Antisemitic Attitudes among Young Americans
The Benjamin (Yale 1962) and Barbara Zucker Lecture Series
General Public
Nazi Billionaires: German Big Business and Antisemitism
The Benjamin (Yale 1962) and Barbara Zucker Lecture Series
The End of American Exceptionalism? Antisemitism from Leo Frank to Pittsburgh
In this talk, Pierre Birnbaum studies the rise of antisemitism in the United States from the Leo Frank case to the Pittsburgh massacre, outlining the incredible memory of the Kishinev Pogrom within the American Jewish consciousness.
Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood
The Benjamin (Yale 1962) and Barbara Zucker Lecture Series
Rethinking Antisemitism for the 21st Century
A Slifka Online Salon
Maurice Samuels will engage in a discussion with Rabbi Jason Rubenstein about antisemitism today. How do we define it? How do we explain it? And how do we address it? He will also answer questions from the audience.
Challenging Humanism: Jews, Theory, and Yale During the Closing Decades of the Twentieth Century
From the early 1970s to the late 1980s, a group of second-generation Jewish literary critics, scholars, and poets at Yale University developed Theory from a social standpoint originating outside White, Male, Christian-Protestant perspectives and norms. Informed by changes at the University and across American higher education then decentering humanist culture, these pioneering Jews, first, uncovered and reworked the principles of literary scholarship, and, then, helped inaugurate an array of curricular and intellectual changes.
Skin in the Game: Antisemitism, White Nationalism, and the Work for an Inclusive Democracy
The Benjamin (Yale 1962) and Barbara Zucker Lecture Series
Event is Postponed: Rethinking Antisemitism for the 21st Century
A Conversation with Professor Maurice Samuels
The Unforgiven: Wagner, Jews, and Antisemitism
The Benjamin (Yale 1962) and Barbara Zucker Lecture Series
Notwithstanding Richard Wagner’s infamy as one of the most vituperative anti-Semites of his age, a large number of Jews embraced his music, chief among them Theodor Herzl. This talk will try to untangle some of the complexities surrounding Wagner’s relationships with Jews, without seeking a uniform reading of a contradictory record.
Survival: A Theological-Political Genealogy
The Benjamin (Yale 1962) and Barbara Zucker Lecture Series
Adam Stern in conversation with Paul North about Survival, A Theological-Political Genealogy
A Theological-Political Genealogy attends to survival as a notion of critical historical urgency. Beginning with the identification of “Jewish survival” as a prominent rhetorical transit-point for this discourse, it redirects the genealogy toward the theological-political history of Latin Christianity. Survival, the book argues, translates the image of Christ’s sovereign body for the modern, secular political imagination.
