About Us
The Stephen Roth Institute is dedicated to academic research and provides a forum for discussion of issues related to antisemitism and racism, their history, social, institutional and cultural settings. The focus of the Institute is the social and political manifestations of these phenomena since World War II to the present day.
Prof. Julie Cooper
Academic Director
Julie E. Cooper is an Associate Professor in the School of Political Science, Government, and International Relations at Tel Aviv University. She works at the intersection of political theory and Jewish studies. Her research interests include the history of political theory; early modern political theory (especially Hobbes and Spinoza); Jewish politics; Jewish political thought; and modern Jewish thought. She is the author of Secular Powers: Humility in Modern Political Thought (Chicago, 2013) and the co-editor (with Samuel H. Brody) of The King is in the Field: Essays in Modern Jewish Political Thought(UPenn, 2023). She has been awarded fellowships from the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study and The Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. She is currently working on a book project which traces the intellectual genealogy of “autonomist" thinking within modern Jewish nationalism, from Simon Dubnow to contemporary Israel. The book aims to revive traditions of diasporic political thought which present the analysis of state structures as the crucial task for Jewish politics — even while they challenge the state’s exclusive sovereignty.
Eylon Weitzman
Administrative Director
Eylon Weitzman is a MA student in Jewish Philosophy at Tel Aviv University, where he is writing his thesis under the supervision of Prof. Menachem Lorberbaum. He holds a BA degree in Philosophy and Jewish Philosophy from Tel Aviv University, completed with distinction. He has also pursued studies in Classical Judeo-Arabic through the School of Rare Jewish Languages at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Eylon is a recipient of multiple awards and scholarships, including the Elstein Scholarship for Education and Jewish Studies, the Balaban-Glass Master’s Scholarship, the Ignaz-Bovis Scholarship for Research in Jewish Studies, and the School of Jewish Studies and Archaeology Excellence Scholarship.
Gallery
Explore the activities of the Stephen Roth Institute through our gallery, capturing moments from our academic pursuits, conferences, and engagements as we delve into the complexities of antisemitism and racism.
