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“Is America ‘Different?’: Antisemitism and the Belief in American Exceptionalism” a talk by Tony Michels

“Is America ‘Different?’: Antisemitism and the Belief in American Exceptionalism” a talk by Tony Michels on March 12th, 2020 at 5:30pm in the Judaica Suite at Smathers Library

Tony Michels is the George L. Mosse Professor of American Jewish History, and the Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York (Harvard University Press, 2005), which was awarded the Salo Baron Prize for First Best Book in Jewish History, and the editor of Jewish Radicals: A Documentary History (New York University Press, 2012), and co-editor of The Cambridge History of Judaism, volume 8: The Modern World.

  • Made possible through the Alexander Grass Chair in Jewish Studies. Cosponsored by the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica.
  • See the postcard for this event