Pierre Birnbaum Chronicles American Antisemitism at the 2024 Yerushalmi Lecture

On Thursday, April 11, the IIJS and the Columbia Alliance Program hosted French historian and sociologist Pierre Birnbaum for the 2024 Yosef Yerushalmi Annual Memorial Lecture. Dr. Birnbaum’s talk was titled: “The Vanishing of Hope?”

Pierre Birn­baum is a his­to­ri­an and polit­i­cal soci­ol­o­gist who is pro­fes­sor emer­i­tus at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Paris 1 Pan­théon-Sor­bonne. His books in Eng­lish include Paths of Eman­ci­pa­tion: Jews, States, and Cit­i­zen­ship (coedit­ed with Ira Katznel­son, 1995), Jew­ish Des­tinies: Cit­i­zen­ship, State, and Com­mu­ni­ty in Mod­ern France (2000), The Anti-Semit­ic Moment: A Tour of France in 1898 (2011), and Léon Blum: Prime Min­is­ter, Social­ist, Zion­ist (2015). His most recent book, Tears of His­to­ry: The Rise of Polit­i­cal Anti­semitism in the Unit­ed States, was published by Columbia University Press in 2023.

Dr. Birnbaum’s talk is available to view in full below.


This event was made possible by the generosity of the Knapp and Kaye families.

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