Antisemitism and Hate Culture in France and in the US: a Comparative Story, 2000-2019.
Marc Weitzmann, journalist and novelist
The Benjamin (Yale 1962) and Barbara Zucker Lecture Series
General Public
Primo Levi’s Homecoming, 1945-46: The Need to Bear Witness
This year marks the hundredth anniversary of Primo Levi’s birth. To celebrate the centenary of Italy’s revered and beloved survivor/witness of the Shoah, Yale will host Levi’s biographer, Ian Thomson. Thomson will speak about how the author came to write his first great book, Se questo è un uomo, published in the United States as Survival in Auschwitz, and in the United Kingdom as If This Is a Man, the literal rendering of the Italian title.
The Authoritarian Personality
Annual Conference of the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism
Made possible by generous grants from the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund, the Knapp Family Foundation, the Jason M. Folk Memorial Fund, and the Federal Republic of Germany through the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
Cancelled: Jewish Country Houses: Homes, Collections and National Memory
Dr. Juliet Carey, Senior Curator, Waddesdon Manor (The Rothschild Collection)
Abigail Green, Professor of Modern European History, University of Oxford
Dr. Tom Stammers, Associate Professor in Modern European History, University of Durham
Cancelled: WWII, France, and the Problem of Memory: State, Society, Victims, Resistance Activists
Renée Poznanski, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
“Why We Must (Not) Call US Border Camps ‘Concentration Camps’ ”
You are invited to a special evening exploring the point where Jewish memory and contemporary American politics are most intertwined: the debate over calling US border camps ‘concentration camps.’
Book Talk: The Survival of the Jews in France, 1940-1944
Jacques Semelin is a historian, political scientist and psychologist that has served as a director of research at Sciences Po since 1997. In 2007, Sémelin was qualified as a professor of History and of Political Science by the Conseil national des universités (le CNU). Sémelin is highly esteemed for his work on mass violence and mass genocide, being a member of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. He is the founder of the Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence, of which he has been president since January 2011.
Tehran Children: Poles & Jews in the USSR & the Middle East, 1939-1947
Mikhal Dekel, Professor & Director of Rifkind Center for the Humanities and Arts, CCNY
The Benjamin (Yale 1962) and Barbara Zucker Lecture Series
"Socialism of Fools: an Interpretation of Anti-Jewish Anti-Capitalism in Modern Europe"
Michele Battini, Professor of Modern History and History of Politics at University of Pisa
The Benjamin (Yale 1962) and Barbara Zucker Lecture Series
Zionism and Its Discontents
Susie Linfield, a social and cultural theorist at New York University
The Benjamin (Yale 1962) and Barbara Zucker Lecture Series
