The Official ISCA Podcast

Sunday, February 26, 2023. In this episode, Gideon Botsch discusses "Current Developments of Antisemitism in Germany's Far-Right." Gideon Botsch studied political science at the Free University of Berlin and earned his diploma in 1997 with a thesis on the continuity of National Socialist concepts of Europe in early right-wing extremism in the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1999, he...

Sunday, February 19, 2023. In this episode, Jan Gross discusses the subject "Neighbors: Twenty Years Later." Jan T. Gross studies modern Europe, focusing on comparative politics, totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, Soviet and East European politics, and the Holocaust. After growing up in Poland and attending Warsaw University, he immigrated to the United States in 1969 and earned a P...

Sunday, February 12, 2023. In this episode, Gallia Lindenstrauss explores the topic "Smooth Sailing or Rough Seas: Turkey, Israel and the Jews in Turkey After the 2022 Normalization." Dr. Gallia Lindenstrauss is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies and specializes in Turkish foreign policy. Her additional research interests are ethnic conflicts, Azerbaijan’s...

Wednesday, January 25, 2023. In this episode, Suzanne Brown-Fleming explores the subject of "'Love and Mercy' After the Holocaust: The Vatican's Postwar Clemency Campaign." Dr. Suzanne Brown-Fleming is Director of the Division of International Academic Programs at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studie...

Sunday, January 15, 2023. In this episode, Yehuda Bauer explores the subject of "Antisemitism — A Fresh Look." Professor Yehuda Bauer is Professor Emeritus of History and Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Academic Advisor to Yad Vashem.  Bauer is fluent in Czech, Slovak, German, Hebrew, Yiddish, English, Fren...

Sunday, December 4, 2022.  In this episode, Yana Grinshpun explores the subject of "Judeophobia and 'Islamophobia' in Today’s France: Symbolism, Doxa, and Reality." Yana Grinshpun is a senior Lecturer at Sorbonne Nouvelle University. She is particularly interested in discourse analysis and media analysis. Her research in recent years is concentrated on the functioning of the medi...

Sunday, November 13, 2022.  In this episode, Franziska Haug discusses "The Function of Antisemitism in Queer-Feminist Discourse." Franziska Haug is a research assistant at the Institute for German Literature and its Didactics at the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main. She is doing her PhD on the topic of "Literary procedures of the production of gender through labor". In 2021,...

Sunday, November 6, 2022.  In this episode, Ben Cohen discusses "Pandemics, Hate Crimes, and Riots: Media Coverage of Antisemitism Since 2020." Ben Cohen is the award-winning Senior Correspondent of The Algemeiner , one of the leading Jewish news outlets in the United States. Based in New York City, he writes extensively on the challenges posed by antisemitism and political extremism aro...

Sunday, October 30, 2022. In this episode, Ofir Winter presents his lecture, "Making Peace with the Jews? Contemporary Islamic Arguments for and against Normalization." Ofir Winter is a research fellow at INSS and a lecturer at the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Tel Aviv University. He holds a PhD from the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv Universi...

Sunday, October 23, 2022.  In this episode, Kenneth L. Marcus delivers his lecture entitled, "The Wayward Healer: Iatrogenic Antisemitism and the Perils of Intervention." Kenneth L. Marcus is founder and chairman of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law; Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Center for Liberty & Law at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law Schoo...

Sunday, October 16, 2022.  In this episode, Thane Rosenbaum speaks on the topic of "'Occupation,' 'Apartheid,' and 'Ethnic Cleansing': The Trifecta Libel Against Israel." Rosenbaum is a law professor, legal and Middle East analyst, novelist, essayist, and Distinguished University Professor at Touro University, where he directs the Forum on Life, Culture & Soci...

Sunday, October 2, 2022.  In this episode, Martin Kramer delivers a lecture about "Semites, Anti-Semites, and Bernard Lewis: The Life and Afterlife of a Seminal Book." Kramer is a historian of the Middle East and Israel at Tel Aviv University, and the Walter P. Stern Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He was the founding president of Shalem College, a liberal arts s...

Sunday, September 18, 2022.  In this episode, Jan Grabowski offers his lecture, "'Night Without End': New Scholarship on the Holocaust in Poland." Jan Grabowski is a Professor of History at the University of Ottawa and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Last year he was appointed the 2021-2022 Cleveringa Chair at Leiden University in the Netherlands. His interests focus on...

Sunday, September 4, 2022.  In this episode, Jeffrey Herf presents his lecture entitled, "Myths and Realities about Israel's Establishment: Their Relevance for Discussions of Contemporary Antisemitism." Herf is Distinguished University Professor, Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park, where he teaches Modern European History. His commentaries on contemporary his...

Sunday, August 28, 2022.  In this episode, Sam Sokol speaks on "Russia’s 'Denazification' of Ukraine: The Weaponization of Antisemitism in Contemporary Hybrid Conflict." Sokol is a reporter for Haaretz, Israel’s newspaper of record, and the author of the book  Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews: Antisemitism, Propaganda, and the Displacement of Ukrainian Jewry . He was previously a...