Research Publications
Publications by Institute staff, research fellows, and visiting scholars
Antisemitism and the Politics of History
Edited by Scott Ury and Guy Miron
This groundbreaking anthology addresses the history and challenges of using “antisemitism” and related terms as tools for historical analysis and public discourse. Drawing together seventeen chapters by prominent scholars from Europe, Israel, and the United States, the volume encourages readers to rethink assumptions regarding the nature and meaning of Jewish history and the history of relations between Jews and non-Jews.
The book begins with a revised and updated version of David Engel’s seminal essay “Away from a Definition of Antisemitism.” Subsequent contributions by renowned specialists in ancient, medieval, and modern history, religious studies, and other fields explore the various and changing definitions and uses of the term “antisemitism” in a range of contexts, including ancient Rome and Greece, the Byzantine Empire, medieval Europe, early modern and modern Europe, North America, and the United Kingdom. The volume also includes a section that focuses on the Second World War, including the Holocaust and its memory. Engel offers a contemporary response to conclude the book.
Amos Morris-Reich, Photography and Jewish History: Five Twentieth-Century Cases
It is a sign of the accepted evidentiary status of photographs that historians regularly append them to their accounts, Amos Morris-Reich observes. Very often, however, these photographs are treated as mere illustrations, simple documentations of the events that transpired. Scholars of photography, on the other hand, tend to prioritize the photographs themselves, relegating the historical contexts to the background. For Morris-Reich, however, photography exists within reality; it partakes in and is very much a component of the history it records. Morris-Reich examines how photography affects categories of history and experience, how it is influenced by them, and the ways in which our understanding of the relationship between history and photography can be theorized and reoriented.
Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism
Edited by Sol Goldberg, Scott Ury, and Kalman Weiser
This volume is designed to assist university faculty and students studying and teaching about antisemitism, racism, and other forms of prejudice. In contrast with similar volumes, it is organized around specific concepts instead of chronology or geography. It promotes conversation about antisemitism across disciplinary, geographic, and thematic lines rather than privileging a single methodological paradigm, a specific academic field, or an overarching narrative. Its twenty-one chapters by leading scholars in diverse fields address the relationship to antisemitism of concepts ranging from Anti-Judaism to Zionism. Each chapter not only traces the history and major scholarly debates around a key concept; it also presents an original argument, points to avenues for further research, and exemplifies a method of investigation.
Books
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Alex Valdman, Secondary Education, Activism, and the Origins of the Jewish Intelligentsia in the Russian Empire (Magnes, 2023, Hebrew).
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Guy Miron and Scott Ury, eds., Antisemitism: Historical Concept, Public Discourse (Shazar Center, 2020, in Hebrew).
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Sol Goldberg, Scott Ury, and Keith Weiser, eds., Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism (Palgrave, 2020).
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​Hanan Harif, For We Be Brethren: The Turn to the East in Zionist Thought (Jerusalem: The Zalman Shazar Center, 2019), in Hebrew.
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Iris Idelson-Shein and Christian Wiese (ed.), Monsters and Monstrosity in Jewish History, from the Middle Ages to Modernity, (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019).
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Zmanim: The Quarterly of the Israeli Historical Society, Genocide: Mass Violence and Cultural Erasure, Special Volume 138 (Zalman Shazar, 2018) in Hebrew.
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Gilad Sharvit and Karen Feldman (eds.), Freud and Monotheism: Moses and the Violent Origins of Religion, (New York: Fordham University Press, 2018).
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Semion Goldin, Mia Spiro, Scott Ury (eds.), Jewish Migration in Modern Times: The Case of Eastern Europe, 1st Edition, (2017).
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Artur Markowski and Scott Ury, guest editors, The Jews of Eastern Europe in a Time of Revolution and Violence, 1904-1907, Studia Judaica, vol. 39, (2017).
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Shimon Samuels & Esther Webman (eds.), Antisemitism: The Generic Hatred (Paris: Éditions Le Manuscrit, 2017) In Arabic.
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Raz Segal, Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence, 1914-1945 (Stanford University Press, 2016)
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Esther Webman and Meir Litvak, From Empathy to Denial: Arab Responses to the Holocaust (Magnes & Yad Vashem, 2015), in Hebrew.
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Roni Stauber, Aviva Halamish, Esther Webman (eds.), Holocaust and Antisemitism in Research and in Public Discourse (Yad Vashem, 2015), in Hebrew.
