"'Antisemitism': The Origins, Structure, and Contested Reception of the Term" - Dan Michman

Sunday, September 3, 2023. In this episode, Dan Michman discusses "'Antisemitism': The Origins, Structure, and Contested Reception of the Term." 

Dan Michman is Professor (Emeritus) of Modern Jewish History and the former Chair of the Arnold and Leona Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan; he is also Head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research and Incumbent of the John Najmann Chair in Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem. His publications, available in twelve languages, cover a broad range of topics regarding the Shoah, its historiography and representations,  its impact on Israel, world Jewry, and the Western world, and on modern Jewish history and antisemitism. Prof. Michman’s recently (co)-authored and (co)-edited books include Pinkas: Geschiedenis van de joodse gemeenschap in Nederland (A History of the Jewish Community in the Netherlands, (1999); Post-Zionism and the Holocaust: The Role of the Holocaust in the Public Debate on Post-Zionism in Israel (I: 1993–1996, II: 1997–1998) (1997, 2007); Holocaust Historiography: A Jewish Perspective: Conceptualizations, Terminology, Approaches and Fundamental Issues (2003); Encyclopedia of the Righteous Among the Nations: Belgium (2005); De la mémoire de la Shoah dans le monde juif (2008); Holocaust Historiography in Context: Emergence, Challenges, Polemics and Achievements (2008); The Emergence of Jewish Ghettos During the Holocaust (2011); Adolf Hitler, the Decision-Making Process Leading to the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question,” and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Hajj Amin al-Hussayni: The Current State of Research (2017); Getting it Right, Getting it Wrong: Recent Holocaust Scholarship in Light of the Work of Raul Hilberg (2017); Les Juifs d'Afrique du Nord face à l’Allemagne nazie (2018); Emotions, Imaginations, Perceptions, Egos, Characteristics: Egodocuments in Dutch Jewish History (2021); Holocaust Historiography between 1990 to 2021 in Context(s): New Insights, Perceptions, Understandings and Avenues – An Overview and Analysis (2022); Jewish Solidarity : The Ideal and the Reality in the Turmoil of the Shoah (2022).

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