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Kenneth L. Marcus, “The Definition of Anti-Semitism” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Kenneth L. Marcus, “The Definition of Anti-Semitism” (Oxford UP, 2015)
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Length:
33 minutes
Released:
Nov 12, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
In The Definition of Anti-Semitism (Oxford University Press, 2015), Kenneth L. Marcus, the President and General Counsel of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, explains what it is at stake in how we define anti-Semitism. “Nowadays virtually everyone is opposed to anti-Semitism although no one agrees about what it means to be anti-Semitic,” Marcus writes (p. 11).
Marcus discusses the global rise in anti-Semitism; in the United States, Marcus tells us, college campuses are frequently sites of frequent anti-Semitic–and anti-Israel–incidents.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Marcus discusses the global rise in anti-Semitism; in the United States, Marcus tells us, college campuses are frequently sites of frequent anti-Semitic–and anti-Israel–incidents.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Nov 12, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
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