Chad Alan Goldberg, Antisemitism and American Exceptionalism: Rethinking the Place of the Postwar Era in US History
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Chad Alan Goldberg (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Antisemitism and American Exceptionalism: Rethinking the Place of the Postwar Era in US History
Many scholars have argued that relative to Europe, the United States has been exceptional in avoiding severe antisemitism. American society did indeed become remarkably hospitable to Jews by the early 1960s, yet there is troubling evidence of a significant increase in antisemitism in the US in the last decade. When these developments are placed in a longer historical perspective, how does it change our view of antisemitism in the United States?
Chad Alan Goldberg is Martindale–Bascom Professor of Sociology and a faculty affiliate of the Department of History (by courtesy) and the George L. Mosse/Laurence A. Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has broad interests in politics, history, and social theory. He has conducted and published research since 2008 on the history and sociology of antisemitism, he teaches a course on the history of antisemitism in Europe, and he is involved through the Academic Engagement Network in public education about antisemitism. He has spoken about antisemitism on Wisconsin Public Radio and PBS Wisconsin, and his work on antisemitism was cited by New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg (no relation) in April 2022. His books include Citizens and Paupers: Relief, Rights, and Race, from the Freedmen’s Bureau to Workfare (University of Chicago Press, 2008); Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought (University of Chicago Press, 2017), which was a finalist for the 2017 National Jewish Book Awards; and (as editor) Education for Democracy: Renewing the Wisconsin Idea (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020).