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On Wednesday, January 15 at 7:00 pm at Congregation Bonai Shalom in Boulder, Dr. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, the Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History at CU Boulder, will lead a discussion on Antisemitism.
Antisemitism, as often described and analyzed, pervades all levels of society, also in mainstream democracies in Europe and North America. At the same time and faced with its many evolving manifestations, it resists easy definitions and there is strikingly little conceptual or methodological clarity. Moreover, there is no scholarly consensus on what it is and how and even if we should define it. We will discuss the phenomenon and manifestations of antisemitism past and present. We will look at ways in which scholars have offered to define and study it. The goal is to arrive at a vocabulary and approaches that help everyone to shed more light on what has amounted to a profound threat to Jewish life and security in so many places around the globe and adopt ways to confront it.
The program is sponsored by Congregation Bonai Shalom and by ADL’s Kulanu program. See https://www.bonaishalom.org/event/defining-antisemitism for more information.
