Recorded on September 19, 2024

The Center for Jewish Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center presents:
Definitions of Antisemitism: A Roundtable Discussion

Please join us for two online roundtables on the current debate over the definition of antisemitism and its implications for activists, politicians, university officials, and the general public. The first discussion, on September 19, will feature participants in the writing of the IHRA, JDA, and Nexus definitions. The second discussion, on November 1, will explore the impact of these definitions on college campuses and in the public arena.

Thursday September 19, 12pm EST
Definitions of Antisemitism: A Roundtable Discussion Series (webinar)
Roundtable #1: A Conversation on the IHRA, JDA, and Nexus Definitions
with David Feldman (Birkbeck, University of London), Lori Lefkovitz (Northeastern University), and Kenneth Stern (Bard Center for the Study of Hate)

Register here: https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/webinar/r...

Co-sponsored with the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes against Humanity

David Feldman is a Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London where he is also Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism. His most recent book, coedited with Marc Volovici, is Antisemitism, Islamophobia and the Politics of Definition (Palgrave, 2023). He is one of the authors of the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism which was published in 2021.

Lori Lefkovitz holds the Ruderman Chair in Jewish Studies at Northeastern University, where she is a Professor of English and Director of the Jewish Studies program. Her work focuses on literature, critical theory, and Jewish feminist studies. She is the author of In Scripture: The First Stories of Jewish Sexual Identity (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010), among many other publications. She is a member of the Nexus Task Force.

Kenneth S. Stern, an award-winning author and attorney, is the director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate. He has argued before the United States Supreme Court, testified before Congress, and was an invited presenter at the White House Conference on Hate Crimes. Mr. Stern was the lead drafter of the “working definition” of antisemitism. His newest book is The Conflict Over the Conflict: The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate (New Jewish Press, 2020).