What is Anti-Semitism Now?
Monday, September 30, 2024 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm CET/GMT+1W15 Cafe
Especially since the massacres of October 7, there has been a renewed focus on how to understand and act against anti-Semitism but also disagreement and confusion about what anti-Semitism actually is. A discussion with Moshe Zimmermann, professor emeritus at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, child of refugees from Germany and expert on the history of anti-Semitism, aims to help create a better understanding of what anti-Semitism is today and what we can usefully do to work against it.
The discussion will be moderated by Professor Kerry Bystrom and is supported by the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
Moshe Zimmermann, born 1943 in Jerusalem, is emeritus Professor for German History and between 1986 and 2012 served as the Director of the Richard-Koebner-Center for German History at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He has been a visiting professor in Heidelberg, Mainz, Princeton (USA), Köln, Halle, München, Saarbrücken, Kassel, Krakau (Poland), Göttingen. His academic prizes include the Humboldt-Forschungspreis 1993, the Jacob- und Wilhelm-Grimm-Prize of the DAAD 1997, the Dr. Lukas Prize of the Universität Tübingen 2002 and the Lessing-Prize of the Lessing Akademie Wolfenbüttel 2006. He has written many publications in German, English and Hebrew about nationalism, antisemitism, the history of sport, film-history and German-Jewish history. Recent books include Niemals Frieden? (Berlin 2024); Germans against Germans: The Fate of the Jews 1938-1945 (Indiana 2022); Muscular Religion: Sport, Nationalism, Judaism. (Jerusalem 2017); Vom Rhein an den Jordan (Göttingen 2016), and, with Conze, Frei and Hayes, Das Amt und seine Vergangenheit (Munich 2010).