“What Actually is Antisemitism?” with Professor Adam Teller (online)

March 4 and March 11, 7:00pm

After a successful fall class with Professor Adam Teller’s What Actually Is Zionism?, we are pleased to offer What Actually Is Antisemitism? on Zoom, March 4 and 11 at 7:00pm. It is not a continuation, so you do not have to have been in that session to participate in this one. 

The resurgence of antisemitism is making our world a much less comfortable place in which to be a Jew.  We seem to be faced on all sides with new threats and accusations that we do not really know how to deal with. It is a confusing and sometimes frightening time. A good way to get a handle on the situation, however, is to examine antisemitism itself.  Though the anti-Jewish hostility we face today is in some ways entirely new, it also has roots in a long antisemitic tradition. In these two lectures we will examine some of the major themes in contemporary antisemitism to understand both what they draw from the past and what is new about them. Doing so will not only help us orient ourselves better in what often feels a threatening reality but will also give us some of the tools we need to figure out how to respond, whether as individuals or as a group.