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Roundtable on Antisemitism: The Uses of Jewish Difference in US History

It is an honor to offer the final contribution to this discussion of antisemitism in American history and historiography, so thoughtfully advanced by the essays of Victoria Woeste, Kirsten Fermaglich, and Cheryl Greenberg. Together, these pieces encourage an important rethinking of the progressive narrative of American antisemitism—a provocation that opens onto compelling issues of law and state power, race and social movements, and words and deeds. It is this last dyad that I wish to consider in my post, as we count the days from two critical moments in the history of American anti-Jewishness: the mass shooting at the Tree Read more