Yale Bulletin and Calendar

September 30, 2005|Volume 34, Number 5

Year-long seminar series will explore
the changing face of antisemitism

A year-long seminar series will explore the various forms that antisemitism has taken over the ages.

"Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective" will meet on alternate Thursdays beginning Sept. 29 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in Rm. A001 at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS), 77 Prospect St. It is co-sponsored by ISPS and the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, and is free and open to the public.

"Anti-Judaism, or the controversial term coined in the 1870s by Wilhelm Marr, antisemitism, is one of the most complex and, at times, perplexing forms of hatred," writes Charles Small, research affiliate at ISPS, who organized the series. "It spans history, infecting different societies, religious and philosophical movements, and even civilizations. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, some contend that antisemitism illustrates the limitations of the Enlightenment and modernity itself."

The interdisciplinary series will examine manifestations of antisemitism from a variety of perspectives and regional contexts.

The inaugural talk, "Antisemitism Under Crescent and Cross in the Middle Ages," will be presented by Mark R. Cohen, professor of near eastern studies, Princeton University. Other topics and speakers can be found online at www.yale.edu/isps/seminars/antisemitism.

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