Tag: william kolbrener

Light Exile and Freedom: The Message of Chanukah for Contemporary Challenges

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AN ISGAP CHANUKAH EVENT Light Exile and Freedom: The Message of Chanukah for Contemporary Challenges Professor William Kolbrener, Director of Academic Development, ISGAP; Professor of English Literature, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel Rabbi Akiva Zweig, Rosh (Head) Yeshiva of the Talmudic College of Florida in Miami Beach, U.S.

ISGAP-Oxford Summer Institute 2021 – Summary Highlights

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ISGAP-Oxford Summer Institute for Curriculum Development in Critical Antisemitism Studies Pembroke College, Oxford, and the ISGAP Digital Research Center 1-5 August 2021 Day One Highlights Date: Sunday, August 1, 2021 Natan Sharansky, Chair, ISGAP; 2020 Genesis Prize Laureate; Former Chairman of the Jewish Agency, Jerusalem Israel Joan O’Callaghan, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University […]

ISGAP DRC Course, Antisemitism in the Progressive Academy, Professor William Kolbrener

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Professor William Kolbrener, Department of English Literature, Bar Ilan University, leads this three-week course exploring the nature of antisemitism in the progressive academy today. Parents, students, and academics from all disciplines are welcome! An overview of the sessions can be found below: Week One: Critical Theory Against Israel and the Jews – how the contemporary Humanities takes […]

Antisemitism and Intersectionality – Towards a New Pedagogy

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Apr. 21, Antisemitism and Intersectionality – Towards a New Pedagogy Professor William Kolbrener, Department of English Literature, Bar Ilan University Week Three: Antisemitism and Intersectionality – Towards a New Pedagogy – Moving beyond the idea of intersectionality and ideas of diversity based on the exclusion of Jews and Israel, we consider a way of breaking the […]

Critical Theory Against Israel and the Jews 

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Apr. 7, Critical Theory Against Israel and the Jews Professor William Kolbrener, Department of English Literature, Bar Ilan University Dr. Daniel Feldman, Department of English Literature, Bar Ilan University Week One: Critical Theory Against Israel and the Jews – how the contemporary Humanities takes the insights of post-Holocaust Jewish social critics – the Frankfurt School – and […]

George Steiner and the (Good) Stateless Jew

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Apr. 14, George Steiner and the (Good) Stateless Jew Professor William Kolbrener, Department of English Literature, Bar Ilan University Week Two: George Steiner and the (Good) Stateless Jew – How the great Jewish literary critic, George Steiner, prefers Jews in a new ghetto of their intellectual exile, providing a 1980s manifesto for progressive antisemitism. Date: Wednesday, […]

Columbia’s BDS Motion Misses the Point About Dialogue

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Last week, students at Columbia University passed a resolution calling for boycotting and divesting from Israel. Their motion, sponsored by the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, asserts that any commercial or intellectual connections to Israel “fall under the UN International Convention’ for both the suppression and punishment of the ‘Crime of Apartheid.’” For me, this news […]

Professor William Kolbrener, Oxford 2019 – “Old Wine in New Bottles – Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism”

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Professor William Kolbrener, English Literature, Bar Ilan University “Old Wine in New Bottles – Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism” ISGAP-Oxford Summer Institute 2019 St. John’s College Oxford University July 15, 2019

The Roots of Antisemitism – Oxford 2019

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The Roots of Antisemitism Dr. Joel Kotek, Free University of Brussels (ULB) and The Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris Professor William Kolbrener, English Literature, Bar Ilan University ISGAP-Oxford Summer Institute 2019 St. John’s College Oxford University July 7 – 19, 2019