Course: Antisemitism: From Its Origins to the Present
Modules:
COURSE TRAILER, WELCOME TO THE COURSE, THE NATURE OF HATE, THE NATURE OF ANTISEMITISM, ETYMOLOGY AND HISTORICAL ROOTS, A PROBLEMATIC TERM?, WHO ARE THE JEWS?, ANTI-JEWISH PERCEPTIONS IN THE GRECO-ROMAN WORLD, A UNIQUE FORM OF HATE OR ANOTHER FORM OF XENOPHOBIA?, THE EARLY DAYS OF CHRISTIANITY, THE CONVERSION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, THE AUGUSTINIAN PERCEPTION, ANTI-JUDAISM, THE MIDDLE AGES, THE JEWISH "OTHER" IN THE MIDDLE AGES, CONCLUSION AND LOOKING AHEAD TO WEEK 2
THE CHANGING FACE OF ANTISEMITISM, THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD, THE ENLIGHTENMENT, BETWEEN WESTERN AND EASTERN EUROPE, THE RETURN OF JEWS TO WESTERN EUROPE, EMANCIPATION: NEW POSSIBILITIES AND NEW PERILS, NATIONALISM: BELONGING AND OTHERNESS, THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND URBANISM, PERCEPTIONS OF JEWISH SUCCESS IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT, RACISM AND RACIAL ANTISEMITISM, GERMANS, JEWS, AND ANTISEMITES, THE INTEGRATION OF JEWS INTO FRENCH SOCIETY, FROM THE FRENCH REVOLUTION TO THE DREYFUS AFFAIR, BETWEEN RESTRICTIONS, REFORMS AND POGROMS, ANTISEMITIC EXPRESSIONS IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY, THE PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZION, THE EMERGENCE OF ZIONISM, CONCLUSION AND LOOKING AHEAD TO WEEK 3
FROM WORLD WAR I TO THE HOLOCAUST, WORLD WAR I AND ITS IMPACT ON ANTISEMITISM, THE IMPACT ON GERMANY, THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION AND THE CIVIL WAR POGROMS, THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION AND THE PERCEPTION OF THE JEWS, BETWEEN TWO WORLD WARS, ECONOMIC ANTISEMITISM, THE MAIN PRINCIPLES OF NAZI IDEOLOGY, THE CENTRALITY OF ANTISEMITISM IN NAZI IDEOLOGY, THE RISE OF NAZISM TO POWER, ANTISEMITISM IN GERMANY IN THE 1930S, WORLD WAR II, THE HOLOCAUST, THE COLLABORATORS, INTIMATE MURDER, ANTISEMITISM AS A DRIVING FORCE IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR, THE AFTERMATH, THE PERSISTENCE OF ANTISEMITISM, CONCLUSION AND LOOKING AHEAD TO WEEK 4
FAR-RIGHT, FAR-LEFT, HOLOCAUST DENIAL AND ANTI-ZIONISM, THE FAR-RIGHT: GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS, THE PLACE OF ANTISEMITISM IN THE FAR-RIGHT, RIGHT-WING POPULISM AND THE PERCEPTION OF THE JEWS, FAR-RIGHT ANTISEMITISM IN EUROPE, FAR-RIGHT ANTISEMITISM IN THE UNITED STATES, LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES, RIGHT-WING POPULISM AND CONSPIRACY THEORIES IN THE UNITED STATES, THE VARYING FORMS OF HOLOCAUST DENIAL, IRVING V PENGUIN BOOKS AND LIPSTADT, ANTISEMITISM IN THE FAR-LEFT, ANTI-ZIONISM, THE HISTORICAL ROOTS OF CONTEMPORARY ANTI-ZIONISM, ANTI-ZIONISM IN THE 1960S AND 1970S: THE USSR AND THE SOVIET BLOC, THE KEYSTONE THEORY, BETWEEN LEGITIMATE AND ILLEGITIMATE CRITICISM OF ISRAEL, ALLEGATIONS OF ANTISEMITISM IN THE BRITISH LABOUR PARTY, ANTI-ZIONISM AND HOLOCAUST DENIAL AND DISTORTION, The Place of Antisemitism in the Yellow Vests Movement, CONCLUSION AND LOOKING AHEAD TO WEEK 5
THE ARAB AND ISLAMIC WORLD, EARLY DYNAMICS IN THE ARABIAN PENINSULA, PERCEPTIONS OF JEWS AND JUDAISM IN THE MUSLIM SACRED TEXTS, ATTITUDES TOWARD JEWS UNDER MUSLIM RULE, JEWS UNDER CHRISTIANITY AND UNDER ISLAM, THE EMERGENCE OF ANTISEMITISM, THE ARRIVAL OF NATIONALISM, THE LOSS OF DOMINANCE, THE EMERGENCE OF ZIONISM, THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, DEFINING ISLAMISM, "THE INVENTION OF TRADITION": AN INVENTED INTERPRETATION OF MUSLIM-JEWISH HISTORY, FROM THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD TO CONTEMPORARY ISLAMISM, A DISTORTED INTERPRETATION OF THE PAST, CONTEMPORARY ISLAMIST RHETORIC, THE PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZION, HOLOCAUST DENIAL AND DISTORTION, ANTISEMITISM IN THE MEDIA: VARYING TRENDS, OTHER VOICES, THE CASE OF IRAN, CONCLUSION AND LOOKING AHEAD TO WEEK 6
CONTEMPORARY MANIFESTATIONS, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE, CASE STUDIES: WHAT IS AND WHAT ISN'T ANTISEMITISM?, DIFFERENTIATING BETWEEN LEGITIMATE AND ILLEGITIMATE CRITICISM OF ISRAEL, THE BDS MOVEMENT, CONSPIRACY THEORIES, SOME PERCEPTIONS FROM THE FAR EAST, SOCIAL MEDIA, VIRALITY AND INFORMATION FLOW, CONFRONTING ONLINE HATE, RESEARCHING ANTISEMITISM, MONITORING ANTISEMITISM – OVERVIEW AND MAIN FINDINGS FOR 2016, MONITORING ANTISEMITISM – MAIN FINDINGS FOR 2017-2019, A WORKING DEFINITION OF ANTISEMITISM, COMBATING ANTISEMITISM THROUGH LEGISLATION, ATTEMPTS TO CONFRONT ANTISEMITISM IN THE EU AND THE UK, THE BRITISH ALL-PARTY PARLIAMENTARY GROUP AGAINST ANTISEMITISM, MOVING FORWARD, CONCLUDING THE COURSE