרפובליקה האסלאמית (1979-היום) (Antisemitism in the Iranian Islamic Republic, 1979-Present)
Second Year Kati Vörös (University of Chicago, USA) From Nation to Race: Population Politics in Hungary (1867-1920)
Felix Posen Doctoral Candidates
Applications approved by the Academic Committee, 2003 Yuval Boker (Haifa University)The Jewish Community, Antisemitism and Inter-Race Relations in Britain, 1945-1970
Vadim Gordimer (Ben Gurion University)The Jews in the Crimean Peninsula between the World Wars
Clemens Heni (Universität Tübingen)Henning Eichberg, the (antisemitic) New Right, and the (anti-Zionist) New Left in the Political Culture of Post-1968 Germany
Andrea Hoffman (Universität Tübingen) Antisemitism in Southern Germany – The Field of Tension between Religious Denominations David Shapira (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) In the Eye of the Storm: Chief Rabbi Yaacov Kaplan – The Ordeals of the Jewish Community in Twentieth-Century France
Martin Ulmer (Universität Tübingen) Antisemitism in Public Discourse and Everyday Life in Stuttgart from 1871 to 1945. An Exemplary Local and Regional Study
Kati Vörös (University of Chicago)From Nation to Race: Population Politics in Hungary, 1867-1920
Second YearGöran Adamson (London School of Economics and Political Science)The Sudden Post-1986 Rise of the Austrian Freedom Party: Four Hypotheses
Maria Ghitta (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania)Nationalism and Antisemitism among the Romanians of Transylvania between the Two World Wars
Laurent Joly (Sorbonne)L’administration antijuive de Vichy: Le Commissariat général aux questions juives, 1940-1944
Isabelle Rohr (London School of Economics and Political Science)The Franco Regime and the Jews: Antisemitism and Rescue Activities
Jurgita Verbickiene (University of Vilinius, Lithuania) Jews in Society of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Aspects of Coexistence
CongratulationsThe Sassoon Center is very pleased to congratulate Dr. Katharine Poujol, who received her Ph.D., summa cum laude, from the Sorbonne for her thesis “Aimé Pallière (1868-1949), itinéraire d’un chrétien dans le judaïsme.” We also extend our congratulations to Dr. Anthony Bale of the University of London for the completion of his doctoral dissertation “Fictions of Judaism in Medieval England.” Dr. Bale and Dr. Poujol were recipients of Felix Posen Doctoral Fellowships.
Research 2003
Three new research projects approved by the Academic Committee for the academic year, 2002-2003
Dr. Jovan Byford (Nottingham Trent University) Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović: Between Mainstream Orthodox Culture and the Christian Right
Has Serbia conformed to the revival of the far Right and antisemitic political ideas seen in Eastern Europe during the transition from communism? To address this question, Dr. Byford goes beyond existing research on antisemitism in Serbia. Specifically, he investigates how the authority of Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović--a highly respected but very controversial Serbian Orthodox Christian theologian--is used in the discourse of the far Right to legitimize political extremism, especially antisemitism. This project aims to contribute to the ongoing debate about the presence of antisemitism and the persistence of antisemitic conspiracy theories in Serbian society. It also intends to draw attention to the role that the unchallenged authority of Bishop Velimirović and the Serbian Orthodox Church play in the perpetuation of these phenomena. Interviews with members of the Serbian Orthodox clergy, far Right activists, and representatives of the Serbian government as well as with a variety of domestic political parties will supplement the analysis of written material.
Dr. Nelly Las (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Feminist Movements Confront Antisemitism from the 1970s until Today: From Silence and Non-Intervention to Political Use of Anti-Zionism
Most of the women’s liberation organizations from the 1970s onward have taken upon themselves the fight against all forms of social repression, not just discrimination against women. But why have feminists not treated antisemitism as an injustice that must also be fought? Dr. Las will assess the attitude of the various women’s movements to the antisemitic events of the past thirty years in Europe and in the United States. Herein, she will account for the global changes of the period as well as the new forms of prejudice and antisemitism that have surfaced in recent years. On one level, the project deals with the public statements and the personal testimonies of activists. At another level, the research investigates the politicization of those feminist movements connected to the UN. To accomplish this, several cases are explored in depth; among these are the international conference of women in Mexico (1975), where the equation of Zionism with racism emerged for the first time, and the Copenhagen conference (1985), where anti-Zionism assumed the form of virulent antisemitism. This project brings a unique gender-oriented approach to the study of contemporary antisemitism. The use of gender in this study does not imply an exclusively female perspective, but rather a focus on the involvement of feminist groups.
