Antisemitism Education
The Taube Center for Jewish Studies is a hub for research and education around all aspects of Jewish history, culture, and religion, including antisemitism. We are home to a number of resources on the topic including faculty who are experts on antisemitism, and numerous publications, courses, and events that provide opportunities to better identify and understand what antisemitism looks like and its repercussions on the lives of Jews and others.
We have assembled a committee of expert scholars on antisemitism who are helping determine how the Taube Center can best respond to antisemitism through our mission of educating, reflecting, and growing.
See below for links to the Taube Center's resources on antisemitism education as well as external resources around campus for Stanford students, faculty, staff, and community.
NEW COURSE
NEW COURSE
JEWISHST 205: How to Think About Antisemitism
This course explores contemporary antisemitism through three key themes: institutions, ideologies, and definitions.
FEATURED BOOK
FEATURED BOOK
Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History
Steven J. Zipperstein retells the story of Kishinev, a riot that transformed the course of twentieth-century Jewish history.
FEATURED BOOK
FEATURED BOOK
No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe
Rowan Dorin's groundbreaking new history of the shared legacy of expulsion among Jews and Christian moneylenders in late medieval Europe.
Courses
Upcoming Courses 2024-2025
Autumn
How to Think About Antisemitism (Ari Kelman)
German Antisemitism and Colonialism (Jan Söffner)
Winter
Stanford Confronts the Fascist Moment (Daniela Weiner)
Out of Eden: Exile and Expulsion (Rowan Dorin)
Spring
The Human Condition: Hannah Arendt (Amir Eshel)
Crisis and Community in Jewish Tradition (Rowan Dorin)
Past Courses
Blood and Money – The Origins of Antisemitism (Rowan Dorin)
Genocide and Humanitarian Intervention (Bertrand Patenaude)
The Holocaust: Causes, Consequences, Memory (Norman Naimark and Katherine Jolluck)
Hannah Arendt: Facing Totalitarianism (Amir Eshel)
Circles of Hell: Poland in World War II (Katherine Jolluck)
World War Two: Place, Loss, History (Amir Eshel)
The History of Genocide (Norman Naimark)
Post-Colonial and Post-Shoah Readings: The Conundrums of Memory Politics (Nikita Dhawan)
The Holocaust: Insights from New Research (Norman Naimark and Katherine Jolluck)
Vanishing Diaspora? Ruin, Revival, and Jewish Life in Post-Holocaust Europe (Joshua Tapper)
Totalitarianism (Amir Weiner)
Publications
Events
Events 2024-2025
Antisemitism Speaker Series
In conjunction with Ari Kelman's course, "How to Think About Antisemitism," four major scholars on the topic will share their work on antisemitism at Stanford:
- October 9: Jonathan Judaken (Washington University) will discuss his new book, Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism (Columbia UP, 2024).
- October 23: David Schraub (Lewis and Clark Law School) will introduce his research into the intersections of American law, legal scholarship, and antisemitism: Renewing Study into the Oldest Hatred: Introduction to the Law vs. Antisemitism Symposium (27 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 1027 [2024]).
- October 30: Mara Lee Grayson, will explore her two recent studies: the monograph Antisemitism and the White Supremacist Imaginary: Conflations and Contradictions in Composition and Rhetoric (Peter Lang, 2023) and the anthology Challenging Antisemitism; Lessons from Literacy Classrooms (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023).
November 13: Dov Waxman, professor of Israel Studies at UCLA, will serve as the final installment of the speaker series on antisemitism, where he will share his research into American Jewry’s relationship to antisemitism, including the lack of consensus among scholars about the definition of the term.
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Literature, the Conflict, and October 7 Speaker Series
- October 9: Novelist and Stanford Writer-in-Residence, Maya Arad, will discuss her short story “We Got Lost in Gaza.”
- October 15-19: Shlomi Eldar, a journalist who covered Gaza for the last 30 years, an award winning documentary filmmaker, and author of Eyeless in Gaza (2005) and Getting to Know Hamas (2012) will lead multiple conversations for students and faculty.
- October 21: Award-winning poet and translator Peter Cole will join core faculty member Steven J. Zipperstein, whose book Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History will soon be released in Hebrew and French, and faculty director Vered Shemtov who is currently working on a book about Poetic Rage and the Kishinev Pogrom, to discuss reading Chaim Nachman Bialik's In the City of Slaughter after October 7. RSVP>>
- November 13: Dov Waxman, professor of Israel Studies at UCLA and director of UCLA’s Center for Israel Studies, will join us for lunch conversation about his book The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford UP, 2019).
Other Relevant Events
- January 30: Thomas Sparr (Publisher-at-Large for the German publisher Suhrkamp and former chief editor at Siedler) will speak about his book, “I Want to Go on Living, even after my Death”. The Biography of Anne Frank’s Diary.
- February 10: Jewish Studies will celebrate the publication of Daniela R.P. Weiner’s important book, Teaching a Dark Chapter: History Books and the Holocaust in Italy and the Germanys. Weiner is a former postdoctoral fellow in the Concentration in Education and Jewish Studies at Stanford and is now a lecturer in Stanford’s COLLEGE program.
Other Resources
Read the 2024 report on antisemitism:
Read the 2022 report on historic antisemitism in Stanford admissions:
Report an antisemitic incident
Connect with Jewish community on campus: Hillel at Stanford
Chat with a rabbi: Associate Dean Rabbi Laurie Hahn Tapper