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This talk investigates the transatlantic connections between German and American neo-Nazis from the 1970s through the rise of the Internet era in the 1990s. In tracing neo-Nazism beyond German borders, the project unearths an underacknowledged reality, which reshapes our understanding of the global far right today: the strengthening of German neo-Nazism was not only the homegrown or inevitable successor to the Third Reich, but rather also owed to mutual American influence.

The decline of the three-volume “library” edition of the novel led to the growth of popular fiction from the 1890s onwards. My talk will explore the expansion of print culture which facilitated the mass circulation of political antisemitism in Britain before the First World War. The same popular culture promoted equally racialized but philosemitic images of “the Jew.” Issues which I will raise include the tension between “race” and culture, the growth of Jewish conspiracy theories before the Protocols, and the connection between a new mass-produced medium and everyday antisemitism.

This symposium examines the intersections between Romani and Jewish experiences of persecution and between the ways Romani and Jewish survivors, activists, historians, artists, and organizations have sought to come to terms with those experiences.

The event will consists of series of small panels, taking the forthcoming publication of Ari Joskowicz’s book Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust (Spring 2023) as an occasion to gather and discuss these themes

Professor Michael Steinlauf will talk with Professor Marci Shore about his recently published book, This Was Not America: A Wrangle Through Jewish-Polish-American History.

The Benjamin (Yale 1962) and Barbara Zucker Lecture Series