Dr. Rivka Yadlin (Hebrew University) “‘The Cultural Assault on the Muslim Mind’: The Conceptual Basis of Arab/Muslim Antisemitism”
After 9/11, queries of “why do they hate us?” peaked in the West. This testifies to the crystallization of two notions that were heretofore either vague or dismissed: the relevance of “words” in the formation of imagery and attitudes as well as the construction and the diffusion of malicious ideas of “otherness” among Arab/Muslim opinion makers. These questions lay at the heart of Dr. Yadlin’s study. She posits that the current phase of Arab/Mulim antisemitism, while surely tied to the prevailing geo-political or territorial conflict, is also rooted in the cultural sphere. For the Muslim world, Jews are a part of the irreconcilable, hegemonic, “other” West against which Arab/Muslim identity must protect itself. In addition to a theoretical inquiry, a case study will be assessed; specifically, the mainstream discourse of the hatred of Jews in Egypt. This will focus on the convergence of the domestic Islamist revival with the globalization of the media and the internationalization of Islam. Rivka Yadlin will explore three major source bases: recent publications by mainstream authors that deal with Israel, broadcasts by the al-Jazeera TV station, and self-styled Islamic sources in print format and on the Internet.
Third Year
Dr. Leonid Katsis The Ideological History of the Blood Libel in Russian Orthodox Thought from The Book of a Neophite Monk to the Beilis Trial
The following research projects have been completed
Prof. Danny Ben Moshe Holocaust Denial in Australia
Dr. Olaf R. Blaschke Jews and Catholics in the German Empire
Dr. Yaron Harel The Response of the Enlightened Jews in the Near East to the Dreyfus Affair
Dr. Philippe Oriol Bernard Lazare and AntisemitismResearch 2002Felix Posen Doctoral Candidates
Göran Adamson (London School of Economics and Political Science)The Sudden Post-1986 Rise of the Austrian Freedom Party: Four Hypotheses
Maria Ghitta (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania)Nationalism and Antisemitism among the Romanians of Transylvania between the Two World Wars
Laurent Joly (Sorbonne)L’Administration antijuive de Vichy: Le Commissariat général aux Questions juives, 1940-1944
Anna Łysiak (Jagellonian University)Antisemitism and the Catholic Church in Poland between the Two World Wars
Isabelle Rohr (London School of Economics and Political Science)The Franco Regime and the Jews: Antisemitism and Rescue Activities
Daniel Tzadik (Yale University)The Ulama and the Other: The Attitude of the Nineteenth Century Iranian Clerics toward the Jews
Second Year
Michal Frankl (Charles University, Czech Republic) Czech Antisemitism in the Context of European Antisemitism, 1879-1900
Sandrine Sanos (Rutgers University)The Fantasy of the “Jew:” Gender, Race and Antisemitism in 1930s France
ResearchFive new research projects approved by the Academic Committee for the academic year 2001-2002 Dr. Yaron Harel (Bar-Ilan University) The Response of the Enlightened Jews in the Near East to the Dreyfus Affair
A century after the Dreyfus Affair, one issue has not yet received scholarly attention--the antisemitism in the Near East that accompanied the trial, and the responses of the local Jewish communities. Dr. Harel’s research is based on the ideas contained in the booklet of an Enlightened Jew (maskil) from Aleppo, David Silvera, on the dangers of antisemitism and the ways to combat it. Dr. Harel compares these ideas to those of other maskilim in the Near East and Europe. He also assesses the impact of the Dreyfus Affair on the development of antisemitism in the Arab nations to this day.This project is a landmark analysis of the introduction of modern European antisemitism into the Middle East. At the same time, it also reveals the emerging solidarity between the Jews of this region and of Europe in the fight against antisemitism.
Prof. Andrew Horn (Harvard University)The Connecting Thread--Kipling’s “White Man” and the Antisemitism of Empire
The focus of the study is the vivid antisemitism of Rudyard Kipling. Until now this aspect has been largely written out of Kipling studies in favor of analysis of his imperialist jingoism and imagery of Indians and Africans. Scholarly defenders of Kipling argue that antisemitism in his texts simply reflected contemporary prejudices, was not deeply felt by the author, and was tempered by what Kipling saw as the redeeming qualities in some Jews. Nevertheless, a clear and intensifying antisemitism is evident throughout Kipling’s writing career. This is particularly important because of his pivotal role in the development of the imperial narrative. Furthermore, Kipling’s works contain abundant material for the study of antisemitism, especially since many of its intellectual expressions were quite uninhibited at the time.
