Title: “Why The Jews? The Reason for Antisemitism”
Date: April 24, 2014
Speaker: Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
Affiliation: Rabbi, Author
Location: Columbia University, as part of the ISGAP seminar series “Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective”
Description: Rabbi Joseph Telushkin maintains that there has been no hatred that has been as universal, as deep, or as long as antisemitism and attempts to offer a theory for the reason behind the phenomenon of antisemitism. Rabbi Telushkin argues that ultimately antisemitism is a response to Jews, Judaism, and Jewish values.
