Unity and Diversity in Contemporary Antisemitism: The Bristol–Sheffield Hallam Colloquium on Contemporary Antisemitism (Antisemitism Studies) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1618119664 ISBN 13: 9781618119667

Publisher: Academic Studies Press, 2019

Synopsis

This book springs from the Bristol–Sheffield Hallam Colloquium on Contemporary Antisemitism at the University of Bristol in September 2015. International experts in Religious Studies, Law, Politics, Sociology, Psychology, and History came together to examine the complexities of contemporary antisemitism. Recent attacks on Jews in European cities have increased awareness of antisemitism and, as this collection shows, such attacks cannot be separated from wider geopolitical and ideological factors. One distinct feature of antisemitism today is its demonization of the State of Israel. Older ideas also feature Jews being blamed for all the world’s ills, thought to possess almost supernatural levels of power and wealth, and conspiring to harm the non-Jewish other. These and other ideas forming the background to antisemitism in Europe and North America are unpacked in this book with a view to understanding―and thereby combating―contemporary antisemitism. A key concern is how unifying features might be isolated amid the diverse manifestations of this oldest of hatreds.

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About the Authors

Jonathan G. Campbell was Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies & Judaism at Bristol University until 2017. He has a range of teaching and research experience in Jewish Studies, with recent work focusing on contemporary resurgent antisemitism. He co-organized (with Lesley Klaff) two Bristol–Sheffield Hallam Colloquia on Contemporary Antisemitism in 2015 and 2016. He is particularly interested in the role of Christian traditions in negative attitudes towards Jews, including the growing anti-Israel activism of today’s mainstream churches in Europe and North America.

Lesley D. Klaff is a senior lecturer in law at Sheffield Hallam University and an affiliate professor of law at Haifa University. She is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism and is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of the Social Research Foundation. She serves on the advisory board of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights under Law and is a member of UK Lawyers for Israel. She has published widely on holocaust inversion, campus antisemitism, and antisemitism in British politics and gave evidence to the 2016 Chakrabarti Inquiry into Antisemitism and Other Forms of Racism in the Labour Party. In 2018 she was included in The Algemeiner's 5th annual "J100" list as one of the top 100 people "positively influencing Jewish life."

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1618119664
• ISBN 13: 9781618119667
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Campbell Jonathan G., Klaff Lesley D.