Antisemitism, Racism, Right-Wing Radicalism:

 

How Current Events Inform Historical Understanding, and Vice Versa

 

International Workshop

Tel Aviv University, 11–12 November 2025

 

Tuesday, November 11

 

08:30–09:00
Gathering — Coffee

 

Session I: Past and Present

 

09:00–09:45
Welcome Address and Introduction to the Wiener Archive
Amir Teicher
Tel Aviv University

09:45–10:30
Nazi Comparisons as Tourette Syndrome. Some Remarks from Research
Stefanie Schüler-Springorum
Technische Universität Berlin, Center for Research on Antisemitism

Light refreshments

10:45–11:30
The Past is not quite passé: Some Reflections on Israel, Germany and the Missing Third
Gadi Algazi
Tel Aviv University; Minerva Institute for German History

12:00–13:00
Lunch

 

Session II: October 7th

 

13:00–13:30
Antisemitism in Israeli Discourse: Continuity, Change, and the Impact of October 7
Yossi Kugler
Center for the Study of Antisemitism and Law, College of Management Academic Studies

13:30–14:00
Antisemitic Crisis Discourses, October 7th, and ‘Pro-Israel’ Positions. Far Right Stances on (Anti)Zionism, Deflection of Guilt and the Return of Antisemitic Legacy
Nikolai Schreiter
University of Passau

14:00–14:30
The Yom Kippur War or the Kishinev Pogrom? Competing Israeli Narratives of Oct. 7th
Scott Ury
Tel Aviv University

Light refreshments

 

Session III: Jewish Responses

 

15:00–15:30
Franz R. Bienenfeld’s “Religion of the Non-Religious Jews” as Early Response to Antisemitism and Visions of Solidarity
Anne Rethmann
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

15:30–16:00
The Possibility of Hope after Catastrophe: Thinking About Alfred Wiener’s Early Post-War Encounters With Non-Jewish Germans
Josefine Langer Shohat
Technische Universität Berlin, Center for Research on Antisemitism; Tel Aviv University

16:00–16:30
Concluding Discussion

18:00–22:00
Tel Aviv Walk Around / Street Food / Demonstration / Drinks

 

Wednesday, November 12

 

08:30–09:00
Gathering — Coffee

 

Session IV: Gaza

 

09:00–09:30
Never again Gaza: Reflections on the Future of Holocaust Memory
Shmuel Lederman
University of Haifa; The Open University of Israel

09:30–10:00
Gaza and the Erasure of History
Dotan Halevi
Tel Aviv University

Light refreshments

 

Session V: Antisemitism and the Holocaust

 

10:30–11:00
From Center to Margin? Antisemitism in Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Havi Dreifus
Tel Aviv University

11:00–11:30
Conflict in the Jewish World over the Study of Antisemitism after the Holocaust
Tom Eshed
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

11:30–12:00
Perceptions of Israel in the Federal Republic of Germany (1949 to 2005): Changes in Attitudes and Shifts in Patterns of Prejudice
Tim Alexander Brockmann
Heidelberg University

12:00–12:30
Discussion

12:30–13:30
Lunch

 

Session VI: Antisemitism and the Far Right

 

Chair: Neil Bar
University of Haifa; UC Berkeley

13:30–14:00
Ambivalent Projections: The New Right’s Discourse on Israel and Islam in Germany
Matheus Hagedorny
Centre for Antisemitism and Racism Studies (CARS), Catholic University of Applied Sciences, Cologne

14:00–14:30
World Domination and Genocide Conspiracies: Analyzing Alfred Wiener Collection of “Civilians Suggest Propaganda Ideas in 1944–1945” in Contemporary Gaza War Context
Dany Melkonowicki
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

14:30–15:00
“Großer Austausch” and “Volksmord”. Immigration and the Antisemitic Narrative of a “Genocidal War on Germany”
Gideon Botsch
University of Potsdam

15:00–15:30
Why Focus on Gender? On the Multiple Entanglements of Antisemitism and Antifeminism in the Authoritarian and Far Right
Juliane Lang
Justus Liebig University Giessen

Light refreshments

 

Session VII: Thinking Globally

 

16:00–16:30
“Europe” and “Occident/Abendland” as Racialized Codes that Draw on Fascist and Colonial Imaginaries
Marie Müller-Zetzsche
University of Potsdam

16:30–17:00
The Past and Present of Fascist Internationalism
Martin Kristoffer Hamre
Freie Universität Berlin

17:00–17:30
Discussion

17:30–18:00
Concluding Discussion

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