Events
The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism organizes academic events, such as guest lectures, book talks, seminars, and workshops, creating and furthering an academic community researching antisemitism and racism. Here you can see the events we have organized, hosted, and collaborated on in the past.
2024/2025 Academic Year
December 16, 2024
Book Launch Event
Sovereignty and Religious Freedom: A Jewish History by Simon Rabinovitch (Stotsky Associate Professor of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies, Northeastern University).
Respondents:
Assaf Likhovski (Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University) and Eyal Chowers (Faculty of Social Sciences, Tel Aviv University) will offer their comments after the presentation.
2022/2023 Academic Year
June 7-8, 2023
International conference “The Lausanne Model, 100 Years After: The Practice of Uprooting Populations in Comparative Perspective”
Organized in collaboration with the Jacob Robinson Institute, the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations, Truman Institute, Minerva Institute for German History, and the European Forum at the Hebrew University.
June 4, 2023
Book launch for past fellow of the Institute.
Alex Valdman, “Secondary Education, Activism, and the Origins of the Jewish Intelligentsia in the Russian Empire”
December 29, 2022
Book talk with Shulamit Volkov, for the Hebrew translation of her book “Germany and its Jews: A Different History”.
Organized in collaboration with Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust.
December 7, 2022
Book talk with Guy Miron,“To Be a Jew in Nazi Germany: Space and Time”
Organized in collaboration with Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust and the Bucarius Institute.
2021/2022 Academic Year
May 9, 2022
Prof. Vivian Liska, University of Antwerp; The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, The Center for Research on Antisemitism (ZfA), Berlin
Prof. Amos Morris-Reich, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Raef Zreik, Tel Aviv University; The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
May 17, 2022
Lecture, Steven J. Ross, "The Secret War Against Hate: American Resistance to White Supremacy After 1945"
Organized in collaboration with The Center for the Study of the United States in Partnership with the Fulbright Program.
April 24, 2022
Presented by the Archives director Mr. Stephen Naron.
December 12, 2021
The Holocaust in Hungary in Comparative Perspectives
Dr. Gabor Kadar
Dr. Balazs Berkovits
November 16, 2021
"Encounters": a conversation with Sol Goldberg and Scott Ury on their co-edited volume (together with Kalman Weiser) Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism
Dr. Scott Ury, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Sol Goldberg, University of Toronto
Dr. Stefanie Schuler-Springorum, Technische Universität Berlin
2020/2021 Academic Year
April 11, 2021
Beyond Bricha. Jewish history of post-Holocaust Polish Western Territories (1945-1950)
Dr. Kamil Kijek, Wroclaw University
March 14, 2021
Singed by History: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, Polish-Jewish Relations, and Holocaust Historiography (1915-1990)
Prof. Nancy Sinkoff, Rutgers University
2019/2020 Academic Year
January 12, 2020
On the Science of "Race" in Germany, Israel and the United States
An International Symposium
December 23, 2019
Anti-Semitism on Campus? Perceptions of Israel and Jews Among American University Students
Prof. Jeffrey S. Kopstein, University of California, Irvine
[Abstract]
[Video]
December 8, 2019
Nation, State and Race in Zionist Thought in Central and Eastern Europe
A Double Book Launch dedicated to the publishing of books by:
Dr. Dmitry Shumsky, The Hebrew University
Dr. Hanan Harif, The Ben-Zvi Center and the Hebrew University
[Video]
November 20, 2019
Jews and the Left: Between History and Memory
An International Workshop
2018/2019 Academic Year
July 7-10, 2019
Max and Hilde Kochmann Summer School for PhD Students in European-Jewish History and Culture
Held at the University of Sussex, UK
July 13, 2019
Cause for Concern? New Directions in Jewish-American Attitudes Toward Israel
A Special Symposium
June 6, 2019
Young Scholars' Conference in Russian and East European Studies
May 27-28, 2019
Judaism and Heresy
International Conference
May 26, 2019
From Janek to Johann: 'National Indifference' and 'Ethnic German' Police in the Lodz Ghetto
Prof. Winson Chu, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
[Abstract]
April 7, 2019
Jews and Non-Jews in East Central Europe: Between History and Memory
Prof. Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Northwestern University
Prof. Bożena Szaynok, Wrocław University, Poland
May 2, 2019
Holocaust Memory Through Artistic Means: Tools and Insights
Dr. Francine Mayran, Council of Europe
[Abstract]
March 7, 2019
Ecologies of Witnessing: Language, Place, and Holocaust Testimony
A book publication symposium
Dr. Hannah Polin-Galay, Tel Aviv University
March 5, 2019
Law, Crime, and Enforcement
The 42nd Annual Historical Society of Israel Conference
December 27, 2018
Who Will Write Our History
Ringelblum Archives Symposium & Movie Screening
December 23rd, 2018
Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust
Prof. Jeffrey S. Kopstein, University of California, Irvine
December 10th, 2018
Semites: Towards the History of a ConceptAn International Workshop
November 25th, 2018
Jewish Migration in Modern Times: The Case of Eastern Europe
A Symposium Dedicated to the Publication of a Special Issue of East European Jewish Affairs
October 23rd, 2018
Anti-Semitism and Zionism: Ideologies or Emotions?
