Jewish Responses to October 7th
Panelists:
Eva Illouz
Jason Stanley
Edieal Pinker
Elli Stern
Moderator:
Maurice Samuels
General Public
Is Theory Antisemitic?
Eva Illouz is Directrice d’Etudes at the EHESS, a member of the Center of Rationality at Hebrew University and holds the Rose Isaac Chair in Sociology at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Van Leer Institute and visiting professor at the Wissenschaftzentrum, in Berlin. She is a past President of the Bezalel Academy of Arts.
Rethinking the Fringe: A Roundtable Discussion on Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right (Yale UP, 2024)
A Roundtable Discussion brings together scholars of American Jewish history, the American conservative movement, and American fascism to rethink how historians understand and categorize “fringe” groups on the right. Are the labels “fringe,” “extreme,” or “radical” accurate or even useful in how we understand the right?
Questioning the Settler-Colonialist Paradigm
Simon Sebag Montefiore, Historian & Best-Selling Author in conversation with Eliyahu Stern, Professor of Modern Jewish Intellectual & Cultural History
Rethinking Bystanders
A panel organized around Michael Rothberg’s work The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators.
Moderator: Carolyn J. Dean, Professor of History at Yale
Panelists: Robin Celikates, Professor for Practical and Social Philosophy at Freie Universität, Berlin; Kaiama L. Glover, Professor of African American Studies and French at Yale; Jill Jarvis, Assistant Professor of French at Yale; Josh Leifer, Department of History at Yale and author of Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life
The French Resistance and the Persecution of the Jews during WWII
After decades of focus on the Vichy regime and its active collaboration with the German occupiers and the Holocaust, attention has shifted once again back to the Resistance. A new wave of scholarship has emphasized the aid that the French Resistance movements gave to French Jews facing persecution. This talk will show how a closer reading of sources shows that Resistance leaders were actually reluctant to condemn the persecution of the Jews—except for a few months in the summer of 1942—leaving the underground Jewish press to condemn Vichy and its policies.
Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair
Please join us for a conversation to celebrate the publication of Maurice Samuels’s new book, Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair
Listening to Lost Time
A book talk with music performance
Antisemitism and Racism: A Shared History
In 2017 in Charlottesville, antisemitism and anti-Black racism converged as white supremacists, in a highly choreographed and violent protest against the removal of a statue honoring a Confederate general, carried Confederate flags and chanted “Jews will not replace us.” This convergence is not just a product of American history: its roots go far deeper.
Antisemitism in a Post-October 7th World
Rabbi Diana Fersko, author of “We Need to Talk About Antisemitism” which explores why we are reluctant to discuss antisemitism, discusses the difficult conversations she has had with members of her congregation, and empowers us with the tools to fight against it.
