The Intellectual Environment

This volume presents a selection of the papers presented at the “Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity” conference organized at Yale University by YIISA/ISGAP in August 2010.

It is one of five volumes reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the conference as well as the diverse nature of the subject of antisemitism in general.

These volumes will be of interest to students and scholars of antisemitism and discrimination, as well as to scholars and readers from other fields. Rather than treating antisemitism merely as an historical phenomenon, they place it squarely in the contemporary context. As a result, the papers presented in these volumes also provide important insights into the ideologies, processes, and developments that give rise to prejudice in the contemporary global context.

Volume II deals with matters of antisemitism and the intellectual environment. The papers in this volume focus on the treatment of Israel in the media and the study of antisemitism in the academy. The following papers appear in this volume:

Introduction, Charles Asher Small; Fighting Antisemitism in the Feminist Community, Nora Gold; Campus Antisemitic Speech and the First Amendment, Alexander Tsesis; Marginalization and Its Discontents: American Jews in Multicultural and Identity Studies, Jennifer Roskies; NGOs and the New Antisemitism, Anne Herzberg; The Image of Israel and Israelis in the French, British, and Italian Press During the 1982 Lebanon War, Marianna Scherini; Durban Reviewed: The Transformation of Antisemitism in a Cosmopolitanizing Environment, Elisabeth Kuebler and Matthias Falter.