At a time when Americans are preoccupied with the rise of domestic antisemitism, we must not forget that antisemitism is a global phenomenon. Join YPSA for a review of antisemitism in Anglophone countries—Australia, Canada, and South Africa—led by eminent scholars from each place.
Ron Levi is Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto, where he is Distinguished Professor of Global Justice. He directs the Global Justice Lab in the Munk School and the Lab for the Global study of antisemitism in the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies.
Milton Shain is Emeritus Professor of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town. He has written, co-authored and co-edited over a dozen books on South African Jewish history, South African politics, and the history of antisemitism. His latest book Fascists, Fabricators and Fantasists: Antisemitism in South Africa from 1948 to the Present (2023) is the final volume in his trilogy on the history of antisemitism in South Africa.
David Slucki is the Director of the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, and the Loti Smorgon Associate Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life and Culture at Monash University. He is a historian who has written widely on Jewish life and culture after the Holocaust, and is an expert on antisemitism and Jewish life and culture in Australia. He is project lead for the Monash Initiative for Rapid Research into Antisemitism, and co-leads Monash’s Campus Cohesion project with Dr. Susan Carland.
