Fighting Antisemitism on University Campuses: Notes from the Field

Since October 7, he has led much of the response on the Berkeley campus to rising antisemitism and various challenges faced by Jewish students. He has also spoken throughout the country on the changing relationship between anti-Zionism and antisemitism. In this talk, he will give us an overview of the leading challenges that he has observed and confronted, strategies employed to combat antisemitism at Berkeley and elsewhere, and their successes, struggles, and ongoing endeavors.

Sponsored by TBT’s Education Committee.

Ethan Katz is Associate Professor of History at UC-Berkeley, where is also the Helen Diller Family Faculty Director of the Center for Jewish Studies. He was educated at Amherst College (B.A., History and French) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (PhD, History). Katz's research interests include Jewish-Muslim relations, Jews in colonial societies, Holocaust studies, and the interplay between religious and secular in modern Jewish life. His first monograph, The Burdens of Brotherhood:…