Arnie Dashefsky - "American Antisemitism Grounds For Optimism Or Pessimism?"
Title: \u201cAmerican Antisemitism: Grounds for Optimism or Pessimism?\u201d\n\nDate: April 21, 2015\n\nSpeaker: Dr. Arnie Dashefsky\n\nAffiliation: Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Connecticut; \nDirector, Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, University of Connecticut\n\nLocation: Harvard University\n\nConvener: Professor Chuck Freilich, Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School\n\nDescription: Dr. Arnie Dashefsky traces Jewish history and the emergence of antisemitism and notes that the first instances of antisemitism were, in fact, instances of anti-Judaism. This anti-Judaism and the notion that Judaism is less then Christianity evolved into antisemitism and the denigration and demonization of the Jews.