Kulturelle Konstante oder Bruch? Judenfeindschaft vor und in der Moderne - Vortrag mit Sven Ellmers

In the organizer's words:

There is no consensus among researchers as to what is meant by anti-Semitism. Is it a chimerical notion that spread from the 12th century onwards? Is it a genuinely modern phenomenon that differs substantially from pre-modern forms of hostility towards Jews? Or does hatred of Jews merely change its guise over time - under which it remains unchanged? The lecture takes a look at this controversy: What criteria and periodizations have the proponents of the discontinuity thesis proposed to delineate anti-Semitism? What counter-arguments do the proponents of the continuity thesis put forward? And how should they be evaluated against the background of the history of anti-Jewish semantics and violence?

Dr. Sven Ellmers is a research associate at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Oldenburg. He recently published the essay "What is modern anti-Semitism? Ein Erklärungsvorschlag auf Grundlage der Theorien von Freud, Fromm und Postone" and the article "Wie die Jerusalemer Erklärung Antisemitismus verharmlost" in the Jüdische Allgemeine

This event is part of the Action Weeks against Anti-Semitism and is sponsored by the AStA of the University of Cologne. Information on the series can be found at https://www.instagram.com/bga_koeln and https://bga-koeln.tumblr.com.