"Exceptional Hatred": Antisemitism & Free Speech in America and Germany

Co-presented by NYU Center for the Study of Antisemitism, NYU Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History and NYU School of Law

James Loeffler is Felix Posen Professor of Modern Jewish History at Johns Hopkins University, and Kogod Senior Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. He writes widely on modern Jewish history from antisemitism to Zionism and his new book is Exceptional Hatred: Antisemitism and the Fight Over Free Speech in Modern America.

Anna-Bettina Kaiser holds a chair in Public Law and the Foundations of Law at the Law Faculty at Humboldt University Berlin. She has been co-director of Humboldt University’s Integrative Research Institute ‘Law & Society’ since 2019. In 2023–24, she was a Fulbright Scholar and a Senior Emile Noël Global Fellow at New York University.

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