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A Baltic forest in 1913, Soho and the suburbs of Liverpool and the Jewish community that grows up there are the settings for Linda Grant's new novel The Story of the Forest. She joins presenter John Gallagher, Rachel Lichtenstein and Julia Pascal for a conversation about writing and Jewish identity in the North West as we also hear about Julia Pascal's play Manchester Girlhood and look at the re-opening of the Manchester Jewish Museum with curator Alex Cropper . Producer in Salford: Nick Holmes https://www.manchesterjewishmuseum.com/ has re-opened after a £6 million redevelopment Dr Rachel Lichtenstein is a writer, curator who teaches at Manchester Metropolitan University and is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester's Centre for Jewish Studies http://www.juliapascal.org/ has links to Julia's new play You can find other Free Thinking discussions about Jewish history and identity including Jonathan Freedland, Hadley Freeman, Howard Jacobson and Bari Weiss on Jewish Identity in 2020 Simon Schama and Devorah Baum on Jewish history and jokes Howard Jacobson delivering a lecture on Why We Need The Novel and talking to Philip Dodd about his dystopian novel J Rabbi Baroness Julia Neuberger and New Generation Thinker Brendan McGeevor from the Pears Institute discussing stereotypes and also anti-Semitism Matthew Sweet in conversation with David Grossman Jonathan Freedland exploring Jewish identity in fiction from Amos Oz, Ayelet Gundar-Goshen & Jonathan Safran Foer Linda Grant alongside AD Miller, Boris Dralyuk, and Diana Vonnak discussing Odessa Stories and the writing of Isaac Babel

New Generation Thinker Brendan McGeever traces the links between anti-Semitism now and pogroms in the former Soviet Union and the language used to describe this form of racism. Brendan McGeever lectures at the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism at Birkbeck University of London. You can hear him discussing an exhibition at the Jewish Museum exploring racial stereotypes in a Free Thinking episode called Sebald, anti-Semitism, Carolyn Forché https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00050d2 New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select ten early career academics each year to turn their research into radio. Producer: Robyn Read

A rising number of anti-Semitic incidents in the U.K. during the latest fighting between Israel and Hamas is putting pressure on Britain's Jewish community. David Feldman, director of the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism at Birkbeck, University of London, tells Bloomberg Westminster's Caroline Hepker and Roger Hearing that much of the prejudice now comes from the left rather than the right of politics here. Bloomberg Opinion columnist Therese Raphael joins to describe the pressure being felt by Jews in Britain, and U.K. government editor Tim Ross explains the wider context of attempts to counteract Islamophobia and other prejudices in Britain.

From the Jewishness of the New Testament to attempts by 19th- and early 20th-century British Jews to blend in to Christian England, Giles Fraser shows how the two religions have a vexed history but are also surprisingly interconnected in his new book called Chosen. He also looks back at 2011, when the Occupy London took over the steps and surroundings of St Pauls and the resulting division in the church about how to react to this protest movement led him to leave his job and to a crisis of confidence. Miri Rubin, Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London, and David Feldman, Professor of History and Director of the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism at Birkbeck, University of London, join Giles Fraser and Matthew Sweet to explore the degree to which you can emphasise similarities between Christianity and Judaism - what do you gain and what do you lose? Producer: Eliane Glaser You can find a playlist of programmes exploring religious belief on the Free Thinking website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03mwxlp which includes Jonathan Freedland, Hadley Freeman, Howard Jacobson and Bari Weiss on Jewish Identity in 2020 Simon Schama and Devorah Baum on Jewish history and jokes and Frank Skinner, Jeet Thayil and Yaa Gyasi on Writing about Faith

