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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.

Pogroms, politics and memory: rethinking anti-Jewish violence from the Harlem Renaissance to October 7th

SEMINAR SERIES | ANTISEMITISM NOW

14th May, 2025

Pogroms, politics and memory: rethinking anti-Jewish violence from the Harlem Renaissance to October 7th

Brendan McGeever, Birkbeck, University of London and Swarthmore College

Exploring how Black radicals in Harlem began to articulate a new analysis of race and class which drew them, increasingly, to analyse anti-Jewish violence in revolutionary Russia, Brendan McGeever uncovers a multidirectional account of the pogrom; one that envelops both Black and Jewish histories.

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Detention and displacement throughout the British Empire: from the Irgun to the Mau Mau, 1945-1955

Seminar | For Scholars

10th June, 2025

Detention and displacement throughout the British Empire: from the Irgun to the Mau Mau, 1945-1955

Eliana Hadjisavvas, Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, University of London

Eliana Hadjisavvas explores the history of Jewish refugees and political detainees held in detention camps in Cyprus and Kenya at the end of WWII, offering a unique perspective on the end of the British Empire.

Professor David Feldman, Director – 1

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

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