With anti-Jewish rhetoric and violence on the rise around the world, the USC Shoah Foundation this fall launches the Daniel and Marisa Klass USC Shoah Foundation Lecture Series on Antisemitism where leading scholars will guide audiences through the latest research and explore a diversity of approaches to understanding and combating the current upsurge.
At a time when antisemitism is resurgent, arguments about it are increasingly common. This September 7, 2023, talk discusses why the issue of antisemitism has become so contentious.
In this October 11, 2023 lecture, Dr. Robert J. Williams, Mark Weitzman, and Dr. James Wald discuss the imperatives in making the recently published Routledge History of Antisemitism.
In this November 8, 2023 talk, Dr. Matthias Becker elaborates on his interdisciplinary and transnational project Decoding Antisemitism, which aims to develop tools for recognizing and tracking down various forms of online antisemitism.
Blood libel, the malicious myth that Jews engage in ritualistic murder, has been one of the most persistent tropes of antisemitism across the millennia. Watch Dr. Magda Teter, Professor of History and the Shvidler Chair of Judaic Studies at Fordham University, present a lecture on how the blood libel continues to manifest today.
In this lecture from February 22, 2024, Dr. Klein discusses the intentional distortion of the history of the Holocaust on Wikipedia.
More related lectures on antisemitsm
On September 6, 2023, the Institute brought together Lord Eric Pickles, the U.K. Special Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues, and Ellen Germain, the U.S. State Department Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues, in conversation with Finci-Viterbi Executive Director Chair Dr. Robert J. Williams to discuss threats to Holocaust memory caused by growing antisemitism and revisionist campaigns that deny and distort the Shoah.