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Scholar Pamela S. Nadell will be in conversation to discuss Antisemitism, An American Tradition. Nadell plumbs antisemitism in the United States, from the mid-seventeenth century, when Jews first arrived in New Amsterdam, to today, amidst increasing anti-Jewish rhetoric and hate crimes. Nadell, who won the National Jewish Book Awards’ top prize six years ago for America’s Jewish Women, scrupulously investigates in her extraordinary work how the persistence of old ideas about “evil Jews,” alongside new, antisemitic conspiracy theories and lies, have circulated throughout American history. Writing “with command and a detective’s sense for where buried episodes of antisemitism can be found” (Franklin Foer, author of The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden’s White House and the Struggle for America’s Future), Nadell reveals how hatred against Jews in America has continuously threaded its history, exposing that antisemitism in the United States is not an irregularity, but a tradition.

Professor Pamela Nadell, in conversation with Professor Patricia Behre, PhD, Chair, History Department and Professor Yaron Ayalon, Director of the Bennett Center for Judaic Studies, the Carl and Dorothy Bennett Chair of Judaic Studies, and Professor of Religious Studies at Fairfield University.