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  From Our Database  
 
Extreme Right-Wing Crimes in Germany Continue to Rise... more
Neo-Nazis Suspected of Involvement in Theft of Auschwitz Sign... more
Bosnian Constitution Discriminatory, Says European Court... more
Antisemitic Attack in Moscow Metro... more
Sudan Representative Compares Climate Change Accord to Holocaust... more
Arabs Invoke Jews Following Swiss Referendum on Minarets... more
 

For further information on contemporary antisemitism, search our Reports, Analyses & Database.

  Research Studies & Debates  
 


Disclaimer: While the Institute publicizes links to relevant books, articles, reports and conferences, it cannot assure freedom of access to those pages.
It should also be noted that the views and opinions expressed in those pages are strictly those of the authors.

New on Our Website
Topical Brief: Violence against the Roma Minority in Hungary and the Czech Republic and Its Repercussions, by Roni Stauber

Country Reports 2008/9: Brazil, Austria, Netherlands, Russian Federation
Books:
Peretz F. Bernstein, The Social Roots of Discrimination - The Case of the Jews (New Brunswick, 2009)
Robert Michael, A History of Catholic Antisemitism - The Dark Side of the Church (NY, 2008)
Robert S. Wistrich, A Lethal Obsession - Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad (NY, 2010)
Leonard Victor Rutgers, Making Myths: Jews in Early Christian Identity Formation (Leuven, Belgium, 2009)
Articles:
Antero Holmila, Finland and the Holocaust: A Reassessment Holocaust and Genocide Studies 23, no. 3 (Winter 2009)
Jeffrey Herf, Hate Radio - The Long, Toxic Afterlife of Nazi Propaganda in the Arab World, The Chronicle, November 22, 2009
Dirk Vlasbom, From Roman to Third Reich: Anti-Semitism has Long History, NRCHandelsblad,, December 21, 2009
Book Reviews:
Mark Mengerink, on Robbery and Restitution: The Conflict over Jewish Property in Europe, edited by Martin Dean, Constantin Goschler, and Philipp Ther (NY/Oxford, 2007)
Peter Jelavich, on Germans, Jews, and Antisemites: Trials in Emancipation, by Shulamit Volkov (Cambridge, 2006) and The Socialist Response to Antisemitism in Imperial Germany, by Lars Fischer (Cambridge, 2007)
Ian Buruma, on several books on the Holocaust in France, New York Review of Books (December 2009)
Opinions and Debates:
Efraim Zuroff vs. Barry Rubin
The place of the Holocaust in Central European memory Jerusalem Post, December 22, 2009; Jerusalem Post, December 29, 2009; The Rubin Report, December 30, 2009; Letter by Shimon Samuels, Clemens Heni site, January 3, 2010
Larry Keller, Night at the Museum - A Controversial Historian at the Holocaust Museum, Southern Poverty Law Center (Winter 2009)
  Conferences  
 
Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective Seminar Series
Yale University, October 1, 2009 - April 22, 2010
Before and Beyond Auschwitz
Italy, January 27-29, 2010
Aftermath: Holocaust Survivors in Australia
Melbourne, March 14-15, 2010
Governments-in-Exile and the Jews during the Second World War
Southampton, March 21, 2010
SPME Spring Program
Starting March 25, 2010
Bearing Witness: Memory, Representation, and Pedagogy in the Post-Holocaust Age
Winchester, VA, April 12-13, 2010
Five Hundred Years of Jew-Hatred and Anti-Semitism in the German Press
Bremen University, May, 23-26, 2010
Auschwitz Jewish Center Fellows Program
New York/Poland, Summer 2010
Sephardic Jewry and the Holocaust - Summer Research Workshop
Washington, June, 16-25, 2010
Summer Research Workshops for Scholars
Washington, June-August 2010
Concepts of "Race" in the Humanities
University of Haifa, October 26-28, 2010
Lessons and Legacies XI
Florida Atlantic University, November 4-7, 2010
Cities and Culture under the Nazi Occupation
Sciences Po Bordeaux, December 2-3, 2010
 

  Institute News & Events  
 
The Institute will hold a reception for diplomats on January 19, 2010. The annual Raul Wallenberg Prize will be awarded on this occasion to Dr. Isaac Lubelsky, coordinator of the Institute's annual Marianne and Ernst Pieper Research Seminar Series on racism and genocide.
The Institute's Zeev Vered Desk for the Study of Tolerance and Intolerance in the Middle East, headed by Dr. Esther Webman, was inaugurated on December 27, 2009.
The Institute's weekly lecture series, The Holocaust between Past and Present (in Hebrew), is continuing throughout the 2009/10 academic year.
The Annual Marianne and Ernst Pieper Research Seminar Series focuses in 2009/10 on the ties binding religion and racism (in Hebrew).
One of our volunteers, Holocaust survivor Fanny Englard, has published a memoir, titled Vom Waisenhaus zum Jungfernhof - Deportiert von Hamburg nach Riga: Bericht einer Ueberlebenden.
On December 21, 2009, Robin Stoller from the International Institute of Education and Research on Antisemitism, visited our Institute.
 

  Call for Papers  
 
Yalkut Moreshet, Journal for the Study of the Holocaust and Antisemitism is a joint publication of the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism, Tel Aviv University, and Moreshet - Mordechai Anielevich Memorial. The journal deals with past and present aspects of antisemitism, the Holocaust and related matters. Four issues are published yearly - two in Hebrew and two in English - providing a reputable forum for well-known as well as young scholars worldwide.

Scholars are invited to share the findings of their research on relevant issues in different periods and areas. All papers accepted for publication in Moreshet are refereed by experts in the field. The article should average 8,000-10,000 words. Manuscripts for IBM-compatible computers should be e-mailed as an attached Word file to one of the following:
anti@post.tau.ac.il (for the attention of Beryl Belsky, Stephen Roth Institute)
arielh@galon.org.il (for the attention of Dr. Ariel Hurwitz, Moreshet)

 







 
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