This international workshop brings speakers from Europe, the United States and Israel to explore the theoretical, historical and comparative perspectives on the relationship between the Left, Jews and antisemitism. In doing so it also aims to shed light on current controversies concerning antisemitism in the Labour Party and the British Left more widely.
Programme
Welcome: David Feldman, Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, University of London
Keynote: Jews and the Left: A Case of British Exceptionalism? Jack Jacobs, The City University of New York
I: Theoretical Assessments
Critical Theory and Post-Holocaust Judeophobia, Jonathan Judaken, Rhodes College
Postcolonialism, Theory, and Antisemitism, Bryan Cheyette, University of Reading
Racism, Antisemitism and Identity Politics, Nira Yuval-Davis, University of East London
Chair: Christine Achinger, University of Warwick
II: Jews and the Left: Comparative and International Studies
Jews and the American Left in the 20th Century: Continuities and Departures, Tony Michels, University of Wisconsin
A Sense of Belonging: Jewish Communists in Weimar and Beyond, Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, Center for Research on Antisemitism, Technical University, Berlin
The Israeli Left’s Analysis of Antisemitism: From Historical to Ideological Conceptualization, Danny Gutwein, University of Haifa
Chair: Brendan McGeever, Birkbeck, University of London
III: British Jewry and the British Labour Party: Past, Present, Future: Open Discussion
Chair: David Feldman
Workshop co-convenors: David Feldman and Jack Jacobs
This workshop is funded by the British Academy