Online Lectures

De Gaulle, Israel and the Jews: Raymond Aron and the Post-1967 Trauma of French Jews, Contemporary Perspectives

Elad Lapidot

The University of Lille; Visiting Professor at the Vidal Sassoon InternationalCenter for the Study of Antisemitism

Chair and respondent: Eli Schonfeld
Shalem College

March 28, 2022

The imagined Jew and Israel in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Covenant Theology

Ms. Julia Pohlmann

University of Aberdeen

Chair and Respondent: Prof. Michael Brown

University of Aberdeen

October 26, 2021

 

 

“Fake Conservatism”: The Nachleben of Enemy Archetypes in Post-Modern Populist Discourse. The Spanish Case as Paradigm

Dr. Miguel Rivas Venegas

Department of Linguistics and Basque Studies, University of the Basque Country

Chair and respondent: Dr. Martina Weisz
Research Fellow at the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism

June 7, 2021

 

Book Launch – Blood Libel: On The Trail of an Antisemitic Myth

Magda Teter
Professor of History, The Shvidler Chair in Judaic Studies, Fordham University

Chair: Prof. Manuela Consonni
Pela and Adam Starkopf Chair in Holocaust Studies; Director of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism

Discussion:

Prof. Carlo Ginzburg
Professor Emeritus, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa

Prof. Galit Hasan-Rokem
Max and Margarethe Grunwald Professor of Folklore and Professor of Hebrew Literature Emerita, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Prof. David Nirenberg
Dean of the Divinity School and Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, Department of History, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the University of Chicago

May 24, 2021

 

 

Soviet Antisemitism of the 1950s and 1960s: Rules and Methods

Dr. Samuel Barnai
Rutgers University

Chair: Dr. Yitzhak Brudny
The Hebew University of Jerusalem

Respondent: Dr. Dina Moyal
Tel Aviv University

May 3, 2021

 

A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo Bolshevism

 

Prof. Paul Hanebrink
Rutgers University

Chair and respondent: Dr. Scott Ury
Tel Aviv University

March 22, 2021

 

The Free Market of Ideas and the Regulation of Online Hate Speech

Mr. Giulo Santoni
University of Rome Tor Vergata and the China University of Political Science and Law; Research Fellow at SICSA

Chair: Prof. Yuval Shani
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in International Law

January 21, 2021

 

Working Class Politics and Jewish-Muslim Relations in Colonial Algeria, 1889-1926

Dr. Yuval Tal
Felix Posen Post-Doctorate Fellow

Chair and Respondent: Prof. Haim Saadon
Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies at the Open University

January 4, 2021

 

Good and Bad Jews in the Eyes of the Times: An Analysis of Liberal Antisemitism, 1917–1922

Mr. Victor Taranto
Posen Doctoral Fellow at The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism

Chair: Prof. Moshe Sluhovsky
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Paulette and Claude Kelman Chair in the Study of French Jews

December 14, 2020

 

Antisemtism or anti-Judaism? Jews and non-Jews in interwar Poland

Ms. Magdalena Dziaczkowska
Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at the Lund University, SICSA Visiting Research Fellow

Chair: Prof. Daniel Blatman
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Max and Rita Haber Chair in Contemporary Jewry and Holocaust Studies

November 22, 2020

 

Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets

Chair: Prof. Manuela Consonni
Director of The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism

Discussion:

Prof. Paul Hanebrink
Rutgers University

Dr. Scott Ury
Tel Aviv University

Respondent: Prof. Elissa Bemporad
Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY

November 18, 2020

 

איך מתי ולמה נולד הגוי? | ההרצאה השנתית הרביעית ע"ש פרופ' רוברט ויסטריך

פרופ' ישי רוזן־צבי
אוניברסיטת תל אביב, החוג לפילוסופיה יהודית ותלמוד

באירוע הוענקו פרסי ויסטריך לזוכים לשנת תש"ף

26 באוקטובר, 2020

 

Jewish Perceptions of Antisemitism in the European Union, 2018: A New Structural Look

Prof. Sergio DellaPergola
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Chair: Prof. Manuela Consonni
Director of The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism

June 28, 2020

 

Intellectual exile. Leftist Jews in Postwar Germany

Ms. Zarin Aschrafi
Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture, Simon Dubnow

Chair: Prof. Manuela Consonni
Director of The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism

June 22, 2020

 

The Enemy as Necropolitical Archetype: Rhizomic Structures of Antisemitism and Islamophobia in France (19th – 21st Century)

Dr. Selim Rauer
Felix Posen Post-Doctoral Fellow at The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism

Chair: Prof. Manuela Consonni
Director of The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism

May 20, 2019