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.
Matthew Bolton explores how UK anti-discrimination law has constructed Jewish identity as a mode of ‘ethnicity’ and encouraged the essentialisation or dehistoricisation of Jewish identity.
The antisemitism unleashed during the Dreyfus Affair transformed the nature of Jewish identity, changing how Jews saw their place in the world and their relation to other Jews.
In this seminar, Adam Sutcliffe will chart the increasing emphasis across the West since the 1990s of ‘redemptive anti-antisemitism’ and consider its problematic role in contemporary politics.
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.
Our work shows how antisemitism has often been intertwined with anti-Muslim, anti-migrant, anti-black and anti-Irish bigotries. Antisemitism and other racisms should not be considered in isolation and still less in competition.
Professor David Feldman, Director