Discovering his family's Nazi links is what happened to historian Martin Puchner when he set out to explore the use of a secret language by Jewish people and other travellers in middle Europe. He joins author and language expert Michael Rosen for a conversation with Matthew Sweet about Yiddish, Rotwelsch, codes and graffiti. Plus as we mark Holocaust Memorial Day hearing about new research into the takeover of railways and civic buildings in occupied France from historians Ludivine Broch and Stephanie Hesz-Wood. Martin Puchner's book is called The Language of Thieves. He teaches English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University Michael Rosen is the author of books including On the Move: Poems about Migration; The Missing - The True Story of My Family in World War II; Mr Mensh and So They Call You Pisher!: A Memoir. Ludivine Broch teaches at the University of Westminster and is an Associate Fellow of the Pears Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism and has written Ordinary Workers, Vichy and the Holocaust. Stephanie Hesz-Wood is researching a PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London called A Spatial History of Drancy: Architecture, Appropriation and Memory You can hear Ludivine talking to Matthew Sweet about the Gratitude Train - a project of thanks given by ordinary people in France to America for their part in World War II in this episode of Free Thinking https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000hwz9 A discussion about Jewish Identity in 2020 featuring guests at last year's Jewish Book Week Howard Jacobson, Bari Weiss, Hadley Freeman and Jonathan Freedland https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fwqd A discussion about Remembering Auschwitz https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000dq00 Rabbi Baroness Julia Neuberger and New Generation Thinker Brendan McGeevor from the Pears Institute discussing stereotypes and also anti-Semitism https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00050d2 Past programmes for Holocaust Memorial Day hearing from the late David Cesarani, Richard J Evans and Jane Caplan https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0506lp0 Monica Bohm Duchen, Daniel Snowman and Martin Goodman on Art and Refugees from Nazi Germany https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00027m6 Producer: Luke Mulhall

New Generation Thinker Brendan McGeever traces the links between anti-semitism now and pogroms in the former Soviet Union and the language used to describe this form of racism. Brendan McGeever lectures at the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism at Birkbeck University of London. You can hear him discussing an exhibition at the Jewish Museum exploring racial stereotypes in a Free Thinking episode called Sebald, anti-semitism, Carolyn Forché https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00050d2 New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select ten early career academics each year to turn their research into radio. Producer: Robyn Read

New Generation Thinker Brendan McGeever traces the links between anti-semitism now and pogroms in the former Soviet Union and the language used to describe this form of racism. Brendan McGeever lectures at the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism at Birkbeck University of London. You can hear him discussing an exhibition at the Jewish Museum exploring racial stereotypes in a Free Thinking episode called Sebald, anti-semitism, Carolyn Forché https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00050d2 New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select ten early career academics each year to turn their research into radio. Producer: Robyn Read

The walking & photographs of WG Sebald on show in Norwich, American poet Carolyn Forché on the stranger who gave her an insider's view of politics in El Salvador whilst she was in her '20s. Plus an exhibition of money and Jewish history. Laurence Scott presents. Adam Scovell, Philippa Comber and Sean Williams discuss the influence of the German writer WG Sebald who settled in Norfolk. His novel The Rings of Saturn follows a narrator walking in Suffolk, and in part explores links between the county and German history and emigrants. Lines of Sight: W.G. Sebald’s East Anglia An exhibition celebrating the work of the author W.G. Sebald on the 75th anniversary of his birth runs at Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery 10 May 2019 – 5 January 2020 in collaboration with The University of East Anglia Adam Scovell is a film critic and author whose new novella is called Mothlight. Dr Seán Williams is a New Generation Thinker who teaches Germanic Studies at the University of Sheffield Phillippa Comber is the author of Ariadne's Thread – In Memory of W.G. Sebald and In This Trembling Shade, ten poems set to music as a song cycle. BBC Radio 3/AHRC New Generation Thinker Brendan McGeever is at the Pears Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism at Birkbeck University London which was involved in developing the exhibition Jews Money Myth running at the Jewish Museum London until July 7th 2019. Carolyn Forché's Memoir is called What You Have Heard is True. A man who might be a lone wolf, a communist, a CIA operative, a sharpshooter, a revolutionary, a small coffee farmer, drives from El Salvador to invite the 27 year old Forché to visit and learn about his country and she decides to say yes. Producer: Eliane Glaser

EPISODE TWENTY FOUR: DAVE RICH, ANTI-SEMITISM ON THE BRITISH LEFT On this episode, we are joined by author Dave Rich, who wrote the book “The Left’s Jewish Problem: Jeremy Corbyn, Israel, and Anti-Semitism” You can buy the book here: https://amzn.to/2Sf5kyx Dave Rich is an Associate Research Fellow at the Pears Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism, Birkbeck College, University of London, where he was awarded his PhD in 2015. He works at the Community Security Trust (CST), for whom he briefs ministers, MPs, civil servants and police officers about antisemitism. The Community Security Trust (CST) is a British charity established in 1994 to ensure the safety and security of the Jewish community in the UK. You can find out more about the important work they do here: https://cst.org.uk/ DID YOU ENJOY THIS EPISODE? IF SO PLEASE LEAVE ME A TIP VIA PAY PAL HERE: https://www.paypal.me/DRYCLEANERCAST?LOCALE.X=EN_GB (Thank you ) SUPPORT THE SHOW PATREON https://www.patreon.com/DryCleanerCast CONNECT WITH US TWITTER https://twitter.com/DryCleanerCast FACEBOOK Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drycleanercast/ CHECK OUT PAST EPISODES HERE: https://www.drycleanercast.co.uk/podcast

