An Uncertain Sisterhood: Women and Antisemitism
Title: "An Uncertain Sisterhood: Women and Antisemitism" \n\nSpeakers, Affiliations and Topics:\n\nSpeaker: Dr. Phyllis Chesler\nAffiliation: Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies, College of Staten Island (CUNY).\nTopic: "The History and Psychological Roots of Antisemitism Among Feminists, Their Gradual Stalinization and Palestinianization"\n\nSpeaker: Thyme Siegel\nAffiliation: Writer and Instructor of Women\u2019s Studies; \nTopic: "Sisterhood was Powerful and Global: Where Did It Go?"\n\nSpeaker: Gloria Greenfield\nAffiliation: President and Founder, Doc Emet Productions\nTopic: "The Empress's New Clothes"\n\nSpeaker: Dr. Nora Gold\nAffiliation: Writer-in-Residence and an Associate Scholar at the Centre for Women\u2019s Studies in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.\nTopic: "Fighting Antisemitism in the Feminist Community"\n\nConvener: Jennifer Roskies, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs; Doctoral candidate, Bar-Ilan University; Research Consultant, ISGAP\n\nLocation: Yale University, New Haven, CT\n\nDate: August 25, 2010\n\nDescription: This session is part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA)/ International Association for the Study of Antisemitism (IASA) "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Inaugural Conference (August 23-25, 2010). Speakers discuss topics including, the history of antisemitism within the feminist community and how to combat this phenomenon.