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From Dreyfus to Destruction: Media and Antisemitism, Kesher, ed. Gideon Kouts (The Institute for Research on Jewish Media and Communication, Tel Aviv University, 2014) in Hebrew.
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Michael L. Miller and Scott Ury, eds., Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism and the Jews of East Central Europe (Routledge, 2014).
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Raz Segal, Days of Ruin: The Jews of Munkacs during the Holocaust (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem Publications, 2013).
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Scott Ury, Barricades and Banners: The Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry, (Stanford University Press, 2012).
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Israel Bartal, Antony Polonsky, Scott Ury (eds.), Jews and Their Neighbours in Eastern Europe since 1750 (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2012).
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Esther Webman (ed.), The Global Impact of the 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion', (Routledge, 2011).
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Yair Auron and Isaac Lubelsky (eds.) Between Racism and Genocide in Modernity, (Raanana: The Open University Publishing House, 2011, in Hebrew.
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Roni Stauber (ed.), Collaboration with the Nazis: Public Discourse after the Holocaust (London/NY: Routledge, 2010).
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Dina Porat, The Fall of a Sparrow: The Life and Times of Abba Kovner (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010.)
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Esther Webman and Meir Litvak, From Empathy to Denial: Arab Responses to the Holocaust (NY: Columbia University Press, 2009).
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Dina Porat (ed.), When Disaster Comes from Afar: Leading Personalities in the Land of Israel Confront Nazism and the Holocaust, 1933-1948 (Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Zvi, in Hebrew).
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Graciela Ben-Dror, The Catholic Church and the Jews: Argentina, 1933-1945, (Jerusalem: Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism; Lincoln, NE: Nebraska University Press, 2009).
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Roni Stauber and Raphael Vago (eds.), The Roma - A Minority in Europe: Historical, Political and Social Perspectives (Budapest: CEU Press, 2007).
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Esther Webman and Laurence Weinbaum (eds.), Jan Karski: The Man and His Mission (2006, 79 pp; in collaboration with the Polish Institute; in Hebrew)
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Nina Osin and Dina Porat (eds.), Legislating against Discrimination: An International Survey of Anti-Discrimination Norms (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 2005).
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Dina Porat and Roni Stauber (eds.), Antisemitism and Terror (2003).
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Deborah-D Emmanuel-Junod, La Suisse et les mesures contre la discrimination raciale: l'adhesion de la Suisse a la CEDR et a la revision y relative du Code penal helvetique (2002).
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Sarah Rembiszewski, Die Leugnung des Holocaust in Deutschland: Fallstudie eines Leugners der Nachkriegsgeneration (October 1999).
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Ruth Amossy, Marc Lits, L'Image d'Israel et des Juifs durant la Guerre du Golfe -- Analyse de la presse belge et francaise. In cooperation with the University of Louvain-la-Neuve (June 1998).
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Mario Sznajder, Graciela Ben Dror, Esther Webman, Extremismo y Religion su Presencia en AmericaLatina (1998).
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Articles and
Book Chapters
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Amos Morris-Reich, "Return to Jewish History," Israel Studies (invited, special issue on October 7).
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Amos Morris-Reich, “History and Noise,” in Guy Miron and Scott Ury (eds.), Antisemitismand the Politics of History (Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2023).
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Balazs Berkovits, "Conspiracy, Critique, Antisemitism", K. Jews, Europe, The XXIst Century, 2023.
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Amos Morris-Reich, “Photography as a Measuring Device: Rudolf Martin and anthropometric photography” in Revue Photographica (Forthcoming, 2022).
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Balazs Berkovits, “Israel als weißer, siedlerkolonialistischer Staat in den aktivistischen Sozialwissenschaften”, in: Ingo Elbe et al. (ed.): Probleme des Antirassismus. Postkoloniale Studien, Critical Whiteness, und Intersektionalitätsforschung in der Kritik, Berlin, Tiamat, 2022.
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Amos Morris-Reich (with Danny Trom) “The Fusion of Zionism and Science: The First Two Decades—And the Present Day?” in Jews and Science: Casden Yearbook in Jewish Studies (Forthcoming, 2022)
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Anat Vaturi, “From Contested Space to Sacred Topography: Jews, Protestants and Catholics in Reformation Cracow,” in B. Kaplan and J. Geraerts (eds.) Early Modern Toleration (Forthcoming, Routledge, 2022)
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Carlota Matesanz, “A Historiographical and Bibliographical Approach to Modern and Contemporary Antisemitism”, in Historia Actual Online (Forthcoming, 2022).
