September 21st, 2021 at 7:00 PM
University of Florida Hillel
This event is part of the “Contemporary Israel and Its Challenges: A Series of Conversations” series.
Join us for a live presentation by Günther Jikeli of Indiana University on the contemporary global spike in antisemitism, its roots, its spread, and prospects for the future.
The event is free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the Norman and Irma Braman Chair in Holocaust Studies.
Speaker
Günther Jikeli, historian and sociologist, holds the Erna B. Rosenfeld Professorship at the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism/ Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University. He is an associate professor at Germanic Studies and Jewish Studies. From 2011 to 2012, he served as an advisor to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on combating antisemitism. In 2013, he was awarded the Raoul Wallenberg Prize in Human Rights and Holocaust Studies by the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation and Tel Aviv University. His latest book “The Return of Religious Antisemitism?” was published in 2021.