Join us for a talk by Professor Jonathan Judaken (Wash. U.) about his new book, Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism. The book is at once a philosophical reflection on key problems in the analysis of anti-Semitism and a history of its leading theories and theorists. He traces how a range of thinkers have wrestled with these problems, examining the theories of Jean-Paul Sartre, the Frankfurt School, Hannah Arendt, and Jean-François Lyotard, alongside the works of sociologists Talcott Parsons and Zygmunt Bauman and historians Léon Poliakov and George Mosse. Demonstrating how Judeophobia is entangled with other racisms like Islamophobia, xenophobia, and anti-Blackness, Judaken urges us to rethink our understanding of anti-Semitism in this perilous moment.
Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program and the Departments of History and Religion
