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.
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.
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.
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