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Balazs Berkovits, "Israel as a white colonial - settler state in Activist social science", in: Alvin Rosenfeld (ed.), Contending with Antisemitism in a Rapidly Changing Political Climate (Indiana University Press, 2021).
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Amos Morris-Reich, Curatorial Interpretation: Portrait of a Youth (09.181.4) and Inserted Panel Portrait (11.139), e-catalogue of the Met Museum in New York, December 2021.
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Amos Morris-Reich, "The Stranger as the Threshold Figure", in The Jewish Quarterly Review, 111 (2): 2021.
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Amos Morris-Reich and Danny Trom, “Dissiper les zones d’ombre : l’antisémitisme et le lexique du conflit israélo-palestinien”, in K. Les Juifs, l'Europe, le XXIe siècle, 2021. English version here.
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Balazs Berkovits, “What Color Are the Jews?”, in K. Les Juifs, l'Europe, le XXIe siècle, 2021.
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Alex Valdman, “Zionist Future in Revolutionary Russia: The Weekly “Ha’am” in February-April 1917” (forthcoming; invited article for Imagining the Future in Russia´s February Revolution. Instant Voices in the Press Across the Empire, a collective volume edited by Franziska Schedewie and Dennis Dierks, University of Jena).
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Amos Morris-Reich, "Antisemitism in Doubt. Historical and Methodological Reflections on Contemporary Europe", in De Grutyer (2021, 73 (2): 202-216)
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Amos Morris-Reich, “The Portraits from the Fayum region in Egypt in Nazi Germany Scholarship and Propaganda” Online Catalog The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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Amos Morris-Reich, “The Nazis thought that "race" was a scientific category and looked for Jews in incredibly ancient portraits”[Hebrew], online article in Alaxon, 2020.
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Gustavo Guzmán, "Indifference, Hostility, and Pragmatism: an X-Ray of Chilean Right-Wing Attitudes toward Jews, 1932–1940" in Migrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers in Latin America, Raanan Rein Stefan Rinke, David M.K. Sheinin (eds.), Brill, 2020.
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Scott Ury, "The Epitome of Evil: On the Study of Antisemitism in Cold War Eastern Europe and Beyond," East European Jewish Affairs, 2020.
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Hanan Harif, "Between a Bridge and a Fortress: Shlomo Dov Goitein and the Role of 'Jewish Arabists' in the American Academy," C.Wiese, M.Meyer, and N.Gerber (eds.), Expanding the Borders of Wissenschaft des Judentums, 2019.
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Gilad Sharvit, “Freud on Ambiguity: Judaism, Christianity, and the Reversal of Truth in Moses and Monotheism,” Telos, 188, (Fall, 2019), pp. 127-151.
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Scott Ury, “Migration as Redemption: The Myth and Memory of Jewish Migration from Eastern Europe to the New World,” Jewish Culture and History, vol. 20, no. 1 (March, 2019): 3-22.
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Iris Idelson-Shein, "Writing a History of Horror, or What Happens When Monsters Stare Back,” In Monsters and Monstrosity in Jewish History: From the Middle Ages to Modernity, Iris Idelson-Shein and Christian Wiese (ed.), (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019).
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Hanan Harif, "Between Sacred and Profane: Three Modern Hebrew Translators of the Qur'an," C.Gafni, H.Harif, D.Salzer and S.Schorch (eds.), Sacred Texts in Wissenschaft des Judentums (2019), pp. 149-164.
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Scott Ury, "Strange Bedfellows? Anti-Semitism, Zionism, and the Fate of 'the Jews'," The American Historical Review, Volume 123, Issue 4, (October 2018), pp. 1151–1171.
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Hanan Harif, "Arab Revival and Zionism: Josef Horovitz, Shelomo D. Goitein and the Politics of Jewish Oriental Studies," Ottfried Fraisse and Christian Wiese (eds.), Beyond the Myth of Golden Spain (2018).
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Iris Idelson-Shein, “Meditations on a Monkey-Face: Monsters, Transgressed Boundaries and Contested Hierarchies in a Yiddish Eulenspiegel,” Jewish Quarterly Review 108.1, (2018), pp. 28-59.
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Scott Ury, "Fear and Loathing on the Streets of Warsaw: Revolution, Violence and the Rise of Political Antisemitism," Studia Judaica, vol. 39, (2017) in Polish.
