The Official ISCA Podcast

Sunday, January 15, 2023. In this episode, Yehuda Bauer explores the subject of "Antisemitism — A Fresh Look." Professor Yehuda Bauer is Professor Emeritus of History and Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Academic Advisor to Yad Vashem.  Bauer is fluent in Czech, Slovak, German, Hebrew, Yiddish, English, French, and Polish.  He was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1926.  His family migrated to Israel in 1939.  After completing high school in Haifa, he attended Cardiff University in Wales on a British scholarship. Upon returning to Israel, he joined Kibbutz Shoval and began his graduate studies at Hebrew University.  He received his PhD in 1960 for a thesis on the British Mandate of Palestine.  The following year, he began teaching at the Institute for Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.  He was the founding editor of the Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies.  Bauer has written numerous articles and books on the Holocaust and on genocide.  In 1998, he was awarded the Israel Prize, the highest civilian award in Israel, and in 2001 he was elected a member of the Israeli Academy of Science.  Bauer has served as advisor to the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research, and as senior advisor to the Swedish Government on the International Forum on Genocide Prevention.    "Pleasant Porridge" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Sunday, December 4, 2022.  In this episode, Yana Grinshpun explores the subject of "Judeophobia and 'Islamophobia' in Today’s France: Symbolism, Doxa, and Reality." Yana Grinshpun is a senior Lecturer at Sorbonne Nouvelle University. She is particularly interested in discourse analysis and media analysis. Her research in recent years is concentrated on the functioning of the media discourse and, in particular, on the propaganda and manipulation spread by the media in democratic societies. Grinshpun’s most recent works concern the rise of antisemitism in France. She is a member of an academic network RRA (Research on Racism and Antisemitism). She directs a research group “New radical discourses” and gives lectures on a regular basis to the special educators working with “radicalized” youth. Music: "Pleasant Porridge" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Sunday, November 13, 2022.  In this episode, Franziska Haug discusses "The Function of Antisemitism in Queer-Feminist Discourse." Franziska Haug is a research assistant at the Institute for German Literature and its Didactics at the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main. She is doing her PhD on the topic of "Literary procedures of the production of gender through labor". In 2021, she was a Visiting Research Scholar at the German Department at NYU (New York University). She is a member of the Forum of Critical Sciences and the Cornelia Goethe Center for Women's and Gender Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt. Her research interests include materialism and Marxism, women's and gender studies, pop culture and aesthetics, critical theory, and antisemitism. Music: "Pleasant Porridge" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Sunday, November 6, 2022.  In this episode, Ben Cohen discusses "Pandemics, Hate Crimes, and Riots: Media Coverage of Antisemitism Since 2020." Ben Cohen is the award-winning Senior Correspondent of The Algemeiner, one of the leading Jewish news outlets in the United States. Based in New York City, he writes extensively on the challenges posed by antisemitism and political extremism around the globe, especially in western Europe, eastern Europe, and the Middle East. Music: "Pleasant Porridge" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Sunday, October 30, 2022. In this episode, Ofir Winter presents his lecture, "Making Peace with the Jews? Contemporary Islamic Arguments for and against Normalization." Ofir Winter is a research fellow at INSS and a lecturer at the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Tel Aviv University. He holds a PhD from the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University. His doctoral research focused on Egypt and Jordan's quest to legitimize their peace treaties with Israel.  He is the author of two books: Zionism in Arab Discourses (Manchester University Press, 2016, with Uriya Shavit); and the recently published, Peace in the Name of Allah: Islamic Discourses on Treaties with Israel (De Gruyter, 2022). Music: "Pleasant Porridge" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Sunday, October 23, 2022.  In this episode, Kenneth L. Marcus delivers his lecture entitled, "The Wayward Healer: Iatrogenic Antisemitism and the Perils of Intervention." Kenneth L. Marcus is founder and chairman of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law; Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Center for Liberty & Law at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School; and author of The Definition of Anti-Semitism (Oxford University Press) and Jewish Identity and Civil Rights in America (Cambridge University Press). Music: "Pleasant Porridge" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Sunday, October 16, 2022.  In this episode, Thane Rosenbaum speaks on the topic of "'Occupation,' 'Apartheid,' and 'Ethnic Cleansing': The Trifecta Libel Against Israel." Rosenbaum is a law professor, legal and Middle East analyst, novelist, essayist, and Distinguished University Professor at Touro University, where he directs the Forum on Life, Culture & Society.   He is the Legal Analyst for CBS News Radio and is a frequent guest on various cable news shows on such topics as the Conflict in the Middle East, global antisemitism, terrorism, human rights, moral justice, and Holocaust memory. He hosts The Talk Show at the 92nd Street Y. Music: "Pleasant Porridge" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Sunday, October 2, 2022.  In this episode, Martin Kramer delivers a lecture about "Semites, Anti-Semites, and Bernard Lewis: The Life and Afterlife of a Seminal Book." Kramer is a historian of the Middle East and Israel at Tel Aviv University, and the Walter P. Stern Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He was the founding president of Shalem College, a liberal arts school in Jerusalem, and a visiting professor or fellow at Brandeis, Chicago, Cornell, Georgetown, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and the Wilson Center. Among his many publications on Islam, Israel, and the Middle East, Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America (2001) has been widely discussed and influential. Music: "Pleasant Porridge" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Sunday, September 18, 2022.  In this episode, Jan Grabowski offers his lecture, "'Night Without End': New Scholarship on the Holocaust in Poland." Jan Grabowski is a Professor of History at the University of Ottawa and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Last year he was appointed the 2021-2022 Cleveringa Chair at Leiden University in the Netherlands. His interests focus on the Holocaust in Poland and, more specifically, on the relations between Jews and Poles during the war. Professor Grabowski’s book: Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland was awarded the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for 2014.  In 2018 he co-edited and co-authored  “Dalej jest noc” [Night Without End] (a two-volume study of the fate of the Jews in selected counties of occupied Poland). Night Without End was published in 2022 in English by Indiana University Press.    Music: "Pleasant Porridge" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Sunday, September 4, 2022.  In this episode, Jeffrey Herf presents his lecture entitled, "Myths and Realities about Israel's Establishment: Their Relevance for Discussions of Contemporary Antisemitism." Herf is Distinguished University Professor, Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park, where he teaches Modern European History. His commentaries on contemporary history and on contemporary antisemitism have been published in American Interest, American Purpose, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Internationale Politik, Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, The New Republic, his blog at The Times of Israel, and The Washington Post. Music: "Pleasant Porridge" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/