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Voices on Antisemitism features a broad range of perspectives about antisemitism and hatred today. Subscribe to Voices on Antisemitism as a podcast or listen to individual programs online. The opinions expressed in these interviews do not necessarily represent those of the Museum.

The series is made possible by generous support from the Oliver and Elizabeth Stanton Foundation.

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May 8, 2008
Ilan Stavans
credit: Sam Masinter
Ilan Stavans, Professor of Latin American and Latino Culture, Amherst College
Ilan Stavans has long thought of himself as an outsider, first as a Jew growing up in Mexico and now as a Mexican living in America.
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April 24, 2008
Susan Warsinger
Susan Warsinger, Holocaust survivor
In November 1938, the Nazis destroyed Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues in an event known as Kristallnacht—the "Night of Broken Glass." Susan Warsinger was an an eyewitness to that terrifying event.
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April 10, 2008
Margaret Lambert
Margaret Lambert, athlete, excluded from 1936 Olympic Games
In 1936, Margaret Lambert was poised to win a medal at the Berlin Olympic Games. Just one month before the Olympics began, Lambert was informed by the Reich Sports Office that she would not be allowed to compete.
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March 27, 2008
Alexandra Zapruder
Alexandra Zapruder, editor, Salvaged Pages: Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust
In 1992, Alexandra Zapruder began to collect diaries written by children during the Holocaust. These diaries speak eloquently of both hope and despair.
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March 13, 2008
Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon, author
In his 2007 novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Michael Chabon tries to imagine a way out of the Holocaust.
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February 28, 2008
Alain Finkielkraut
Alain Finkielkraut, Professor of the History of Ideas, École Polytechnique
Essayist and philosopher Alain Finkielkraut has become wary of contemporary antisemitism that casts Jews in the role of oppressor.
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February 14, 2008
Dan Bar-On
Dan Bar-On, Professor of Psychology, Ben Gurion University, and Matthew Family Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
Fifty years after World War II, Israeli psychologist Dan Bar-On began bringing together children of Holocaust survivors with children of Nazi perpetrators for dialogue and reflection.
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January 31, 2008
James Carroll
James Carroll, author and Boston Globe columnist
Though he left the priesthood more than thirty years ago, James Carroll has continued to wrestle the Church's two thousand year history of anti-Judaism.
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January 17, 2008
Ruth Gruber
Ruth Gruber, photojournalist
In her 96 years, Ruth Gruber has been a witness to history, fighting injustice with her words and her photographs.
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January 3, 2008
Reza Aslan
Reza Aslan, author and scholar of religions
Reza Aslan is disturbed by what he calls the "global cosmic conflict" between the West and radical Islamism.
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Join us in the coming weeks to hear reflections on antisemitism from Kathrin Meyer, former Advisor on Anti-Semitism Issues to Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe; Irwin Cotler, Member of Canadian Parliament; Hillel Fradkin, Director of the Center for Islam, Democracy and the Future of the Muslim World at the Hudson Institute; and many others.

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  • RELATED LINKS
  • Antisemitism
    (Holocaust Encyclopedia article)
  • History of Antisemitism
    (Library bibliography)
  • Antisemitism: Protocols of the Elders of Zion
    (Holocaust Encyclopedia article)
  • Nazi Propaganda
    (Holocaust Encyclopedia article)
  • Racism
    (Holocaust Encyclopedia article)
  • Anti-Jewish Legislation in Prewar Germany
    (Holocaust Encyclopedia article)
  • Christian Persecution of Jews over the Centuries
    (Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, Committee on Church Relations and the Holocaust)
  • Antisemitism: Special Two-Part Presentation
    (Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, Scholarly Presentation, December 18, 2003)
  • "Past Revisited? Historical Reflections on Contemporary Antisemitism"
    (Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, January 2003 Shapiro lecture by Steven Zipperstein)