The Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism holds seminars, workshops and conferences for scholars, and lectures, discussions and film screenings that are open to everyone.
Anna Shternshis discusses why anti-Zionist ideas found little resonance in the Soviet Union of the 1970s, yet appear to resonate powerfully among many Jews and non-Jews in contemporary North America.
For many of the refugees who escaped Nazi Germany, there remained a tension between assimilation into British society and their own sense of identity. In this lecture, Jan Rüger asks: how should we think of those who have moved and were forced to move between the two countries in the past?
In this talk, Sina Arnold proposes that the term institutional antisemitism can serve as an analytic lens for the study of contemporary antisemitism in primary and secondary schools in Germany.
In this lecture, Ben Ratskoff will explore the ways in which W.E.B Du Bois’ experiences in Nazi Germany in 1936 informed his understanding of the relationship between antisemitism and anti-Black racism, and what this can teach us today.
The relationship between antisemitism and other forms of racism and exclusion is not only a historical question. It is an urgent issue for today.
Professor David Feldman, Director
