On Jewish Suffering, Empathy, and the Need to Rethink Antisemitism

With antisemitism at the center of politics today and with a frequent conflation of the opposition to the State of Israel, known as antizionism, with antisemitism, Magda Teter will explore traditional scholarly approaches to antisemitism along with factors that historically shaped the habits of thinking about Jews to reconsider the nature of antisemitism and to rethink antizionism and hostility against Israel not only as products of modern conflict over land but also as ideas rooted in religious conceptions about Jews, Judaism, Jewish exile, and guilt and punishment.

Students who attend this talk will receive a copy of Blood Libels, Hostile Archives: Reclaiming Interrupted Jewish Lives. Contact Linda Maizels (linda.maizels@yale.edu) for more information.

Magda Teter is professor of history and the Shvidler Chair of Judaic Studies at Fordham University. She is the author and co-editor of several books, most recently, Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth (2020), Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism (2023), and Blood Libels, Hostile Archives: Reclaiming Interrupted Jewish Lives (2025). She is currently President of the American Academy of Jewish Research.

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