The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism & The Department of Sociology and Anthropology in The Hebrew University of Jerusalem invites the acedemic public to a research seminar on Contemporary Left Antisemitism.

Speaker: Dr. David Hirsh, University of London

Chair: Prof. Paul Frosh, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Research Seminar- The Financial Revolution, Brithish Society and the Jews in the 18th Century. by Mr. Avinoam Naeh. Will be held in Hebrew

Day I – Sunday, 18 December 2016

Mandel Building, Room 530

16:00-16:30 | Reception

16:30-17:00 | Greetings:

Menachem Ben-Sasson
President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Barbara Wolffer
Cooperation and Cultural Counsellor of the French Embassy

Moshe Sluhovsky
Head of the School of History and of the French Studies Program, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Manuela Consonni
Director of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

17:00 – 19:00 | Session 1: The Jewish Question of Sartre

Chair: Manuela Consonni, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Frédéric Worms, Ecole Normale Superieure

Returning the “Question”: Sartre’s Reflections on Antisemitism and the Philosophical Moment of the Liberation in France

Maurice Samuels, Yale University

Sartre’s Jewish Question

Jonathan Judaken, Rhodes College

Sartre, Israel and the Postcolonial Turn

Bruno Chaouat, University of Minnesota

Being and Jewishness