Dr. Florin Lobont(West University, Timisoara, Romania)Dr. Dan Stone (Royal Holloway, University of London) Modernization and Antisemitism in Modern Romania: Continuities and Changes in Political Action and Culture
Concerned with the high proportion of youth among the voters for radical Right parties in the 2000 elections, the authors examine the relationship between modernization and the overall historical, cultural and psychological background of antisemitism in Romania. They found a growing body of revisionist literature that tries to minimize Romanian antisemitism or justify it in the name of patriotism or national interest. By setting the history of antisemitism into a theoretical context (using the tools of sociology, anthropology, and the philosophy of political culture and history), this project will result in a modern synthesis on the phenomenon of antisemitism in Romania, from its roots in the sixteenth century to the present day.
Dr. Vadim Rossman (Austin, Texas) Jewish Conspiracy and Yellow Peril: Antisemitism and Sinophobia in the Nineteenth Century
Three phobias have haunted the imaginations of many European conservative intellectuals since the nineteenth century: communism, the Yellow Peril, and the Jewish International Conspiracy. According to some of these intellectuals, the Jews and Chinese constituted a single, rather terrifying, “Other.” Vadim Rossman will conduct research on the connections made by these Europeans between specific fears--the threat of sinification and judaization to the foundations of European culture as well as the negative roles of Jews and Chinese in modernization. Beginning with the correlation of the Jews and Chinese to the idea of apocalypse in fin-de-siècle Russian elite culture, the project then assesses the repercussions of these ideas in later years. Particular emphasis will be devoted to the study of how Nazi ideologues employed this idea--the Red threat to Europe from Asian hordes led by Jewish Bolsheviks. Dr. Rossman’s project is of especial relevance in light of the fears sparked in the West over China’s emergence as a global economic and military power.
Dr. Gyula Vattamany (University of Debrecen, Hungary) John Chrysostom and the Twentieth Century
This project examines the anti-Jewish writings of John Chrysostom, an early church father. In particular, the author will use a myth-critical approach that should deepen the research of the early roots of antisemitism in Christianity. The first goal of the myth-critical research is a mapping of the metaphors in the texts and then an analysis of the imaginary (or virtual) world depicted by Chrysostom’s anti-Jewish rhetoric. The myth-critical approach helps to explain why the anti-Judaism stirred in the early centuries of Christianity can be used to spark antisemitic emotions up to the present. Therefore, this study will focus on the linguistic and literary aspects of Chrysostom’s homilies. The second goal is to construct a full view of his vision and to attempt to conclude why it reappeared in later versions of antisemitism, including the reception of the texts in the twentieth century.
Third Year Prof. Oleg Budnitskii Russian Jews between the Reds and the Whites: Jews and the anti-Bolshevik Movement
Dr. Philippe Oriol Bernard Lazare and Antisemitism
Continuing ProjectsJean Ancel Antisemitism vs. Nationalism -- Romania 1942 Romania, until recently an avowed communist country, has a long history of hatred for its Jewish minority. However, most of the Jews of Romania were saved from Hitler's "Final Solution." This study will analyze why this was so, based on newly uncovered archival sources, consisting of both German and Romanian documents. Shaul BaumannThe Attitude of the Eranos Circle to Jews and Judaism
Danny Ben Moshe Holocaust Denial in Australia
Olaf Blaschke Jews and Catholics in the German EmpireProposes a reevaluation of the nature of relations and conflicts between the German Catholics and the Jews, approaching the problem in three ways: by exploring the issue of Jewish integration; the real reasons for conflict and animosity between Catholic and Jews; an examination of the Jewish perception of Catholic antisemitism.
Jacob Borut Antisemitism in Jewish Everyday Life in the Weimar Republic
Based on archival materials
from the German Jewish communities and the German local authorities' archives,
the research will
Benjamin Braude The Image of the Jew in the Literature of Eastern Travel, 1350-1650: Power and the Transition to Antisemitism
Patrick Cavaliere Antisemitism in Fascist Italy: The Intellectual Origins of the Racial Laws of 1938The main goal of the study will be to present an intellectual history of antisemitism in Fascist Italy by providing a descriptive account of the ideological vindications and doctrinal justification of the anti-Jewish laws.
