Title: "Self Hatred and Contemporary Antisemitism"

Speakers, Affiliations and Topics:

Speaker: Dr. Doron Ben-Atar Affiliation: Professor of History, Fordham University, New York Title: "Without Ahavath Yisrael: Thoughts on Radical Anti-Zionism at Brandeis"

Speaker: Dr. Richard Landes Affiliation: Department of History, Boston University Title: "Scourges and Their Audiences: What Drives Jews to Loathe Israel Publicly and What To Do About It?"

Speaker: Dr. Alvin Rosenfeld Affiliation: Professor of Jewish Studies and English, Indiana University; Director of the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, Indiana University Title: "Beyond Criticism and Dissent: On Jewish Contributions to the Delegitimation of Israel"

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"Roundtable: Discussions in the Study of Antisemitism"

Speakers and Affiliations

Speaker: Dr. Charles Asher Small Affiliation: Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)

Speaker: Dr. Alvin Rosenfeld Affiliation: Professor of Jewish Studies and English, Indiana University; Director of the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, Indiana University

Speaker: Dr. David Feldman Affiliation: Professor of History at Birkbeck University of London; Director of the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism

Speaker: Dr. Dina Porat Affiliation: Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University

Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT

Date: August 25, 2010

Description: This session is part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA)/ International Association for the Study of Antisemitism (IASA) Inaugural "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Conference (August 23-25, 2010). Speakers discuss various topics, including Jewish self-hatred and the Jewish contribution to the delegitimization of Israel and modern manifestations of anitsemitism.