This volume presents a selection of the papers presented at the "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" conference organized at Yale University by YIISA/ISGAP in August 2010.
It is one of five volumes reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the conference as well as the diverse nature of the subject of antisemitism in general.
These volumes will be of interest to students and scholars of antisemitism and discrimination, as well as to scholars and readers from other fields. Rather than treating antisemitism merely as an historical phenomenon, they place it squarely in the contemporary context. As a result, the papers presented in these volumes also provide important insights into the ideologies, processes, and developments that give rise to prejudice in the contemporary global context.
Volume II deals with matters of antisemitism and the intellectual environment. The papers in this volume focus on the treatment of Israel in the media and the study of antisemitism in the academy. The following papers appear in this volume:
Introduction, Charles Asher Small; Fighting Antisemitism in the Feminist Community, Nora Gold; Campus Antisemitic Speech and the First Amendment, Alexander Tsesis; Marginalization and Its Discontents: American Jews in Multicultural and Identity Studies, Jennifer Roskies; NGOs and the New Antisemitism, Anne Herzberg; The Image of Israel and Israelis in the French, British, and Italian Press During the 1982 Lebanon War, Marianna Scherini; Durban Reviewed: The Transformation of Antisemitism in a Cosmopolitanizing Environment, Elisabeth Kuebler and Matthias Falter.
About the Author: Dr. Charles Asher Small is the Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP). He is also a Visiting Professor at the Moshe Dayan Centre for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University. Charles holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from McGill University, Montreal; an M.Sc. in Urban Development Planning in Economics from the Development Planning Unit (DPU) of University College London; and a Doctorate of Philosophy (D.Phil) from St. Antony's College, Oxford.
Charles was the founding Director of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA), the first interdisciplinary research center on antisemitism at a North American university. At Yale he taught in the Political Science Department and the Program on Ethics, Politics and Economics, and ran a post-doctorate and graduate studies fellowship program at YIISA. He was also an Associate Professor and the Director of Urban Studies at Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU), as well as an Assistant Professor at Tel Aviv University in the Department of Geography. He has lectured internationally and worked as a consultant and policy advisor in North America, Europe, Southern Africa, and the Middle East. Charles specializes in social and cultural theory, globalization and national identity, socio-cultural policy, and racism(s) - including antisemitism.