Brian Horowitz Russian-Jewish Interaction: Cultural Cooperation in an Epoch of Antisemitism
Melinda Jones The Role of Law in Overcoming Antisemitism in Australia
Jonathan Judaken Theorizing Antisemitism: Confronting Modernity and Modern Judeophobia
Horst Junginger The Study of the “Jewish Question” and its Academic Setting in Germany, 1933-1945
Leonid Katsis The Ideological History of the Blood Libel in Russian Orthodox Thought from “The Book of a Neophite” to the Beilis Trial
Victoria Khiterer Anti-Jewish Pogroms in Ukraine, October 1905
Joël Kotek Antisemitism in Belgian and French Comic Strips (1933-2000)
András Kovács The Perception of Antisemitism among Jews in Contemporary Hungary: Results of a Survey
Vygantas Vareikis From Prejudice to Destruction: Antisemitism in Lithuania at the End of the Nineteenth Century and during the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Hanna Wegrzynek The Origins of the Blood Libel Accusations in Poland
The following research project has been completed
José Luis Rodríguez-JiménezExtreme Right Xenophobia and Antisemitism in Spain (1931-1982): The Purpose of the Conspiracy Theory in Political Situations of Regime Change
Dr. Danny Ben Moshe (Australia) Holocaust Denial in Australia (pilot)
Dr. Leonid Katsis (Russia) The Ideological History of the Blood Libel in Russian Orthodox Thought from ‘The Book of a Neophite’ to the Beilis Trial
Prof. Andras Kovacs (Hungary) The perception of Antisemitism among Jews in Contemporary Hungary: Results of a Survey
Dr. Joel Kote (Belgium) Antisemitism in Belgian and French Comic Strips (1933-2000) (Pilot)
Dr. Hanna Wegrzynek (Poland) The Origins of the Blood Libel Accusations in Poland
Dr. Olaf Blaschke (Germany) Jews and Catholics in the German Empire (Second Year)
Dr. Philippe Oriol(France)
Doctoral Thesis
Max Likin (USA) Engaged in History – Cecile Brunschvicg, Rene Cassin and Raymond Aron in Twentieth Century France
Ulrich Bernard Herbeck The Bolsheviks and Antisemitism in the Russian Civil War 1917-1921
Katell Berthelot (France) The Accusation of Misanthropy Formulated against the Jews during the Hellenistic and Roman Period and Its Jewish Answers
Stephanie Courouble (France) The Denial of the Holocaust and Its Reception in the Public Space: France, England, Germany, Canada and United States
Michal Frankl (Czech Republic) Czech Antisemitism 1879-1900 in the Context of European Antisemitism
Jurgita Verbickiene (Lithuania) Jews in Society of Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Aspects of Co-Living
Nicola Wenge (Germany) Integration or Execution? Antisemitism and the Relationship between Jews and Non-Jews in Cologne, 1918-1933
Dana Katz (USA) Between Privilege and Perfidy: Portraying the Jew in 15th Centrury North Italian Painting (Second Year)
Catherine Poujol (France) A Noachide’s Itinerary Aime Palliere (France 1875-1949) (Second Year)
Claudia Ursutiu (Romania) Jewish Issues in the Romanian Parliament in the First Decade of the Interwar Period (Second Year) Arkadi Selzer (Israel)The Jews of North East Belorussia between the Two World Wars (1917-1941) (Second Year)
Research Projects
Dr. Leonid Katsis (Russia)
Prof. Andras Kovacs (Hungary) Starting with an empirical survey and interviews, the study will make a detailed examination of the present level and main aspects of post- Communist forms of antisemitism in Hungarian society. It will examine the connection of the present anti-Jewish prejudices with the traditional (religious, economic, cultural) stereotypes.
