Confronting Antisemitism in the Twenty-first Century

Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UCSBTALK: Confronting Antisemitism in the Twenty-first Century
Robert Wistrich (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Monday, February 23 / 7:30 PM
Congregation B’nai B’rith, 1000 San Antonio Creek Road

What are the most salient and significant features of the current offensive directed against the State of Israel and Jewish communities around the world? Robert Wistrich, one of the world’s foremost authorities on the history of antisemitism and modern Jewry, will examine key facets of the challenge and danger that emanates from the new antisemitism, including its connections with the global Jihad. His many publications include The Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph, Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred, which became a major PBS documentary, and Hitler and the Holocaust. His latest book, A Lethal Obsession: Antisemitism, From Antiquity to the Global Jihad, will be published in the fall of 2009. Courtesy of Borders, copies of his books will be available for purchase and signing at this event. For additional information, call 893-2317.

Website: www.ihc.ucsb.edu/events/endowed/taubman.html
Sponsored by The Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UC Santa Barbara, a program of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, is cosponsored by UCSB Arts & Lectures, Department of Religious Studies, Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara, Congregation B’nai B’rith, and Santa Barbara Hillel. This event is also cosponsored by the Anti-Defamation League.

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