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Naama Meishar, "Up/Rooting: Breaching Landscape Architecture in the Jewish-Arab City," AJS Review41:1 (April 2017) pp 89–109
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Esther Webman, "Antisemitism in the Arab World Intensified After the Defeat of 1967", Hauma, 205, (Spring 2017) pp. 52-58, in Hebrew
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Esther Webman, “’Stealing the Holocaust from the Jews’? The Holocaust as Metaphor in Public Discourse”, in McElligott A. and Herf J. (eds) Antisemitism Before and Since the Holocaust. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2017, pp. 279-304.
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Esther Webman, “From the Damascus Blood Libel to the “Arab Spring”: The Evolution of Arab Antisemitism”, Antisemitism Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 2017), pp. 157-206.
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Scott Ury, "The Future of the Past: On the Fate of Polish Jewish History in the Global Era," Gal-Ed (2017), in Hebrew.
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Hanan Harif, "Yosef Yo'el Rivlin's Al-Qur'an and the Creation of a New Hebrew Culture in Mandatory Palestine", Naharaim, Vol. 10/1 (Sep. 2016).
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Elia Etkin, "Wars without Heroes: The Social History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict", Theory and Criticism, Vol 46 Summer 2016, pp. 184-193.
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Esther Webman, "Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination, Islam and Nazi Germany’s War, Nazi Germany and the Arab World", German History, Volume 34, Issue 2, 1 June 2016, Pages 347–350. Book review.
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Karma Ben Johanan, "Wreaking Judgement on Mount Esau: Christianity at R. Kook's Thought", Jewish Quarterly Review, Vol. 106, No. 1, Winter (Penn Press, 2016), pp. 76-100.
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Esther Webman, "The Roots of the Egyptian Public Discourse on Nazism and the Holocaust", Holocaust and Antisemitism in Research and in Public Discourse (Yad Vashem, 2015).
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Esther Webman, "The ‘Jew’ as a Metaphor for Evil in Arab Public Discourse”, Journal of the Middle East and Africa, 6 (2015), 275–292.
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Esther Webman, "Old and New in the Palestinian Holocaust Public Discourse”, Journal for the Study of Antisemitism, 7:2 (2015), 203-220.
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Scott Ury, "Antisemitism,"Encyclopedia of Political Thought, ed. Michael Gibbons (Blackwell, 2015).
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Scott Ury, "Poland, 1800-1939," Oxford Bibliographies Online: Jewish Studies, ed. Naomi Seidman (2014).
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Scott Ury, Review of David Nirenberg, Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition, Nexus Institute (2014).
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Esther Webman, "Mixed and Confused - Egyptian Initial Responses to the Holocaust," Lessons and Legacies XI: Expanding Perspective on the Holocaust in a Changing World, edited by Hilary Earl and Karl Schleunes (Northwestern University Press, 2014), pp. pp. 335-354.
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Esther Webman, "The War and the Holocaust in the Egyptian Public Discourse, 1945-1947", Israel Gershoni (ed.), Arab Responses to Fascism and Nazism: Attraction and Repulsion (Austin: Texas University Press, 2014), pp. 243-270.
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Esther Webman, "The Study of Arab Antisemitism: Trends and Challenges,", Festschrift in honor of Prof. Asher Susser (Tel Aviv: Moshe Dayan Center, 2014), pp. 167-198.
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Raz Segal, “Beyond Holocaust Studies: Rethinking the Holocaust in Hungary,” Journal of Genocide Research, Vol. 16 (1) (2014).
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Esther Webman, "Review of Corry Guttstadt, Turkey, the Jews, and the Holocaust," (Cambridge UP, 2013), in International Journal of Middle East Studies 46 (2), May 2014.
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Esther Webman, "Treading in Troubled Waters: Seeking the Roots of Muslim Antisemitism," Bustan. The Middle East Book Review, Vol. 4, No. 2 (2013), pp. 113-136.
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Raz Segal, “Imported Violence: Carpatho-Ruthenians and Jews in Carpatho-Ukraine, October 1938-March 1939,” Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, Vol. 26: Jews and Ukrainians (2014).
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Scott Ury, "O Brother Where Art Thou? The Search for Inter-Ethnic Solidarity in the Late Imperial Era," Gal-Ed, Vol. 23 (2012), pp. 97-130 (with Theodore Weeks).
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Scott Ury, "Between Jews and Their Neighbors: Isolation, Confrontation and Influence," Polin, Vol. 24 (2012), pp. 3-30 (with Israel Bartal).
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Raz Segal, “Becoming Bystanders: Carpatho-Ruthenians, Jews, and the Politics of Narcissism in Subcarpathian Rus’,” Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, Vol. 16 (1-2) (2010).