Dr. Hanna Wegrzynek (Poland) Pilot Projects
Danny Ben-Moshe (Australia)
Dr. Joel Kotek (Belgium)
Extensions - Second Year
Olaf Blaschke (Germany) Rauch ohne Reuer. Die judische Haltung gegenuber Katholiken und ihrem Antisemitismus vor 1933
Philippe Oriol (France)
New Felix Posen Fellowships Katell Berthelot (France) The Accusation of Misanthropy Formulated against the Jews during the Hellenistic and Roman Period and its Jewish Answers
Stephanie Courouble (France)
Michal Frankl (Czech Republic)
Ulrich Bernard
Herbeck (Germany)
Max Likin (USA)
Jurgita Verbickiene
(Lithuania)
Nicola Wenge
(Germany)
Extensions - Second Year
Dana E.Katz (USA)
Catherine Poujol (France)
Claudia Ursutiu (Romania)
Arkadi Zeltser (Israel)
Nimrod Amzalak (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) Student Culture and Fascist Discourse During the Third Republic in France
Florent Brayard (Centre Marc Bloch, Germany): Gerstein’s Report: Production, Interpretation, Reception 1942-1997
Agnieszka Friedrich (University of Gdansk, Poland): Boleslaw Prus’s Attitude towards The “Jewish Question”
Dana E. Katz (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA): Between Privilege and Perfidy: Portraying the Jew in Fifteenth Century North Italian Painting
Joanna Michlic-Coren (University College London, England): The Myth of the Jew As The Threatening Other: Polish Nationalism and Society in The Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
Yael Orvieto (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) From Discrimination to Persecution: Italian Jews in Crisis: 1938-1943
Dr. Pelle Janos (free -lance
writer, journalist and historian):
Dr. Laslo Sekelj (Institute of European
Studies, Yugoslavia and University of Kassel, Germany)
Dr. Shaul Baumann (Israel) The Attitude of the Eranos Circle to Jews and Judaism
Dr. Horst Junginger (Germany) Science and Antisemitism: The Study of the ‘Jewish Question’ and Its Academic Setting
Dr. Philippe Oriol (France) Bernard Lazare and Antisemitism
Dr. Yaacov Borut Antisemitism in Jewish Everyday Life in the Weimar Republic
Dr. Jose L. Rodriguez Jimenez (Spain) Extreme Right, Xenophobia and Antisemitism in Spain (1931-1982)
Prof. Oleg Budnitzkii (Russia) Russian Jews between the Reds and the Whites: Jews and Anti-Bolshevik Movement
Doctoral Thesis Arkadi Selzer (Israel)The Jews of North East Belorussia between the Two World Wars (1917-1941)
Anthony Bale (UK) Authorities and Antisemitisms in Later Medieval English Narrative
Vladimir Lyubchenko (Ukraine) Russian Nationalist Organizations in Ukraine, 1908-1918
Catherine Poujol (France) Aime Palliere (France 1875-1949), a Noachide’s Itinerary
Sandrine Sanos (USA) The Fantasy of the ‘Jew’: Gender, Race and Antisemitic Discourses in 1930s France
Claudia URSUTIU (Romania) Jewish Issues in the Romanian Parliament in the First Decade of the Inter-War Period
Nimrod Amzalek (Israel) Agnieszka Friedrich (Poland) Boleslaw Prus toward the ‘Jewish Question’ (שנה שנייה - חלקי)
Joanna Michlic (UK) The Myth of the Jew as the Threatening Other: Polish Nationalism and Society in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
Extensions - Second Year
Dr. Anthony Kauders (The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, Israel)
Dr. Victor Shnirelman (Institute of
Ethnology and Anthropology, Moscow)
The research will explore the use of the Khazar episode as a Russian nationalist antisemitic myth forged to "prove" the Jewish anti-Russian plot. In the 1970s, the Khazar myth became and integral part of Soviet science fiction as well as a subject of ethnocentric Russian and Ukranian scholars who lean toward a "scientific antisemitism."
Dr. Danny Ben-Moshe (Australia) Holocaust Denial in Australia
Dr. Leonid Katsis (Russia) The Ideological History of the Blood Libel in Russian Orthodox Thought from `The Book of a Neophite Monk` to the Beilis Trial
Prof. Andras Kovacs (Hungary) The Perception of Antisemitism among Jews in Contemporary Hungary: Results of a Survey
Dr. Joel Kotek (Belgium) Antisemitism in Belgium and French Comic Strips (1933-2000)
Dr. Hanna Wegrzynek (Poland) The Origins of the Blood Libel Accusations in Poland
Dr. Olaf Blaschke (Germany) Jews and Catholics in the German Empire
Dr. Philippe Oriol (France) Bernard Lazare and Antisemitism
Max Likin (USA) Engaged in History - Cecile Brunschvicg, Rene Cassin and Raymond Aron in Twentieth Century France
Ulrich Bernhard Herbeck (Germany) The Bolsheviks and Antisemitism in the Russian Civil War 1917-1921
Katell Berthelot (France) The Accusation of Misanthropy Formulated against the Jews during the Hellenistic and Roman Period and its Jewish Answers
Stephanie Courouble (France) The Denial of the Holocaust and its Reception in the Public Space: France, England, Germany, Canada and United States
Michal Frankl (Czech Republic) Czech Antisemitism 1879-1900 in the Context of European Antisemitism
Jurgita Verbickiene (Lithuania) Jews in Society of Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Aspects of Co-Living
Nicola Wenge (Germany) Integration or Exclusion? Antisemitism and the Relationship between Jews and non-Jews in Cologne, 1918-1933
Dana E. Katz (USA) Between Privilege and Perfidy: Portaying the Jew in 15th Century North Italian Painting
