Clarifying Antisemitism through Experiments: Exploring Blame, Responsibility, and Hate Crime

Investigating prejudice is inherently challenging for researchers. Explaining variation in antisemitism has proven particularly problematic for scholars and practitioners alike. Fortunately, new scholarship utilizing experimental methods promises to offset long-standing hurdles that have prevented a robust antisemitism research program. This talk will examine how novel survey experiments are helping to elucidate the consequences of antisemitic attitudes and beliefs as well as the real-world mechanisms through which they operate.

In June of 2023, Dr. Ayal Feinberg became the Director of the Center for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights at Gratz College, overseeing the largest Holocaust and Genocide graduate program in the world. He has joined Gratz’s faculty as an Associate Professor of Political Science & Antisemitism Studies. He is a Quantitative Research Fellow at the Anti-Defamation League’s Center for Antisemitism Research and recently completed a three-year term as the Junior Faculty Chair at the Academic Engagement Network.

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