Batsheva Neuer

Ms. Batsheva Neuer

Knapp Doctoral Fellow at the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism
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Batsheva Neuer is a Knapp Doctoral Research Fellow at the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (SICSA) and a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Her dissertation is entitled Israel and the Question of Racism and Related Intolerance: The Road to the World Conference at Durban. It explores the period between the passage of United Nations resolution 3379 in 1975 and the World Conference Against Racism, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance in 2001, shedding light on the development of post-colonialist discourse on racism and its politicized functions in recent times.

Her MA thesis entitled Changing Faces: H. Res. 183 as a Case Study on Contemporary Antisemitism analyses the philosophical, historical and political context of H. Res. 183 in the United States Congress.

She is a member of the University Seminars at Columbia University and was an adjunct lecturer at Touro University in New York City between the years 2018–2020.