Sponsored by the Simon Foundation of Temple Beth-El and the Jewish Federation of St. Joseph Valley

Join us for an insightful evening with Professor Günther Jikeli, Associate Director, Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism of Indiana University, on the rise of antisemitism in American, where it's going, and what we can do about it.

About Günther Jikeli

Günther Jikeli holds the Erna B. Rosenfeld Professorship at Indiana University's Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism at the Borns Jewish Studies Program. He is an associate professor in Germanic Studies and Jewish Studies at Indiana University.

He received his doctorate from the Center for Research on Antisemitism at Technical University Berlin in 2011. He is a historian and sociologist of modern Europe, with particular interests in the history of antisemitism and in critical antisemitism studies.

His latest book "The Return of Religious Antisemitism?" (ed.) was published in 2021. In 2019, he published (with Olaf Glockner) "Das neue Unbehagen. Antisemitismus in Deutschland heute" [The New Unease. Antisemitism in Germany Today]. In 2015, he published the monograph "European Muslim Antisemitism." with IU Press.

In 2013, he was awarded the Raoul Wallenberg Prize in Human Rights and Holocaust Studies. Günther's academic work was recognized in 2019 by The Algemeiner as one of "The Top 100 People Positively Influencing Jewish Life."

Jikeli is the editor of a book (2014) on forced labor at Peenemunde from 1936 to 1945 for the construction of the V-2 Rocket under technical director Wernher von Braun. The book underlines the irrationality of this endeavor, which led to immense suffering.

His research focuses on online and offline forms of contemporary antisemitism. He runs the research lab "Social Media & Hate."

Dr. Jikeli offers supervision and advice for students who wish to study antisemitism or who are writing a thesis related to antisemitism/ critical antisemitism studies.