Convergence and Divergence
Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism in Historical Perspective
March 24-25, 2004
Brandeis University
The Hassenfeld Conference Center
Sponsored by:
The Jacob and Libby Goodman Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel
The Bernard G. and Rhoda G. Sarnat Center for the Study of Anti-Jewishness
Brandeis University
The Dorothy and Julius Koppelman Institute on American Jewish-Israeli Relations,
American Jewish Committee
Chaim Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism
Tel Aviv University
Wednesday, March 24, 2004
Opening Remarks
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Jeffrey Herf, University of Maryland
"Framing the Issue of Convergence and Divergence"
Session I
9:15 am - 11:15 am
Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism: Early Debates
Moderator: Anita Shapira, Tel Aviv University
- Derek Penslar, University of Toronto
"Antisemites on Zionism: From Indifference to Obsession"
- Steven Zipperstein, Stanford University
"A Passion and a Conception of the World: On Rereading the Protocols"
- Shulamit Volkov, Tel Aviv University
"On Readjusting Cultural Codes: The Case of Anti-Zionism"
Session II
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
The Jews and Zionism: Enthusiasm and Ambivilence
Moderator: Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth University
- David Myers, University of California at Los Angeles
"Against Time and Space: Anti-Historicism and Anti-Zionism in Modern Jewish Thought"
- Eugene Sheppard, Brandeis University
"Reflections on Leo Strauss as a Young Zionist"
Lunch
1:00 pm - 1:45 pm
Session III
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Change and Continuity: The Impact of World War II and the Holocaust
Moderator: Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University
- Joseph Bendersky, Virginia Commonwealth University
"From Subversives and Cowards to Allies and Heroes: U.S. Army Perceptions of Zionism Since World War II"
- Annette Wieviorka, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
"The 'Jewish Question' in France in the Postwar Years, 1945-1967"
- Thomas Haury, University of Freiburg
"From Marxism-Leninism to Antisemitism: Ideological Roots of the Late-Stalinist Anti-Zionism in the GDR"
Reception and Dinner
5:45 pm - 7:15 pm
Keynote Address
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Chair: Jonathan Sarna, Brandeis University
Welcoming Remarks:
Jehuda Reinharz, Brandeis University
Anita Shapira, Tel Aviv University
Robert S. Rifkind, American Jewish Committee
Bernard Lewis, Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies Emeritus, Princeton University
"The New Antisemitism: First Religion, Then Race, Then What?"
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Thursday, March 25, 2004
Session IV
Reverberations of the Middle East Conflict
Moderator: Jerry Muller, Catholic University
- Angelika Timm, Bar Ilan University
"Ideology and Realpolitik: East German Attitudes Towards Zionism and Israel"
- David Cesarani, University of Southampton
"Continuities and Discontinuities in Anti-Zionism in Britain, 1922-2002"
- Jeffrey Herf, University of Maryland
"Zionism and Anti-Zionism in Nazi Germany and West Germany: Policies, Politics and Complexes"
Session V
11:15 am - 1:15 pm
Reverberations of the Middle East Conflict II
Moderator: Dina Porat, Tel Aviv University
- Andrei Markovits, University of Michigan
"Recent Anti-Americanism and Antisemitism in Western Europe: What is New, What is Old"
- Meir Litvak, Tel Aviv University
"Iran and the Holocaust: Anti-Zionism or Antisemitism"
- Arieh Kochavi, Haifa University
"The Campaign Against Israel in the International Legal Arena"
Lunch
1:15 pm - 2:00 pm
Session VI
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm
Comtemporary Debates in Historical Perspective
Moderator: Larry Lowenthal, AJC
- Daniel Gutwein, Haifa University
"Deconstructing Zionism: Antisemitism, Post-Modernism and Globalization"
- Dan Diner, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
"Between Resentment and Reality: Israel Among the Nations Reconsidered"
Session VII
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Summary and Discussion
Moderator: Ilan Troen, Brandeis University
Jeffrey Herf, University of Maryland
Steven Bayme, American Jewish Committee
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