Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism

The Benjamin (Yale 1962) and Barbara Zucker Lecture Series
Jason Stanley, Yale University
Sponsored by Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism and Whitney Humanities Center
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The Benjamin (Yale 1962) and Barbara Zucker Lecture Series
Ruth Ben-Ghiat, New York University

This talk will examine the place of fantasies of national purity in selected authoritarian states from Mussolini to the present, and how racial legislation and propaganda, such as that directed at Jews, factor into this larger context. We will look at the three timeframes and states of mind strongman leaders leverage: utopia, nostalgia, and crisis.

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The Benjamin (Yale 1962) and Barbara Zucker Lecture Series
Cathy Park Hong in conversation with Maurice Samuels
(Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism and Whitney Humanities Center)
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The Benjamin (Yale 1962) and Barbara Zucker Lecture Series
Ethan Katz, University of California, Berkeley
(Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism and Whitney Humanities Center)

The landing of American and British armies in North Africa on November 8, 1942, marked  one of the global turning points of World War II. What is little known is that the Allies’ path was smoothed by an insurrection in Algiers staged by an unlikely band of brothers: mostly Jewish shock troops, fighting to regain their lost citizenship, teamed with a number of French army officers and businessmen, most of whom were archconservative and even antisemitic. While recounting this riveting story, this talk also unlocks the mystery of an improbable short-term alliance with lasting implications. 
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Following Adolf Hitler’s seizure of power in early 1933, most German businessmen started to vigorously capitalize on Nazi Germany’s newly codified antisemitism. These men began to remove Jewish executives from their company boards, before indiscriminately seizing Jewish-owned businesses—first in Germany then across Nazi-occupied Europe. Many of the German moguls ended up using Jewish men and women as slave laborers in their factories and mines during World War II. But were many of these tycoons ardent Nazis, who unquestioningly embraced Hitler’s ideology and antisemitism to begin with? Or were most simply calculating, unscrupulous opportunists looking to expand their business empires at any cost?

David de Jong is a journalist who previously covered European banking and finance from Amsterdam and hidden wealth and billionaire fortunes from New York for Bloomberg News. His work has also appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek, the Wall Street Journal, and the Dutch Financial Daily. A native of the Netherlands, de Jong currently lives in Tel Aviv. He spent four years reporting from Berlin while researching and writing this book.

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