Catherine Poujol (France) A Noachide`s Itinerary Aime Palliere (France 1875-1949)
Claudia Ursutiu (Romania) Jewish Issues in the Romanian Parliament in the First Decade of the Interwar Period Arkadi Selzer (Israel)The Jews of North East Belorussia between the Two World Wars (1917-1941)
Prof. Oleg Budnitskii (Russia) Russian Jews between the Reds and Whites: Jews and Anti-Bolshevik Movement
Prof. Cesare G. De Michelis (Italy) The Non-Existent Manuscript
Dr. Avigdor Levenheim (Israel) The Outbreak of Violent Antisemitism in Light of Political Radicalization in Hungary. Testimonies of Hungarian Jews from the Days of The White Terror
Dr. Alan T. Levenson (USA) German Philosemitism before Hitler
Prof. Judith Kornblatt (USA) Russian Jewish Christians: Moscow-New York-Jerusalem
Dr. Jose L. Rodriguez Jimenez (Spain) Extreme Right ,Xenophobia and Antisemitism in Spain (1931-1982)
Dr. Anthony Cavaliere (Canada) Antisemitism in Fascist Italy: The Intellectual Origins of the Racial Laws of 1938
Richard Steigman-Gall (Canada) ‘The Holy Reich’: Protestantism and the Nazi Movement, 1920-1945
Andrei Oisteanu (Romania) The Image of the Jew in Romanian Traditional Culture
Dr. Victor Shnirelman (Russia) The Myth of the Khazars and Intellectual Antisemitism in Russia in the 1970s-1990s
Achim Detmers (Germany) Calvin, Reformation and Judaism
Agnieszka Friedrich Boleslaw Prus towards Jewish Question
Albert Kaganovich (Israel) יחס השלטון הצארי ליהודים בוכארים ומעמדם המשפטי בתורכסתאן בשנים 1917-1868
Dana E. KATZ Between Privilege and Perfidy: Portraying the Jew in Fifteenth Century North Italian Painting
Joanna Michlic-Coren (University College London, England): The Myth of the Jew As The Threatening Other: Polish Nationalism and Society in The Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
Yael Orvieto (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) From Discrimination to Persecution: Italian Jews in Crisis: 1938-1943
Manfred Boecker (Gemany) The Antisemitism of the Radical Right during the Spanish Second Republic (1931-1936)
Ido Basok (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Youth Among Polish Jews in the Interwar Period (1917-1939): Modifications of the Inner World of Jewish Youth in Light of Changing Patterns of Family Life, and Formal and Informal Education (Youth Movements)
Achim Detmers (Germany) Calvin, Reformation and Judaism
Albert Kaganovitch The Attitude of the Czarist Administration to Bukharan Jews and Their Legal Status in Turkestan, 1868-1917
Eva Maria Kaffanke (University of Bonn) The German Redeemer. Representations of Christ Around 1900 in a ‘Volkisch’ Context
Richard Steigman-Gall (Canada) ‘The Holy Reich’: Protestantism and the Nazi Movement, 1920-1945
Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu (Romania) (second year) Religious Conversion and Cultural Integration within Romanian Society at the Beginning ofthe Nineteenth Century Dr. Avigdor Levenheim (Israel) The Outbreak of Violent Antisemitism in Light of Political Radicalization in Hungary. Testimonies of Hungarian Jews from the Days of The White Terror
Dr. Alan T. Levenson (USA) German Philosemitism before Hitler
Prof. Judith Kornblatt (USA) Russian Jewish Christians: Moscow-New York-Jerusalem
Dr. Jose L. Rodriguez Jimenez (Spain) Extreme Right, Xenophobia and Antisemitism in Spain (1931-1982):The Purpose of the “Conspiracy Theory” in Political Situations of Regime Change
Extension: Dr. Anthony Cavaliere (Canada) (second year) Antisemitism in Fascist Italy: The Intellectual Origins of the Racial Laws of 1938
Mr. Mihai Ungureanu
(new)
Mr. Semyon Goldin (2nd
year)
Mr. Till Van Rahden (2nd year)
Mr. Shaul Baumann (3rd
year)
Dr. Yaacov Borut Antisemitism in Jewish Everyday Life in the Weimar Republic
Dr. Silvia Cresti The Perception and Discussion of Antisemitism in Jewish Periodicals during the Weimar Republic
Dr. Anthony Kauders Search of New Order: Jews Germans and Democrats in Munich 1945-1965
Dr. Richard Millman French Antisemitism, 1944-1958
Dr. Brian Horowitz Antisemitism and the Struggle for Full Jewish Equality in Russia 1880-1913
Dr. Melinda Jones The Role of Law in Overcoming Antisemitism in Australia
Prof. Benjamin Braude The Image of the Jew in the Literature of Eastern Travel, 1250-1650
Dr. Anna Szalai Jewish Characters in Hungarian Literature of the Ninteenth Century
Dr. Vadim Rossman (USA) Antisemitic Trends in Contemporary Russian Socio-Political Thought (Since Glasnost)
Manfred Boecker (Germany)
Achim Detmers (Germany) Calvin, Reformation and Judaism
Albert Kaganovich יחס השלטון הצארי ליהודים בוכארים ומעמדם המשפטי בתורכסטאן בשנים 1917-1868
Eva Maria Kaffanke (Germany) The German Redeemer. Representations of Christ around 1900 in a ‘Volkisch’ Context
Meir Amor (University of Toronto)
Abstracts
of Research Projects
Antisemitism vs. Nationalism, Romania 1942
Dr. Grigory
Ostrovsky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
The research will focus on popular and professional art, as well as on the frescoes in the Ukrainian churches, between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries, in order to analyze the representation of the Jews, the use of biblical motifs, and the way anti-Judaic popular or religious stereotypes penetrated Ukrainian art.