Title: "Self Hatred and Contemporary Antisemitism" Speakers, Affiliations and Topics: Speaker: Dr. Doron Ben-Atar Affiliation: Professor of History, Fordham University, New York Title: "Without Ahavath Yisrael: Thoughts on Radical Anti-Zionism at Brandeis" Speaker: Dr. Richard Landes Affiliation: Department of History, Boston University Title: "Scourges and Their Audiences: What Drives Jews to Loathe Israel Publicly and What To Do About It?" Speaker: Dr. Alvin Rosenfeld Affiliation: Professor of Jewish Studies and English, Indiana University; Director of the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, Indiana University Title: "Beyond Criticism and Dissent: On Jewish Contributions to the Delegitimation of Israel" AND "Roundtable: Discussions in the Study of Antisemitism" Speakers and Affiliations Speaker: Dr. Charles Asher Small Affiliation: Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) Speaker: Dr. Alvin Rosenfeld Affiliation: Professor of Jewish Studies and English, Indiana University; Director of the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, Indiana University Speaker: Dr. David Feldman Affiliation: Professor of History at Birkbeck University of London; Director of the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism Speaker: Dr. Dina Porat Affiliation: Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT Date: August 25, 2010 Description: This session is part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA)/ International Association for the Study of Antisemitism (IASA) Inaugural "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Conference (August 23-25, 2010). Speakers discuss various topics, including Jewish self-hatred and the Jewish contribution to the delegitimization of Israel and modern manifestations of anitsemitism.

This time, we’re focusing on the new edition of BBK Magazine, the college’s annual review which features an array of feature articles and profile interviews from across the college community. You can find the magazine online here - http://www.bbk.ac.uk/about-us/downloads/bbk34.pdf On the podcast we take a deep dive on three of the spotlight features in this year’s magazine: - Research Focus: American playwright Anna Ziegler speaks about bringing Birkbeck scientist, Dr Rosalind Franklin, to the West End stage - Birkbeck People: Entrepreneurial student Fiona Button talks about her new educational product - The Calendar: Professor David Feldman discusses the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism’s latest exhibition and book focusing on Blood. Copies of the book can be purchased here - https://www2.bbk.ac.uk/blood/

On 23 November, the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism in collaboration with the Birkbeck’s Department of Politics brought together a panel of leading commentators and scholars to discuss the implications of Europe’s migrant crisis for the rise of the populist right. The UK Independence Party, Danish People’s Party and French Front National won nearly 30 percent of the vote in the 2014 European elections on an anti-immigration platform. Since then, Europe’s migrant crisis has further raised the significance of the immigration issue among western European publics. Populist right parties such as the Sweden Democrats, Austrian Freedom Party and True Finns have surged in the polls. The Freedom Party has doubled its vote share in Austrian local elections. In Germany and Sweden, opposition to immigration has risen dramatically. At the same time, many voters support the plight of the refugees which some observers hope will damage the populist right. Speakers: Chris Bertram is Professor of Social and Political Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol, and blogs regularly on issues related to migration. David Goodhart is director of the Demos Integration Hub and founder of Prospect magazine. Matthew Goodwin, University of Kent, and author of two books on UKIP, Revolt on the Right: Explaining Support for the Radical Right in Britain (with Rob Ford) 2014, and the upcoming UKIP: Inside the Campaign to Redraw the Map of UK Politics (Nov 2015). Daphne Halikiopoulou, University of Reading, is co-author of The Golden Dawn’s ‘Nationalist Solution’: Explaining the Rise of the Far Right in Greece (2015). Eric Kaufmann, Birkbeck, University of London is co-author of Changing Places: the White British Response to Ethnic Change in Britain (2014, Demos), co-editor of Political Demography (Oxford 2012), and author of Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth (2010). For more events and updates from the Birkbeck Department of Politics and the Centre for the Study of British Politics and Public Life, see below. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BirkbeckPolitics/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/birkbeck-dept-of-politics Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbkpolitics Centre website: http://www.csbppl.com Department website: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/politics/

