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.
In this talk, Omer Bartov will explore the transformation of Zionism from a movement of Jewish emancipation and liberation into a state ideology of ethno-nationalism, exclusion and violent domination of Palestinians.
The publication of a new report, commissioned by the Runnymede Trust and written by David Feldman, Ben Gidley and Brendan McGeever, forms the basis of this panel discussion.
The report argues that we urgently need a new approach to both thinking about and combating antisemitism. Click the link for full details and to access the report.
Rebecca Clifford explores the individual and collective journeys of the youngest survivors of the Holocaust: from ‘lucky’ children who managed to live through genocide, to ‘child Holocaust survivors’ with a profound new understanding of their own pasts.
Renowned Memory Studies scholar Michael Rothberg explores what it means to live with histories of colonial and Nazi violence, and questions of remembrance and responsibility.
How can a comparison of the issues of repair and restitution, post-Holocaust and post-Colonialism, inform the work of both academics and museum professionals?
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