Prof. Derek J. Penslar, Harvard Univeristy
[Video]
2017/2018 Academic Year
June 4th, 2018
America's Other Slave Market: Business and Politics in the Plantation Economy
Prof. Seth Rockman, Brown University Part of the lecture series on "Race & Racism in America"
[Abstract]
January 18th-27th, 2018
"Race" by David MametA Student Theater Production Part of the lecture series on "Race & Racism in America"
December 28th, 2017
Jews as Historians of the Black American Experience
Prof. Jonathan Karp, Binghamton University Part of the lecture series on "Race & Racism in America"
[Podcast]
November 22nd, 2017
Philosemitism and Antisemitism in Biblical Criticism
Prof. Hindy Najman, University of Oxford
[Abstract]
[Video]
[Interview]
[Podcast]
November 7th-9th, 2017
Polish Jewish History Revisited
Conference in Honor of Gershon Bacon and Moshe Rosman
2016/2017 Academic Year
June 26th, 2017
Armilos and Antichrist: Polemical Escathology in Late Antiquity
An opening Keynote by: Prof. Martha Himmelfarb, Princeton University
Part of the Princeton-TAU joint workshop on "Judaism and Christianity in Late Antiquity"
June 18th, 2017
Judaeophobia and Palestinophilia
Prof. Olga Litvak, Clark University
[Abstract]
April 23rd, 2017
Antisemitism, Anti-Fascism and the Holocaust in the Soviet Union Local Police and the Holocaust in Eastern Ukraine (1941-1943)
Yuri Radchenko, Kharkiv Collegium Institute
The Image of "The Jew" in Soviet Anti-Fascist and Anti-Nazi Material
Prof. Andrew Sloin, CUNY
January 12th, 2017
Gendering the "Jews' War": Women, Anti-Semitism, and Peace/Anti-War Campaigns in Britain
Prof. Julie Gottlieb, The University of Sheffield
[Abstract]
January 15th, 2017
Economic Crisis, Anti-Semitism or Some Other Factor? Re-Evaluating the 1935-1937 Pogrom Wave in Poland
Dr. Kamil Kijek, University of Wrocław
[Abstract]
2015/2016 Academic Year
June 2nd, 2016
The Whitening of Israel: Occidentalism and Self-Occidentalization on the Israeli Left
Prof. Johannes Becke, Center for Jewish Studies, Heidelberg
[Abstract]
April 13th, 2016
Blood Inscriptions: Science, Modernity and Ritual Murder in Fin de Siecle Europe
Prof. Hillel Kieval, Washington University in St. Louis
[Abstract]
March 16th, 2016
Theodor Herzl: Between Antisemitism, Race, and Empire
Prof. Derek Penslar, University of Toronto and Oxford University
[Podcast]
January 13th-14th, 2016
Neighbors? Jews and Non-Jews in Urban SpacesInternational Workshop
[Abstracts]
December 30th, 2015
The Assassination of Symon Petliura and the Trial of the Assassin Sholom Schwartzbard in Light of Ukranian Politics, 1926-1927
Prof. David Engel, NYU
2014/2015 Academic Year
May 26th, 2015
The Holocaust within a Modern European History of Genocide and Mass Violence
Prof. Donald Bloxham, University of Edinburgh Part of the lecture series on "Genocide in the 20th Century"
March 22nd, 2015
From the Other Shore: Amnesty International and Soviet Dissidents
Prof. Benjamin Nathans, University of Pennsylvania
January 15th, 2015
Segregation: A Global PerspectiveAn International Workshop
January 14th, 2015
Gender, War and AntisemitismA Symposium
Annual Marianne and Ernst Pieper Lecture
Prof. Atina Grossman, Cooper Union, New York
December 11th, 2014
Klezmer's Afterlife: The Jewish Music Revival in Post-Holocaust Poland
Dr. Magdalena Waligorska, University of Bremen
