DHHRM | Crucial Conversations: Challenging Antisemitism - Session 1

Session 1: Contemporary Antisemitism
In the first session of this series, experts will discuss elements of 20th century antisemitism and aspects of contemporary antisemitism. The discussion will include the alarming rise of antisemitic rhetoric and actions following the October 7th attacks.

About the Speakers

Michael Berenbaum is the Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust and a Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at the American Jewish University. The author and editor of 24 books, he was also the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica. He was Project Director overseeing the creation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the first Director of its Research Institute and later served as President and CEO of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, which took the testimony of 52,000 Holocaust survivors in 32 languages and 57 countries.

Berenbaum's work in film has won Emmy Awards and Academy Awards. He has developed and curated Museums in the United States, Mexico, North Macedonia and Poland and his award winning exhibition Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far Away has been in Madrid and Malmo, New York, Kansas City and most recently at the Ronald Regan Library in California and will soon open in Boston.

Dr. Charles Asher Small is the Founding Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP). Small has convened groundbreaking academic seminar series, conferences and programming in the emerging field of contemporary antisemitism studies at top-tier universities around the world. Small was also the Founding Director of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA), the first interdisciplinary research center on antisemitism at a North American university.

Small is the author of numerous books and articles including: The ISGAP Papers: Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective: Volume Two (2016) and The Yale Papers: Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective: Volume One (2015). Small has also served as a consultant and policy advisor in North America, Europe, Southern Africa, and the Middle East, addressing the European Parliament, United Nations, Israeli Knesset, the Kigali International Forum on Genocide, as well as various European Parliaments and leading think tanks in China, India, and the Americas.

About the Moderator

Dr. David Patterson serves as the Hillel A. Feinberg Distinguished Chair of Holocaust Studies at the University of Austin at Dallas. He is a member of the World Union of Jewish Studies and the Association for Jewish Studies. He is a consultant to many national organizations, including the Philadelphia Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He was also a participant in the Weinstein Symposium on the Holocaust.
A winner of the National Jewish Book Award and the Koret Jewish Book Award, Patterson has published more 30 books and more than 140 articles and chapters in journals and books in philosophy, literature, Judaism, Holocaust and education. Patterson’s most recent book is Genocide in Jewish Thought (2012). He has his doctorate from the University of Oregon.

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