Esther Webman participated in several symposiums and conferences throughout the year. In September 2010, she attended the Stephen Roth Institute's International Seminar on antisemitism in Paris, and delivered a lecture on "Arab Reactions to Combating anti-Semitism."  In November 2010, she participated in a panel of the Lessons and Legacies Conference, held in Boca Raton, Florida, and delivered a paper on "Mixed and Confused – Egyptian Initial Responses to the Holocaust." That same month, she lectured on "'Stealing the Holocaust from the Jews?' – The Holocaust as a Metaphor in the Public Discourse," at a symposium on Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial – New Perspectives, held in Dublin, Ireland. In April 2011, she delivered a lecture on the "Roots of Arab/Islamic anti-Semitism," at a conference on "Religious Belief and the Arab-Israeli Conflict," organized by the Jewish-Arab Center at the University of Haifa. 

Webman's book From Empathy to Denial (co-authored with Meir Litvak) received the Washington Institute's Gold Prize for 2010. Her edited volume, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion – The One-Hundred Year Myth and Its Impact, in which she has a chapter on "The Adoption of the Protocols in the Arab Discourse on the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Zionism and the Jews," was published in June 2011, by Routledge.  Webman also published several articles during the academic year, among them: "The Challenge of Assessing Arab/Islamic anti-Semitism," published in the September 2010 issue of Middle Eastern Studies. Her chapter (co-authored with Meir Litvak) on

"Israel and Antisemitism" was published in a collective volume, Anti-Semitism: A History, edited by Albert S. Lindemann and Richard S. Levy (Oxford University Press).

email: webman@post.tau.ac.il

Books

Editor, The Global Impact of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion: A Century-Old Myth (Routledge Jewish Studies Series, 2011).

with Meir Litvak, From Empathy to Denial: Arab Responses to the Holocaust (Columbia University Press, 2009).

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Recent Journal Articles

From Hope to Despair: The Nakba at 60, Tel-Aviv Notes, June 4, 2008.

The Swiss referendum in Arab Discourse, Tel-Aviv Notes, January 26, 2010.

Regime and Opposition in the Middle East, ed. (Tel Aviv, 2010) (in Hebrew).

"The Perceptions of Globalization in the Arab World," in M. Litvak (ed.), Middle Eastern Societies and the West (Tel Aviv, 2006), pp. 177-198.

Islam and the West – Clash or Co-existence (ed.), (Tel Aviv, 2002) (in Hebrew).     

It Was Written on the Wall - Usama Bin Ladin, the Man and his Deeds (Tel Aviv, 2002) (in Hebrew).

With Meir Litvak, "Perceptions of the Holocaust in Palestinian Public Discourse," Israel Studies, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Fall 2003). Also available through Project Muse.

Articles on Usama bin Ladin in Middle East Contemporary Survey

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Chapters in Books

"Israel and Antisemitism," in Albert S. Lindemann and Richard S. Levy, Antisemitism. A History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 237-49. (with Meir Litvak).

"The Challenge of Assessing Arab/Islamic Antisemitism," Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 46, No. 5 (September 2010), pp. 677-98.

"The Image of the Jew/Zionist/Israeli in the Arab World" in Muslim Attitudes to Jews and Israel: The Ambivalences of Rejection, Antagonism, Tolerance and Cooperation, edited by Moshe Ma'oz, Sussex Academic Press, 2010.

"The Limits of Holocaust Representation in the Arab World," in Aukje Kluge and Benn Williams (eds.), Re-examining the Holocaust through Literature (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009), pp. 61-108.

"The Evolution of a Founding Myth – The Nakba and Its Fluctuating Meaning," in M. Litvak (ed.), Palestinian Collective Memory and National Identity (New York: Palgrave, 2009), pp. 27-45.

"Ägypten," in Wolfgang Benz (ed.), Handbuch zur Antisemitismuforschung (München: K. G. Saur, 2008), pp. 9-13.

"Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism and Criticism of Israel - The Arab Perspective," in Moshe Zuckermann (ed.), Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte XXXIII (2005), pp. 306-329.

"The Representation of the Holocaust in the Arab World," The Journal of Israeli History, 23/1 (Spring 2004), pp. 100-115. With Meir Litvak.

"Die Rhetorik der Hizbollah: die weiterführung eines antisemitischen diskurses," in Werner Bergmann et al. (eds.), Jahrbuck für Antisemitismusforschung, 12 (2003), pp. 39-55. ("Hizballah’s Rhetoric – The Perpetuation of an Anti-Semitic Discourse.”)

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