Dr. Olaf Blaschke (Universitaet Bielefeld) Jews & Catholics in the German Empire
Prof. Benjamin Braude (Smith College, Northampton, MA)
The Image of the Jew in the Literature
of Eastern Travel, 1350-1650
Prof. Oleg Budnitskii (Russia)
Russian Jews between the Reds and Whites: Jews and Anti-Bolshevik
Dr Patrick Anthony Cavaliere (Canada) Antisemitism in Fascist Italy: Intellectual Origins of the Racial Laws of 1938
Prof. Cesare G. De Michelis (Italy) The Non-Existent Manuscript
Israel Eichenwald Antisemitism in Czestochowa 1918-1945
Dr. Simon Epstein (Hebrew University) Opponents to Antisemitism Who Became Antisemites: French Examples of the 30s
Dr. Daniel Gutwein (Haifa University) Antisemitism in England 1882-1914: Economic and Political Factors Modern antisemitism in England began in the period 1914-1917, later than in continental Europe, and was in response to the Marconi Scandal, and the "Jewish money" scandal. The background of Jews and their place in British society, the differences in the definition of antisemitism previous to this period, and the economic and political background will be examined. Antisemitic stereotypes and how they spread, and the response of the Jewish community, are also considered.
Dr. Oded Irshai and Dr. Aryeh Kofsky (Hebrew University) Jews and Judaism in Early Christian Historiography
Dr. Nissim Kazaz (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Antisemitism in Modern Iraq The project will cover the period between the 1930s and the mid-1970s, using primary sources from archives, collections of Iraqi newspapers, as well as interviews with Jews who emigrated to Israel from Iraq. The investigation will focus on the peculiar forms of Arab nationalism and the particular expressions of antisemitism within Iraqi political culture and mentality.
Prof. Andras Kovacs (Eotvoes Lorand University) Antisemitism in Contemporary Hungary
Dr. Jacob Kovalio (Carleton University, Canada) Between Idolization and Demonization: The Boom of Jewish Books in Japan
Prof. Meir Michaelis (Hebrew University) Emancipation and Antisemitism in Italy, 1900-1945
Prof. James R. Mueller (University of Florida) Anti-Judaism in Early Christian Apochryphal Literature The project will focus on the relationships between the Early Christian anti-Jewish rhetoric found in the patristic writings and the New Testament Apocrypha, attempting to integrate the apocryphal material into the larger discussion of Early Christian attitudes towards Jews and Judaism.
Prof. David Rokeach (Hebrew University) Roots of Christian Antisemitism
Prof. William Rubinstein (Deakin University, Australia) and Dr. Rachel Kohn (Sydney University, Australia) The Australian Church Press and Antisemitism, 1933-1945
Dr. Leonardo Senkman (Hebrew University) Comparative History of Antisemitism in Two Latin American Countries: Brazil and Argentina, 1890-1980 This study will explore the relationship of the governments of Brazil and Argentina to Jewish immigration. It will examine the reasons for acts against the Jewish immigrants from Morocco to the Amazon in 1901, and in 1923-25. Brazil was a multi-racial society, therefore antisemitism had a clear economic basis. The research will analyze the antisemitism of the liberal Argentinean regime before the nationalism of the 1930s, as well as the Peron regime of 1946-48, and how it was decided who would live in Argentina; Jews faced discrimination because of the preference for those of Latin and Catholic backgrounds.