Professor Jeffrey C. Alexander, Yale University In this talk, Professor Alexander, one of the world’s leading social theorists, seeks to analyse the on-going conflict among the dominant majority groups in Europe over how immigrant groups, particularly Muslims, should be incorporated into the civil sphere. Alexander is particularly concerned with shedding light on the growing antipathy to multiculturalism. For more information about the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism based at Birkbeck, University of London - www.pearsinstitute.bbk.ac.uk

Professor Mary Fulbrook, University College London in conversation with Professor Jane Caplan, St Anthony’s College, University of Oxford and Birkbeck, University of London. Two of Britain’s foremost historians on Germany and the Nazi era, Mary Fulbrook and Jane Caplan, discuss Mary Fulbrook’s new book, A Small Town Near Auschwitz - Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust, exploring the wider historical issues it raises and Fulbrook’s own conflicts of interest, in her professional and personal roles, as she uncovered a story behind a family she had known all her life. In A Small Town Near Auschwitz, Mary Fulbrook re-creates the story of Udo Klausa, the principal civilian administrator of Bedzin, a town that lies just 25 miles from Auschwitz. Klausa was a 'perfectly ordinary' family man. Yet he was also responsible for implementing Nazi policies towards the Jews in his area – processes that were the precursors of genocide. Through the ghettos of Bedzin and a neighbouring town 85,000 Jews passed on their way to slave labour or the gas chambers. The story that unfolds is important because in many ways it is so typical. Across the Third Reich other ordinary administrators, just like Klausa, facilitated the murderous plans of a relatively small number of the Nazi elite. Everyday racism unwittingly paved the way for genocide. These men 'knew' and yet mostly suppressed this knowledge, performing their day jobs without apparent recognition of their own role in the system, or – despite evidence of growing unease, certainly in Klausa’s case – any real sense of personal wrongdoing, responsibility, or later remorse. For more information about the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism based at Birkbeck, University of London - www.pearsinstitute.bbk.ac.uk

Professor Jay Winter, Yale University Remembrance is not a human right but the precondition for the effective establishment and maintenance of a regime of human rights. In this lecture Professor Winter explores the central role played by Holocaust remembrance in the framing and passage of one of the foundational human rights documents of the twentieth century: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Jay Winter will focus on the role of the French jurist, resistance leader, and Jewish statesman, René Cassin, architect of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968. For more information about the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism based at Birkbeck, University of London - www.pearsinstitute.bbk.ac.uk

Professor Nikolaus Wachsmann, Birkbeck, University of London. On the 29 April 1945 US troops entered the grounds of Dachau concentration camp, near Munich, where they found 32,000 inmates from over 30 European nations. Among them was Edgar Kupfer, a 39-year-old German political prisoner. A few hours after his liberation, Kupfer noted in his diary: ‘I shall celebrate this all my life as a second birthday, as the day, when I received the gift of life anew.’ In this lecture, Professor Wachsmann will explore the second life of Edgar Kupfer and the lives of others who survived the concentration camps, estimated at up to half a million people. In particular, he will consider the first months and years after liberation, looking at the fate of survivors, at the testimony and memory of the camps, and at the punishment of perpetrators. He will conclude by looking at the legacy of the camps since the 1950s. For more information about the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism based at Birkbeck, University of London - www.pearsinstitute.bbk.ac.uk

Professor Miri Rubin, Queen Mary, University of London The Life and Passion of William of Norwich, written in the twelfth century by Thomas of Monmouth a Benedictine monk, contains the earliest accusation that Jews killed a Christian child for hate of Christians and their beliefs. Such accusations were repeated over the centuries, in Europe and beyond. Believed by some and dismissed by others, they sometimes led to violence. Miri Rubin’s lecture demonstrates the involvement of scholars and monks, bureaucrats and opportunists in attempts to make the accusation work. The story of child murder – first told in Norwich around 1150 – is as revealing about Christians as it is about Jews, both in the Middle Ages and since. For more information about the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism based at Birkbeck, University of London - www.pearsinstitute.bbk.ac.uk