Dr. Frank Stern (Tel-Aviv University) The Jewish Question: Legacy and Revival in West German Political Culture
Following reunification in
1990, Germany has faced continued frustration from the slow process of
integration of the East German economy, as well as pressures from a continual
flow of asylum seekers from troubled areas of the former communist bloc
countries. The rapid rise of far Right political parties, as well as the
activities of neo-Nazis, are matters of deep concern. In its critical position
at the geographical and cultural juncture between Eastern and Western Europe,
what happens in Germany will have a major impact on the future of Europe.
Dr. Nora Strejilevich (Southern Oregon State College, Ashland OR) The Construction of Antisemitic Discourses in Contemporary Argentina: 1974-1994 (Pilot) A interdisciplinary research on three historical processes under which the antisemitic discourses in Argentina have been constructed: peronist populism, state terrorism, and the democratization under Alfonsin and Menem. The project will focus on antisemitism expressed in political and literary discourses.
Dr. Anna Szalai (Hebrew University) Jewish Characters Represented by Non-Jewish Writers in Hungarian Literature of the Nineteenth Century
Dr. Angelika Timm (Hebrew Universitymboldt-Universitaet) The Impact of the Shoah and the Problem of Antisemitism in E. Germany, 1945-1953 The political and cultural roots of antisemitism in East Germany will be examined. On one hand, there is the problem of Nazi antisemitism, and on the other, that of the Soviet authorities. The effects of the Doctors Trial in East Germany will be analyzed. Another topic to be covered is the return of confiscated Jewish property.
Slavomir Tokarski (European University, Institute of Firenze) Evacuation of Jewish Economics and Political Mobilization of Peasantry: Antisemitism in Galicia 1867-1914 The focus of the research concerns the transmission of the economic conflict between Polish peasantry and rural Jews into the sphere of Political antisemitism in Galicia under Hapsburg rule, from the emancipation of the Jews until the outbreak of World War I. One of the main questions to be challenged is to what degree Galician antisemitism was "imported" from the "Viennese" version of antisemitism.
Dr. Thomas Tucker Jews and Non-Jews in Hungarian Society, 1988-1991
Joint project: Dr. Leon Volovici
(Vidal Sassoon Center, HU) - coordinator
The project will include an analysis of the role and place of antisemitic stereotypes in post-Communist Eastern European countries. In the first stage, three sociologists will investigate the semantic evolution of antisemitic cliches and their use in political and ideological confrontations in Hungary (Andras Kovacs), Poland (Paul Zawadzki), and Romania (Gheorge Voicu). In the following year, other case studies will continue, examining Russia, Slovakia, and the Baltic states, and a comparative approach to the subject will be initiated.
Completed Research
Dr. Alina Cala (Jewish Historical Institute in Poland); Dr. Ireneusz Krzeminsky (University. of Warsaw) Antisemitism in Contemporary Poland
Dr. Gila Fatran Antisemitism in Slovakia, 1848-1914 A historical and sociological examination of the evolution of Slovak antisemitism in the modern period against the background of the broader interethnic conflicts in the area, the process of capitalist modernization, as well as the peculiar clerical and nationalist expression of anti-Jewish hatred.
Dr. Nili Keren, Gila Zelikovich, and Dr. Yair Oron (Teachers College - Seminar Hakibbutzim)
Concepts and Positions of Junior High School Students Regarding Antisemitism:
A Comparative Research (published in Hebrew)
Dr. Kay Knittel (Seton Hall University, NJ) Vienna's Antisemitic Legacy: Our Image of Gustav Mahler The study of early antisemitic reactions to Gustav Mahler (his music and his person) provides an important case study of the pervasive role that antisemitic stereotypes played in the culture of late nineteenth century Vienna.
Dr. Rotem Kowner (Stanford University) Antisemitism without Jews: Current Perceptions of Jews and Antisemitic Attitudes among Japanese (published as Acta Occasional Paper)
Based on sociological surveys
and interviews, aims to examine the structure of the Japanese image of
Jews; attitudes toward self and other foreign groups and whether this Jewish
image is unique to Japan; the extent to which the exposure to media and
antisemitic (or philosemitic) literature affects attitudes toward Jews.
Dr. Tamas Stark Hungarian Antisemitic Writings between 1948 and 1956
Dr. Shulamith Levy (Gutman Institute, Jerusalem) Perceptions and Responses of Israeli Jews to Antisemitism (published as Acta Occasional Paper)
Prof. Pavol Mestan Antisemitism in Slovakia
Dr. Vadim Rossman Antisemitic Trends in Contemporary Russian Socio-Political Thought (Since Glasnost )
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